Bill of lading

The exception field is the one below that matters. Everything above it identifies the load; that one decides who pays if the freight arrives short or damaged.

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The load
The parties
Check it against FMCSA before the load moves.
The four-letter carrier code. LTL systems match on it, not on the name.
The freight
Pallets or skids — what the carrier moves.
Cartons inside those units.
The NMFC class, 50 through 500.
Not the same thing as the class. Leaving it blank is what invites a reclass.
Saying yes opens the block that 49 CFR 172 requires.
Loading and count

Who loaded the trailer and who counted the freight is what decides liability for a short delivery. "Shipper load and count" means the carrier never saw the pieces go in and is not answering for the number — which is reasonable when it is true and expensive when it is not.

Charges and value
Leave empty to accept the carrier limit of liability.
A number with no unit is not a declaration. The released-value wording needs both.
Where title and risk pass, and therefore who has the right to file the claim.
Name and address. A COD with nowhere to send it is a load the driver holds.
Exceptions

What is wrong, or visibly at risk, before the trailer doors close: short count, crushed cartons, wet packaging, a broken pallet, a seal that does not match. Under the Carmack Amendment a clean signature is evidence the freight left in good order, and disproving it afterwards is expensive. Writing "none noted" is a choice — make it deliberately.

This prints on the document whether you fill it or not.
Instructions

The PDF is built on your device. Your load data never reaches us — we record a hash of the file, not what is inside it.

The field that decides it

Exceptions

What is wrong, or visibly at risk, before the trailer doors close: short count, crushed cartons, wet packaging, a broken pallet, a seal that does not match. Under the Carmack Amendment a clean signature is evidence the freight left in good order, and disproving it afterwards is expensive. Writing "none noted" is a choice — make it deliberately.

Every other generator prints the same boxes as this one. The difference is that this field is on the form at all, and that it prints whether you fill it or not.

One document proves less than four.

Each of these records something the next one relies on. Generated together they assemble a claim; generated alone they are paperwork.

Questions
Do I need an account to download the bill of lading?
No. There is no account, no card and no watermark, and nothing to fill in before the download. The document is assembled in your browser, so the data you type never reaches a catuh server.
What makes this bill of lading different from any other template?
What is wrong, or visibly at risk, before the trailer doors close: short count, crushed cartons, wet packaging, a broken pallet, a seal that does not match. Under the Carmack Amendment a clean signature is evidence the freight left in good order, and disproving it afterwards is expensive. Writing "none noted" is a choice — make it deliberately. That field is the reason this document is worth generating rather than copying from a search result.
Can I use this as my standard form?
Yes. Generate as many as you need, unlimited and free. What is sold is not the document but the dated record behind it: a copy kept with the date it was made, which is what turns an invoice into a claim that holds.