What do you do with refused product?

My boyfriend drove for a reefer company that mainly hauled meet,every month he come home with a bunch of steaks that customers have refused.Gave a bunch to his friends.

 

They "refused" `em, eh?

I'd call home on a weekly basis and more often than not I'd have some refused product or another, Ma' would get real annoyed (jokingly) about how I give all this free stuff away.
Was always too nervous to try to sell it, or just didn't care enough about money to do it. If someone was taking this crap off my hands and I didn't have to move it, I was a-okay without trying to sell it.

The only time I ever took some money was when I had an entire pallet of apples get rejected on a re-powered load that I delivered to at C&S wholesale in Upper Marlboro, MD.

I walked into a mom and pop truckstop near Fairfax in VA and asked if they wanted the apples. Guy had his sons unload the truck and slipped me a $50 before I could refuse it. Seemed like he would've been genuinely upset if I didn't take the money. That's an Ohio country boy rube for you; givin' away all his crap.

 

Yeah, I've had many drivers say "how much?" for whatever I was giving away. Never would have felt right to charge for something I got for free.

Pillsbury loads. The rolls. Always a tube or two that bursts... Means a rejection for the entire case.

last year had couple cases of premium ground beef. Lots of burgers and meatloaf from just the two plastic tubes I kept. I think some of the other drivers took more than they could possibly eat before it went bad.

another time I had two cases of whole ribeye. I was about 40 miles from my former home. Texted a bunch of friends to be ready if I got the word to dump it. Unfortunately, two later the shipper was able to sell em to a butcher two towns over. I always wonder what kind of deal they get on that stuff cause it happend a couple times... Rejected claim turns into a delivery at another customer.

 

Depends. Most the food banks in cities have better budgets and they'll have a straight truck come out and back up to me. Other times I pull up at the food bank and they hand unload it in a parking lot or wherever. My company doesn't mind routing me out there, rather help the community than pay blue beacon to toss it.

 

had 3 boxes of shrimp to get rid of took it to a buffet place down the road. got a free buffet meal.

 

We generally get to keep it on the rare occasion that it happens......after being told by dispatch to keep it or get rid of it of course.

Ill never buy shaving cream again as long as I live after a customer refused a pallet 2 years ago because one box got wet.

We just finished a pallet of paper towels not long ago that got refused because one box wasn't sealed closed.

Was as able to donate 2 cases of diapers and tampons to my wife's church because the boxes were crinkled.


The hardest part of something like that happening is figuring out how to get all that #### in the cab of the truck and still live in there the rest of the week until I get home and offload it into the cars lol

 

I drove armored truck at night for years,unfortunatey,the load never got rejected.

 

Thats funny...lol..."excuse me miss..would you like a 50lb box of tampons?lmao..

 

Thst is so easily miscontexualised.

 

yeah that was an odd one to carry around the truck for a week till I got home lol


my wife donates a lot of stuff to the women's group at her church and they have a women's shelter outreach program. at least I didn't have to come out of my pocket that month for her charity work

was glad to get them out of the truck at the end of the week though lol