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Lumper Fee Tracker

Track lumper receipts across facilities — amounts, reimbursement status and which warehouses charge most.

Lumper fees are reimbursable by the shipper/broker in most agreements — federal law (49 USC 14103) requires shippers to compensate for assisted unloading they require.

Log every lumper payment with its receipt number — unreimbursed lumpers are pure margin leak.

Sources & references

  • 49 USC §14103 — loading/unloading compensation
  • Broker-carrier agreements — lumper pass-through provisions

Demurrage, detention and storage tariffs are set by each carrier, terminal and contract and change frequently. The preloaded figures are editable industry-typical examples, not quotes — always verify against the current published tariff or your service contract before paying or disputing an invoice.

Disclaimer: This tool is for general informational and estimation purposes only and is not professional financial, tax, accounting or legal advice. All figures are estimates — verify with a qualified professional before making decisions. Read the full disclaimer.

Lumper fees — the $150–$600 a grocery or retail DC charges to unload the trailer — are supposed to be a pass-through: the driver pays at the dock, the carrier bills it back with the receipt. In practice receipts get lost, claims miss submission windows, and the pass-through quietly becomes a carrier expense. This tracker closes that leak.

About Lumper Fee Tracker

Log each lumper with its facility, amount, payment method and receipt number, then move the status as reimbursement progresses. The summary shows total paid versus actually reimbursed — the gap is margin you already earned and simply haven't collected. Sorted by facility, the CSV also shows which DCs' lumper services are pricing aggressively. Worth knowing the legal floor: under 49 USC 14103, a shipper or receiver that requires assisted unloading must compensate for it, and coercing the driver to pay without reimbursement is unlawful. You'll rarely need the statute — but a denied claim with a clean receipt and that citation tends to get re-reviewed.

How to use Lumper Fee Tracker

  1. 1Fill in the form and add your first record — everything persists locally in your browser.
  2. 2Watch the summary strip recompute totals and averages as records accumulate.
  3. 3Sort out stale entries with one-click delete; the data survives page reloads.
  4. 4Export the CSV any time for reporting or to move the log into a spreadsheet.

Why use Lumper Fee Tracker?

  • ✓Purpose-built fields for this exact workflow — no spreadsheet setup
  • ✓Live summary statistics computed from your records
  • ✓One-click CSV export for reporting
  • ✓Everything stays on your device — nothing is uploaded

Frequently asked questions

Are lumper fees always reimbursable?+

When unloading assistance is required by the receiver and properly receipted, yes in practice — broker agreements treat lumpers as a pass-through, and 49 USC 14103 backs the principle. Reimbursement fails procedurally: no receipt, wrong payee name, late submission. The tracker exists to kill those three failure modes.

What does a valid lumper receipt need?+

Facility name, date, trailer/load reference, amount, the service performed and the lumper service's identity (many DCs use third-party firms like Capstone). Photograph it at the dock before the driver pulls out — the receipt that exists only in a cab door pocket has a half-life of about one week.

Why do lumper amounts vary so much between DCs?+

Pallet count and restack complexity drive the honest variation ($100 for a straight unload to $500+ for full restacks); facility monopoly drives the rest — the dock's contracted lumper service is the only unloading option allowed. Your per-facility totals in this tracker are exactly the data to challenge outliers with the customer.

Driver paid cash and lost the receipt — now what?+

Try the lumper service directly (Capstone and similar keep transaction records by trailer and date) and the facility's receiving office. EFS/Comchek payments leave a money trail even without paper. Going forward, mandate photo-on-payment: the log entry here plus a phone photo makes loss nearly impossible.

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