Check your bill's "delivery address"

Happened with my trainer,he was to deliver to Jackson,TN and went to Jackson,MS instead.He chewed his dispatcher out and it wasn't even his fault.What was bd is he was an o/o so he had to pay for all that fuel.

 

I am sitting here now with a load I was given Friday, and a hand-written address on BOL. Know what town to go to, but unable to read handwriting for street address, phone number, and name of the home-owner I am supposed to deliver to. Supposed to deliver Sunday afternoon, but shipper has gone home for week-end.

I love trucking.

 

Yep it happens. Always check them. Sometimes it's not just the destination that's wrong. I had a pickup once in jersey with Baylor getting loaded beside me. Got the green and went in and got my bills. Address and scac info was correct but consignee name, freight description and qty was wrong. They gave me bills for him and his cons with the address and trailer number and company info for me. If I hadn't checked the whole bill that could have been a big screwup.

The thing that tipped me off immediately was the weight.....31k for half a trailer, which in turn made me look even further into it and found everything wrong with it. Point being, don't just sign them jump in the truck and go. Always verify what you're hauling. To who and to where. Or supposed to be. In as much as possible although sometimes with preloads all you can do is verify cons and adrress.

Happens a lot at shippers where we pull multiple preloads out of to different destinations we are told to always verify the cons. They can and do screwup the bills sometimes. Once you leave, if you didn't verify then it's on you.

 

that's why you always call the delivery point, and get directions from them also, then you will discover any problems ahead of time.

 

You know what to do in that case.

 

For me, I always look to verify the BOL and all load info matches what my load assignment says. If different its time to make some phone calls.

 

And how many miles away from the real del. point were you, I mean him..

 

Heck, I went to the wrong Catawba once.....before I had the load!

Just flat-out got in a hurry and went to Catawba, NC instead of SC. Too bad for me both of them have access to US 21. I ended up on the little old streets of NCs Catawba, and finally called my fleet manager, making my feelings clear.

She asked me what I was doing in NC.... Said something to the effect of "whattdayamean....". She was messing with me because she lived near the SC location, and knew by looking at her screen I blew it.

Load was time-specific for a Washington DC suburb, so I had to reporter it.

Broke my heart.