Dumbest shipper/receiver instructions

Yeh, love the places that claim you cannot write SLC. Sorry you load count you will fess up to it not me. Don't hang you thievery on me. Usually a call to dispatch solves it, but obviously you ran into a exception. I have had instances where I told them to take the crap off the trailer if you you cannot provide me with the bills without incriminating me with something. Usually, I don't have to waste my phone call to dispatch, they will call themselves.

 

Paper plant in Antioch Calif many years ago. Pre-loaded sealed trailers. In a paved lot 1/2 mile from the actual manufacturing bldg. At guard shack, you had to have hard hat, safety glasses( I wear glasses, so they gave you those oversize safety glasses, so scratched up you couldn't see) and steel toed shoes. If you didn't have steel toe boots, they had several pair of rubber boots with steel toes, all about size 15. So you had to drive to the drop lot unable to see, and your feet sliding around in oversize boots. I guess the hard hat was to protect us, when dropping and hooking, one of the trailers decided to roll over on us.

 

Would serve same purpose, unless you unhooked and another tractor tried hooking up to your trailer.

 

sorry the look is the save the trailer that nobody can pull him out

 

I get that some places have some absurd ideas about when and what ppe is required, what kind of professional driver doesn't have steel toe boots and safety glasses in the truck?

 

I pull a dry van. Why should I have to buy steel toe boots? It makes sense for flatbedders hauling steel pipe and whatnot, but not if you're only D&Hing and bumping docks.

 

Because even in dry van, unless you only serve dedicated customers, you may have occasion to need to be on customer docks, and many of them have ppe requirements.

 

Ive always wondered what good a cute plastic hat is going to do in a mill where the lightest thing that will be dropped on you, if anything is, weighs 6000 lbs. I told one safety guy it made no sense unless it has your name and SSN written in it. He looked rather confused. I pointed up at the 43000 coil of steel hanging 20 feet in the air. If that falls on me, then the coroner will know who he's scraping up. And btw, I was not standing under the coil hanging up there. That'd be dumb.

 

I asked one place how ear plugs enhance safety? He had some lame excuse about decibels or something. I said, that may be true that its a touch loud in here. But it isn't ear damaging loud in the loading areas. But what the ear plugs do is prevent us from hearing the crane coming, forklifts coming, or instructions from the loader. Is being forced to be artificially deaf to our surroundings really safe. He just shrugged, and said, its company policy. Wish I had a buck for every time ice heard that lame line.

 

Because if something does fall, debris (including a lot of smaller pieces) can go flying. The hard hat very well could protect your head in that case.