Winning friends and influencing people, you really are Italian.
Unless I am missing something here the party you should be going after is the carrier. They are the one contracted to deliver. Tekton tendered the shipment, it is the carrier now you must deal with. Your legalistic approach will never fly. But it figures, a guy who can’t find anyone with a truck, and thinks it costs $400 in gas to go 450km (a mini-measure unit of distance, not even 300 miles, $400 would go more like 2000 miles) is probably exaggerating and misrepresenting everything else as well.
This is why I take a real hard look at stories like these. There is always another side, and whoever is aggrieved is always presenting only the worst side of it. The last one I recall dropped his story like a hot rock the minute he was asked for details.
Sad fact of the matter is we have some people here who love nothing more than to go around wrecking the lives of anyone they can. Believe me, seen it up close and personal. You got a problem, deal with it. Get your transportation, get your speakers. They are a helluva lot closer now than they were in Utah. So you have to find a truck and drive. Big deal. Been there. Done that. Didn’t go whining all over the interwebs.
That is, I will say it again, the difference between a can-do American and your typical run of the mill euroweenie.
