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Dockworker stupidity abounds today.

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by MACK E-6, Oct 27, 2020.

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  1. Oct 27, 2020 #11
    MACK E-6

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    Certainly didn’t happen when the 10 skids were loaded. I held those back rows from the front so the trailer wouldn’t be so nose heavy.

    This was the unloading doofus, and that’s exactly what happened. He probably had his phone in his hand like ai catch people doing all the time. :rolleyes:
     
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  3. Oct 27, 2020 #12
    singleaxle

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    How do you supervisors let this happen?
     
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  4. Oct 27, 2020 #13
    otherhalftw

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    They're down at the poolhall drinking...."coffee"1
     
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  5. Oct 27, 2020 #14
    ZVar

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    It's easier on the supervisor to file an insurance claim than fire and hire a new fork truck driver. Who, in my experience, will be a crap shoot on if he's better or worse anyway.
     
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  7. Oct 27, 2020 #15
    MACK E-6

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    H.I.A. syndrome....

    Head In ###...
     
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  8. Oct 27, 2020 #16
    gentleroger

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    The shipper I'm pulling out of is supposed to strap the loads (we provide the straps, there is a box of 40 sitting on the dock). If it's floor loaded, one strap at the back (works just fine), if it's palatalized it supposed to have 4 straps spread throughout the trailer (product is smaller than the pallets).

    Load I picked up last week was palatalized and loaded to the back, with both ends of the strap hooked on the drivers side and the buckle was wedged against the sidewall. No way for me to get my own strap on it. I shoved it in an open dock and raised Caine. I pulled out and the original strap was in the same place, they just pulled one pallet and tossed a strap that wasn't doing much of anything.

    There's no risk that if the product shifts I'll have a safety issue, just a claims one. Shipper wants me to roll, so I roll. When I get to delivery, the trailer is a mess. Everything shifted. Once the customer got everything resorted we found 5 more straps in the trailer. So for those who are counting there was a total of 7 straps in the trailer, but only one was properly installed.

    Monday I was told that this was going to be my last week on the account, unless I accepted the account's pay scale (25% pay cut with a 15% increase in work). I literally laughed and said "you're kidding right?".

    I can't wait to get back over the road where I'm dealing with a different idiot every day instead of the same idiots every day. I've gotten to the point where I'm recognizing other local trucks and anticipating them doing something dumb.
     
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  9. Oct 28, 2020 #17
    MACK E-6

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    You could strap in your pickups for the ride home, and then by the time you get to the last to skids on the trailer to deliver, you’ll find they’re sitting on top of your straps.

    That is nothing but pure and simple laziness.

    That’s usually how they get rendered unusable due to bent handles, and if people had to start buying them when they did that it would sure as hell put an end to it, especially now that there are cameras all over the dock.
     
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  10. Oct 28, 2020 #18
    buddyd157

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    i blame covid.

    companies are hiring like crazy, to replace the workers that will not go back to work, and sit at home collecting unemployment.

    and as such, more and more morons are doing the jobs with out any real training.
     
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  11. Oct 28, 2020 #19
    gentleroger

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    No problems here 20201028_073358.jpg
     
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  12. Oct 28, 2020 #20
    Woppin Wild

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    This is how the dock loaded my trailer Monday. I guess they figured I could just strap the door shut?

    PXL_20201026_110922852.MP_20201028101038566.jpg
     
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