Driver thought he was doing a good deed then got fired for it

what if he were to be delivering motorcycles, new cars, SUV's, etc,etc..?? will he just give them away as well..??

i'd never trust him, i hope no one else does either.

 

Not the same situation. The supplies on the trailer were intended for the people who wound up with them, through slightly different channels. The store that was supposed to receive the supplies was already closed and boarded up in preparation for the storm, and wasn't going to be re-opening until after it had passed...which at that point, the supplies on the trailer are rather worthless since the storm has already passed and people will not be looking to board up their windows. The driver had the choice to sit in his truck and ride out the storm only to deliver his freight too late to be of any use, or offload the freight and get out of dodge ahead of the storm, thereby helping the people that were there looking for what he had brought for them. Not to mention, many types of plywood aren't supposed to get wet. Those tarps had better be absolutely PERFECT, with extra bungees, and even then they still might get ripped off the load during the hurricane. Then he'd be on the hook for the damaged load.

If you want to equate it with something in the reefer world, suppose you missed your delivery prior to a long weekend, and the receiver is now closed. The food on your trailer will likely spoil before the store reopens, guaranteeing a rejected load. You'd also like to get home for the weekend...so instead of sitting there watching your load spoil in a store parking lot, you take it to a food bank and let them distribute it. Food is not wasted, you get to go on your merry way, and your company likely would have bought the load anyway. At least this way, it didn't just end up in a landfill. Add in the fact that a major storm was heading your way that would possibly damage your truck and endanger your life if you stuck around waiting for the store to open as another motivating factor to getting empty and out of there.

Again, this isn't just a case of a driver giving stuff away. There were extenuating circumstances....mitigating factors....that justify what he did when he did it. Sure, it's easy to play monday morning quarterback and point a finger at him saying "you shouldn't have done that", but you're probably a hypocrite if you do because most of us would likely have done the same thing just to be able to leave and get out of the storm's path. It might have been smarter to have just cut his losses and turned the truck around following the 7 hour delay...but he knew those materials were needed down there, so he ran the load.

 

Yet another convoluted story.

 

Nope we drop them put sti or night drop throw keys in drop box and roll

 

Really?
ThanX for bringing this to my attention.
I hadn't noticed as I don't read what I write.
If not for comments from others, I'd never know
what I wrote, or that I even wrote anything at all.
However, whenever I write anything
it's the condensed version.

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i have indeed seen very many night drops of vehicles in my years. i have also seen once in a blue moon, when i "window shop" on sudays at the dealerships, where a vehicle still has the keys in the ignition.....stupid salesman....one time, a 'stang.....oh boy......

 

I completely disagree and I haven't read to the end yet so maybe this has been brought up already, but I think the product itself should be considered when looking at the situation. There's a reason why taking food from a grocery store in or after a natural disaster isn't considered on the same level as taking TVs from Best Buy during that same time period. Also, its cheap, unfinished plywood, not custom, one-off pieces or the walls in a completed and lived in home, as someone misguidedly tried to equate it with.

Whoever is running Western's PR department is an idiot. A disaster like that is easy mode for feel good press and hero stories. They could have split the cost with Home Depot and taken joint credit for helping victims but nooo, they went with ###hole

 

Hmmmm ---
I think that's called taking revenge.
The Lord tells us that revenge is His, not ours.
That being the case, you would be taking something
that isn't yours to take and giving it to somebody else,
out of spite and revenge

Driver Tim's motivation seems to have been compassionate concern for the survival and well being of his fellow mankind during a natural disaster.
How smart is that?

What right did driver Tim have to do what he did, and, what did driver Tim really do?

I've heard it said that when we should judge others, we should measure both sides using the same tape measure on each side. Or sumthin' like that.

Is this how far we've come that we put more value on a replaceable material object than on an irreplaceable life which could have been saved by using those same replaceable material objects?
What did I read?, $12,000 ---> $20,000 estimated.
Imagine that.

 

Where you and I differ is you keep saying this was life and death. I'm sorry, but I've having a very hard time seeing that.
This was simply a convenience for people that did not prepare in a hurricane prone area. Worst case I'm coming up with... No plywood, so no boarded up windows. Rain and wind an debris break the glass, and stuff in the house gets wet and likely destroyed from water damage. OK, what was the lesson? Collect on insurance, and next time one buys a house in a hurricane get the plywood and get it cut to size before storm season.

Now if you can come up with a plausible reason it would be life and death, I'll change my mind to agree the driver did the right thing. As it is he is not better that a looter, stealing stuff when the owner isn't around.

 

You say this like you've been completely and utterly prepared for every situation and quirk that life has thrown at you. I mean.. you have been, right?

Even if the answer to that question was yes, which I highly doubt, you would be the rare case. Weather is notoriously fickle and nothing was for certain until the last minute. The driver did a good thing. Quit victim blaming, its not a good look