Arriving on a Charleroi job with full lorries and a day-paid crew to find logistical fraud means immediate shutdown. The agreed flat had become a wild jumble sale: everything of the slightest value spirited away, leaving only torn bin bags and worthless waste.
Here the verbal or written breach is complete.
The real challenge: absorbing the dry time-and-staff loss
- Immediate cost: committed wages, burnt fuel, a lorry blocked for nothing.
- Strategic shortfall: no way to make the day pay on another planned job.
- Manipulation trap: a client acting « as if nothing happened », hoping for cut-price work.
⚠️ Loading anyway validates the fraud
Running skips under false conditions rewards bad faith and loses twice: the day and the margin.
Our approach: strict breach
- Immediate stop: no skip loading under these skewed conditions.
- Breach notice: firmly telling the client the initial value-for-work terms are broken.
- Crew departure: packing gear and immediate lorry departure.
💡 Same cause, same rule as Liège
Secretly removed value, revalued or refused quote: see our Liège refusal.
The result
A radical yet necessary decision: mutual respect of commitments is our trade's absolute base.
🤝 A clear framework from the quote?
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