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. ...
Many carriers have the same ghost in their AR aging report: a load that delivered clean two weeks ago but hasn’t been invoiced because nobody has the paperwork. Not because the driver lost it. Because it’s sitting in a text message thread, or a photo roll, or an email that got buried under load confirmations from three other brokers. The freight moved. The cash didn’t. The short answer: a same-day POD workflow captures the signed POD at the dock, files it against the right load immediately (not in a text thread), and invoices from a complete load file the same day the freight delivers. ...