This is why we double-check the BoL...

He caught the problem before any real damage was done. Youre nitpicking nothingness.

 

Heard about a rookie that got a load in new Mexico going to Interior, Ca the Canadian border patrol informed him CA Stands for California not Canada, I think he's flipping burgers now.

 

shouldve taken it to Oregon, more miles

 

From New Mexico to Canada is a few miles out of the way when it was to go to onterio California, but he might have rerouted through Oregon on his way back if he was allowed to drive back.

 

oh sorry, was replying to the original post. your guy is just a fool. almost as bad as trying to take half a million rounds of ammo into juarez.

 

Story time!

Back in 1993 I was in Co. This the same weekedn trhat the construction company cut that gas main on 70 and I went troough it as it was just crossing the interstate and I watched it explode in my mirrors!
I was heading to my sisters house and a long weekend of skiing with my family at Vail.
When we got back to Denver I called in for a dispatch and the dispatcher gave me a load from Grand Island, Ne to hatsfield, MAS. Well thats what he told me on the phone and thats what I asked for at the dockforemans window and thats where I went! I took the toll road as that was the shortest route.
I did my evening check calls and got to Hatsfield and parked at a resturant with a few trucks and went to bed and got up the next AM 2 hours before delivery time and was sitting at the counter and asked the girl where so and so was.
The blank expression on her face didn't help and she asked a guy sitting next to me where it was and his blank look got me worried and another guy asked me what my BOL said so I went back to the truck and looked and almost had a heart attack!

It wasn't MA I needed to be in but PA!

Man I flew into the place and grabbed a phone and called in and ole Jack who worked nights and weekends answered and the first thing he asked me was where did I say I was going?
I told him what I had done and he says"I got to wondering when you kept saying MA and it didn't hit me till you called in last night that you were supposed to be in PA! He looked the miles up for me told me about 275 and all this down 91 and 95 to 276 and through CT,NYC and NJ traffic on a friday! He asked me if I what mt ETA MIGHT be and I told him maybe 3pm and he said run and take the toll roads. I barely made it there got unloaded and from that day on I always checked that address before I left a window!
CXI was going to charge me all the tolls but I was able to get about $60 cut off because I would have still had to pay a few tolls t6o get to the original drop and I also got to pay the OOR fuel and the tolls they didn't pick up. I didn't blame them but as I said I always checked twice since then! It's like carpentry. Measure twice and cut once as you aint putting that wood back together

I also remember the Trucker News or whoever it was about the driver that picked up somewhere in TX for Marietta, Wa but went to Marietta, Ga! Now that was an expensive out of route drive!

 

When I was driving team I had just driven all night and delivered into York, Pa. As soon as we unloaded we received a dispatch picking up in Allentown, Pa to KC. We swapped out and my codriver drove to the shipper. Got to the shipper, got a door and was told it would be a few hours, so I hit the rack and passed out hard. I must have been so tired I didn't even feel us getting loaded and next thing I knew we were fueling in Columbus, OH. When we swapped out again so I could take the night shift I reached for the bills as I usually do just to verify what we were hauling and where it was going, although I was sure my codriver did all that. To my horror I discovered we were given the wrong bills. Not only did the bills say we were to drive to Houston, TX, but it was supposed to be taken by a different carrier.

I parked it, called it in, explained what happened..got hollered at for a bit (kill the messenger). I was fairly confident we had the right load, just the wrong bills because the bills I was carrying said there was 43,000 in the box and the scale ticket I had in my had said we were grossed at 64,000...so obviously something was off. I asked my co driver if any of these clues tipped him off that there was a problem and he just shrugged his shoulders, said it was the shippers fault for giving him the wrong bills and said this type of stuff "probably happens all the time"....I was proud of myself for not slugging him.

Ended up having to wait till morning for shipper to open to get everything straightened out. Thank goodness we ended up having the right load..wrong bills.

 

Duct tape to the grill would have been the better way and not as "violent"!

 

I had a customer once keep me almost my entire 14 loading. It was a place that treats the trucks like an assembly line. You have to sit in your truck and wait for the guy ahead of you to move forward. Then again, and again, and again. Once you're loaded, you pull up onto the road, close your doors, and walk all the way to the office. I had been then almost all day and was tired as hell without driving. Ran in, checked the PO (was correct), and rushed to my truck, and drove a half mile to a little truck stop and was about to pass out.

Was looking over my paperwork and realized to my horror that they'd given me another load my carrier was to haul out that the other driver was late for. The destinations were different. I called the shipper (I had just passed my 14). Called my company. Was given the # of the other driver who was late for their pick up.

It all worked out, they showed up and picked up the other load and met me at the truck stop and swapped trailers and bills.

Ever since, no matter how in a hurry I am due to my HOS, I always take the time to verify everything on the BOL. Even if the PO matches, but it might have been entered by the company load planner on the wrong load.