Drivers new and old...don't be bullied.

Yep...that is definitely how they operate. There are quite a few of us that have had that experience with them so I'm guessing it's a company wide thing and not just a particular store.

 

OK OK ....

The approach wasn't a steep decline but one when the driver turned left, the tractor itself would start to twist. when this happened the load started to shift and causing the first two pieces to teeter then fall - with a loud BANG - landing on the street and approach on both sides of the trailer. The next two fell right on to the street when the driver tried to stop. These blocked the entire street and the driveway out of the place so no one was going anywhere. There were 8 trucks waiting to get into the place and 2 loaded behind mine.

What happened next is rather uneventful, the manager came running to the driver screaming and yelling at him that it was his fault and my driver just ignored him, he had the signed shipper which the manager wanted. My driver called me after he took the pictures of the mess and told him if the manager give you crap, call the cops and tell them what happened.

He did just that to save grief for himself.

They came out, made sure that it was going to be cleared as fast as possible (the dock supervisor didn't want "her" forklifts on the street and wanted my driver to call a recovery company but the cops said hell no) and of course my driver got a lecture which was funny, the cop couldn't stop laughing about it.

Apparently this isn't the first time it has happened.

There was no real damage to the pieces, some dings and dents of some pretty thick metal so overall nothing to get upset about. It took then about an hour or maybe 90 minutes to get it back on the truck (don't remember), secured and having him rolling. My driver was not too happy as no one here was but it was done.

Will I haul their product again?

Yep already have, because this is a direct shipper, they called us to move their product and I have worked with their parent company a bunch of times so I had contacts at their parent company HQ and divisional HQ( which is where the load came from). They were well informed about the incident and moved the dock manager and shipping manager out of the shipping department, they would not fire them as I asked them to do.

My driver, well if he does a load for them, he like the other drivers secures on site "for insurance reasons" or so we are told.

 

those guys should have been fired, i agree, it was all thier fault, and cost them money to clean it all up.

my only thought here is that your driver drove off, as instructed to do so, and all those other drivers were watching this fiasco, thinking maybe YOUR driver was at fault for this, as he should have secured the load onsite.

however, if those other drivers had also been there a time or 2 as well, then they too would be familiar with that sites BS policy of getting off the property, THEN secure the load.

 

We had a few places we had to untarp on the street. And at those places I felt safer with the cars than being in their yards with their lifts racing around. I would always leave one strap over each stack of product until I was in their yard whether they liked it or not.

 

I had one company whine some because I would not untarp in their yard. I was going to but it had ben raining and their whole yard was chuned up mud about 3 inches deep, so I went back to the truck stop and untarped. lol
I have had them whine a couple of times if I untarped before they came opened up. thnking the load had not been tarped to start with.

 

JM Thomas in Ogden used to have an old lady in the office and if you slept there and weren’t tarped when she came to work then in her mind it wasn’t tarped at all. She was a real peach.

 

I finally quit carying tarps at all the last couple of years I ran otr, except for a smoke tarp and a machinery tarp, that I kept hid. lol
Before I quit tarping I found a lot of the times if I called the reciever, they would ell me no need to tarp.
I would also just have them set my tarps on top and strap hem down sometimes, if it looked like I was going to hit bad weather then I would tarp. lol

 

Id rather tarp offsite . down the street or at a truck stop.. Some of those propane jockeys like to drive them things like they in the indy 500..the only,tim i ever secured something in the street was shingles... Or maybe a coil down the street or in dirt lot. Always had atleast 1 chain before it left the warehouse though... The thing that gets me is disrespect. I will not be talked down to or treated like a scumbag. I have never once showed up to a customer with a attitude or been disrespectful, but some places give that #### to u for no reason. Hey i get it ur having a bad day , but im not ur punching bag, get ur #### off my trailer and sign my papers. Some places like big warehouses u got to choose ur words wisely , especially these home depot dc. Less words the better, i feel some of those receiving ladys are waiting for u to say something stupid to them so they can make u wait....i never got to upset about doing work in street to much. Sometimes its a pain. Another thing i hate more of a pet peeve than anything but the places that got a rule book 500 pages thick. I had to watch a safety video 2 months ago . just to tarp a load. Cuz i need a harness.. Hey buddy i done this a time or 2 i know how to use a harness just let me do my job u do urs, were all out of eachothers way.. Some places are just really safety oriented , which is great but at the same time it slows everything down, but what do i know i just a dumb flatbedder

 

I delivered to a new to be sams club that was under construction in Case Grande Az. They would not even let you get out of your truck, they pulled the straps, rolled them up and everything. The thing was you had to wear boots, hard hat, safety glasses and a safety vest while sitting behind the wheel.
They had an elevated spot with a gal to get your bills and hand you a waiver to sign before you could unload, and explain how they did this. lol

You had to sign the waiver claiming you would not sue them if you got injured on the jobsite. lol
I told her I am signing this, BUT you can bet your sweet backside, if you people hurt me wearing all this safety gear sitting in my truck, I am sueing your backside off. lol. She just laughed and said he waiver was not worth the paper it was wrote on, but some people were dumb. lol

 

Lmao now that is funny ####, its crazy the type of rules ppl come up with

 

When I loaded that load in Florida, an elderly woman gave me my bills, and explained I would have to wear long pants and leather boots. I was standing there in jeans and boots, and told her (maam, I have never in my life delivered a load without putting my pants on first) she chuckled and some don't. lol