OMG My Current Load Is Soo

So I stopped teaming Friday evening. True to form West Side has me preplanned out the wazoo.

So I was to pick up this load which had been dropped at our Columbus OH terminal by one of our local drivers. Just prior I had delivered a load to the same consignee. This business is closed weekends, but security lets us in and we can drop n hook there 24/7.

So I hook up to the load, get the bills out of the box. This trailer supposed to go to Chambersburg PA. There are 4 BOLs. The first is for delivery in Phoenix AZ. this is NOT A TYPO. The seal on the trailer matches the Phoenix delivery. There are 3 other BOLs for Chambersburg PA. Total wt on those 3 bills is about 6500 lbs.

I messaged on the QC explaining this mess and called in also. I was instructed to deliver the load to PA and give them all the BOLs. Because of the confusing BOLs I'll be 2 hours late for my delivery --if they (Target) even accepts this mess.

What fcktarded driver leaves a shipper during business hours with a mess like that and NOT ASK ABOUY IT? My guess will be a fired driver. Oh and the tandems were all the way back, so said fcktard never checked the trailer and drove across Columbus like that.

SMDH.

Possible the Phoenix part was already delivered? Where was it loaded at? Seems unlikely they'd have a load from Ohio, to phoenix, then back up to PA.

My guess the it was loaded near phoenix or west of there, and then tcalled at Ohio for relay to PA, and they just messed up on the seals.

Of course, I could be wrong, but it would be odd to have a load from the northeast to phoenix, and back, or that a driver picked up down south and didn't deliver the Phoenix portion. But then again, I'm sure.its possible.

So I was to pick up this load which had been dropped at our Columbus OH terminal by one of our local drivers. Just prior I had delivered a load to the same consignee. This business is closed weekends, but security lets us in and we can drop n hook there 24/7.

I don't get it. Where were you picking up from? It sounds like you start out saying you're getting it at the terminal, but then it sounds like you're talking about an unrelated business?

Sambo is guessing:

Possible the Phoenix part was already delivered? Where was it loaded at? Seems unlikely they'd have a load from Ohio, to phoenix, then back up to PA.

Generally, if you have bills to a destination, that's where you are headed. Without other information either from the shipper or her DM (Who's probably in the dark just like she is), Susan's business is to head for Phoenix and then to Chambersburg. This is what brought out Sue's unladylike language.

Plus the lazy ass local driver didn't look at the bills, nor move the tandems. You almost never pull a trailer down the highway with the tandems all the way back. Fortunately, 6500 lbs won't put any axle over weight.

Yes, this is a cluster F, and following Sue's DM's instructions, she'll head for C-burg. No matter what, Sue has lost 2 hours, and that's a cluster of its own.

Kurt's confused:

I don't get it. Where were you picking up from? It sounds like you start out saying you're getting it at the terminal , but then it sounds like you're talking about an unrelated business?

This is called a T-call, where one driver will pick up from the shipper and bring the load to the terminal and another driver will take it on from there. So a driver did the first step, and Sue is taking it to the final destination, hundreds of miles away.

Two stop shipments are common. But the East - West whiplash like this is insane. Go ahead, Susan, talk like a sailer!

Note: I was in trucking school with a man who had worked the boats servicing the oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, his cursing vocabulary would make an old trucker sound like a kindergartener!

I've been to that Target in Chambersburg many times. Nice place. Not very busy most times and quite orderly. Not sure, but I would be surprised if they gave you a hassle for being two hours late.

That Target made me wait 12 hours to get unloaded!

They actually gave me a slip when I got there. "Here's a number to call with your appt number estimate unload time 12 hours". Wtf?

Is it possible like sambo said that it was already delivered? When we have multi stops, then repower /tcall it, the final.driver scans in the BOL for all the stops. So it could appear to one driver that the stop was t delivered if the driver didn't get the BOL signed properly.

I'm hoping as far as dropping it that the driver slid the tandems out of force of habit. I actually did that once cause our customers make us slide when ever when we drop. I wasn't thinking and pulled the pin then Was like..." Oh crap...long day...I'm at our yard" lol

Rainy adds:

Is it possible like sambo said that it was already delivered? When we have multi stops, then repower /tcall it, the final.driver scans in the BOL for all the stops. So it could appear to one driver that the stop was t delivered if the driver didn't get the BOL signed properly.

Yes, that's how it goes, except in the few Swift multistops I've done each stop gets their own bill + manifest , etc. Sue's deal is murky enough, especially over a weekend, to bring out her best language.

Rainy adds:

Is it possible like sambo said that it was already delivered? When we have multi stops, then repower /tcall it, the final.driver scans in the BOL for all the stops. So it could appear to one driver that the stop was t delivered if the driver didn't get the BOL signed properly.

Yes, that's how it goes, except in the few Swift multistops I've done each stop gets their own bill + manifest , etc. Sue's deal is murky enough, especially over a weekend, to bring out her best language.

Right...each stop has their own BOL...but the final driver winds up with ALL BOL/manifests for all the stops and scans them. Not just the stops that final driver did. I'm guessing that is what happened.

So its possible the product was delivered, the BOL were left properly for the final driver and nothing is wrong.

Of course...the planners could be stupid too...that is always a possibility. Lol