Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

So, I’ve been doing this yard dog position for a year now. Averitt customers who I work for is complaining I’m working too many hours, and “we’re not even at full capacity”.

implying I’m slow. Customer says I average 6-8mins to find cargo container, secure cargo container doors, put container to the door.

customer states they don’t know why I’m working 50 hours a week I average between 50-100 moves a night.

told my boss who’s college educated mind you. “The math ain’t mathing”, and he goes ‘what do you mean’.

70 moves x 8mins a move = 560mins/9.6 hours

I take a lunch break every night too, and you’re saying I’m slow? Lmao, you ain’t hiring anyone to be faster than an experience LTL guy who’s dealing with fudged up swing doors I have to tie to the chassis with string, and crap.

they’re finally making these drivers back in their outbound trailers when they arrive, and I’ll pull them when unloaded. JB-hunt drivers lazy as hell trying to drop and go.

 

Wow that's a lot of moves! I suggest they hop in the yard truck and show you how to do it better... A yard driver I know at one of our fulfillment centers jokes about being busy doing a half dozen moves in a day lol.

 

One of my coworkers had a similar problem, with one of the departments he covers complaining to our boss about his speed. Boss called him into the office, and this guy pulled out a list of 160 moves that had been called out in his area that night. Keep in mind, he covers 4 different departments, with three quarters of a mile in distance between the two furthest points, during the busiest time of night when OTR drivers are doing the 5mph crawl and struggling to back into the docks all over the facility.

Thankfully our boss understands what is and isn't possible, so they added another hostling bid to help cover that area.

 

I overheard averitt charges them $125 an hour.

I think they think I get that

 

That explains it.

 

The new Swift decal. I've only seem em on new trailers.

 

We are the shield that guards the realms of Moyes' men

 

So who’s the sword going to be?

 

Been awhile since I had a rant, so tonight is good as any to have one I suppose.

Got to our Grand Forks terminal this morning at about 0500, broke my set and got my lead in a door. Went to pull my southbound lead out and it didn’t want to go.

Pounded on some drums while singing I’ve Been Working On The Railroad. Got 3 released, and had the 4th released…. For 20 feet. Yeah. Got back under and pounded some more, while the dock worker (nice kid btw), was wondering about all the noise.

It. Did. Not. Want. To. Release. At. All. So tried a backwards push to see if that helped, nope. Took it forward a few feet and yanked on the Johnny bar, and the back end went air born. Lucky for me it didn’t break anything.

Did it release then? Nope. So I dropped it in the driveway and got my back box in the door and got that done. Did my one AG drop and got back to the barn. Hooked back up hoping it would’ve released itself while gone, nope. Put a little heat on it, still no go. Sigh.

Shoved it back into the dock door, cussing up a storm. Off loaded EVERYTHING in there and put it in another trailer, the trailer where the door didn’t stay open on its own. Left the other in the dock door, and got back to Fargo.


Said the heck with today, had a beer at noon and got a good nap in. Over it. Done. Yep.


TLDR:
Hotrod couldn’t get a brake to release and cussed about it.