Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Since we drop and hook there, it's tolerable (other than the stench of rotting flesh, but you get that at any meat plant). And we must do a lot of business with them because there were a lot of loaded Shaffer trailers there. This issue will most likely be caused by a paperwork snafu. Someone misread something or misentered something, and nobody is in the shippers corporate office to respond to Shaffer's emails. My fear, they won't be there until Monday, and I'll be stuck with it until Wednesday.

 

But one of the mixed up stops is Osco/Jewel who are super pickey about appointment times.

Dispatch said they still haven't heard back, so proceed as dispatched. Told them if I fight thru morning rush hour that close to downtown Chicago only to have the load rejected because their freight isn't there to unload, they may have a major freight claim because I might be mad enough to pull out, dump the freight that's in the way out in the street, then back in so they can unload theirs. Or else see how much they'll charge to move the other freight out of the way, unload theirs, then put the other back...knowing Chicago labor rates (and I will refrain from using that 5 letter word that begins with 'u')...if it costs them $5-600 plus my detention, Shaffer may need to pull out their EFS checkbook.

 

Guess the customer isn't uni....uhhhh, sorry, I said I wasn't gonna use that word...on my mixed up load, the customer only wanted $20/pallet to remove the other customers freight (5 pallets)...then removed theirs at no charge...and put the other freight back. How un-Chicagoan of them. How do they stay in business?

 

Not sure if Swift is getting into the trailer rental business, or if AZNG (whom I thought has some connection to Amazon) just doesn't want to remove the Swift stickers off the Swift trade-in trailers they bought. I saw a bunch if these trailers leave out, just like this