Years ago used to pick up cheese in SD, go to WI, get new BOL and head to receiver with Wisconsin cheese.
Did my first “Blind Load” today.
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Company in Baltimore received the same chemical from DuPont and Allied.
DuPont plant maintenance shutdown and we loaded blind from Allied with strict instructions to say it came from DuPont.
Grizzled unloader at the consignee pulls a sample and holds it up to the light and said;
'So, you loaded this at Allied, didn't you?"meechyaboy, Roberts450, alds and 2 others Thank this. -
I've see "blind loads" a lot hauling fuel but they're a little different. Say a Chevron station orders gas and the Chevron rack is down or there isn't any product. The tanker goes to Shell or another refiner, loads, and delivers to the Chevron station. The paperwork says Chevron/Shell exchange and the bean counters in the office keep track of what went where.
There are a couple of refineries in the Bay Area that specialize in exchange loads. You load there and hang whatever company product tag on the load that the orders call for. They claim that whatever they sell meets the oil company's specs but it would be hard to prove if they didn't.meechyaboy Thanks this. -
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LOL...the oil company can throw a little extra qualifying paperwork on the load and claim anything they want to. We take it on faith because our drivers are drivers and not chemists.beastr123 Thanks this. -
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I was unloading house brand gas from an independent refinery in the Bay Area. Maybe it had Chevron additives and maybe it didn't...that ain't in my wheelhouse... but I complimented the guy on his choice of gas and didn't tell him what was really going on.
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In my curtain van days I did a lot of wine loads that would go to a wholesaler for a paperwork exchange and then on to the final destination. Generally paid well for the extra stop IIRCREO6205 Thanks this.
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