In June 2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a Final Rule whereby approximately 80,000 motor common carriers will no longer be required to obtain cargo liability insurance.... View More
Terms such as “Freight Prepaid and Charged Back,” “Freight Prepaid and Add,” “Freight Collect and Allowed” and other payment term modifiers are not defined in either... View More
I would like to start this month's column by saying that I hope to see you at the PARCEL Forum (www.parcelforum.com) - a great opportunity for industry networking and learning. I will be presenting one... View More
In previous issues of PARCEL Counsel, we focused on the relationship between shippers and carriers, including, most recently, contracts for transportation services between a shipper and a carrier. In this... View More
In the last issue of PARCEL Counsel, we analyzed the most commonly used terms of sale in the United States: F.O.B. Origin and F.O.B. Destination. In this issue, we will look at the terms of sale most commonly... View More
The two previous installments of PARCEL Counsel discuss the first two rules of contracting: (1) Know with Whom You Are Dealing and (2) Get It in Writing. In this issue, we will look at the four remaining... View More
In the last installment of PARCEL Counsel, the focus was on the first rule of contracting: Know with Whom You Are Dealing. In this issue, we will consider the second rule of contracting: Get it in Writing.... View More
In the January issue of PARCEL, we discussed the topic of late payment penalties. There we gave an example of an LTL carrier whose tariff contained a provision for a loss of discount when an invoice was... View More
During times of economic slowdown, the need to understand the laws affecting transportation and the supply chain becomes even greater. When sales are down and profit margins are under pressure, there is... View More
William J. Augello was one of the country’s foremost transportation lawyers and a champion of shippers’ rights. In this column, we attempt to answer readers’ questions as we believe he... View More
Parcel auditing has always been a discipline built on precision. Define the rules, run them against the data, and recover what's owed. For years, that model worked well, and in many respects
Everyone has heard the pitch: upload your invoices and carrier agreements into AI and let it tell you what you're owed. We wanted to test that claim. So we hired an independent AI engineerin
A recent Fast Company article written by the chief sustainability officer of Blue Yonder, Saskia van Gendt, caught my attention. Van Gendt wrote that while free returns have become a “powerf
For years, parcel auditing carried an implicit prerequisite: you had to be big enough to justify it. The conventional wisdom among smaller shippers went something like this �
Parcel auditing has always been a discipline built on precision. Define the rules, run them against the data, and recover what's owed. For years, that model worked well, and in many respects
Everyone has heard the pitch: upload your invoices and carrier agreements into AI and let it tell you what you're owed. We wanted to test that claim. So we hired an independent AI engineerin
A recent Fast Company article written by the chief sustainability officer of Blue Yonder, Saskia van Gendt, caught my attention. Van Gendt wrote that while free returns have become a “powerf
For years, parcel auditing carried an implicit prerequisite: you had to be big enough to justify it. The conventional wisdom among smaller shippers went something like this �
