Freight & Trucking Collection Agency
Freight bill recovery for carriers, owner-operators, and logistics companies. We collect unpaid freight invoices, disputed detention and accessorial charges, and the broker balances that never seem to fund.
- Free 20-minute consultation with a senior advisor
- Clear read on what's likely recoverable
- No obligation, no scripted dialer
Prefer the phone? 763-373-0600
Who calls us in.
- Small & Mid-Sized Businesses
- Large Enterprises
- Banks & Lenders
- Trustees & Receivers
- Troubled Companies
How freight & trucking engagements actually work.
Every engagement starts with a real conversation about your portfolio. No automated triage, no template responses.
Freight receivables have a structural problem: the party you hauled for is often not the party that owes you. Brokers sit between carriers and shippers, and when a broker slow-pays, disappears, or double-brokers a load, the carrier is left holding fuel, driver pay, and insurance costs on revenue that never arrived.
RecoverMax works freight accounts along that chain. We establish who actually holds the payment obligation, document the load with the rate confirmation, BOL, and delivery records, and pursue the balance with the broker, the shipper where the facts support it, and the broker's surety bond when nonpayment justifies a claim. Bond claims run on strict windows, so aged freight balances need to move quickly.
Detention, layover, and accessorial charges get disputed more than any other line items in trucking. We collect them the way they were earned: documented, tied to the rate agreement, and pressed to a resolution instead of quietly written off.
When freight & trucking is the right call.
A few signals that suggest this engagement model fits. If most of these are true, we should talk.
- 01
A broker is past due, unresponsive, or has gone dark on funded loads
- 02
Detention and accessorial charges keep getting knocked off remittances
- 03
A shipper or 3PL is sitting on aged freight bills with no payment date
- 04
You suspect a load was double-brokered and the money stopped upstream
From stuck to cash in four moves.
Diagnose
We review your aging, account documentation, and prior efforts to identify where recoverability is genuinely at risk.
Stabilize
Structured outreach replaces stalled internal follow-up. Accounts start moving again under disciplined cadence.
Resolve
Negotiated settlements, payment plans, or escalation paths, chosen to protect customer relationships where possible.
Report
Transparent updates on what recovered, what is still in motion, and what we recommend doing differently next time.
Common questions about freight & trucking.
Pulled straight from the conversations we have with finance leaders most weeks. If your question isn't here, reach out and we'll answer it directly.
Often, yes. Property brokers are required to carry a surety bond, and a documented, valid freight charge that the broker refuses to pay can support a claim against it. Bond claims have strict timing and documentation requirements, so the sooner an unpaid broker account is placed, the more options stay open.
It depends on the paperwork: the rate confirmation, the bill of lading, and any contract terms between the parties. In some situations a shipper can remain liable for freight charges even after paying the broker. We sort the obligation out from the documents and pursue the party the facts point to.
Yes. These charges fail most often on documentation, not on merit. Where the rate agreement supports the charge and the records back it up, in and out times, notifications, signatures, we press them as part of the balance rather than letting the debtor treat them as optional.
Factored invoices belong to the factor, but carriers still end up holding plenty of paper: invoices the factor declined, recourse chargebacks that came back to you, and customers you invoice directly. Those balances are collectible, and they are exactly what we work.
Freight terms are short, and so is the useful life of a freight receivable. Once an invoice passes 60 days, a broker stops responding, or a payment commitment slips twice, the account is worth placing. Waiting longer burns both recoverability and bond-claim timing.
Contingency, in most cases: we are paid a percentage of what we recover and nothing on what we don't. For carriers running on tight operating margins, that means no added fixed cost to chase money you already earned.
Often paired with this work.
Pre-Collection
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Third Party Recovery
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Fractional A/R Support
Strengthen your accounts receivable process with outsourced, fractional A/R support that improves follow-up, reduces aging receivables, and relieves pressure on internal teams without hiring full-time staff.
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Tell us what's stuck. We'll give you a realistic read on what's recoverable, what isn't, and the right next step.