Need Help With Shipping Portion Of Sales Contract?
I came up with a hypothetical fact scenario for my business law class and based on the scenario we are supposed to create a sales contract. Here is the scenario I came up with:
Your Fine Motors is a truck rental company in Atlanta, Georgia that rents trucks, tractors, and trailers. Your Fine Motors also sells used vehicles to companies who are in any type of trucking industry. ATR Movers is a company in St. Petersburg Florida who provide intrastate and interstate packing and moving services, along with temporary storage. ATR currently has 10 trucks in its fleet, and is currently planning an expansion. ATR will need to purchase an additional 5 box trucks in order to go forward with its planned expansion. The trucks need to be purchased and available to the fleet within 2 months.
I want to have ATR go to pick up their own trucks without the need for a 3rd party carrier, but I am having a hard time determining what this kind of contract would be called (shipment, destination, etc) and am also having a hard time finding another contract to look at as a guide. If anyone could please help or point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
If you don’t specify a place of delivery, then by default the place of delivery is the seller’s place of business. That’s in UCC 2-308.
But if you still want to specify it in the contract, then just spell it out. “Seller shall deliver the goods to seller’s warehouse at 10 Main St., on May 1, at which time Buyer shall be responsible for said goods.”
You don’t need any magical technical language. Just use plain English.