The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Can you make a separate BOL for it? Or maybe amend the one you have? To reflect the change?
Otherwise tell them its not on the BOL, so they need to get it added.

 

When I did airfreight new shippers would try stuff like that. Until I showed them how I was going to measure everything I picked up and put it on the BOL, and would require an accurate weight from them per item. So a one-time attempt. I don't get how people expect the movement of goods for free. Or some companies I've tried to work for.

 

We had a junk yard that would try their best to ship motors, transmissions and other parts, not only without cleaning them up, but without any kind of preparation for shipping. I lost count of the stuff I'd refuse from them, until they had it right. My outfit would have strung me up by the nuts, if I had taken that crap!

 

Another one, and this was a very good customer, in most cases, would try to ship junked wet cell batteries, without the appropriate hazmat stuff. Couldn't get it through this one guy's head, that there really WAS a difference between new batteries that had never had the sulfuric acid added, and old leaking batteries...

 

The shipper is supposed to supply the placards, unless things have changed. And they need to have their ducks in a row on the paperwork as well.

 

I believe our company felt like they shouldn't have to come up with a set of placards for all the different types of hazmat, for each tractor. Since zI was paid by the hour, I had no problem with sitting on my arse, letting dispatch and shipper fight it out.