Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I'm sure they feel good about saying every trailer is swept out at the end of the each drivers run. It sounds great, but the reality is that someone probably came back with a trailer full of shrink wrap, cardboard boxes, or busted up wood pieces from pallets.. Just keep the floor generally clean and when it gets horrible dusty/dirty clock in for 2-3 minutes and sweep it out.(Just don't start your clock unnecessarily.) I'd say that is why they didn't say anything about clocking in.. Don't want guys starting their 14 to sweep out a trailer.. Just do it at your last stop.. It only takes 3-4 minutes or so..

 

They want "experienced" workers, because experienced ones can genrally operate faster on a lift than new guys. They don't really care about freight getting smashed up because the operator is in a hurry. They just want the freight moved from point 'A' to point 'B' in the fastest way possible. If that person can avoid injuring other employees and smashing up freight...that's just a bonus.

 

Yeah, at US Foods we swept trailers out after the day but I was on the clock. F free work!

They won't fire you, they look to be hurting for drivers like everyone else in Denver. I got fired for the first time in my Life after 20yrs of working and I was fired on Fri, sulked for the weekend, put a online app in the Mon morning at my current job, got a call an hour later, interviewed the next day, was hired by thurs or Fri after my background check. Unemployed less then a week. Lol. That was 3 yrs ago. Now the lack of drivers here is worse. My company even the big LTL's having a hard time. OLD D needs like 14 line drivers, they've been hiring year round. They have to go to the trucking schools here to hire people.

 

1.5 hours getting out AGAIN this morning. Trailer wasn't even loaded when I went in. They are getting it loaded (and I'm helping cuz I GOTTA GO) and the loader cant' find the last pallet of small wares and chemicals that goes on the very tail. finally find out it went on another truck. So I have to take his small wares to him and meet him at his first stop (he's already left) and switch them out. Nothing like TWO 48 foot trailers in a fast food parking lot.

ugh.

 

I know the feeling...I had to do an 8' x 5' full-size 1000# beverage cooler on a liftgate with a pallet jack, hook straps, an iron fence and a lot of praying. Some fools think a liftgate solves everything...!!

 

I get spools that look like that all the time. But a lot lighter.

 

It's kind of a petty thing but I find it frustrating when someone takes everything out of the P&D trailer after they unload it. I have an assigned run with an assigned trailer (which I'm lucky and glad to have). I keep plywood, straps and a few load bars in it, and more often than not I have to put them back the next morning

 

Our outbound guys are required to empty the trailer. Company policy

 

Not a rant, but a rave:

Two more nights and I'm back on day shift, peddling freight like God intended instead of working the most chaotic freight dock in the universe all night. WOO HOO