Biggest tip you received

cnsper · Aug 26, 2017

Amateurs. They forgot a part i was to pickup, 60 miles back to pick it up. Delivered it all and got a $350 tip. Boss was mad because he did not get extra money and I never mentioned the tip.

Every other time delivering there it was $100 cash. Awesome guy to talk with. 3rd generation bis on farmer.

tucker · Aug 26, 2017

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We had to get a load of oranges delivered. What had happened was a group of residents of about 30 homes had arranged for about 1500 pounds of oranges (About two or three pallets or so...) as part of a multistop LTL up the NE from Fort Lauradale Florida where it was loaded. We had delivered to a church (No problem.) a school, 20 lumpers their 6 pallets were off in 3 minutes easy. (Poor wife, all the boys went to her to get the boxes because it's a all boys school.)

This group of about 30 was a interesting group. They told me they would like my trailer, a full 53 foot reefer into one of the particular houses, at a two car port style driveway at the end of a culdesac, or a court. At night, 2 am waking up the neighbors and setting off car alarms too, you cannot move that kind of tonnage without shaking the ground.

I did my best to get that load into a particular angle to nurse it back into that one little driveway. It would not fit. The tractor is something on the order of 17 feet maybe, with a turning radius of 44 feet and the trailer's tandems were up forward and that overhang kept trying to take out a car and mailbox. I know they teach many things in school and they teach me many things over the years, but all of my experience up until that date which I considered top notch if not among the best there is at that time, just could not do it.

I pulled up halfway to the state road, parked and said to the group, maybe you have a couple of pickups, we toss oranges into those beds and you ferry it to that particular house. There are times that the 18 wheeler just wont fit and to try and force it despite 10 plus spotters just not going to happen. They showed up with 6 or 8 SUV's with opened gates and some minivans too. Way more than what is needed for the oranges.

For what's it's worth we did not get a tip, but the helpfulness of the people in working that orange load was something that redeemed almost a life time going into Hunts Point and all the other places up there. They showed how good New York can really be.

But what they don't have to know is that the final home stretch along route 9 with it's million stoplights every half a block was essentially my Mogadishu mile. Blew every light and speed limit and so on, the closest to absolute maxed hours personally that week round the clock operations on that massive LTL orange load. It's fortunate that the Law was asleep or off duty along that stretch of 9 that day. I don't feel very good about it at all but it all worked out in the end.

If it wont fit, don't force it. There is no point in breaking stuff and destroying goodwill. There may be future orange loads.
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I love reading your stories.

Shep Shiloh · Aug 27, 2017

At my previous job the best I got was $90, which I split with my helper for the day. We delivered a $12k stove to a house. We put it in the kitchen and he said that if we took the old stove with us(from the 1960s) he'd make it worth our while. We loaded up the old stove and hit up the scrap yard on the way back to the terminal. We scored another $30 from that and called it a day.

Shaggy · Aug 28, 2017

$50.
Customer asked if they could throw in tires. Please read the signage on the dumpster NO BATTERIES NO TIRES NO ELECTRONICS. Know for a fact going to be picking this up.

Just hide the tires Mister. What i don't see never happened. Gives $50

Dump the load it was 3 tires. maybe $10 worth at the tire place to turn in HAHAHAA.

Joke was on me, He made sure received his $50 worth. Had every nail possible jammed on the top sticking up. My $400 Tarp was ripped.

Never again.Refuse all tips delivering.

CasanovaCruiser · Aug 28, 2017

Hauling stone and my buddy and I showed up to the job site with the last loads of the day. Contractor meets me and says "I'm sorry but I've made a mistake."
I'm thinking son of a ##### here we go...

He says I ordered way more than I need, I don't care what you do with it. Go dump it somewhere and don't tell anyone I'll still pay for it.

The family farm got a nice new pad outside the barn put in that day.
Can't remember the exact price then, but about 50 ton of #53's and "free" delivery.
If that counts as a tip anyway, more of a freebie/bonus

Lrh502 · Aug 28, 2017

CasanovaCruiser said: ↑

Hauling stone and my buddy and I showed up to the job site with the last loads of the day. Contractor meets me and says "I'm sorry but I've made a mistake."
I'm thinking son of a ##### here we go...

He says I ordered way more than I need, I don't care what you do with it. Go dump it somewhere and don't tell anyone I'll still pay for it.

The family farm got a nice new pad outside the barn put in that day.
Can't remember the exact price then, but about 50 ton of #53's and "free" delivery.
If that counts as a tip anyway, more of a freebie/bonus
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I used to have the same thing happen when I drove concrete mixers. Except if the idiot contractor ordered too much for one jobsite they would have us follow them to other jobsites to use the concrete-and usually that was little AC pads or pieces of flatwork all over the place. 10 yard load of concrete just became a 2-3 hour ordeal because the idiot concrete contractor can't measure and estimate properly.

CasanovaCruiser · Aug 28, 2017

Lrh502 said: ↑

I used to have the same thing happen when I drove concrete mixers. Except if the idiot contractor ordered too much for one jobsite they would have us follow them to other jobsites to use the concrete-and usually that was little AC pads or pieces of flatwork all over the place. 10 yard load of concrete just became a 2-3 hour ordeal because the idiot concrete contractor can't measure and estimate properly.
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That's exactly what I thought was going to happen when he said that lol
The dreaded "3 inch spread here, 6 inches there, a 2 ton pile there, and 10 feet across the street. Easy, right?"

Mike2633 · Aug 28, 2017

x1Heavy said: ↑

We had to get a load of oranges delivered. What had happened was a group of residents of about 30 homes had arranged for about 1500 pounds of oranges (About two or three pallets or so...) as part of a multistop LTL up the NE from Fort Lauradale Florida where it was loaded. We had delivered to a church (No problem.) a school, 20 lumpers their 6 pallets were off in 3 minutes easy. (Poor wife, all the boys went to her to get the boxes because it's a all boys school.)

This group of about 30 was a interesting group. They told me they would like my trailer, a full 53 foot reefer into one of the particular houses, at a two car port style driveway at the end of a culdesac, or a court. At night, 2 am waking up the neighbors and setting off car alarms too, you cannot move that kind of tonnage without shaking the ground.

I did my best to get that load into a particular angle to nurse it back into that one little driveway. It would not fit. The tractor is something on the order of 17 feet maybe, with a turning radius of 44 feet and the trailer's tandems were up forward and that overhang kept trying to take out a car and mailbox. I know they teach many things in school and they teach me many things over the years, but all of my experience up until that date which I considered top notch if not among the best there is at that time, just could not do it.

I pulled up halfway to the state road, parked and said to the group, maybe you have a couple of pickups, we toss oranges into those beds and you ferry it to that particular house. There are times that the 18 wheeler just wont fit and to try and force it despite 10 plus spotters just not going to happen. They showed up with 6 or 8 SUV's with opened gates and some minivans too. Way more than what is needed for the oranges.

For what's it's worth we did not get a tip, but the helpfulness of the people in working that orange load was something that redeemed almost a life time going into Hunts Point and all the other places up there. They showed how good New York can really be.

But what they don't have to know is that the final home stretch along route 9 with it's million stoplights every half a block was essentially my Mogadishu mile. Blew every light and speed limit and so on, the closest to absolute maxed hours personally that week round the clock operations on that massive LTL orange load. It's fortunate that the Law was asleep or off duty along that stretch of 9 that day. I don't feel very good about it at all but it all worked out in the end.

If it wont fit, don't force it. There is no point in breaking stuff and destroying goodwill. There may be future orange loads.
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Heck you know how many times I've surrendered with a 28' trailer? More then once just had one in late May of this year where I said forget it and hit the breaks. Sometimes the stuff doesn't work and there is nothing you can do about it.

Mike2633 · Aug 28, 2017

$20.00 from a bar when I used to work for the beer trucks.

MACK E-6 · Aug 28, 2017

Mike2633 said: ↑

$20.00 from a bar when I used to work for the beer trucks.
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What? You mean taking free beer home wasn't enough?

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