Check Your Back Door - ALWAYS

That is being lazy, Open up the doors until you get to the vendor.


Driving around a Industrial / Commercial Park, Don't see a problem.
Puddle jumping with the barn doors open without Secondary Measures ( bungy cords ) is asking for trouble.

Driving around the City with open doors, That is being lazy and Un-wanted attention.

Against the Law around the city? No Idea, Is it smart? No.
Do I care if you do it? No.

Will I inform your employer? No

Do I jump around with the doors open at PARKS? Yes, With Secondary measures. ( Being Pro Active )


Just make sure your crap ( doors, freight ) is secured.

I'm a little OCD with barn doors. Those Fockers never secure properly

 

That's fancy. LTL barns are usually renouned for how absurdly cheap they are as far as equipment. I don't miss LTL that much

 

I remember going down the jersey turnpike I saw this fedex guy flashing lights like crazy. Didn't think he was trying to get my attention so I paid no attention. He finally caught up and honked his horn ad started doing like a pull down, so at this point I said ok something's wrong let me pull over. My lead trailer was open. I was like how is this, I checked the seal and everything, even reported it to a supervisor it was the wrong seal (original was broken and never upgraded the new one)

i go to pull the door down and the seal was intact. The bar that closed the door had snapped in half so the door shot up. Had to tie it down with some rope and thankfully I was 5 miles from my destination. Told the supervisor and showed him, wrote it up etc. next day i went back to that terminal and he told me I was lucky nothing fell out. All freight was accounted for.

glad that guy flagged me down who knows how long it was open for

 

I had the same issue with an old Yellow trailer. The wood holding the door latch had rotted away, and the door opened en route. The manager at the receiving YRC terminal #####ed me out about checking equipment / pre-trip etc. which I almost started to believe him 'til i found the door handle laying on the bumper.

Then there were two separate occasions where the 30/30 brake cans fell off their mounts due to metal rot... Post trip inspection revealed cans swinging by their air lines - thankful that they didn't fall off and trip an air loss event. I don't imagine one has too many feet of road left between a low air warning device and spring brake lock up to get to the shoulder, but I'm not looking to test that theory anytime too soon.

I too used to report wrong seals, and the guys at dispatch would reply: Yeah OK, whatever. At least if there was loss or pilferage we called, right? Can't do more than that I suppose. UPS package would have flipped out if a wrong seal had popped up, regardless of cause.

As far as riding around with open doors goes, a van / box trailer is intended to be a rectangle. The closed doors help keep this shape from becoming a gusset snapping parallelogram. While i don't believe that low speed open door travel is a problem, highway open door travel is a whole 'nuther matter whether it's roll ups or barn doors - just sayin'


Rectangle
http://coolmath.com/reference/images/rectangle3.gif

Parallelogram
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EcuzXwtamJc/maxresdefault.jpg

 

A few years back I'm driving in a nasty storm I stop to clean snow off tail lights then go grab a coffee to go .. About ten minutes later a car slowly catches up to me and I keep seeing a shadow on right side in the odd curve finally it dawns on me my doors open .. I stop and go close door but have snow on top on freight halfway up trailer thank god I had a frozen load so nothing got damaged .. After that I always walk around after grabbing my coffee not before .. You never know when some dirtbag will unlatch your door if it's not sealed

 

Ours is a stickler, not by management, By a senior. I was told once and only once, Close your F%#^#^# door(s)
I still do it, Using secondary measures everytime time ( barn doors ) Screw closing roll. The senior is a peckerhead not the steward DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO type of fella.


"i been here so long i built this terminal" Yeah, I can see your crap with corn between the brick joints

Always 1 guy at every company has to be THAT #####hole. Always 1. Hates everything, his wife, coworkers, his coffee, his free benefits, his parking spot, his weight, his commute, his employer, his kids, his lunch, his holiday bonus , always 1 butthole !!!