Accessorial & Post-Contract Services
Capture the extras — long carry, stairs, shuttle, storage — with agreed charges, in writing.
Record the extras at the point of service.
Accessorial services are the extras beyond the basic move: long carries, stair charges, shuttles, storage-in-transit and more. This form documents which apply and at what cost, with the shipper's agreement.
Unagreed accessorials are a classic dispute. Recording them at the point of service keeps your invoice defensible.
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- Checklist of common accessorial services
- Per-service charges and units
- Storage-in-transit and re-delivery terms
- Shipper agreement and signature
- Reference to the BOL and estimate
Unagreed accessorials are a classic dispute.
Documenting extras as they happen turns "surprise charges" into agreed, signed line items.
When a dispute or a DOT review comes, the company with clean, consistent, compliant paperwork is the one that walks away clean. That's the whole point of MoverDocx.
Billing the extras without an argument
Long carries, stair charges, shuttles, storage-in-transit, re-delivery — accessorial services are real work and real cost, and they are also the charges customers most often contest. The fix is timing: document what applies and at what price at the point of service, with the customer agreeing then.
A checklist the crew completes on site, signed by the shipper, converts a later denial of a long-carry fee into a signed line item. The alternative is arguing about it after the truck is unloaded and the leverage is gone.
Movers who capture accessorials in the moment bill cleanly. Movers who reconstruct them later from the crew's memory eat most of them.
Accessorial & Post-Contract Services — common questions
What are accessorial services?+
Extras beyond the basic line-haul move — long carries, stair charges, shuttles, storage-in-transit, re-delivery and similar services that carry their own charges.
When should they be recorded?+
At the point of service, with the shipper agreeing on site. Documenting them in the moment is what makes them defensible.
Do these tie back to the estimate?+
Yes. Accessorials extend the original job, so they should reference the BOL and estimate and, where they change the total, a revised estimate.
This document is built to align with current federal requirements. You can verify the governing rules directly:
- FMCSA — Protect Your Move — federal rules on disclosed charges
- Surface Transportation Board — accessorial charges should be consistent with your published tariff
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