Walmart is going to start penalty's for late deliveries, this is not all on the trucking companies. Check the "Must Arrive By Date” on your loads.

Wal-Mart Sets Monday Deadline for Shipping Program | Journal of Commerce

 

so walmart is encouraging logbook violations? everyone knows carriers will put more pressure on drivers not to be late, so more drivers will be running illegal to keep carriers and dispatch happy

 

But the new CSA rules say that a company will be getting hit by DOT if they check the load and see that it was given to a driver who had no chance of getting it there legally..........

 

The loads are given in time it is just that the broker, 3pl or whatever hold on to them in order to move them as cheap as possible. They should have to come up on them money to get them moved in a timely manor. Best you read the fine print before singing a conformation sheet.

 

Wal-Mart hires employees that aint got enough sense to get out of the rain, but they want to penalize drivers for being late... That's funny. :rofl:

 

What I read with the CSA rules, it doesn't matter if a broker sits on the load until you have zero chance of getting it there on time. If the company takes it and puts it on you, which your logs will show when you picked it up, and DOT pulls you, checks your paperwork at which they see that the delivery time given means you have to run hot to get it there, they are going after the company. Expect less companies to be taking those loads once the CSA rules go into effect if that is true. They won't want DOT coming back on them over it.

 

Thats right, it will force brokers to pay a fair amount to get the load moved in a timley manner. They won't be able to hold out for a cheap carrier so they can skim more off the top.
This is good for responsible carriers.

 

and bad for all those shady brokers, and outlaw trucking outfits.

Only positive thing I've heard about CSA 2010 to be honest.

 

Same crap different company. I remember one time the broker (Bennett) gave us a crane appointment on a Friday that I said right up front we could not make. They said do your best. Well come Friday, they said because we were late they had to reschedule the crane until Monday and they were charging me for it.

I told them I wouldn't deliver the (two) loads until they gave me a revised confirmation with the proper delivery date. It took 3 days for them to give in, all the while threatening me with theft and back charges.

Fun times.

 

Which Regulation are you citing please ....

I need to know so i can beat my dispatcher over the head with it !!!! :lol2:

The hours i just ran to 'rescue' this 8 stop load would get me put under the jail !!!!!!!!