Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Oh they do. I just say I called and no one answered

Company pays me too much to driver across town for someone not to be home so I didn't go.

Plus they can't make me anything I deem "unsafe". I've told a few customer before "I ain't putting this truck in there you'll have to get a senior driver".

 

Gated community? Load that #### on the straight truck!! Or better yet tell the customer to come to our center and pick that shipment up himself

 

You have to tell them no sometimes and throw a fit if you have to. Our city dispatch used be a city driver so he understands.

We have 3 box trucks, so they can put them to work

 

Plan on getting into management someday?

 

Back in the olden days before Kenosha, the GFS yard in Chicagoland used to run doubles at night time back to the main warehouse and company headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan for loading.

This is a Chicagoland transit set, probably early set I would imagine heading back to Grand Rapids with a set of empty trailers for loading. This picture was taken by Mr.Brian, in the very early 2000s.

Just a little historical trucking factoid.

 

Volvo like this one are still being used by YRC around here.

 

Same here. No really YRC Brecksville Ohio has 20 year old Volvo’s running in the city. We don’t have anything that old anymore in our warehouses fleet.