Millis OTR journal

As far as I know, there is no app. But having your messages sent to email already exists. It has to be set up by your company. And most won't do that even though it makes life 50 times easier.

 

@MIT it was a pleasure to have met you. Hope I helped you. Definitely hope I see you again. You're a good man. I'd love to see you again in the future once you've been on your own for a minute. Call me anytime.

 

Yup, but I'm gonna be honest with you and say I doubt I'll catch it next time. I don't mess with hazmat often enough to notice this stuff, and it's never happened before. The company that makes the product is apparently revamping their computer program that prints the BOLs. If it runs out of room on their new forms, it simply stops printing. It left off part of the technical name of the product, the hazard class, and packing group. Someone at Landstar caught it for me. I had already left, but was thankfully only 15 minutes away when I was told to turn around immediately and go back. They corrected the paperwork, but I still had to make additional corrections to it based on what our hazmat department wanted. When they were satisfied, I left. But that was some ridiculous looking paperwork. If I had been pulled in, I would have been nervous. As I'm sure you very well know, the DOT doesn't like bills with hand-written corrections. It was legal, to be sure. But if something like that bill makes this dumb trucker raise his eyebrows, it's a guarantee that it would do the same thing to a savvy DOT officer. Thank god for our hazmat department. If we didn't have it, I wouldn't ever haul it. Contrary to what most people think, hazmat does NOT pay more. That's an egregious incorrect myth. The only reason I ever touch it is if it's the only decent load option I have.

 

I have a resource available to me that I call "hazmat for dummies". It's awesome. I take a picture of the BOL and email it to our hazmat department. Wait for a minute, then call them. They look it over and decide whether or not I'm good to go. I don't move unless they tell me I'm cool. The really nice thing about them is that they are FAST, unlike most departments here. And, unlike most departments, they are 24/7/365. Hopefully they get appreciated as much as they should, because they're awesome. I know this... when I leave Landstar I'll never touch another HM load again.

 

I know that you're right, and I feel like an idiot. I was low on time and I'm so used to grabbing paperwork and bolting. You're right though, that will definitely never happen again.