my experience with Anheuser-Busch

when I worked for a certain company I had the pain of the closest shipper to me was the Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis (and to make matters worse it was 2 hours from where I lived, so I had to have my hometime cut short so I could pick the loads up

but before that

I had to pick up a load in Columbus, oh. the trailer couldn't make weight despite all the time I spent sliding my tandems, then I was heavy on my drives, I was told to move my 5th wheel but it was all the way forward. so I was sent to get it fixed. I walked up to the shipping office and I told the guy my story. he spent 10-15 minutes yelling at me and chewing me out and trying to pry personal information out of me (how long have you been driving? how come you don't know how to do your job?) and telling me how I should know how to do my job. Talking down to me, the meanest you've ever seen somebody talk to somebody else

eventually I got the load fixed but had to get a 14hr violation to find parking. I reported him to security who just laughed at me


the other winning moment. I had to pick up a load in St. Louis at like 2330 on Friday for a 730 delivery the next morning in Dubque if i'm not mistaken. (an 8 hour drive) so I arrived at the shipper at 2300, they said the load wasn't ready yet, so every 15 minutes I kept checking in on it, 0300 I sent a qualcomm message telling them it wasn't ready, then 0500 I was still there. the trailer wasn't ready until 1550 that afternoon. then they almost wouldn't let me take the trailer because I didn't have enough load locks in. these are the same load locks that I had no idea how to use and then kept trying to kill me as I was loading the next one

so I got smart the next time I was there, I broke into my companies trailers that were just sitting there and stole all the load locks, but their yard jockey/dog/whatever caught me and yelled at me, all they are going to do is steal them and charge drivers $10 to get them back

I do not support their product, I do not affiliate with people who use their product. there is no excuse to be treated this badly by anybody. the fact carriers allow this to happen is disgusting

I hope that the company disappears, although I feel bad for the millions who will lose their jobs though

 

um..thats grounds for termination, and on your DAC, probably as "destruction of company property"

and, at the time I was a 23 year old white kid, and he was a mid-40's black guy..so in his eyes i'm the smart-mouth punk

 

I interpreted it as you were going to dump the load on the property, sorry

now your company will fire you for refusing a load, i'm sure there is some wonderfully worded way they make you look like the bad guy, which is refusal to work...good luck finding a job with THAT on your DAC. and also possibly a $150,000 freight bill refusing to pay it translates into stealing from the company