Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by double yellow, Nov 5, 2014.

  1. 77fib77

    77fib77 Road Train Member

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    I was listing to 146 yesterday. They had on an assemblyman from CA. A law to reduce gasoline consumption by 50% over 13 years was nearly defeated last year. Crazy stuff.
     
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  3. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Con-Way had a policy where you always lock the trailer, empty or loaded, and I've just kept on doing it. I figured what the heck, it doesn't take but a few seconds and it'll prevent any surprises when I get to a shipper.

    So after 6 weeks at home, I finally decide to hit the road and find this on my pretrip:

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    Hope that ####### felt real smug as he opened the door and found an empty trailer...
     
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  4. dngrous_dime

    dngrous_dime Road Train Member

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    You don't have secured parking??
     
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  5. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Gated, but the gate is open 99% of the time
     
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  6. dngrous_dime

    dngrous_dime Road Train Member

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    Suggest cameras to the property owner, or actually controlling access better?? If it were me, I'd be livid.
     
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  7. mugurpe

    mugurpe Medium Load Member

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    Camera's usually don't do much aside from telling you that someone cut your lock which you already know. You spend hours looking through footage to find the culprit just to discover that it's a non-descript person wearing dark clothes at night and not looking in the direction of the camera. If you want to keep people out of a trailer back it up against a wall. Then they'll need a cordless sawzall instead of bolt cutters.
     
  8. Blu_Ogre

    Blu_Ogre Road Train Member

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  9. spax

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    I don't know. My credit is excellent and I'm shopping insurance to reinstate my authority and I'm getting bent over a barrel everywhere I turn. I was paying about $6500/yr before and every rate I'm getting is just about double.
     
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  10. spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    Insurance companies view reinstated authority just like brand new authority so i wouldn't expect to pay what you used to.
     
  11. spax

    spax Medium Load Member

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    Yes I know and I'm sure for no other reason than to be able to charge more. I just think 12k is rediculous. My driving record is as good or better than my credit and I have no claims. That's not even to haul general freight either, that's for 750k liability and hauling exempt commodities.
     
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