Extra Pallet on my truck

How far away from home are you?

Something similar happened to a friend of mine; over a thousand miles and the last drop in Miami. All bills signed, but had a pallet of cigarettes left over with no name or bills for it.

 

Good response! But it should be how close to Vegas is he? we could meet him!

 

It depends if you are an honest man or not? Are you an owner operator with 0-1 year experience?

If you are a company driver you call your company and let them decide. If it's undamaged the shipper will probably want it sold and will do so at a discount to a local customer.

You can't carry it around with you. That's another thing if they do find another customer you'll have to hand write out a BOL if they don't fax one. So if you don't have blanks plan on finding some at a truck stop.

It would be nice this time of year if they tell you to take it to a food bank as a donation write off because they hardly ever get meat. It would make some poor people's Christmas.

Depending on what it is that pallet is worth better than $1500. I hardly doubt they will tell you to toss it.

If you are an OO thru a broker I'd say it's open game because the broker will try to beat you out of it. Remember it's Christmas next week!

 

No but seriously I hope a good situation turns out for you. If it was me personally I would call my company.

 

Call your company and let know what happened. Let them instruct you on what to do from there. Somewhere along the line someone is short a pallet of frozen meat. You want to get it off of your truck as soon as possible, doing it the right way, to keep your tail out of a fix.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Not really, the shipper is short and the shipper is 2000 miles away. The shipper has no clue he's short. This issue is not really that uncommon. The driver can lose a couple days work fooling with this and might miss a good paying run; sitting around making phone calls and waiting for return phone calls.

 

Who checked the load at the origin point? Was it already loaded or did you watch and not get a good count? We used to have OSD dept at place I worked that would use this kind of stuff to settle other claims with same shipper. No record but they know you have it. Would return if they dropped other legit claims. Was stealing , but the freight business has always been shady at best.

 

What is the driver supposed to do with the pallet of frozen meat inside of his truck. Sooner or later, the shipper is going to discover the shortage.

Is the driver LEGALLY allowed to hand over the pallet of frozen meat to a food bank?

God bless every American and their families! God bless the u.S.A.!

 

The shipper might discover a shortage when they do warehouse inventory, but they will never figure out where it is. Sometimes warehouse workers steal or they damage something then toss it into the dumpster compactor and don't say anything about it. The truck driver just should do what's best for his paycheck and don't dwell on something like this. I've witnesses loaders rip the bills off a pallet of something, especially perishables, and put it on a trailer that's about to be sealed, because they accidentally left it off another trailer that's already gone and don't want to have to explain it to their boss. Just one of the many times it happened to me, I had no reasonable choice except to return it to the shipper because when I weighed at the truckstop I was 2000 lbs over gross & no safe way around the several scales I had to cross. It was blackberry pie filling.