Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Load tickets. Do you make copies of these and save them for a DOT audit? I haven't been because I just turn them in to the company I haul for each week. The only copies I have made is the loads I have done for another trucking company and had to mail them the tickets and a invoice just in case it was lost in the mail. I have been threw two new authority audits and one full blown DOT audit when I was a safety man for a two local trucking company's. We did heavy haul and flatbed freight and the two major things they ask for was our Comdata fuel report and driver logs. Which none of our freight bills had time stamps on them.

 

I just remember it was some nasty stuff and they never hauled it again.

 

You need to message him in spanish, he will load you then. Sorry WH.

Is this your old dispatcher?

 

Well for the beans off the farm I hauled last week I am saying NOOOO WAAAY. More than a few at 95K gross. I will save the ticket from the farmer without weights on them.

 

I dunno much about the big elevators and how they have things set up but the smaller ones we hauled for required nothing but showing up and asking if they had something to haul.

 

Out here you have to have contract in place if you want to get paid. If you are getting paid by the farmer then that works. But most smaller ones have local guys they use and can't keep them busy.

 

Big John, you need to make copies of your shipping papers or load tickets, i just had a random audit 2 weeks ago and they ask to see my load tickets for the previous year. They just checked through a few of them randomly and matched them up to my log books for those days. Thankfully i came through the audit with no violations.

 

BBBill, you might wanna watch what you post on here. just sayin.