Damaged and rejected load, is the driver responsible?

With this being a secret mission due to lack of details an intelligent response will be a secret also.

 

Sure you can , but that should be on the loader for not blocking it.

 

I've had that happen a lot with Coke loads when they skimp on the shrink wrap.

not my fault, not my problem and NO I'm not getting in there and restacking anything.

 

I just picked up a Coke load an hour ago out of Twinsburg OH plant. Was telling an employee there about how I had to restack 3 pallets on New Year’s Eve because there were no airbags used towards the front of the trailer. I didn’t pull the trailer but was new and did it for a few extra hours to make a full day. They told me that they never seem to load correctly or use enough bags. She said if you inspect the load and don’t feel like they put enough bags in, take pics and go inside and they will correct the problem.

I don’t have a problem with loads shifting side to side because I don’t drive like a dip head. But I will make them fix issues in the future just on principle. I like making people redo their crappy job LoL

 

I always love it when a shipper secures the load with my load locks. I just write on the BOL that the load was loaded and secured by shipper, and I'm on my way. When they don't secure the locks, you can make darn sure that I can see all the way to the front of the trailer that the pallets are placed and secured properly, or I don't leave the facility until they are.

 

This happens more than most know. Most carriers of any decent size have people that work in risk management and/or claims. The company will either write it off or make an insurance claim or both in the case of being self-insured. This can become a nightmare for a driver, but most of the time there are no lasting problems. Just don't develop a history of losing loads, this can make a driver unhirable for general freight hauling. This happened to me in Florida back in 2012. I took over a repower from another driver that needed to go home for an emergency. The problem was there were only 2 skids on the trailer and I had to open the doors on a reefer just to back in. The company took a temp reading and rejected the load. I finally had to backhaul it to Atlanta and had to stop at TK to get a temp history for the broker. My company had to eat the load. It happens in fact I doubt there are many drivers that have done this job for more than 10 or so years that have not had at least one load or a partial load rejected if they are honest and admit it.

 

No, I refused to pull a load, the trailer was coming apart behind the king pin plate, the head of operations, said pull it, I said sign off on taking responsibily for it , he would not. Another driver did pull it, 48,000 lbs of oil went on the highway.

 

A rejected load does not hurt your MVR, driver dispatcher, shipper, OP, whoever you are. Let's take the time and remind reefer and van drivers to use your load locks and drive with sanity. I have about 8 load locks that I have collected from our drivers leaving them in trailers after dropping them.

 

Load locks suck , they slide and fall down when the trailer flexes.
E trac and straps only.

 

Yup.
They are only good for one thing...
Showing that you at least tried to secure the load.

Straps only work if the slots line up correctly, which is only sometimes.