Finally got my own truck

Been several years but,I used to deliver St. Louis or Memphis on Monday then bounce around the Midwest and load back to the house on Friday. As for TQL you'll have to stay on them or they'll "forget" about the trailer wash.

 

Buy a cheap can of coffee and spread it inside the box. Will eliminate any remaining odor.

 

Are you kidding me? This is big time trucking his insurance will never pay a claim on that stuff. Even if he could drop his trailer and take such a load and get a power only load back to his trailer and then what still in same boat. What if when he drops that U crap load he sees a great load going x on a real trailer.

Folks please step aside and let the man work. That crap he doesn't need. Take your sissy U loads to your inlaws....

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave

 

I would have left that load of nasty #### sitting on the dock and told TQL to #### off then I wouldn't have answered another call from them for 6 months lol. I'll leave a load on the dock without hesitating when I've been mislead. Sucks you had to wash it out. I won't wash mine out but I am picky about what goes in it too.

 

I don't think he's in a position to tell anybody with
Loads to just f### off.
Between cheap freight and truck payments he's got his work cut out,that's for sure.

 

Loads are scarce now and you're right he does have a tall order. In the spring there will be plenty of options though.

 

That kind of thinking will get you taken advantage of. If information is wrong, or in this case an outright lie, that is a breach of contract. Time to revise a rate con or leave the load on the dock. I'm not saying give back loads willy nilly.

You said yourself had you known you would have rejected it. They don't tell people what it is and lie by omission. Or even lie outright and say it's a clean load because they think most people will just take the load by the time they dead head there. Very shady business practice. You are not under any obligation to people who have no honor themselves.

And them using the excuse they didn't know is an admission of ignorance. You're a broker and you don't know the information on your loads? You're an idiot.

They were laughing about lying to you that it was clean. If the guy you're leased to won't stand beside you in an instance like that where you rejected one, after finding out it wasn't as advertised, he's not worth being leased with.

And TQL will continue calling offering loads regardless. They know they are in the wrong in this sort of circumstance.

 

I'm curious tho...

Do shippers/brokers "mistype" the cargo info on the BOL, and thus hide the true nature of the cargo? If so, What's the recourse for a carrier in this case?

@rollin coal , you claim you would have refused the load. Question is: how would u know whats really in there until after the fact (upon unloading )?