Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I think it's supposed to be roughly 1k per linear foot for loading so people don't overstack. 22k is usually the most I've hauled on a pup, 24k is fairly up there and probably requires an experienced loader to scale it legally.

 

I've been over once for sure on my lead pup. Stupidly enough I was the one that loaded it. I had an empty pup with a pickup at a brewery that was shipping out palletized cases and kegs of beer that weighed 2500 lbs each.

It was a total of six pallets and I was supposed to load them two singles down the middle and double the other four side by side behind the singles. But my trailer was completely wet from the snowfall and I had a hard time with my pallet jack and doubled all six of them starting in the very front just to save some time and aggravation.

I think I shàred this story about 7 years ago. So I got back to my terminal and started dropping my pup. The nose immediately sank and the back trailer tires went up into the air. Luckily my truck tandems caught the trailer from completely flipping forward onto the ground.

Got onto the dock to see how I could recover from this. Our lone outbound dock worker looked at it and the rear lights were just above his knee level. "How do you expect me to unload this? ". We ended up opening the door and pushing the trailer back down with a pair of forklift times. I then manually tailgated the pallets so he could unload them with a second forklift until it became safe to enter with a forklift.

That ten second shortcut at the brewery added about 20 minutes back at the dock. I am glad nobody from management was there.