Take Pics while at Shipper...

I like taking pics with my cell phone. I can email them to my co if there is a problem with a load.

 

CYA is the name of the game.

How about this trick a receiver pulls: They tell you to show up at 7 am and they promise you'll be offloaded by 7:30 (yeah right). The fork lift doesn't even touch a pallet until 8, they pull off another two and then you sit until 9 and finally get offloaded by 9:30. Technically there is no "Detention Time" since they started to offload....according to the broker.

 

Used to work at a produce warehouse, some loads would come in as if a bomb had gone in the truck. Used have prima peaches come from california, many different trucking companies would bring them, the skids used to be strapped like crazy, chimney blocked, and airbags everywhere. This one company would bring them in and the load would be shifted like crazy, everytime. Every other companies would not have moved at all.
Drivers of that company would cry that the demaged would come out of there paychecks. On one occasion we rejected close to 200 cases.
We always took pictures when the load was shifted, so that there would not be an arguement about the demages going back on the truck.

 

I watch Heroes on NBC, TiVo it while I am running, I have started using my super powers to keep the truck from bouncing while I am driving 80 plus through Texas and Oklahoma. Any shipper complains to me and I crush him with my sonic blast from my ###. That usally works. If not, I help him clean up the spillage.

 

I picked up a T-Call load, and took it a few miles down the street to the Final. When I went to pop the doors, it had looked as if someone bumped the dock super hard, and the rear of the load shifted against the door. I opened one door, and then took a picture with my cell just to CYA. Now i only drove the trailer for no more than 3 miles. there is no way that load shifted while hooked to my truck. But it is all about CYA.

 

i seriously thought about driving in the grass when going thru Oklahoma. The guys the state hires to repave their roads, do they know they should fix the road under it before they lay new surface???

actually going thru OK the other week helped me pass that kidney stone....lol....kidding.