Are blind loads worth the headache? Any advice on doing these loads?

Not really. Nothing special about them. If your company pays more, take it. Even if it pays the same, the effort is minimal. A loads, load.

You might have to stop somewhere and have a BOL faxed to you and just make sure you tell the receiver you picked it up where the BOL you hand them says you did, if they ask. Most of the time the receiver already knows and don't care.

 

I would imagine it pays more because you're at risk of denial of cargo coverage in case you have a claim with insurance company. I did some blind loads (paid higher rate) but always got paid first and funds were cleared before I unloaded vehicles (car-hauling). Usually shippers are motivated to process everything quickly to reduce their risks also.

 

Would someone explain what a blind load is. I have never heard the term. Thank you in advance!

 

I had never heard of it.

 

Pick up at shipper A. Stop get a BOL sent to from the broker saying you picked up at shipper B.

Customer who sold product to receiver didn't want to him know where he's getting the product.

 

Are you forced to show / tell DOT where the load originated from?

 

One I do fairly regularly is company A buys product from company B and wants it delivered to their customer. Company A thinks I’m delivering to company B,so if they start asking questions you need to know the details of the load.
I’ve picked up blind shipments before that the broker didn’t tell me were blind and when asked gave them the wrong answer. That can create some drama

 

companies do this ,because either it was sold again or they don't want to lose the middleman cut. as in ;going directly to seller to purchase product.

it's not illegal or that big of a deal.

DOT could care less. telling them will not effect shipper or receiver.

I've done hundreds over the yrs and most of the parties involved knew the deal lol

 

One time I delivered a load of crushed baled aluminum cans from one scrapyard to another scrapyard in what was called a double-blind shipment. I was not to identify the receiver to the shipper, nor the shipper to the receiver. Didn't have any problems. Just had to stop somewhere to receive a fax, and keep my story straight. Apparently somebody found a worthwhile price discrepancy in crushed aluminum cans between two places, so they ordered a truckload shipped from the cheap one to the pricey one, paid the freight bill, and pocketed the difference.