Tag: trading assistance

Blue Book has received a report from a targeted seller of an individual impersonating a Blue Book-listed buyer company located in the Northeast region of the United States.

The Problem: Who pays the freight bill following a rejection to an FOB seller? The Solution: The FOB buyer pays the carrier and claims damages against the seller.

In this article we’ll discuss a relatively new (as of late 2023) free service called Courtesy Contacts and new pricing introduced in 2024 for Blue Book’s traditional collection assistance services. 

In this article, we’re going to try to demystify PACA and explain when it is—and when it is not—relevant to the transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables.

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.