Shipper screwup and wasted time

That's no seal in a dry van musta been a flat bed.

 

Yes it was the shippers fault not yours. Trucking can really suck sometimes. That is the importance of finding a good company. You couldn't pay me to leave the company I drive for now , not only would they have paid me extra for all the wasted time they probably would have put me up at a hotel while they laughed about the stupid shipper. How do I know this ? They have done this for me before. They have also paid to put me up in a hotel over the weekend because they didn't want me sitting in a truck while I waited for the snow to ease up. Good companies are worth waiting for.

 

Dry van. Before all this high security stuff.

 

"Obnoxious tart"

Lol

Tart ...... He said tart

Tart he said tart

That's funny

 

When you're rolling, stoned, you gather no moss.

 

yeah,he called him a "tart".lol.
best part of post!

 

I disagree.

It is the driver who is responsible for the load, not the shipper. No matter how they load you, sealed, hidden or invisible, it is the driver's responsibility.

 

Both parties are responsible for the legal loading of a trailer. The shipper loads, the driver weighs it, if not legal he goes back and calls them out on it. A lot of shippers don't allow the driver on the docks in the first place. So, the driver really needs to double check the weights.

I also agree that a non CAT scale would have done nicely to make sure the load appeared legal. Or there might have been a scale on site for drivers to use and they didn't.

 

The driver is and always was responsible for the load.Ive never heard of a shipper paying 1/2 the OW ticket or the whole ticket.
Maybe there's a new law or something,that in a accident n the truck deamed OW-a lawyer can go after the shipper-along w/the driver.Just never heard of it in my 32 yrs of hauling.Sure-you bring the load back,the shipper will take responsibility for unloading some of the freight.But thats it-when you leave the site/dock,that load belongs to the driver and his company if he's not o/o.

 

There isn't a new law, there are only people who want to claim it is unfair to have that responsibility.

How I handle this is simple, I tell my driver this - YOU are 100% responsible for that load and the weight on the trailer, YOU don't leave until that it is up to your standards if you feel something isn't right and you tell the shipper to make it right before the truck moves off the dock.