Central Triage ...

AWESOME!! I'll post a link to this thread in the Central Truck Stop III...

Right now now the fun we are having is getting reimbursed for load locks on a regular basis... Our loop has 2 dropped trailers per week; both using load locks. So that's 4/week we purchase (unless the trailer we pick up already has them in it; but that's rare). Payroll says there has to be an F2 note, or the requirement be in the customer notes... I think we got last weeks covered, now to see if it happens again.

 

I just found out the required PO for load locks/straps has to be the correct category number as well. I told my dl who was baffled by that but promised to find out what he was doing wrong. I just scanned a receipt for straps for the last load and will let you know what happens.
Frank

 

Load locks and dropped trailers,
Try to keep the ones you have?!

I will ask the final to if I/they can get them out and then reseal.
The answer is rarely no.
And if no, check with the docks, must be a bunch of em stashed there.
But that's dry van...
Buying new ones all the time is.... expensive.

 

dont we get reimbursed load locks? i woudlnt pay . makes no sense. o/o or company thats crazy

 

Where we drop it is after hours, so no one there to ask... We would need to break the seal, and leave it un sealed... Not sure they would go for that :/

 

Yes, as far as load locks, it has to be in the notes that they are required. Now we have some customers that require them, and they are not in the notes. Find out when you get there.

 

I have also heard the same rumor regarding the load board.

 

Thought that I would expound a little more here. I, like Mystic, willing to help all that ask questions. I have been approached many times in truck stops and asking questions. I will do all that I can to give the correct information. I will warn you, watch out for the drivers that just want to bash because they are not doing well. If you talk to them for sometime, you will find out why.

Again, regarding load locks. I personally have gone to some of our customers that say that require at least 2 load locks or straps. When you arrive, you all of a sudden find out that they actually want 3-4. We also have some that the notes say that they are needed and when you get there, it is not because the trailer is so loaded, there is not room for them. These are things that are not in any manual and some of the information is very old. Messages are sent to try and update and for some reason, it does not happen. Company drivers, very easy to get load locks. If you receive a load that says that they are needed and you do not have, well, at least with us, or me, just send my DL a message, tells me to purchase, tell him how much and get a po and reimbursed that same week. Right now with this transition, I know that it is hard. I worked many years ago for a company called MNX. About 4 weeks after I started, they where bought out by Swift, and no one could get answers.

Hope that this helps. Again, at least here, between Mystic, myself, Moosetek and some others, we will do what we can to help you.