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Moves are stressful. So the aftermost affair David Chu bare aback he confused from New York to Cape Coral aftermost abatement was the blend he begin himself in with an auto carriage company, and two auto haulers who were declared to carriage his 2002 Dodge Ram and 2013 Nissan Altima from West Babylon, New York, to Cape Coral.
Chu apprenticed with Suncoast Auto Carriage Inc. the agent carriage broker. Suncoast doesn’t booty the cars; it makes the deals to booty the cars, advertisement on a "national board" the jobs that are available. When Suncoast listed Chu’s vehicles, Gina and D. Car Carrier in New York got the job for $1,200. And Suncoast got its cut for brokering the deal.
Soon afterwards Gina and D. best up the vehicles, Chu got a alarm adage the commitment would be delayed. The barter had burst down. Suncoast went aback to the civic lath and assassin Steve Geyer’s Transportation in Germantown, Maryland, to aces up the cartage from Gina and D. at a artery blow stop and backpack them the blow of the way.
When the cars accustomed in Cape Coral they were damaged. The Nissan’s rear bonanza had been banged in and there was a abysmal blemish on the roof. The Ram had a agnate scrape forth the roof.
Chu complained to Suncoast. The owner, Jonathan Genereux, told him to book a affirmation with Gina & D.’s allowance carrier. The adjuster estimated the aliment to be $2,277, beneath than the company's $2,500 deductible. So Chu was told to aggregate from Gina and D., the antecedent hauler. Gina and D.'s owner, Daniel Robergeau, banned to pay. The cars were accomplished aback he gave them to the additional company, Geyer's Transportation, he said. So Geyer's allowance should pay the claim.
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Geyer's and Gina & D. are both insured by Progressive. It denied the claim adjoin Geyer's adage Gina and D. was at fault.
I talked to the three aggregation owners and they all accede Mr. Chu shouldn’t accept to pay for the repair. But all say that their companies shouldn't either.
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Steve Geyer thinks Suncoast should pay. “The agent has a contract. It’s their customer,” Geyer said. He feels apologetic for Chu, but his allowance aggregation told him not to pay because it will arise he’s acceptance liability.
Robergeau, buyer of Gina and D., also said Suncoast should pay. “They should accomplish Mr. Chu whole,” he said. He has offered to pay bisected of the amount of the repair, but it should go to Suncoast to accord to Chu, he said.
Suncoast’s buyer Genereux has brash Chu to sue the two haulers in baby claims court. Aback the cartage were exchanged amid the two companies, Geyer’s disciplinarian should accept abounding out a action address and both haulers should accept active the analysis sheet. If that had been done, there would accept been no catechism aback the car was damaged and who was at fault.
Why didn't that happen? Gina and D.'s Robergeau said he was so addled over the agent alarming up on his carrier that he forgot about the accident report. Geyer said his drivers saw the cartage were damaged aback they were loading them on the carrier. But aback they approved to acquisition Robergeau to assurance the report, he wasn’t about and wouldn't acknowledgment his phone.
Obviously, one of these haulers is not cogent the truth. Someone knows how these cartage were damaged and beneath whose watch it happened.
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But I accept to accede with the haulers on one point. Suncoast should pay for the accident done to Mr. Chu’s car. Then Suncoast’s buyer should get reimbursed from one or both of the carriage companies.
On the website for Suncoast, under “Inspections and Insurance,” it reads: “Suncoast Auto Carriage is your dependable auto transporter and to advice assure we are, we include inspections & allowance aback Aircraft a Car. … Our disciplinarian will thoroughly audit your agent with you at this time to almanac and advance the action of the vehicle. ... All of our drivers accept abounding primary allowance coverage, as it is adjoin the law to carriage any agent otherwise.”
To me that sounds like Suncoast has its own drivers covered by Suncoast’s insurance. Mr. Chu hired Suncoast to get his cars transported. There’s no acumen he should accept to battle it out in cloister with the companies Suncoast acquired to do the job.
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