Dude! Where's my empty trailer?

seamallowance said: ↑

May has been buying new reefer trailers, but has not replaced any of their elderly dry trailers. Meanwhile, the old, dry trailers eventually become unrepairable. Result? Trailer shortage.

Scenario: you just finished dropping off a trailer at one of May's 'state of the art' yards, and your next dispatch instructs you to "take mt dry trlr to shipper", and you dutifully scour the yard, checking for seals and freight bills, only to realize that there ARE NO FRIGGIN' empty trailers.

If this happened only occasionally, it wouldn't be a big deal, but as we DON'T GET PAID for wild goose chases, it gets real annoying. And it happens FREQUENTLY. May has NO idea how many empty trailers are NOT in their yards. The Planners don't know!

Or, you're supposed to repower a trailer that ISN'T THERE yet, if at all. So you burn up your 14 waiting for a trailer that now you cannot deliver on time. (Oh, that's OK, you can deliver tomorrow and lose another day's pay, even though it was the Planner's fault).
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That has happened to me more than once at the Fontana yard. I usually get with my DM and she will have me bobtail to the shipper or in a real tight pinch grab one from a nearby shipper/receiver. My experience has always been that there is rarely a trailer shortage in the Fontana area... I have actually been turned away by a shipper because they weren't accepting anymore may trailers due to an overabundance of them.

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