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MikeJr

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Happy Friday,

Received a carrier invoice today along with BOL....

BOL is my carrier confirmation signed by consignee.

Not the brightest bulb in the box if you know what I mean...

Wow,
Mike
 
this happens to us sometimes too, I don't get what some people are thinking when they do this type of thing...

like "hey, let's use this document showing our contracted price as the BOL, that'll show those damn brokers not to broker so much freight...."

seriously when people pull sh*t like this I am just asking myself how often they forget to breathe and then have to catch their breathe like if they just ran a 100M sprint...
 
It's not usually malicious. The odd time I've seen it happen it's been a stupid driver. But usually the driver is given a separate dispatch than what has come from the load broker.
 
Absolutely I'd like to believe this was human error. If a person performs 100 tasks a day 1 or 2 of them could be incorrect. We're people, people.

Either way, I'll reach out the the carrier and see what they have to say about it. Just so embarrassing for us to have a payable on the 'POD'...

Keep well,
Mike
 
It's ok.. the customer might see your rate and come to terms with the fact you don't work for free. Who cares if they think your cut is too big or maybe not appropriate.
 
It happens because sometimes shippers have no Bill of Lading available, and they grab the next best thing that's handy... the load confirmation. Better that than sending the shipment out with no paperwork at all.. Really they should cross out the money.. but.. everyone's in a hurry and that small detail gets forgotten.. I doubt its a conspiracy.
 
Loose leaf is better, but everyone's in a hurry usually.. so the driver hands the shipper the confirmation.. he signs it and away they go. Probably nobody even notices the rate..
 
The problem isn't so much your customer seeing the rates, but the fact that the contract of carriage hasn't been completed. Imagine trying to fight a law suit or even a freight claim, with only a signed load sheet instead of a proper Bill of Lading? This would also apply to the carrier in the event he had to take the broker to court for non payment. I suppose one could argue that even a receivers signature on the back of a pack of Export A's could be accepted as completion of a transportation contract, but Idon't think many of us would want to try it. Every shipment must have a complete Bill of Lading prepared, either by the shipper or the carrier. It is the best way to avoid problems later.
 
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The driver most likely lost the B/L. It happens, and in a perfect world we would have a different plan for what the driver should do in this case.
 
I sometimes get bills that have no signatures of any kind.. not the shipper's, not the receiver's, and not the driver's. So from that perspective anything.. even a signed off rate con is better than nothin at all.
 
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Hey Igor,

I don't necessarily want to call him out (single truck operation).
He advised that he didn't have a BOL at the time of delivery so folded down the top of the confirmation to have it signed. Also, no copy was given to the consignee.
I'm going to let this one go as an 'honest mistake'.

Is it Martini time yet??
Mike
 
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