Last time a receiver complimented you.

I get compliments quite often. 2 date ago, for example, for not taking 45mins to pull into a tight spot!

 

Usually about how I'm dressed . Look like a sells rep then a truck driver.

 

more for my truck then anything besides truck imn just another dam driver they could careless for, bringing them more work.

 

About a month ago ran a load of steel trusses from South Carolina to one of the Hasidic Jewish enclaves in lower upstate New York just across the NJ border.

Believe you me, I wouldn't have taken it if it didn't pay so well. Getting loaded was fine, I ran around the D.C./Baltimore area to the west and avoided New Jersey until I crossed the Delaware on I-78. Run actually wasn't too bad...until I got to the delivery point.

They had a crane on site, and I had to be on time so the crane didn't rack up excessive charges...but I couldn't be too early, as it was unloading in a residential area and there would be no place to wait without blocking traffic.

So at exactly 1 PM, I round the bend in this residential area to deliver the steel for their new Synagogue, and boy did my jaw drop.

The crane operator was all set up where he thought would be good, but had I had any input, I would have moved him so I could park the truck out in front, thereby only blocking one lane of traffic. He could have lifted the trusses off the trailer, over the top of the chain link fence, and set them down inside the confines of the construction area.

But he wasn't set up that way, and wanted me to back in off the street, in between the gate, with a spread axle with no dump on either axle, off of a two-lane road, on the blind side, with a pond a few feet away from the edge of the road on the opposite side from the construction site.

*SIGH*

Well, it took some finagling, but I put it in there...tore a mud flap off in the process, but I had it remounted before they were done offloading the first three trusses. I managed to get the truck back far enough that I was still only blocking one lane...how I managed that I really have no idea, since there was hardly enough room to get a 48' trailer on their property in the first place.

It quickly became apparent the guys at the construction site were not used to working with cranes, so I hopped up on the deck and started hooking up two or three trusses at a time vs. one at a time. Got everything offloaded, shook hands with the guys, and just before I'm ready to leave the Hasidic Jewish guy who was monitoring everything comes over, shakes my hand, and tips me $40.

With that, I paid the $20 tribute to the Republik of Jersey to get back into Pennsylvania, and had enough left over to buy dinner for the better half and I.

 

Then they wonder why people treat them the way they do?

 

I allays preferred oversize or specialized cargo and one of the reasons was that if you took good care of the equipment/load you often got complimented.
People were usually happy to see you arrive and if they could see you knew what you were doing and how their equipment needed to be handled they showed appreciation most of the time.
Cant count how many times they would buy me lunch or hand me a coke.
What a shock I got when I started delivering to the rear of the big stores.
Thank goodness that was just a fill in gig for a few weeks.

 

Same at about every stores (chain) supply chain . DC will throw the stuff on there any which way. Then store end would have it falling 12 feet or so when opening the doors! Phone calls , emails , no change!