"New Wave Dave" writes:

and he lowered the crate onto my flatbed dolly using the liftgate. The
bill came the next week. $57+ (fifty-something cents a pound) for the
liftgate! How else would one suppose it the merchandise gets from the
bed of the truck to the ground?
Nest time, assuming there is a next time I just have the driver shove it
out the back, then file a damage claim.

The standard in the freight industry is that the customer removes the
freight from the truck unless you pay extra for a liftgate.

This ain't Fedex Ground or UPS.

Brian Elfert