Dumbest shipper/receiver instructions

At the local canola plant here, if they see you in the grain line the security guard actually will get off his comfy chair and step outside to wave you over to the other side of the probe shack so you can get in. Plus I've gotten out of my truck to let guys know that too. But ya, some people.

 

Line up on door 16, break your seal and back in. Chock your wheels and disconnect from the trailer. Bobtail to the bobtail area and take your paperwork to door B-27.

What do you mean 'do I get drop+hook pay'? THIS IS WALMART!

 

Didn't wish to be probed?

 

Put it in door 8, we will bring the paperwork out to you when you are loaded... Paperwork comes out, 4 stops... I am on a 3 stop load, I go inside, guy tells me I hooked to the wrong trailer, mine was in door 2... I had been hooked to the same trailer for 3 weeks or so. Well, then you backed into the wrong door. I backed into the one you told me, the only open one... Is it remotely possible you guys just put the wrong load on the wrong trailer. No sir, we have procedures in place that prevent that from ever happening...

True Story.

 

Every Anheuser Busch. What's the point of getting empty weight and bobtail weight if they're going to overload the trailer anyways?

 

Unloaded in Battle Creek, MI. Called dispatch, they told me to make sure to sweep the trailer, it was going to Kelloggs.

Swept the trailer, they sent me to a brokers yard, for load instructions. Broker says "back up to that dumpster, and sweep out the trailer". Told him I already did, he said it must be done again, before you leave. So I swept it out again.

Got the load info, drove to Kelloggs. Pulled up to the guard shack, and went in with load info. Guard points at a broom and dustpan, says "You need to sweep out the trailer, their rules, not mine." So I ended up sweeping the same trailer 3 times.....

 

After all that did they turn you away for a torn door seal?

 

No, they took it, but NO ONE ever looked at the clean floor.

 

I went to some grain place in Iowa and the woman in inspection made me fill in a torn spot by building a seal with tape, which kind of came out when I closed the doors. The loaders didn't say ish. Waste of time.