Trying to locate lost freight - please help

I agree that other people screwed up. There were definitely mistakes made all the way around. I guess my point though is that as a small business you’re number one priority should be covering your own ###. If other people make mistakes, that’s on them.

In my opinion, you should do whatever you can to make sure you’ve covered everything on your end, so the next time this comes up your hands are clean. If the freight hadn’t been found it could have had a devastating impact on a 3 person operation, and no one wants to see that happen.

I know it’s a ####ty outlook to have on the world, but you have to assume that other people in the chain are gonna drop the ball. The only company you can protect though is your own.

 

I agree with points 2 and 3. As for point 1 though.....
The reality in trucking is the bol means little. When I was over the road and with a major carrier (Swift) I would say 1 in 10 bol's were not accurate. Anything from the commodity being wrong, to wrong address, wrong company, and a few times the bol was written out to deliver to a competer dc. Not much a driver can do when the dock person says it's the right shipment.

 

Thanks for telling us, so many people never come back and tell us what happened. "Laredo"

 

We run protrans ALL THE TIME. I highly doubt we set up a load that didnt go through our dock. we have contracts with 3rd party carriers. They pick up from us, at our facilities.

 

No satellite tracking device? thought that this was the norm these days. This is one unless the police find it, that will have to be written off as a tax loss.

 

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This thread helped them find their freight

 

A lot of stuff that goes through forwarders at the border is pretty haphazard.

I used to do runs down there for Calsonic Kensia (Nissan) and they would set it in the corner. Ask if I was going back (they always paid round trip) "Yeah"

"Ok"

They would load some totes, a skid or two. "Hey which plant you going to?"

Shouldn't you have asked before loading??

They always seem to work it out. But I think the folks in Dhelbyville where often as clueless what was coming as the folks sending it.

 

Lol, my signature is illegible. Carrpal tunnel syndrome and burning the candle at both ends when I was young, Ican't produce a smooth signature/writing.

I know what I want to write but my hand does it's own thing. It won't even look the same if you compare three different signatures.