When I was driving I ran a set Inter-company regional weekly and bi-weekly schedule for delivery and pickup’s. It really wasn’t what I’d consider just in time but I guess technically it is. If we ran a day or two behind because of vacation or a personal day it wasn’t a deal.
Now I’m retired from the truck and run our warehouse with a couple of our other ex drivers. We inspect defect tires for adjustment return and ship defect tires back to the manufactures and receive new tires from all the tire manufacturers.
Within the last year we’ve been receiving tire loads ( can be up to 800 on a ‘53) that are being dispatched as just in time. It takes 2 to 3 hrs to unload by hand. They roll off. We are here mon-fri 7-6 and get one shipment a week. We don’t set schedule or appointment times for deliveries. Get here anytime between those times and we get it done no worries.
Mon morning we got a truck waiting for us when I got here at 6:30 am. He said appointment time was 9am and one hr. to unload. He had a pickup appointment for another load at 11am the next day. Grrrrr! No sense.
We get on it at 7 and while unloading he says he humped his butt from South Carolina and missed out on seeing his wife and kids up in Dallas over the weekend (worried about the riots) to be here monday am. We told him we don’t request delivery times and set appointments. You get here when you get here and we get you unloaded. We know how trucking works. Told him he coulda gone home for family, travelled Monday, delivered Tuesday for all we care. He was devastated.
Question. How many of you find this to be the case? How many loads do you get dispatched as gotta go, gotta go, just in times and you bust your butt and make miracles happen only to find the receiver is laid back and didn’t ask for nor require it and you could of taken some extra time and a much less stress free way of getting there?
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I see it a lot. The trucking company might get the wrong info or they just want to unload and reload asap. I had load and was at home. Had open appointment till 9pm. Thought I would stay home longer. Trucking company says no, we need you to delivery by 1pm because we have another load for you to pickup the same day.
I had load two weeks ago trucking company tell me it open appointment. I show up the shipper say the load by appointment. NO Early loading we go by appointment only. 3 hours later they start loading my by their appointment. My trucking company get mad thinks in playing around at shipper for 3 hours. They refused to load trailer we had to sit till money to reload. Because trailer had metal shavings from last load. Had to drive 90 mile to trailer wash out.Rideandrepair and SmallPackage Thank this. -
O yea if you call to ck on apt. and they say get here when/ever you are the only truck coming this week, then trucking co. tells you that drivers are not to call and change what time to be there, so you don't catch them in lies?
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after a while, i learnt to chill out a bit. and if i ever got a service failure?
i knew how to park the truck and walk away.
and i did call many customers to either confirm a pick up or delivery, and to ask if i was early like the night before, if i could stay on thier property....i cared less on what my company said.
but those were the "good old days"
i dare any company to try and give any driver a service failure remark on his/her file.
with a lot of companies going out of business, it's the companies that need to watch their "P's & Q's"Last edited: Jun 3, 2020
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We’ve never seen xpo trucks around here until they built a big warehouse building at I-10 and Foster rd. On east side of San Antonio within this last year. Conway was still around here until xpo’s buyout.Rideandrepair, TJB15 and magoo68 Thank this. -
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In my 25 year career I can honestly say I’ve moved a couple million around for sure.
The good thing about the race tires is they are 20-25 pounds lighter than a regular passenger tire. Unless of coarse you got to mess with some that were already mounted on the wheels.Rideandrepair Thanks this.
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