Ranting : Scums of the earth drivers at bordentown auction

Discussion in 'Car Hauler and Auto Carrier Trucking Forum' started by jerseymc, Jan 22, 2015.

  1. jerseymc

    jerseymc Bobtail Member

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    Hey everyone, this is me ranting on a bad day today.

    I bought a shiny new truck for my driver around Christmas as he's a real value driver. Today, I send him to the auto auction in bordentown to pick up a load. I get a call from him telling me someone hit his truck while he was away to get his first car. My driver tells me he park at the last spot in the loading row and looks like another truck made a turn and took out his tail light box and left. I ask him to check with secuity if they caught it on camera but was told they don't have cameras in truck loading lot. So I just exhale and told him to continue about his business.

    Couples hours later, when he finished loading, I get another call from him. This time he tells me some M. F. stole his tie down straps while he was away getting cars. Luckily we carry spares on our trucks. I take my driver's word at face value as he's been with me for few years now and never had an issue until today. We usually load out of railheads and the ports.

    Maybe just me being naive, I can't believe this is what this industry has come to, bunch of car hauler wanna-be mix in with petty thieves and criminals among us.
     
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  3. imup4it

    imup4it Light Load Member

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    Sounds like you have a trustworthy driver, believe him. I have been driving little under a year and seen several thifts already. So much so my truck has four survianve camers that detect motion and turn on with day and night vision. Saved my own fuel once from a fellow driver, if you want to call him that.
     
  4. macmanboomer

    macmanboomer Light Load Member

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    I had lights stolen out of the back of my trailer in NJ once. I was only gone inside a few minutes to use restroom & come back out 1 light was missing & 2 or 3 others had been swapped out with bad lights. At the time I was pulling stepdeck & stopped frequently to check chains & straps and would always check lights while making the walk around.
     
  5. sxdime

    sxdime Medium Load Member

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    Sounds like Bordentown to me. The truck lot is a joke and even more so on sale day. It's a fair size lot but on average 60% of it is consumed by cars that have been staged. Just remember the auctions could care less how the cars arrive or leave there just that they go through the doors and sell. I can't say that is "fact" but through the years it sure is the vibe I get.
     
  6. Terry270

    Terry270 Road Train Member

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    Sounds to me like it's time to sit in a parked car with a tie down bar and watch :)
     
  7. SHO-TYME

    SHO-TYME Road Train Member

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    I'm about over these "Staged" cars too, wouldn't be so bad if they'd park them at the back of the lot, but NO, they have to park them right up front. I'm about to take a 4ft pipe to some of them, let the companies that pull that crap pay a couple thousand dollars in damages.
     
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  8. Pullin2

    Pullin2 Crusty Canuck

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    Don't go getting any false sense of security at railheads ......... the brother hood of car haul is drying up. When I was working with a unionized outfit, in a secure, video monitored railhead, that is where I had the MOST thefts occur off my rig. Oh yeah, my unionized 'brothers' stripped my rig of ratchet straps, gloves, spray lube, cb antennae's, you name it, they took it, the dirt bags. The worst was it was all stuff they/we were entitled to from the company ..... for free ! Just to lazy to go see the terminal manager I guess, or it was to far to walk. I caught them by reviewing CCTV TWICE ! But what do you do ? Report it ? Then you're the snitch. Just see the boss, and get new shiny stuff .... attractive stuff that'll be taken that night. Oh, and I had frame mounted tool/strap/tarp boxes ..... they cut the locks. The cab ? Yeah, the jimmied the window and doors.

    Best idea is as above. Low power draw, motion sensing LED lights and CCTV.

    I'm not sure where the brother hood has gone in anything anymore ..... everything is so cut throat ...... it's depressing what we've come to.
     
  9. SLANT6

    SLANT6 Road Train Member

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    In all reality, you can park your truck anywhere, truck stop, street, dealer, anywhere, and some non driver will hit it and take off. I guess I just have a hard time believing that all in the same span of loading, your trailer gets hit AND someone comes up and steals straps. Bordentown, or any truck lot is a busy place (Manheim, etc.). Nobody saw anything? Personally I would not leave anything laying in plain sight while I left the truck. Sheet happens, but most times everybody will still look out for each other.

    Bottom line is there are all kinds of people out there and if you want to keep something you put a lock on it.
     
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  10. brian991219

    brian991219 Road Train Member

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    Me too! I am sick of dodging staged cars, the puller at Manheim Newburgh lines them up in the truck loading spots. There is a big lot right behind the stall for staging but nope both Ray and Ricky JR line them up when the rigs are to park, and there are only about 15 spots anyhow so it gets crowded on a Wednesday, especially if they had the Ford factory sale the day before. As for the damage and theft the OP is talking about, in Bordentown I would believe anything. If you know and trust your driver then it happened the way he said, it is very plausible in New Jersey.
     
  11. jerseymc

    jerseymc Bobtail Member

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    My driver came back thru the yard, I took a look at the damage and had it repaired before he pull back out. All in all, couple of hundred $ out of my pocket. His story is very plausible according to the damage. Like I said, my driver have given me no reason to doubt him in the time that he been employed with me.

    I'm so feed up as well with these staged cars in the truck loading spots. That's the reason why my driver had to take the last spot on the corner. I wish manheim would enforce the policy of towing them and charge them for it.

    @speedloader. Never said brotherhood was any better. They just as bad if not worse. I try to judge people individually and not as a group. I gave up on teamster back when leaseway went belly up. It's just that at auction house, they let any tom, dick or harry on the lot and that increases the odds.

    @slant6. It's true that some people will steal anything, anywhere, anytime, but the chance of your straps or tie down bar gets stolen increases when you're at a loading yard for the simple fact, everyone there need to use them where as a truck stop, 95% of people don't need car wheel straps and such. What you're suggesting of keeping things out of sights and lock it up is just not economical to our operation especially when we use them couple of times a day. We put the strap on the edge of the deck when unloaded and ready for the next reload to tie down.

    My final thought is that it seems the world we once know is changing for the worse day by day. Everyone is for themselves now and screw the next guy that come alone just like the last guy that did to them.
     
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