Schneider trailers

Sometimes they put a seal on it so the driver looking for an empty will think it loaded. I bang on the side of the trailer and if it's empty I rip the seal off and hit the road. Again, I don't mention it to anyone and if somewhere along someone happened to ask, I would have just said it was empty and no seal was on it. No one ever asked, but that's what I would have said.

 

^^^^^ smart, ! wise !!

 

SNI was really bad about assigning trailers back when I started driving. And that was a good 20 or so years ago. Every time I was assigned an empty it would not be there where they said it was, or it was out of service. That company drove me nuts, and then even more for years after I left them with the constant recruitment calls.

 

Chinatown is spot on. All those things are done on a regular basis at mega's.

A lot of it is green drivers that are just ignorant as well.

 

Oh yea. It was done a lot at Roehl too. Drivers putting locks and seals on MT's so they'll be there when they get off home time. One thing I will miss about Roehl though, is it was mandatory to get your trailer inspected whenever you entered a terminal. They were all over keeping trailers road ready there.

 

At the Averitt Fulton Yard the yard jockeys put seals on empties so drivers don't take them.

 

This happen alot where an empty pool is the hot spot for trailers.

For example schneider chicago intermodal.

Empty searches suck, we rather just pick up a load at the rail yard instead of finding an empty to load up somewhere. But rail yards keep our empties and a lot of it. BUT about 80% is damage or fail inspection on the chassis and a few are good. So if somebody saw an empty they like, they would seal it up and when they are assign to find an empty, they would go and pick up the one they seal.

Even in the yard, if you pull in with an empty, drivers will walk up to you asking if they can take it. Or they wait for you to drop it and steal it.

 

It's all about time and money, someday you are lucky and find an empty under 1 hour, others times could take 3.

 

Urgh, happens ALL THE TIME in the Denver drop lot, or the handle from the landing gear will just be missing on a few... I know they fall off, break, from time to time, but not that dang often.

 

No sense in getting worked up about it. It was that way 15 years ago and will be the same in 15 years. You have thousands of coworkers and not a single one gives one iota about the next driver. I probably spent a full two weeks out each of the six years I worked there in the express bay.