Rejected loads

I sometimes wonder if the food banks have ties with the food distribution centers, to receive rejected loads that may still be fit for human consumption, or animal consumption, as in the case for pet food or food for animals at the local zoo.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

When I worked at Prime I had it happen 2 times in 6 months.

First time was 2 full pallets. With about 10lbs of paperwork when I was told to leave. Somewhere in SLC. Think it was a Smith's or something. Forced to leave, find parking, call dispatch, scan over all the paperwork, wait 5-6 hours, have to drive it to Provo to same reseller warehouse that couldn't take 53 footers, wait for lumpers to get a break to bring out a pallet jack on a forklift to run them to the tail of the truck, haul them off, do a count, get a receipt, then have to issue a T-check to the lumpers, then finally leave. A good 10-12 hour experience all said and done for 200 dollars to the company. Of which I got nothing. Not even the 20 bucks worth of miles driving down. Missed a good load and had to sit around because SLC was too far from Provo to go to the terminal and get a Cali drop n hook.

2nd time was like 6-7 boxes of chlorine smelling crap that had been busted open by a forklift. No claim on paperwork, didn't see it when I left the place. Get to new shipper, open trailer, nearly knocked down by the chlorine gas smell. Had to find out wtf it was, nearly passed out from the smell. Dispatch says just put it in a dumpster since it's only like 50-60lbs and unclaimed. Customer cancelled since it was a meat load and the trailer smelled like chlorine. Burnt up my clock anyways so nothing to do but camp at a truckstop on a 10. Left the trailer doors open to offgas. Woke up next day and it was stolen along with the shredded pallet scraps littering the floor. Guess homeless or methheads got it. Got a blue beacon and headed out to another shipper.

In short, it's a massive ####ing waste of time and effort that you work for free on. At this point, I'd probably just go all, don't ask, don't tell. 1980's NYC style. "It fell off the back of the truck."

 

I worked at a place called Rosensteins Produce in Scranton Pa and they would buy all those rejected produce loads for cheap and sell the to prisons. That was their bread and butter.

 

Back in my Van days about 15 or so years ago, I had a whole load of watermelons rejected at Hunts Point. I picked it up Friday in Florida and I delivered it on a Tuesday. Monday was Memorial Day. They said something about "setting the market" or something. Turns out I was supposed to deliver Friday. Obviously not my issue....... They ended up taking the load. Im assuming at a cheaper price.....