School me

I hate to admit it but if that was me , id have jesus blushing for the things that would be coming out of my mouth if they started talking about they are gonna charge me money , talking about " we load trucks like this all the time" "100 other drivers took this load every week" oh man id never be allowed back on property . But im dumb as hell sometimes . Sure would be worth it tho.

 

Of course I’m too stupid to load a trailer properly with something like that, but I know a pile of #### when I see it!

 

This is why I am way too old to even consider messing with flatbed. I'd get this shipper 99/100 times.

"This is the way we always do it." Those are some famous last words. I go rounds on occasion with guys doing hazmat that try and run that line.

F 'em. Their loss not yours.

 

This is what used to be called black iron. It is used for fire suppression systems. This looks like some roll formed stuff. Looking at how some of the bundles are sitting, they are very loose, or lacking proper banding. This load is not good. The material will walk. My guess is the pallets are the gaskets and fittings.

 

These are some of the scariest words to a flatbed driver.
A few others, “ I’ve loaded hundreds of trucks” another favorite is “Been doing this for years”

 

Just a rookie here.

 

These two pictures sum up the entire load. Sloppy and don’t give a ####. At a minimum they would have fixed those two things for me. There’s no reason they could have lined every thing up nice and square.
I’m not sure if I would have pushed it as far as unloading the trailer, but maybe, just depends on their attitude and how bad I wanted to go where that load was taking me.