Your most pain in the ### freight

Oh hell, I saw this all the time. Things that were twice as heavy as listed, or even more. Why in the world do LTL shippers take the word of shippers on the weight of their crap? Why do drivers pick up freight that is already damaged, and do not note it? Why do LTL outfits put up with dock hands using a forklift to smash freight onto a line haul truck?
These companies lose money so many different ways it isn't funny. Almost make you think the federal government is running these trucking companies.

 

Grain bins. Hell on tarps

 

I know Estes in St. Louis got some sort of machines (3) that weighs the pallet and like x rays it sort of for density. Because shippers have no idea what class stuff is. They said they paid for themselves in like a month because of mis represented weight, and mis represented class. They either do ones that are obviously wrong, and like every certain number of bills as like a random audit type thing. I asked if the weight on the BOL was over the actual weight, or if the class was wrong in the customers favor, then what happens? I was met with blank stares and asked "don't you have a route to do?"

 

Ha! Get outta here

 

Yea that's perfectly fine. That works out even better. And obviously, you're not a moron. It's the people who work in high rise offices who get jungle gyms shipped to them at work so they can claim it as a business, then have no idea where to put it, how they're gonna bring it home, and didn't "realize it was gonna be that big and heavy, I drive a Prius think it'll fit in the trunk?" Hell yes it will. You shouldn't have any problem. I'll just leave it here, be sure to print your last name too please ma'am. Skrrrrrt!!

 

We were always told that crap too. "You drivers are the first defense against freight claims." Wellllll I dunno about that sir. I wasn't in Memphis last night stabbing gun cabinets with forklift blades.

 

Haha! Jesus. Someone busted the nozzle off a tote of industrial soap one time and we had suds all over the parking lot. Some of our dockworkers were nuts man they'd have those forklifts screaming around the dock. One guy missed his door and went flying into what he thought was a 53' and it was a 1/2 loaded pup. Needless to say he stopped quickly and the steering wheel broke his sternum.