L.A. Transport was hired to transport a gas turbine power generator from SF, Ca. To Samford Ct... They agreeded to transport the shipment for $4000.00 & deliver in 4 days with team drivers. On the forth day they didn't show & their driver would't tell us where or why he wasn't at the delivery point.
We were told by this driver we would have to talk to his dispatcher, his dispatcher said he didn't know why the driver hasn't delivered but he would call him. They played this out for 2 days beyond the due delivery date, which was then developing into a major crisis. This turbine belonging to my customer General Electric, was to be installed at a power station where the was a crew waiting to unload & install.
The trucker new the urgency & used that situation to coerce my company to pay him the ransom amount of $10,375.00 before they delivered.
We have since discovered that they have a history of this same operation with other victims.
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