We booked this load with Alex but however we had to talk with JR. The load was Waco, TX to Fort Valley, GA paying $1500.00 including fuel. The driver arrived at 8am at a fcfs facility and at 10:30am he was not unloaded. We told them we would pay $50.00 per hour in detention. JR demanded that we send a rate confirmation showing $900.00 additional on the load or he would have his driver leave with the freight. We called the receiver and they said they would unload the driver next. When JR found out the driver would be unloaded next he told the driver to not let them unload him. We had to send over a rate confirmation with $680.00 additional dollars after negotiating on this load because the driver would not let the receiver unload him until we did. We lost a ton of money on this load even with the detention added. Just wanted to put this out there for anyone else so that you do not have to go through this with them. As a driver you may or may not think this was wrong. The driver held the receiver from unloading him while we decided if we wanted to send over the rate confirmation. We were really going over every scenerio. He ended up getting empty at 1:12pm. All of this could have been avoided and he could have been on his way to his next load by 1130am. We were willing to pay him detention for his time but him and the carrier wanted to be greedy. We told JR that we would put on the rate confirmation that they were holding the load hostage he went crazy and starting cursing. We wanted the nightmare to end so we neg to pay them an additonal $680.00. If you know of anything we can do to only pay them what they deserve please let us know. We are more than happy to compensate them but $680.00 is just crazy!!!
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