USG ALIQUIPPA PA

Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by newschooltruckin, May 20, 2022.

  1. newschooltruckin

    newschooltruckin Bobtail Member

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    This place is terrible and so are most of Usg places. Ideally it’s supposed to be a drop and hook for flatbed and wen u get there all you should have to do is double check your load and head out but this is not the case at all. Majority of the time your load isn’t ready for HOURS and wen you finally get it you have to fix everything they messed up which usually takes me about an hour. Oh and if your a company driver majority of the trailers you pick up no good and have violations
     
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  3. DRTDEVL

    DRTDEVL Road Train Member

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    How can you blame a customer when your company's trailers are junk? That one falls squarely on you, your fellow drivers, and your employer. They aren't causing the violations, you guys are.
     
  4. newschooltruckin

    newschooltruckin Bobtail Member

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    The yard dog or ppl loading the truck can obviously see if there’s a damaged guardrail, flat tire, or messed up glad hand before loading the trailer but they still decide to load it anyways because they only care about the load
     
  5. DRTDEVL

    DRTDEVL Road Train Member

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    It is not the yard dog's responsibility to ensure your company's trailers are in proper condition, it is your employees' responsibility. All the yard driver is supposed to do is put the assigned trailer to the door, not perform a pre-trip on your trailer.

    I guess that's part of the "new school," eh? Blame others for your own internal shortcomings.
     
  6. newschooltruckin

    newschooltruckin Bobtail Member

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    Even if you had a point which you don’t because nobody said anything about doing a full pretrip the place is still a mess
     
  7. Wasted Thyme

    Wasted Thyme Road Train Member

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    Maybe if the company driver dropping it off should have done a better job of pretripping the trailer. Since ALL of the trailer issues you mentioned. Should have been caught by the delivering driver.

    So it's not the yard jockey's fault. That your company dropped off a OOS trailer. SMH
     
  8. DRTDEVL

    DRTDEVL Road Train Member

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    The funny part is that in his review of his own employer, his very first line is "The equipment is terrible" yet he still thinks it's the fault of the USG yard spotter that OOS trailers from his company are loaded.
     
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  9. newschooltruckin

    newschooltruckin Bobtail Member

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    Small minded people are always worried about one piece of the pie don’t let tht go over your head
     
  10. newschooltruckin

    newschooltruckin Bobtail Member

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  11. DRTDEVL

    DRTDEVL Road Train Member

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    I have actually worked in just about all facets of the transportation network, from trucking, to air freight, to ro/ro sealift operations, to railhead shipping, to warehouse management. In fact, I was once employed as a yard spotter driver, too.

    There's more to life than driving crappy equipment for a subpar employer that sends you places that take forever to load/unload... but apparently your head is too small to grasp that part of life. Don't live to drive, drive to live.
     
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