lack of empty trailers

When I drove OTR......one of the little dirty tricks that other drivers pulled was to seal an empty with a company seal then drop it while they bobtailed to somewhere or other.

Start breaking company seals and look inside to find your empty if you're on the yard.......

Worked for me.

 

It's about time these freaking companies started taking responsibility for their trailers. If they are going to bounce you all over hell's half acre looking for empties, they should at least pay you for doing it.

 

I get paid unloaded miles to go get an empty.

 

And that is another thing that just shouldn't be. Loaded or unloaded, you are still doing the work for the company, that allows them to make money. So why should you be paid less, for the same work????

 

I do get paid the same, empty or loaded.

 

Yea I understand keeping a trailer pool for new loads, now we as drivers do not know what they are usually or if there is one. We just go to the directions and take the heat, yep yep. Annoying part is getting the number and calling before you leave and no one usually answers so we do have to drive out and check ourselves. Hey we are just looking...

I remember at Knight they were supposed to have a system of sending a signal through the trailer and this was a non perfect way to see if it was empty via the tracking device, don't know if that really works or is true. The guy who invents better software/hardware for keeping track of these things needs to see swift/knight/jb and a few others I worked for, still wont take care of some of the other factors that come into play drivers/dispatchers etc. messing up.

You know that last place I went to was just already annoyed, apparently the last driver had taken a trailer and they found out they needed it possibly. The guy behind the back desk running the show said "This isn't a swift drop yard, tell em all NO" hah.

 

Let me get this straight: you went up to trailers that had seals and popped the seal, thus putting a load at risk to not be accepted by the reciever? niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

Exactly...........no guilt here.........I got my empty trailer I needed.


Read the ENTIRE post Nana. I knew they were empty in the first place.


Swat an empty on the side.......it'll sound different than a loaded trailer.

 

I understand your need for the empty. I understand the lack of them. I will never agree with your actions. You could have put loads at risk. I've pulled loads that were packed almost wall to wall and I've pulled a 43000 load that was 6ft long, 4 ft wide and 4 ft high. The trailer sounded empty.

We just aren't going to agree on this...............but.........I still like you.

 

That's also the reason I won't drag a box for a large carrier anymore.

Always the search for the empty to go live load after you've dropped a perfectly good empty across town at some customer that ships a lot of freight....but won't touch that trailer for 4 or 5 days.

You know the deal.......Drop that empty at such and such.......then bobtail to the yard.

The next thing you know....they're(dispatch) wanting you to hurry up....grab an empty and go live load someplace........quick, it's an emergency now.......they close at 5.......it's 4:00 now.........no empty in sight anywhere........but it ALL comes back on you if you can't pull the rabbit out of your hat.