Double blind shipment

I've done a few, but it just seems there's a shyster somewhere along the way.

 

Every double blind I oversaw, back in my dispatch days, had two sets of papers, including shipping papers but that was common in chemicals. XYZ chem to DuPont and then DuPont to the end customer.

A lot of the Canadian shipments we did for one Canadian distributor came with their bills showing the stuff came from them and not some company in the USA....

all legal!

 

We did a lot of blind shipments for a guy, retired chem salesman for a large company...

He had a commitment to purchase a large quantity of a product at a deep discount.

He sold it, a truckload at a time, to customers who wanted a discount price but didn't use enough product a year to qualify for discount pricing. He priced it between his price and the supplier price. His customers knew where it came from but he kept it blind from the supplier...

That was his 'retirement gig'

 

Sounds like a nice side gig for the broker

 

That's not actually a broker. He's a supplier and there's a difference. I broker never had money on the deal, a supplier actually pays for the product and sells it to someone else. The difference is the profit. They're similar, but different legally.

 

To everybody commenting on having propped bol’s. Don’t y’all keep a book of blank bol’s in your truck? I’ve always had a stack of blanks, never know when you’ll need them. Grab a packet of them from the truck stop & keep them with you.

 

Was just gonna say that. Always have em in the bunk just in case

 

We do a lot of our shipments double blind. We sign a delivery ticket at the farm we pick up,

We use the shipment invoice to the customer (From our company to the receiver) as the DOT tracking document. Lots and lots of level threes and a company audit, never an issue.

there’s no legal requirement to have a BOL. You can just as easy use a manifest or invoice. If I were carrying a double blind as a carrier for someone else, I’d have two BOL’s : shipper, receiver, and a separate, numbered document that was my record, and I’d probably use an invoice to the broker with details of the load. All three would go in the trip packet.