Shipper/receiver horror stories

Well I'm on O/O. So my sit pay is a whole lot more than a driver.
I got paid well for sitting. Had to wait 30 days for my money though.
Still sitting here at job site today. Got lded, but no permits. Good thing for extra food and sat. tv, plus cell signal for the internet. Haha

 

I haul a reefer so most of my horror stories are on the shipper end, but one stands out. Got to shipper Saturday evening, meat plant, deadline for load 0700 Sun a.m., plan to take a break and run the load, only 450 miles away, delivers 0400 Mon. To make a long story short the load was ready at about 10am Monday, 6 hrs after delivery appt... and it was a WalMart load.

 

~36 hours, to load, which was not at all uncommon at the old Coors/Miller brewery in Olympia WA, who insisted on precise appointments. Woe be to any driver who was late. Then you might spend another 24/48 hours getting your load adjusted to be legal, and they could not have cared less where it was overweight. You never saw or spoke with any employee who was not a security guard. You dropped the trailer and they jockeyed it in and out of the dock, eventually. Then you drove it up the road to weigh it, then came back and dropped it, then drove it up the road to weigh it... and repeated that ad nauseum until they got lucky. They apparently fired and hired an entirely new crew who didn't know the first thing about loading a trailer every 24 hours.

 

Publix in Lakeland FL, I got out of the truck to get my shipping papers back after I was unloaded, and bumped the lock switch climbing down...and for got my keys, they wanted me to unhook from the trailer so they could jockey it to the yard and have the door open...the shipping lady, and yard jockey didn't seem to see the problem with this plan

 

About 25 years ago I was working at a carton plant as a cost estimator, working closely with production, sales, and customers on carton specs. Printing, scoring, and finishing all have to be perfect to run cartons on high speed packing machines at customers. That Olympia plant was a big customer of ours and they suddenly decided, actually insisted, that we should change the specification of the aqueous coating so the cartons would be slicker and run faster on their packing machine. We warned them this could be trouble and we should do a small test run to be sure. Nope, they knew better and had us run 6 months supply...

... then they discovered the cartons were so slick that when the forklift drivers took loads off the packing machine delivery they were dumping cartons all over the place.

Yep, sure did make things more efficient for them...

 

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"t - called"??

Translate, please?

 

Oh, dude, you have GOT to tell the whole story!!

 

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