Reasons i hate blind loads!!!

I had a direct customer who did that all the time. DOT knows why these loads are blind. I haven't had a problem before.

In case others don't know why. The shipper (the one on the blind bill) bought the product and doesn't want the receiver to know that it didn't get shipped from their warehouse.

 

I won't touch mystery stuff, anymore. My company puts 300% blame on the driver when things go wrong whether you're put out of service at a coop, you have an improperly secured load, hazmat with wrong BOL/placard info, etc. If I'm not allowed to inspect and verify the load/securement/matching paperwork, I call Dispatch and it stays right where I found it.

 

I don't touch it either. They can fire me. Or it goes to Ohio and fire me there.

 

You don’t touch anything anymore.

 

They aren’t that bad. You can tell the cop where it came from and where it’s going. You have the pick up bills as well as the delivery bills

 

If you don't understand how blind BOL's work then leave to those that do. More for us.

During regulation you would leave CA with produce(exempt)without even knowing what state you were going to. Produce broker would say take 80 (or 40) and call in the morning. When he sold the load, then you knew where it was going. BOL's always had the produce brokers address.

 

I always had the pick up bills also, and destination. Why even bring the subject up thats its a blind shipment? Too much information talk just adds for more explanations .

 

A few years ago when doing dry van, we used to blind load cardboard recyclables for city C, town H loaded it and BOL said receiver in city C. Climb back in the cab and a magical new BOL gets written up with city P as the new receiver.

Only once was it a double blind, receiver in town H shipped the load to city C, we took it to city P instead and the receiver in city P thought it came from city A. Confusing ####.

 

Lots of the stuff I do is blind. It's not hard to show the DOT guy your load info in the email or text if questioned about being outta route. Blank BOL forms are still sold and accepted everywhere. Fill one out.