Practical guides for freight brokers and carriers navigating billing disputes, invoice reconciliation, and carrier overpayments.
FeaturedContainer detention charges per day cost $75 to $350 in 2025, and carriers frequently overbill them. Here's how to calculate what you actually owe, spot miscounted free time, and build a dispute that holds up.
Carriers overbill on detention more often than most brokers realize. This guide breaks down the three most common billing tactics, shows you exactly which line items to check, and gives you a dispute workflow you can use today.
Carriers miscalculate detention charges more often than most brokers realize. This guide breaks down exactly how the detention clock works, where billing errors hide, and how to dispute invoices with documentation that holds up.
Demurrage and detention charges cost the industry billions annually. This guide breaks down the real difference, shows where carriers pad invoices, and gives brokers a concrete audit workflow to dispute overbilled D&D charges before cutting a check.
Detention charges cost the trucking industry $15 billion a year. This guide gives brokers a step-by-step playbook for documenting detention time, calculating what they actually owe, writing airtight rate con clauses, and pushing back when carriers overbill.
Most free rate confirmation templates miss the fields that actually protect your margin. This guide breaks down every clause, detention cap, and accessorial limit your rate con needs, plus a free broker-specific template.
Detention time costs the trucking industry $15 billion a year. This guide breaks down how the clock starts, what carrier detention policies actually say, and how brokers can dispute invoices that weren't agreed to on the rate con.
Carriers overbill detention charges more often than most brokers realize. This guide walks you through how to read a detention invoice, spot inflated hours, lock down your rate con, and dispute every dollar you don't owe.
A step-by-step playbook for brokers to audit detention charges, collect bulletproof evidence, file disputes that actually get paid, and build a weekly review process. Includes templates and real scenarios recovering $475 to $2,800 per load.
Carriers pad detention invoices in five predictable ways that cost brokers $187+ per load on average. Here's what to look for on every invoice — with real dollar examples and a line-by-line audit checklist.