Language Barrier ... this is out of hand

Knew someone years ago who was a former service manager at a truck dealership. He claimed to have had a truck show up with TP twisted around the driveline and #### splatter all over the top of the transmission. He said the truck was removed from the shop and the customer was told they were no longer welcome there.

 

Yep, I saw that video too. That confirmed that it wasn't a tall tale, but a true story.

 

Funny how their 'entry level' employers were always of the same ethnic background.

I used to look them up to make sure I wasn't corresponding with an 'uncle' living in California.

I never had the thought to ask if the hole in the floor was common in their experience, LOL

 

I've told this before, but a crappy subject,,,,,I worked with a guy that managed a truck repair shop. One day, 2, um, guys, from a far away country, came in, said the truck had a vibration, bring it in, let's see, he said. Right away, something was wrong, it stunk. Upon closer inspection, these, um, guys, made a hole in the sleeper floor and, yep, were using it.The entire underside was covered. I felt bad for the poor schmuck that had to power wash the thing. They didn't think they were doing anything wrong. I suppose coming from a country where they crap in the streets, I guess not.

 

A friend of mine has a shop in Yuba City. He confirms the "hole in the sleeper floor" story. His regular customers know not to bring him one of those porta potty trucks but occasionally a stranger tries to slip one through.
Three or four guys to a truck isn't unusual.

 

I would do inventories of the empty vrs loaded containers at a large multi-tenant facility and anytime I saw a lumpy plastic Quick-Check or WAWA bag stubbornly refusing to blow away I would stay well away...

 

Called a broker about a load and he said "Oh, thank God, you speak English! I'm gonna get you on this load."
I asked if the companies calling him are really that bad & he said "You have no idea...I can't understand what they're asking."

 

At a previous job we warehoused also, the number of drivers that would show up that couldn't speak English was amazing, it was a daily fight. Most would just come in and point at the picture of the load info on the phone. Some would come in as a 2 or 3 person group with 1 who spoke passable English. Old boss wouldn't tolerate it and refused to load any of them, but there were days we would turn away 4 or 5 carriers for just one load.

We had one guy show up in a Transit van to pick up 4 pallets of plastic weighing 10k lbs, all he kept saying was It's OK you load, when we told him we couldn't load a van, thinking he was still getting the freight then got upset when we finally told him to leave.