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Baltimore to Iowa

 

Grand island ne to grand rapids mi

 

Headed up by Rochester, NY out of Ft. Smith...

 

Geez, you get around!!! What kinda load you get outta El Paso?

 

We bounced out, nothing out of there was interesting.

 

Hey guys, tell me if this is petty or not -

Receiver was unloading me, and it was pretty obvious he'd never seen a telehandler in his life. He broke one of my pieces of dunnage in half. Do you charge for it? If so, broker or receiver?

Anyways, I told the broker I needed $24.00. They weren't answering the text, so I called. They basically told me to get bent. So I asked if they were telling me to go after their customer? Guy on the phone really didn't care one way or another. So I stopped the receiver, and told him I needed someone to pay for my busted board before we continued unloading. He said it was because it was improperly loaded. I said, the guy that loaded it didn't have a problem, and the board wouldn't be broke in half if you had stopped when I yelled stop. At that point, he "didn't want to argue about it", and agreed to pay up.

I know it's only twenty four bucks, but do you just suck it up (it is just a piece of wood), or do you take a stand(because after all, it's your wood)? Curious to know what the pros do. Thanks.

Edit: I guess my question is, do you get worked up over something like this, or is it just part of being a flatbedder?

 

I’m probably not going to make a big stink about getting paid for it. I’ll likely be a bit of a dick to the unloader if it was his fault.

 

If it was his fault, I'd make them give you 2 of their good pieces of dunnage and call it good.
If drivers don't call them out for #### like this, they never learn.

 

They didn't have any. It was a gated community, and he was just dumping the bundles on the ground for some project. You can check it out, if you want. 3500 Oakgate Dr, San Antonio TX. I had to pull across Vance Jackson, and blindside through a gate.