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Swift seems to like to load at the very last minute. Had a DLD last week of 6:30AM it wasnt ready until 7 but they wrote down 6:30am.

 

AND, even if the load is several hours past the DLD, Stevens will do everything possible (repower to trainer w/student or a team, or even relay) to make sure the load is delivered by the original appointment time.

If there are only a few cases refused, very often OS&D will locate a local 'food bank' to donate it to. Unfortunately, most food banks are not set up for 18-wheelers, so delivering to them is a hassle!! Still, I would rather see a food bank get the product than throw it away!

 

Hit one of those food banks last week. They had a dock for a.straight truck. I had a full pallet of frozen pizzas for them... "just pull up in the grass there, whatever you need to back it in" ... hydrolic lift and a pallert jack. Pretty impressive set up for a small town food bank.

 

Lexington, NE. Trainee team, first time either one of us are doing a meat load. Pickup time is scheduled for tomorrow, with DLD on Thursday.

 

Not trying to argue but the schedule must be something new since Mia moved to another area. When I drove the shuttle it was whenever there are several people ready to go somewhere.

And a hint to the guys that are going to orientation or at the yard for whatever reason. If you drive the van, you get to take it to the motel with you over night. You dont have to worry about transportation yourself... Well, unless its changed which it may have.

 

Its not muchh different than any other load. We did ouur first one last week... 12hrs past DLD but deolivered on time. They plan it as solo and there are.two of you so you should be in good shape.

 

I continue to be amazed at some of the prima donna drivers we have.
I am not speaking of so many, especially here on this board, that work hard and apply themselves. The actions of those 'spoiled brats' hurt everyone by painting all drivers with a broad brush in the different departments (meat, GF, Frozen, Produce).
A few examples...drivers that accept loads, verbally agree to the load, then blow it off. This happens very day.
Drivers that fail to monitor their loads being put on the trailer, securing them properly or monitoring them.(mac 36 calls twice daily). The produce dept actually monitors every produce load, the temps and postings. This isn't busy work.
And I can't begin to overmention drivers that don't check trailers for flat tires, TKs that don't work.
We had a driver that arrived late friday at a shipper. When he opened his doors to back in, he found and extra trailer door inside! What? He didn't do at least a cursory check of the inside before taking off?
But I guess that makes up for the driver that arrived at the shipper yesterday missing one door! (No...not even close...several states away from each other).
Keep in mind these are produce loads. Every driver gets a produce talk before being dispatched. You've all heard them: Trailer clean? Chute in good shape...no rips, tears or hanging down? Pretrip complete and pass on the TK?
And then turn up without a door?
Or the one year driver that didn't know how to set his trailer on contineous, or even check if it was on cycle or contineous.
Yes, it's an indictment of training in some of these cases.
However, the most embarrasing case along these lines involved one of my former students yesterday. I know I trained him right. He's just lazy. He arrived at the shipper and was suppose to be precooled to 34. Shipper called, said they couldn't load him. Trailer wasn't precooled and the driver called saying his TK didn't work. "must have broken along the way."
Wouldn't start.
Service gets out there and finds the battery missing.
For those that do their jobs right and try, again...thank you.

 

Wow... no door? Missing battery? Those are not training issues. No PTI whatsoever? No at least check the lights on the trailer? See if it is clean?

There is an old adage that you get what you pay for and we all lnow that Stevens is not a place.to get rich, but with any job there is an expectation that one is going to put forth at least a minimal effort to get the job done properly. They may not be going over snd above at these
wages, but we all should at the minimum be doing the basics.

 

I have helped out more than once where the driver accepted the load and never picked it up, and when asked, it was too short of a run. I always got good runs after the shuttle run.

Lazy does not describe the missing battery, missing door.

 

And these are the very drivers that will show up in a few months trashing the company for not getting miles and how they were treated badly by the dispatchers and planners.

No Door! No Battery! Stunning.