Double blind shipment

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  1. Wespipes

    Wespipes Road Train Member

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    This is a first for me. Book a really good load $3 a mile. Brooker says it's a double blind load. Shipper cant know where it's going and receiver cant know where it came from. Have separate BOL's for pick up and drop off. anyone had this kind of load before? It's a load of aluminum, 42k lbs
     
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  3. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    You will need a third BOL filled out yourself with the complete shipping origin and destination etc. Keep that one away from the other two until after delivery. Then scribble something. Sometimes I'll have the office drone stamp the time and date on a empty blank BOL form and do it for me as a favor in exchange for a coffee plus a dollar for their favorite snack in those days. Then fill out the BOL as complete with all of the information, staple everything together and turn that in. (After making copies and retaining for myself the particulars of the trip in a journal book so that I can check payroll and make sure thats paid.)
     
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  4. Midwest Trucker

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    YEah have done quite a few. Normally they are recycle loads. Bigger pain is scaling before and after getting loaded. Just follow the brokers instructions carefully and you’ll be fine.
     
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  5. MTN Boomer

    MTN Boomer Road Train Member

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    Yes, have had to take the tags off bundles of steel, picked up in Chicago at the port, went to Laredo picked up a few more bundles that had came from Mexico, took those tags off, met a truck from Mexico, off loaded it for Mexico. Not unusual, not illegal, they are protecting their business.
     
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  6. wichris

    wichris Road Train Member

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    I'm sure someone will be on here soon to say it's illegal and they're screwing you and everyone else by doing it.
     
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  7. Ffx95

    Ffx95 Road Train Member

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    Nah it’s been done many times. Broker or middleman using broker is making a cut off ordering something for someone and he’s just getting it from the pick up and marking up the price but doesn’t want receiver to know. It’s legal just make sure to follow broker instructions can’t let receiver know about this might cause some hard feelings.
     
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  8. Western flyer

    Western flyer Road Train Member

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    Make sure you hand the DOT the right BOL.
    He can match the e-log to pick up location.
     
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  9. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    Whats great, is when the reciever looks at the “fake bol” and goes to door opens and gets real one from door pouch.

    Have done a few, usually the companies get in a kitty fight over something and dont wanna do business with each other, but they still do. They’ll know where it came from, but some people act as if they dont.
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  10. LumbraX

    LumbraX Medium Load Member

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    My favorite Blind shipment was last year. A 25 mile run brokered by Landstar. My fake BOLs showed the load coming from New Jersey. Anyways I was sent to a Sams Club Store in Ocala, FL. Not a DC like a actual store to pick up an entire load of frozen French Fries that delivered to a DC down the road. Someone was getting robbed... and it wasn’t Landstar, Me, or Sams Club.
     
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  11. xsetra

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    Yes.
    I had broker provide accurate bol.
     
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