Company Response
Ellen or Jeff from
4 Corners Transport Services Submitted this response.
Response Date: 2/17/2008 12:22:00 PM
The driver was delayed 25 hours due to a weather delay due to a major snowstorm. When the driver did make it to the destination he found no vehicle at the desiginated location. He spent 5 hours looking for the vehicle while having no real communication with TJ because he is only accessible via email because of TJ being hearing impaired.
We normally require that there be a person at pick up responsible for for giving the vehicle to the carrier to avoid this type of mis communication. Because of TJ's circumstance we made the decision to do him a favor. SEI's only sin was that they were delayed by a blizzard. They showed up and could not find the vehicle(OUR AGREEMENT STATES THAT DELAYS DO HAPPEN BECAUSE OF SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES). The vehicle we found out was towed away because it was abandoned at a parking lot of a restaurant.
Miscommunication did occur between dispatch of SEI and the driver, She had assumed the vehicle had been picked up mistakenly and reported this to us. When we found this put we immediatley reported this to TJ .
The driver waited around to pick up the car but TJ decided to have the vehicle fixed instead and have it driven to Oregon.
TJ's refund was sent on Friday 2-15. He was informed of this . We do need a check to clear as policy before we refund in full. We did that. That is sound business policy practiced by every business.
Our mistake was breaking our policy as a favor. That will not happen again.
SEI WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND THERE DUTIES GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES. TJ DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HIS VEHICLE WAS. HE ARRANGED FOR THE VEHICLE TO BE PLACED IN A TOW ZONE. THE DRIVER WENT OFF THE BEATEN PATH TO ND TO GET THIS VEHICLE. NORTH DAKOTA IS NOT A GREAT PICK UP LOCATION IN WINTER TIME . ONCE THERE AND THE VEHICLE WAS LOCATED TJ SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE VEHICLE TO BE TRANSPORTED .THIS WAS HIS CHOICE THAT IT WASN'T AND MORE IMPORTANTLY HIS FAULT.
SEI DOESN'T DESERVE THIS . THEY ARE NOT LIARS.