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Your Bill of Lading is an important document.
It acts as a legal contract between you, the shipper, and the carrier.
Taking the time to fill out the AmeriTruck Bill
of Lading completely and correctly, will help ensure error-free
delivery to your customer and accurate invoicing to you.
1. Indicate who is responsible for the freight
charges. Prepaid charges indicate that you will pay. Collect charges will
be collected from the consignee.
2. Enter the date you are giving the shipment
to the carrier.
3. Clearly print the shipper's and receiver's
names and complete addresses where indicated (the receiver is also called
the consignee). Be sure to include ZIP / Postal codes
4. You may want to include special notes or markings, including:
- Special account numbers used internally at
your company.
- Purchase order numbers from your customer.
- Special instructions for the carrier to ensure
prompt delivery. Check with your carrier to determine if your "special
instructions" will result in special
handling fees.
5. You may also insert any reference number
(such as a bill of lading number) you want to use for internal purposes.
6. Enter the number of shipping units.
This is the number of individual pieces actually being shipped. (If
the pieces of a shipment are secured so that the individual pieces cannot
be separated from one another, you have one shipping unit, no matter
how many pieces are in the shipment.)
7. Enter the type of packaging (typical packaging includes cartons,
skids and drums).
8. Special rules and requirements apply
to hazardous commodities. Please contact your local carrier to discuss
shipping hazardous commodities.
9. Write a description of the articles. Include the material
of manufacture and common name. Remember, DOT hazardous materials have
many special requirements. Contact your carrier to determine the specifications
for your product.
10. Enter the correct weight of the shipment. If multiple commodities
are being shipped, then the weight of each commodity should be listed
separately.
11. If you want the carrier to collect a COD amount, mark the bill
of lading as "COD." Carriers typically charge a special
handling fee for collecting COD amounts. Indicate who will be paying
the fee. The AmeriTruck Bill of Lading
has a special block for COD shipments.
12. Enter the COD amount to be collected.
13. Indicate whether a customer's company
check is acceptable for the COD amount.
14. Indicate any declared value of the
goods.
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