Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

In Ga Atl area and we’re down right now it was slow starting out in the spring/summer then picked up and leveled off but now they’re asking for guys to take off just about every week. It’s going to be a hard winter.

 

isn’t there something in the regulations that state you can have it in the same trailer if it’s so far apart. Or if the poisons in certain packaging. Can’t remember. Ran into this once on the dock. Can’t remember the outcome.

 

Here’s the regulation I was thinking of. Take with it as you will. Seems a certain poison PG can be loaded with food if separated. Or if the poison is in a certain type of drum.

Mixing Food, Hazmat Commodities | JOC.com

I remember the situation now. I had food on and a customer wanted to load poison. 40 feet in between. We ended up getting billing and safety on the phone. They said the pg I was picking up could of been loaded but leave it up to each terminal if they want to. I think they had another driver pick it up if I remember right.

What does this regulation mean to you guys? How do you decipher it?

 

Central Florida and busy as ever. Childhood obesity must be on the rise lol.
That being said I made it to the hotel waaaayyyyy earlier than normal, this feels weird.

 

Love my job but not gonna lie....this post has stuck with me and I constantly have been thinking about it. Do you mind saying who you work for (totally understand if you don't wanna put it out there) and is their pay structure available online?

 

McLane, and the pay structure varies from DC to DC. In fact I work out of a drop yard and my pay is different from the guys running out of the DC that loads our trailers.

It's pay per case, per mile, per stop, and in some states (maybe just California, I don't know) there's an hourly component.

 

FedEx Freight policy is no food and poison on the same trailer, no matter what. Makes it easier on us to figure it out, since the answer is always no.

 

I am seeing more and more of our trucks pulling Werner boxes. I know we are short trailers but it's still weird to see. I wonder if Werner is in the business of renting trailers or we just have a good working relationship with them since we use them to drag in the stuff from the West coast that we don't make?