Your most pain in the ### freight

You guys make driving a forklift seem to fun.. i always wanted to drive one

 

I delivered a pallet of razor wire to a residential on ft benning. We ended up putting it in the guys pickup. I didn't even think it was legal to own the stuff. It came from an Army surplus place. I think he said he paid $1500 bucks for it. He said it was for his soldiers. I said "doesn't the military provide this stuff?" and he said "We're low priority." That's a dedicated soldier. My arm got all sliced up unloading it. Good times.

 

I think any delivery that was litigate required, inside delivery, and limited access was a pita. Mainly because of the time involved. It was not uncommon for me to work 8-9 hours without a lunch or break. Pretty unreasonable I think.

 

Oh that sounds like it was a "fun time!"

I'm not cold hearted, and I don't like to see people get injured. But my response to this injury is "good, it was well earned!"

Actually it is. Unless you do it all day long, day after day. Just like anything else, it gets old after a while.

Oh, you mean fire all the office staff and corporate weenies?

I delivered a pallet load of water softener salt, met with the consignee at one of our docks. This was a "lady" driving a small pickup of some type or other, don't really remember. She said "just load it in the back of the pickup truck." I told her it would overload that pickup to the point of danger. Her response is "don't argue with me," just get your fork lift and put that stuff in my truck.
I did, it set that truck right down on the axle. She left with it that way, headed from Cedar City to Brian Head. I sincerely hope that UHP saw her and took appropriate action.

Dave, did they automatically withhold a certain amount of time each day for your break? My outfit did that, and I didn't discover it until my first paycheck. After that, I took my break, no matter how busy we were.

We had a situation where the drivers got one hell of a wage increase, but the dock workers got nothing. All of a sudden the damage got much much worse! Some company executives don't have the brains that God gave a piss ant.

 

I'm terrible on one. And I do mean not good. At all. I'm always side shifting when I want to pick something up, or tilting when I'm trying to set something down. I don't know how fun it is, I'm sure the guys at your local LTL barn at 3 am in February will say not very. The wind whipping across a concrete slab makes for very cold working conditions. Unless you live in Florida or something. Then ask em around 3 pm in July.

Ha! Indeed.