Tag: trading assistance

If you're a carrier and you think you've been rejected wrongly, we advice the following steps.

In this article, we look past the “finger pointing” stage and discuss how Blue Book assesses damages when the carrier is found to be responsible for the losses in question.

What do you do with a rejected load when the carrier's evidence is lacking?

The Problem: Solo driver used after team agreed to. The Key Point: Proving damages resulting from late arrival can be difficult or impossible. The Solution: A liquidated damages provision can be used to help compensate for losses.

Somewhere right now a produce buyer and seller are discussing the streams of temperature and mechanical data from a reefer download.

Blue Book Services recently introduced what we’re calling “Courtesy Contacts” for situations where the claimant isn’t quite ready to open a collection.  

When fresh product arrives at destination warm, some predictable and unpleasant things tend to happen: first, the receiver objects.

The Problem: Two bad pallets, eighteen good pallets. The Key Point: Shippers do not promise each pallet will meet good arrival standards.

For this article our Trading Assistance team has identified seven common mistakes that can usually be avoided with some additional attention to the devilish details.   

When calculating damages when a cover purchase is made, the injured party should be prepared to show the reasonableness of the cost, commodity, and pack purchased as a replacement.