Refused my first load today

I'm not sure that would fix it. Same as making shippers responsible for overweight loads. If shippers were responsible, they'd load trucks any old kinda way. And if you spoke up they'd tell you to let them worry about it. Because they are responsible, they'd do whatever they want.

 

There is also the other side of the coin. In my business we also load a bunch of trucks. We always ask the driver how he wants it loaded and try to comply. Sometimes the way the driver wants it loaded or secures it is unsafe or poses a risk of damaging the equipment. We have flat out refused to load a truck before when the driver is way out of line on securement but most of the time we just let them know the correct way and make sure they know that when they pull out of the lot, it's all on them. Some can get almost violent when you question their securement.

I've actually given drivers chains before because they didn't have enough to secure the load. The price of said chains is charged to the customer or trucking company, of course.

 

If one to have to wait any longer to get loaded the shipper would be paying for detention time for sure, if not then I guess I'd be looking for another load. Also if they wanted quite a bit of space between the items you could always put 4x4's between the items being loaded. I don't see any reason that wouldn't be satisfactory!!!

 

So you just offered him the same solution he wrote out in his first post?

Any particular reason you're going around responding to older posts with "advice" when the answer has already been posted many times?

 

then use the 4x4's, lol!!

 

Because its my first time reading it, I have a hard time remembering so I do it while its on my mind instead of waiting and possibly forgetting, does that answer your question or wold you like to throw something else at me to rebute also!!!!

 

I don't have a dog in this fight but ease your way onto TTR and always remember this. This site is like the country's bigges truck stop. Look for my post on that in the new drivers area.

 

I read it dude, just someone wanting to get my undies in a bunch, to bad they didn't and I kept on rollin thru the forum, lol!!!

 

This could be one of those times for the judicious use of the ignore feature that Mack recommends.