Usually. I've had to back into docks or narrow loading bays with open deck.
No matter what, the shippers and receivers have rules to follow with open deck. No idle. Must be outside the truck behind cones 30' away. Must wear PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) including hard hat, safety glasses, high impact gloves, steel toed boots, hearing protection, fire resistant clothes, etc.
I can't think of a sector of trucking that would be immune from safety rules at customers.
Shipper/receiver telling you to turn off your truck to get loaded
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has a shuffle back in their flip flops for everybody to see and then they come walking back up with a pair of closed toed shoes..
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There were 8 of us that picked up drill pipe at a yard in Oklahoma for delivery at an oil rig in SE New Mexico. I arrived at the oil rig the next morning last in line. The guy in front of me was an owner operator pulling his first load for our company.
As is the thing with deliveries like this, everyone takes off all straps, leaving two straps near the front and back stack of dunnage. The driver in front of me didn't do a thing. He left all his straps in place.
Then it was his turn to go into the oil rig. He goes in and walks into the company man's trailer wearing tennis shoes, a t-shirt, and no hard hat. Things are taking a WHILE. Then I get a call from dispatch, telling me to go ahead and unload my trailer, then go hook to that man's trailer and unload it.
The way things worked at our company, the driver that delivers the load gets ALL the money. I was slated to make $550 for my load. I made $1100 because that idiot couldn't follow the rules. The company man was HOT. You don't want to piss off a company man. He's like the captain of a ship. He's God, Satan, and your mother all rolled into one. You don't cross that line.D.Tibbitt, Trucker Kev Paid Tourist and FlaSwampRat Thank this. -
On a side note, I once had a trailer I was picking up stuck in one of those trailer ICC bumper latches. I like to never got that dang thing to release.MartinFromBC, Lepton1 and FlaSwampRat Thank this. -
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