Anheuser-Busch Nightmare

Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by CondoCruiser, Jul 21, 2010.

  1. djtrype

    djtrype Heavy Load Member

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    I haven't drank an AB product in 3 years. I only wish that Yuengling was sold in Louisiana.
     
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  3. ladywrongway03

    ladywrongway03 Heavy Load Member

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    I always say my cb is broke so I dont have to hear the 20 trucks ahead of me being called
     
  4. DealBreaker

    DealBreaker Light Load Member

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    Certainly sleep better that way :biggrin_25525:.
     
  5. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    Amen. They can call my cell phone when they want me.
     
  6. Jabber1990

    Jabber1990 Road Train Member

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    I don't have one
     
  7. Jabber1990

    Jabber1990 Road Train Member

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    I HATE that company,

    I went to St. Louis once and I showed up about 10 minutes early, they gave me a time to pick it up and I belive it was 2330 on Friday

    the load wasn't ready until almost 1700 on Saturday

    then of course I had to spend an hour adjusting the tandems



    the one in Colubus, OH was also bad, they didn't load the trailer right so it was heavy. after spending 2 hours with sliding the tandems and my 5th wheel they let me go back to the dock so they could fix it. I showed up and this big black guy was at the desk and was just chewing me out and talking down to me because the trailer was loaded wrong. he told me that I didn't know how to do my job therefore there was too much weight on the tandems
     
  8. Searcher1

    Searcher1 Light Load Member

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    FWIW, IME every shipper says that when a load won't balance out. Probably equal parts of them not wanting to rework a load and having been burned by incompetent drivers that don't know how to balance out.
     
  9. CondoCruiser

    CondoCruiser The Legend

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    If it's not in the scope of the sliding axle then there is nothing one can do but fix the nose heavy load that's not stretched out properly. All heavy pallets have to start out with a single if not single, double, single and stretched in pattern to the 44'-48' mark in the trailer. It's not rocket science. Most cases they start out with a double and screwed up by the third pallet. Basically the last pallet(s) has to end on top of the center of the back axle and compensate for the nose/fifth wheel/drives weighing more.
     
  10. Cat sdp

    Cat sdp . .

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    I've hauled a few permit loads into their facilities ..... You should see the look on the guards faces when they see the weight is over.


    And they can't give me a hard time about it.
     
  11. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    Part of the problem with any beverage shipper is they often assume you are running split axles and load accordingly. Then they are surprised the load doesn't scale legally. If I'm getting a live load I make sure they understand I don't have split axles.
     
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