Trucking Log

We took a run to Miami earlier this week then back to Nashville. We are in New Jersey now waiting to pickup a load that goes to a Parks Belk distribution center near Columbia, SC. The problem here though, is that the guy on the dock wants us to count the freight. Our trucking company however, does not want us to count the freight. When we pick up a load we get paperwork with it. (Bills) We have to sign them but we always put "SLC" right after the signature which stands for "shipper load and count". That way once the load is delivered (and many times we just drop the trailer and pick up an empty one at the delivery point) if the paperwork doesn't exactly match the contents of the trailer, neither we, nor the trucking company is responsible for it. That is fair because we don't load it or unload it. We just deliver it from point to point. We put a "seal" on the trailers before we leave the shipper, that way the doors can't be opened until it reaches the delivery point. Once in a while though, we pickup at a place like this (CACE in Elizabeth, NJ) and we have to sit and wait while the 2 companies work things out. At least we have something interesting to pass the time doing. Tracy is reading one of her novels (Linda Howard) and I, Eddie, am surfing and blogging.