Top Secret Trucking Mission

On a strange load right now.

Was instructed to call broker before arriving. Instructions were to go into shipper empty handed with just a piece of paper with the pickup number and broker name. Told repeatedly that it is a “Double blind shipment “. Not to tell anyone where I am taking load.

Getting loaded now. Picking up at a pallet company and dispatch has receiver as another pallet company but the address in the dispatch is not that company. Looks like a pallet customer.

I think a little pallet arbitrage may be going on.

Those pallets must be important?

Sooooo where ya taking it? We won't tell anybody....

Delivered a few of those type of "High Value" loads @ CRST. We had to download a tracking app to our cell phones, so they could track our every move en route from shipper to reciever. Was kind of a PITA, if we stopped to fuel or to eat, take our 30 minute break etc, they were up our asses lol

And the trailers were double padlocked with their locks. Funny because CRST trailers all have GPS trackers on them anyways. Still made for an interesting journey

Reminds me of the song Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers: “ They’ve given you a number and taken away your name “

Not sure what all the secrecy was about. Load was a bunch of short pieces of the wood that pallets are topped with. Took it to a dumpy pallet refurbishing place.

Someone is either afraid of being cut out as the middleman or they don’t want the shipper to realize they are providing a competitor with raw materials.

Of course it wasn’t sorted correctly and they wanted to know where it came from. Said I wasn’t sure and to check with broker.

Broker also asked if I could haul more of their load’s because I communicated so well. Told her it wasn’t my call.