What to do in a situation like this??

I would never haul this kind of load again but just wanted to tell you what happened one time and see how some of you would have dealt with it.

A few years back I took a load of loose stacked watermelons to a farmers market in Detroit. The shipper covered the floor with straw then loaded the melons. When I delivered they left the straw and the 5 busted melons on the trailer. Ok, I threw the busted melons in the dumpster and they left the straw on the trailer. They did not want to do anything with the straw and told me I could not dump the straw in the dumpster because it was considered a fire hazard which made sense but nonetheless they still left it up to me to dispose of. I felt like the straw was part of the load and they should have dealt with it. I drove to a Love's or Pilot (one them) south of Detroit just off of I-75. There was a corn field next to the truck stop and a guy inside said I could dump the straw in the ditch next to the corn field, so I did. How would you have dealt with that situation?

 

I always figured whatever is in the trailer as part of the load then it belongs to them. My job was just to get it there not to dispose of the leftovers. Its their baby they need to rock it. But no big deal because I will never deliver another load like that again unless the melons are boxed.