What happens when you get pulled over and you dont have a bill of lading on you?

dont have a wife type yet,.... but I am sure not about to mess with a lizard type before I meet her...lol.

 

That is a good rule to go by.

 

No way...Lol. I go that way when I usually get off home time. Pick up in Bessemer and go to Salt Lake

 

Safer than a virgin in a truck stop parking lot... LMAO .. oh my stomach hurts

 

that, or if you've got a printer in your truck and a laptop AND a usb internet card, just have him scan it to your email account, and print it off. will save you $10 from having to pay to receive a fax at a truck stop.....spend the $10 on a shower. =)

 

I will say it is a nice design and thanks for sharing your faith.

 

Since this thread is beginning to run it's course, I'll throw in my $1.00 of information...

When I pick up a load, I always take my BOLs and slide them in the driver's door pocket. My Pete 387 has a pocket down at the bottom of the door which is a perfect fit for the black 3 ring binder with all the permits (cab card, etc.) and the BOLs which slide in there just tight enough so that they won't fall out or blow out when the door is opened. Without exception, BOLs stay right there unless I have to pull it out to show the DOT man (and it's a handy spot to keep paperwork, as you don't have to rummage around the cab looking for it when he/she asks for it,) or until my freight gets to it's destination.

After delivery to the consignee, I take my copy, or "driver's copy" and put it up in my upper right storage compartment with all my toll, scale, etc. receipts that have to be transflowed later. After I get done with my deleveries, I then transflow all my paperwork, and then staple them all together and put them in yet another binder I keep in the sleeper, in the driver side upper cabinet compartment. These go home with me for my personal records of past deliveries.

And about these fellows with the dash full of fast food wrappers, BOLs, divorce papers, books, and whatever the hell else they throw up there, I don't understand how they stay organized like that!! The only thing that goes on my dash is my little notebook where I write down my directions. That's IT... not one piece of clutter there, or anywhere else in the cab.

I have 3 different spaces for paperwork:

Active BOLs - driver's door pocket
Delivered/Untransflowed BOLs and receipts - upper right storage compartment
Transflowed BOLs and receipts - binder in rear upper left cabinet storage compartment

My paperwork model may not work for someone else, but nonetheless it is very helpful to designate different spaces for your paperwork, and follow it to the letter.

Now, if I could just get the hang of this blasted quallcom and get to where I send in the right messages...

 

o1cblue, you'll find after a little more experience that keeping a piece of paper worth as much money as that BOL that "sticking it in the pocket" is not a good idea as is in that "in the upper right storage compartment!"

The MAIN things DOT asks for when you go in except for those out west is a log book and your BOL's Then the truck documentation. A cop that stops you the order is license, registration log and bol.
Putting any paperwork that's worth money where it can "roam free" is never a good idea! BUT it's your truck and your wallet so thats up to you. Wait until you tear up that truck looking for a wandering BOL or paper worth money! You'll learn that putting it in something is better than sticking it somewhere.

As to who writes the BOL>>> In all my 32 years I've NEVER had a DOT ask me who wrote the thing! EVERY trailer load I've hauled with the exception of a few home owners I was handed a BOL that I signed and that's what I've given to numerous Police and DOT officers and they took the information from it and sent me on my merry way! So carrier or shipper or king kong written it really doesn't matter unless you like crossing that border! Thankfully Canada does not like gun owners or military types so I had to by pass that pleasure!

 

wait, you mean your supposed to carry a BOL with you , I doubt I have a BOL for 5% of the inbound loads that I haul