Detention and Accessorial Billing That Actually Gets Paid
Detention pay is one of those line items everybody agrees should exist and almost nobody collects cleanly. The driver knows he sat three hours at a distribution center. The dispatcher knows it too, because the check call came in at 6:40 and the driver didn’t get loaded until almost 10. But when the invoice goes out, the detention line gets challenged, discounted, or quietly dropped because nobody can prove the clock. ...