This trailer had a roll-up door. The driver told me he closed it himself at the receiver. Another replier said the driver should also look inside when he drops it. I'm in the habit of always going through and picking up all the little pieces of debris in any empty trailer I drop (or using my cordless blower if it's really messy in there), so I agree. If this driver had done this, then he would have discovered the freight.
Super-sized order of blame pie: who gets the biggest slice?
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by mathematrucker, Mar 2, 2018.
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So that day anyway, I did follow your advice: all I did was describe what was there in my reply back---didn't get hysterical about it, didn't ask him who had dropped the trailer there, etc. Just went about my business and hooked to the loaded trailer I was sent to the yard to pick up.
But I didn't follow your advice 18 days later: when I noticed the pallet was still there, even though nobody had asked me to speak up, I did anyway. (When there really is a fire in a theater, I think it's probably correct to notify the patrons inside without being told to by someone else.) -
By leaving the pallet there and telling the driver the trailer was empty, they set a trap for the delivering driver to fall into if he wasn't careful. He did fall into it, and once that happened, our boss's incompetence got a chance to delay things even further, which it did. -
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What changed my thinking though, is it's so easy to check the trailer with a flashlight, the driver ultimately has to be held to account. But this only increases my dislike/disrespect for the receiver. Like I said above, they inadvertently set a trap for the driver---and that ticks me off. -
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Unfortunately there were other customers that were affected in this case, for it turns out the receiver is another transportation company. This is all the more reason to point the finger at them: with the consequences of leaving a pallet on and telling the driver it was empty being as severe as they were, they never should have allowed it to happen. It was an inexcusable, serious mistake. -
Most of the fault lies in the receiver, end of story. If you F*** sign something make sure it's right.
The only blame that lies on the driver is that he didn't do a post trip. That's it.mathematrucker Thanks this. -
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