How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

Your comment it TRUE but
When your a very large carrier and Super Regional things are diferent.
Do you know how unproductive it is to get off the dock and apply proper placards.
Oh and when spotting a trailer at dock do not chock the wheels its unproductive.
This is why lots of people have way to much grief...

 

@Hawkeye72 --

If I may ask -- how did your fuel hauling interview go? Or--was the interview postponed/cancelled?

If this has turned into something of a "sore subject"....just clarify...and I'll clam up about it...

--Lual

 

No worries @lual

I'm going to post a thread on the tanker forum this weekend. Doesn't seem to be much info on Kwik Star on here.

A job was offered but I turned down the offer. One of the most important things to me is home time. There I'd be working 55-60 hours a week as long as I work there. At FedEx I have opinions to make the same money working 42-45 hours.

 

Where I work if a trailer is pulled from the door. Yard drivers are supposed to placard the load when the move it to the closed line. But they never do! If it's in a door management will stick placards in the back of the door for the driver to placard the trailer. But that doesn't always happen.

 

Going on 5 years where I am at and placarding trailers as a line driver has just become part of the routine to me, just like fueling,hooking,staging my own trailers and putting them away or to the dock and of course the pre and post trips, as far as the dock applying the placards to the trailers its just not going to happen here and I accepted that fact a long time ago, its not even a terminal specific issue as it happens at others as well and I went to plenty of different terminals during my time running systems to see it first hand, bottom line I do the placarding and always double check the paperwork, travel bills, bols, and the hazmat card even if it is a relay trailer thats LTR status at a terminal or on a meet thats already placard I check it, and like others have already mentioned I have had meets where the trailers the meet brings me should have placards but they arent.

 

The break bulk I run through does a good job of placarding trailers. I think once in the last year I had to get a torch out to burn/scrape the wrong placards off. ###### I was pissed when I noticed they’d used the adhesive ones because the clips were all broken off a few of the flip placards.

 

That happened to me before but I took it to the shop since I don’t carry a torch lol. I was pissed and felt like a moron bringing it to the shop but I couldn’t get the darn placards off.

 

Usually the dock supervisor directs the dock crew to placard a trailer. At my union barn it is in the contract that the yard man (hostler/yard dog/ ect) does it.

In the eyes of DoT, they probably don't give a crap how your barn is structured. You are the one pulling the trailer(s) and your eyes should have been the last ones on it during your pretrip.

I cringe at the memories of all of my hazmat violations I got away with in the past. It was just stupid luck that DoT didn't check properly when i did get pulled in or over. Nowadays there is no way in HELL I would trust a 19 year old forklift driver making $17/hour to help me pass the scrutiny of a DoT inspection.

 

What kind of violations?
I think the scariest thing for linehaul drivers is hoping the dock loads hm securely but the can’t check the sealed trailer.