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Looking for a little advice.
I recently had a heavy haul job done - upon receiving a copy of the invoice, Canada Customs paperwork etc., I see this shipment was double brokered and actually hauled by another company. I am under the impression, that since the original carrier, and 2nd carrier are from the same town that they likely know each other pretty well.
That said, our confirmation explicitly state "double brokering will result in non-payment". However, the confirmations do not state the carriers name on them anywhere either. This party I booked with original has asked me upfront, prior to this shipment, if he could more or less broker one of my shipments to one of his buddies, to which I told him no, I was not okay with that. I would find my own carrier like usual.
So I am left wondering how I want to handle this, or what others might do...
Part of me wants to contact the original carrier, and just pay them directly for what is owed. However, how much of a headache am I asking for from the original carrier in terms of a potential court case or whatever? The other side of me wants to cc the original carrier, and actual carrier in an email, and once the carrier who actually did the work can show proof of payment from the original carrier I will send out their payment to them. And lastly of course, just pay the invoice like usual and move on with my life and never work with them again.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
I recently had a heavy haul job done - upon receiving a copy of the invoice, Canada Customs paperwork etc., I see this shipment was double brokered and actually hauled by another company. I am under the impression, that since the original carrier, and 2nd carrier are from the same town that they likely know each other pretty well.
That said, our confirmation explicitly state "double brokering will result in non-payment". However, the confirmations do not state the carriers name on them anywhere either. This party I booked with original has asked me upfront, prior to this shipment, if he could more or less broker one of my shipments to one of his buddies, to which I told him no, I was not okay with that. I would find my own carrier like usual.
So I am left wondering how I want to handle this, or what others might do...
Part of me wants to contact the original carrier, and just pay them directly for what is owed. However, how much of a headache am I asking for from the original carrier in terms of a potential court case or whatever? The other side of me wants to cc the original carrier, and actual carrier in an email, and once the carrier who actually did the work can show proof of payment from the original carrier I will send out their payment to them. And lastly of course, just pay the invoice like usual and move on with my life and never work with them again.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
