Weird Wording on rate cons?

Blind BOL or a blind shipment is when, on the BOL either the shipper or the receiver information is left blank. That way either the shipper doesn't know where the shipment is going or the receiver part is left blank so the shipper doesn't know where the goods are going.

What is Blind Shipping and Blind Drop Shipping: Meaning and Definition

 

A blind shipment is when the broker does not want the receiver or shipper to know where the load came from. After your loaded the broker will send you a different BOL that will have a different shipper on it than where you picked it up.

 

Blind aside, given all the contingency penalties, I'd tell them to piss off.

Granted the blinds I've done were commodities, but there were never any penalties. Heck most the time the shippers and receivers already knew where the product was coming from, going to or didn't care.

 

You made the right move. I would have told them I don't agree to any of those penalties and I can remove them or cross them out on the rate con and run it or they can just find another truck. The blind isn't a big deal but all those penalties are a deal breaker for me. They're pretty high too which adds insult to injury IMO.

 

Blind shipments are usually no more than Direct Shipments. Wholesaler buys a Truckload from Manufacturer, or another Distributor, and doesn’t want the Customer to know where it came from. Often it’s packaged with the Suppliers Brand name. Sometimes it will be double blind, meaning the Shipper doesn’t know where it’s going either. Keeps both parties from cutting out the wholesaler. So picking up, you’ll give a fictitious Customer and Location, and when delivering, new BOL will have the same, or maybe even a different fictitious origin. Need to keep a copy of original BOL for records. I once came from the south with a load of motor oil. Guys in NJ asked about the snow storm in Colorado. Had Me stumped for a minute. Oh yeah, it was rough!! Lol.

 

We do blind loads of pallets all the time... My company buys truck load of pallets, which my company had already sold to a pallet supplier. Said supplier has already sold them to a customer.

I get a load of pallets and get a BOL that has my company as the consignee, but I already have a BOL from the pallet supplier that lists them as the shipper and their customer as the consignee. I then deliver the pallets to the pallet suppliers customer.

 

I wonder if they would take all that ownership if you were to get in a wreck on that load and injure or kill someone... We all know #### well they would throw the carrier right under the bus.. U made the right move. On to the next one.