Multi-stop Pick Turns to Intrastate Delivery? What do you do?

Now it is a question of whether the broker intended to skirt the intrastate authority requirement in case you didn't have it. I doubt he asked if you had it, and you had no reason to tell him you didn't. Can't prove he did or he didn't. What would you have done if you were given this as a delivery address and not just an additional pickup?

 

There is a thought. Complete GPS coordinates to 20 feet on the earth will substitute for survey locating those delivery areas with no addressing.

 

Each pick up and drop was done in sequence. If I had 30 drops off two pickups around the NE out of Baltimore a whole week, then my briefcase has a stack of 30 signed BOL marked by me in number sequence of delivery, stop one stop two stop three etc.

All of them have at least... Pickup origin address,name of shipper, load load count weight etc. And where that particular group went.

If I ended up in Maine or some other spot near Boston in Foxboro empty, if loaded back then a BOL is built for load number two loaded in say New Haven CT to Baltimore whole truckload. Maybe Paint hazmat maybe steel goods from a foundry or wherever or whatever fit int hat 45 foot reefer. We pretty much stuffed it.

 

I got you. I was working on what is necessary for BOL.

There is two more things that come to mind. "Shipper Load and Count" and be very careful if they date and time stamp the #### thing. That can throw your logs off.

 

Well, my take on it is this. As long as the customer gets what they want at a price that is acceptable to you, where's the problem?

If it makes you do something illegal, then that's obviously a different story.

If the money is solid, and you are legal, the most I'd ask for is pay for an additional stop.

 

None of the bills I use on the hauls I do now have an actual address on them, just the shipper, reciever and the towns. When I haul logs, there is no such a thing as a bill of lading at all.
Bock in my hay hauling out law days I never filled out a bill, until I delivered, and even wrote to somewhere in my log book. The dot hassled me everytime they saw me, and would gripe everytime, but could not come up with anything illegal about it. I would just ask them if they knew where I was delivering, and tell them I didn't either. I would make a phone call at some point and find out where the delivery was. That way I could cut a hundred or so miles off of a lot of trips. lol

 

So at the end of the day did you do both loads for initial freight rate? Or did you adjust your rate accordingly? If you wanted to adjust the rate and broker put up no fight, then they knew what was “Shakin”. If they were as surprised as you were they would start making phone calls asking why it was hidden from them as well as yourself. You would hope things are on the up N’ up, but unfortunately in this new era of trucking the cardinal rule seems to be get over on the trucker at every turn if possible.