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What is the name of your state? TX
About a year ago I bought a program that audits truck drivers daily logs for approximately $15,000.00. Just recently they announced a partnership with a large company that trucking companies have their documents (bill of lading, daily logs etc.) shipped there and they are scanned and stored in a warehouse. Well with this partnership they are auditing these companies daily logs and sending them back the reports, just like we do. Well today the company we work for said that they were quoted less than half of what they pay us to do the work. They undercut us so much because they don't pay for the program, they just give the software company a kickback, that it doesn't pay for for the yearly licensing fee per driver. We can't compete with that using their program simply because we would never make the money to pay for the yearly license. We can't buy another program because we would be in the negative for years trying to just pay the program off and our hands are tied since the user agreement we agreed to says that we are not allowed to write a program that is similar or performs a similar task.
Normally, I'm all for a company taking steps to better their company and make the lives of other people easier but now the company we work for is seriously looking at using them instead of us and there is no way a company is going to pay twice as much for the same service. So basically the software company that we bought the program from put us out of business and left our hands tied. So my question is, can they legally do this and why? Is there anything we can do from a legal stand point? We just would like to know if there is something we can do to recoup our loses from this software purchase and loss of our job.
Thank you in advance for you replies.
About a year ago I bought a program that audits truck drivers daily logs for approximately $15,000.00. Just recently they announced a partnership with a large company that trucking companies have their documents (bill of lading, daily logs etc.) shipped there and they are scanned and stored in a warehouse. Well with this partnership they are auditing these companies daily logs and sending them back the reports, just like we do. Well today the company we work for said that they were quoted less than half of what they pay us to do the work. They undercut us so much because they don't pay for the program, they just give the software company a kickback, that it doesn't pay for for the yearly licensing fee per driver. We can't compete with that using their program simply because we would never make the money to pay for the yearly license. We can't buy another program because we would be in the negative for years trying to just pay the program off and our hands are tied since the user agreement we agreed to says that we are not allowed to write a program that is similar or performs a similar task.
Normally, I'm all for a company taking steps to better their company and make the lives of other people easier but now the company we work for is seriously looking at using them instead of us and there is no way a company is going to pay twice as much for the same service. So basically the software company that we bought the program from put us out of business and left our hands tied. So my question is, can they legally do this and why? Is there anything we can do from a legal stand point? We just would like to know if there is something we can do to recoup our loses from this software purchase and loss of our job.
Thank you in advance for you replies.