Practical guides for freight brokers and carriers navigating billing disputes, invoice reconciliation, and carrier overpayments.
FeaturedCarriers 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.
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.
Carriers don't overbill at random. They target specific rate con fields: detention triggers, lumper authorizations, fuel surcharge tables, and accessorial language gaps. Here's exactly where brokers lose money, broken down by load type with real dollar amounts.
Carriers pass through inflated, duplicate, and phantom lumper charges more often than most brokers realize. Here are the five lumper fee billing errors draining your margins and the receipt-level audit process to catch every one.