Your most pain in the ### freight

Usually residentials. They are a hit or miss. Some are really cool and even tip you. Others are downright nasty and demand that you do things that are not only against company policy, but go against a verbal agreement they made prior to us showing up.

I've had them demand me dragging it up three flights of stairs and one even demanded that I unbox her Ikea furniture set and put it together for her. Hahahaha... No. Curbside only.

One guy had a single bridge leading to his property. 11'3 and a weight limit of 8 tons. Tried to explain that I was overheight and overweight. "That's your problem, not mine" he told me....

No problem. If you don't want to meet me in town, you got till tomorrow to pick it up from our barn. After that we ship it back for free.

 

I'll bet they take better care of the equipment! Of course, there are some numbskulls that don't have the brains to pour piss out of a boot......

I had lots of those. Interesting to see how different facilities, owned by the same company operate so differently. IMHO, hospitals were a lot easier to deliver to, than nursing/rehab homes.

 

Really? I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing. That way you know you have one every day, and you'll take care of it. It'd be a mad dash to get one in the morning. People were always flipping them wrong and 70% of them had no hydraulic fluid left and wouldn't jack up. Do you buy them yourself or from the company via payroll deduction?

 

Agreed. Most hospitals had some sort of receiving area. I almost always dreaded school deliveries also. No idea where to go, everything is always locked up, and no one ever knew who ordered it. "Oh you have 17 lunch tables? I guess just bring them in and set them in here."

 

Suppositories?

I'm sorry, Don.
Lol.

 

Don't be sorry. I'm an old guy, I've had my share of those....

 

Drove casual for Roadway doing P&D on days off from Police Department. The usual crap stuff Fingerhut to a trailer park but one day...... I had the miss fortune to be sent to a Doctors Office with a full pup of medical filling cabinets. I went in to the lobby and was welcomed by a nice older female receptionist. Told her I was ther with a delevery of the filling cabinets the had ordered and gave her the bills. She excused herself and went to get the Dr. I waited in the waiting room along with the 3 or 4 other people waiting to see the Dr. He finally Gomes out and is all happy about the cabinets. Says bring them on up. Said sorry this is not an inside delivery. Now he starts arguing about this. I said I will call the terminal and see what the charge is for the inside delivery and to have another driver come to assist. This is where things went off the rails. I tell him what ever the cost was and he lost his mined. Started yelling and cussing me in front of the patients in the lobby. Saying us Union people were all thieves. I advise the good doctor that as part of our union contract I did not have to take them all of these from customers and I would be leaving with this freight and he can make other arrangements to pick it up at the terminal at a later date. This statement calls the doctor Tanaga completely dessert and he took a swing at me. I snatched him up and put them on the ground and advised to not only was I a union freight truck driver but I was also full-time police officer before he done something but he couldn't walk back we were done with this I gathered my bills and left. I felt sorry for the poor receptionist because she done what was right he called to complain I'll be at the trucking company and again at the police department no action was taken by the trucking company or the police department as a receptionist get a nice statement in my behalf doctor then fired receptionist and she was able to see him in court so it's a long story. Those end up being some very expensive file cabinets.

 

Yeah bag in the boxes are awful, I used to have a stop that took about 15. The worst part about that stop was that they had to go upstairs. I would put about 4 on my hand truck and go up the stairs one step at a time. I was always exhausted after that stop.

Ever had a bag in the box bust open? Talk about a mess.

 

That's a tough one/... either a skid of flanges ranging around 3900lbs (usually 6 of them of course) or those cardboard tube full of aluminum tubing... (can't grab them much, can't push them...)

Or when you open your trailer and see a giant long skid, heavy that would require a second pallet jack behind it and its all the way in the nose..