Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Well, now that I'm done being P/O'd about yesterday which was the day from hell, I brought four back AND missed a pickup.

I hate not being able to be productive and efficient.

Left the yard an hour and 45 minutes late because Mr. load planner doesn't have the stones to cut anything. I got the interline freight off, which is another story since the dummy decided to send the freight that just arrived instead of what's been sitting there for a week, and one delivery. The next stop was feed mill for a chicken farm/company, and got there just in time for the warehouse manager to go to lunch, so that cost me another hour.

I had two stops at the mall, and those took another hour, which made me to late for the county jail which stops receiving at 2:30. That's return no. 1.

I got two more off, and since by then it was after 3, it was time to grab the p/u at a HVAC distributor we deal with. They give us a lot of business, but they do tend to ship things on wide pallets that won't fit side by side. I hate having to do pickups in route because of the potential it has to completely tank the rest of your run, and this almost did because instead of the 2 skids they SAID they had, they had 6. That was at least manageable though because I knew the next 2 deliveries came off at a dock.

I get to the next 2 stops. They are two different consignees, but they are in the same buidling so they unload at the same dock. One is a paint shop, and the other is a sign company, and one of these idiots has a van with a bucket lift on top backed up to the dock with the boom extended through the door, so that meant sitting for yet another half hour twiddling my thumbs.

The sign shop's freight came off first, and the paint company's skid was the second one back from the nose, so that took an eternity to dig out because it was loaded out of order in addition to the 6 skid pickup I have on board now.

I get one more off, and I go to one of my other favorite deliveries, a nursing home who's parking lot I can't get into, so this requires double parking on the street and walking that crap around the back, AFTER I spend 15 minutes seeing if they could even still take it since I got there at 5:00. That deal took another 45 minutes.

I knew the next one wasn't getting delivered, a supply warehouse for a cruise line, but I was too disgusted to care. I went by there anyhow, parked somewhere on a side street nearby so they computer would think I at least attempted it, and made my second "too late" phone call.

The last stop was 2 bills going to a swimming pool place. I probably could've got those delivered, but being the spiteful SOB I can be sometimes I thought I'd stop and see if I could grab the other pickup at the RV dealer that closed at 4, so that was two more returns.

This is what happens when you piss me off.

 

I don't like standing stil either when I'm up to my butt in work.

 

If it wasn't for the late start, I could've got everything done.