Detention Fees: Who Pays?

It’s a transportation tale as old as time: You know your freight needs a dry, secure place to hang out before it heads to its ultimate destination, but you’re at a bit of a loss when it comes to sending out requests for quotation (RFQs) for your warehouse project.

It’s true: I’m a package-tracking enthusiast. I get a thrill when my email inbox pings with that all-important tracking information. I delight in watching my parcels move through the country, and I eagerly anticipate their arrival at my doorstep.
Active construction jobsites are dynamic and busy places. With tight timelines and budgets, it’s vital that everything goes well…and often, they don’t. Multiple trades, weather, budget changes, supply chain issues, worker shortages and more keep things busy and evolving.

Even for the most experienced supply chain professionals, arranging and overseeing project logistics can be a massive undertaking. Regardless of its size, every project has tight timelines, multiple stakeholders to coordinate with and a budget to uphold.
Over-dimensional (OD) freight shipments require a lot from the companies that manage them. Among other things, permits must be acquired, a route must be planned and the correct transportation solution must be identified and arranged.

Assuming that a multi-truck project is priced in the same manner as a one-off shipment is one of the more common hangups logistics professionals encounter while sourcing project quotes.

Transportation projects are many things: vital to the health of global supply chains; necessary for the continued improvement of our world; foundational to the success of many businesses.
Posted by Tyler Turn on Mar 11, 2024 10:00:00 AM
It’s true: I’m a package-tracking enthusiast. I get a thrill when my email inbox pings with that all-important tracking information. I delight in watching my parcels move through the country, and I eagerly..
Posted by Michael Schooler on Sep 29, 2023 8:15:00 AM
Active construction jobsites are dynamic and busy places. With tight timelines and budgets, it’s vital that everything goes well…and often, they don’t. Multiple trades, weather, budget changes, supply..
Posted by Aaron Winter on Oct 31, 2022 10:00:00 AM
Even for the most experienced supply chain professionals, arranging and overseeing project logistics can be a massive undertaking. Regardless of its size, every project has tight timelines, multiple..
Posted by Amy Studanski on Aug 29, 2022 10:00:00 AM
Over-dimensional (OD) freight shipments require a lot from the companies that manage them. Among other things, permits must be acquired, a route must be planned and the correct transportation solution must be..
Posted by Joanna Jungels on Mar 9, 2022 10:00:00 AM
Transportation projects are many things: vital to the health of global supply chains; necessary for the continued improvement of our world; foundational to the success of many businesses.
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