Why? If you are given an AWB#, a pro number (for an LTL pickup), a pickup number, or an NLMI number, those are very specific. Those numbers refer to documents and freight which list precisely what is to be shipped. If there is a discrepancy then you double-check with the shipper and then communicate that to Dispatch who's job it is to reconcile any discrepancy. Not only does the shipper know more about their own freight than you do, so does Dispatch.
There is no reason to assume there is additional or other freight to be picked up. There is, however, reason to assume Panther or the customer who booked the shipment made a mistake on the pieces and weight count, because it literally happens more often than not. If you drive away with the wrong freight, it's not because you took the wrong freight, as Panther would like you to take responsibility for, it's because you were given the wrong freight despite double-checking to ensure you had the correct freight. If there is an additional pickup number that someone failed to make you and the shipper aware of, it's the fault of whoever failed to make that information known. If there's some screw up and you drive away with the wrong freight or short freight, it's not a screw up you made.
Once you and the shipper are confident that you have the correct freight on board, and you've communicated to Dispatch what you have on board, there really is little else you can do as it's out of your hands. You didn't book, dispatch or ship the load - you're the mule who carries it. Like I said, in the scenario of the OP, I wouldn't pay a penny on that. He did everything that was expected of him, and the screw up was someone else's. Those in this thread who want to take these circumstances and place blame on the OP are disingenuous, at best.
My favorite line from the thread is, "Now instead of thinking you know everything, you might have considered that the freight was a consolidation of freight that came in from two different places" which is hilarious, because everything after the comma is an admonition to think you know everything. Fact is, if it was a consolidation of freight that came in from two different places, it would have two different AWB#s for it, or a consolidated AWB# indicating both shipments.
This thread, and EO in general, is full of replies from uber-perfect people who do, in fact, know everything and are so flawless they can correct problems they don't even know about. It's amazing. In this case with the OP, there was a discrepancy in which he questioned the shipper about, and then communicated the discrepancy to Dispatch in the manner in which Dispatch prefers, via Macro 3. A phone call to tell them the same information they are reading on their screen is utterly redundant and a complete waste of time at Panther. Once you've communicated the discrepancy to the dispatcher monitoring the load, and you don't hear anything from them about it, it's quite correct to assume they did their job and reconciled the discrepancy. That's all you can do. The dispatcher monitoring the load in this case failed to do their job and reconcile the discrepancy. It wasn't until the next day that the discrepancy was realized.
Do keep in mind that all of my comments in this thread are in the proper context, that of a cargo van at Panther. My comments may or may not apply to other vehicles at Panther, and may or may not apply to any vehicles at other carriers. I have to wonder if many of those in this thread fully appreciate the full and complete meaning of, "Your position in the cue is... eight. The average waiting time in the cue is... two minutes". <snort>
