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Just a couple of questions quick: Who provided the BOL for that? Is that the BOL from pick-up? If so, do you have a copy of the BOL for the drop location?

It looks a little funky to me, because putting "Blind shipment" on the BOL kind of defeats the point of running a blind shipment.

 

Yea I know. But that's what they gave me

 

I hauled a load of concrete barriers that was a double blind shipment. I guess some people just like being secretive.

 

Worst I ever saw was a load of onions that had been bought and sold five times by the time it hit a distribution center. Completely insane.

EDIT: Only reason I ever found out is that I got copied into an email chain. Hilariously two steps the product had taken were both different customers of mine doing business with one another. Which was weird because there wasn't a whole lot of love lost between them.

Produce is super strange lol.

 

Great reading in here...

 

I can speak to blind shipments because bulk chemical does this a lot. We run a lot of broker tanker freight and it's often a blind shipment.
For example, customer buys product from supplier. Supplier orders a truck from us to pick up chemical. We pick it up at a storage facility or manufacture as a customer pick up and deliver it to suppliers customer using the bol the supplier gave us.
At least in the chemical world, if you can't order 100,000+ gal at a time, a manufacture won't even talk to you. So suppliers order in bulk and have it either sent in a rail car or by barge to a storage facility. Then the supplier sells it to smaller customers for a higher price because their not buying in huge quantities.

I'd say on an average week, my company does 20 or so blind shipments a week.

 

Who decided it was normal for big rigs to dead head to a shipper for free? Tow trucks will not so that? Taxis won't do that, repairs truck will not do that?

 

That's what I'm saying.. Everything in transportation is always paid for delivery
Taxi.
Bus. Train. Postal. UPS. Plain. Boat. Pizza. Flowers.

 

Who is giving away deadhead for free? Most people charge an all inclusive rate to cover it.

 

Chr.