<VV> Corsa damage - transporters' documentation ?

[chaz at properproper.com]

If the transporters did damage the car, then it is their responsibility
to provide that if a claim is made.
However, they probably "lost" the documentation, but that would work
against them in court "res ipso loquitor" (if it got that far), because
they are "in control" of the evidence.

Even car washes photograph cars going in and out, to document claims
that the washing broke this or that.
(That's how they caught the guy who stole my car a while back - pix of
him at the car wash in my car, with date and time).

I'm sure car transporters do something similar, if not more intense, to
document their cargo ?

Charlie




> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: <VV> Just got the 28,000 mile Corsa damage - proving it
> From: Ramon Rodriguez III <corvairgrymm at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, April 21, 2011 11:33 am
> To: chaz at properproper.com
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org, Tom Berg <thesuperscribe at yahoo.com>, 
> Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net>, J R Read
> <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> 
> When I was at the pick-up end of an auto transport the driver had a diagram
> of a car on paper and he went around the car and noted any
> imperfections/damage and also checked the hood (facing forward) to make sure
> it was secure.  He then provided me a copy of the paperwork so that he could
> PROVE that any damage at the other end was already present when he picked it
> up.
> 
> Did the shipper not do a documented inspection of any kind?  Might whomever
> was present at the other end have such a document?
> 
> 
> Ray R.