Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

thanks mack i never thought of that ill make sure to ask whats the gig about, ill keep you boys updated

 

i wouldn't mind a layover run but no companies are hiring weekends only, i think in the past two months ive only seen two gigs

 

This is solid gold advice. I hated when Saia would cut me to send me the Bloomsbury, NJ meet. Harrisburg sups sent drivers with inadequate HAZMAT paperwork and the driver that I would meet would never pretrip his truck or force HBG to give him proper hazmat paperwork.

That driver has given me sets of trailers with:

No mud flaps on the kite
No brake lights
No turn signals
A lead trailer that the ram doesn’t extend in place on the dolly eye
Service brake line closed from the lead to the dolly
Lead trailer 4K over on the drive
Kite heavier than the lead by 9k pounds

I mean, why should he have given a ####, I was the one taking the set through NYC over the GW and through CT.

You’d think after the first time I refused his trailers someone would keep an eye on him.

 

The problems that I could fix I did, and kept moving, the ones I couldn't, I refused to pull the load.

Guy still works there from my understanding... I guess the company's way of combating turnover is not firing people that SHOULD be fired.

 

Guys who just feel free to pull straight into the yard without checking in at the office first. We're trying to work and move stuff around now your 75' of truck is in the way.

And LTL guys who don't carry a pallet jack.