Give me your opinion

Depends on the circumstances.

We still havent established where exactly was the driver and truck?

If he left the trailer to bobtail to some skank for a night out,.. then yeah,.. I'd be pissed. But we dont know anything at this point except that some brown nose wants to know if its ok to snitch.

Hurst

 

We need to know what the load was and how much it was worth.
There's another criteria too. How easily could the load be sold if it was stolen? Computer parts might be hard to sell but a load of booze would sell out fast.
Aircraft parts? Jet engines? If you found the right overseas buyer you could swipe the trailer, stuff the parts in a container and they'd be at sea within 48 hours.
There's high end freight and there's high risk freight. They aren't always the same.
There's a lot of easily fenced high end cargo out there. One of our competitors lost a 53' van full of crated Honda motorcycles and portable generators. The driver dropped the trailer in a vacant lot and went home for the weekend. He wasn't supposed to do that. Early Monday morning he got a big surprise. The trailer was gone. That was five years ago and they never have found a single piece of that load. The insurance company made the trucking company eat the load...violation of policy rules. The driver? Last I heard he was working pulling green chain in some sawmill.

 

I was just curious about someone else's opinion. He answered my question and I am satisfied. He is entitled to his opinion. He carries himself as a Man and I will give him the respect of a Man.

 

Something like that can sink a smaller company. The less smaller companies there are, the more owner ops will be stuck battling for $2/freight.

 

Yea the big guys get the pick of the litter freight wise and we get what's left usually

 

But the ELD mandate is supposed to "level the playing field".

 

Sure it will when I get their price on freight, fuel, and everything else I'll get their elogs

 

It pretty much sank that company. Same old story, the father builds a thriving business from nothing, turns it over to his eldest son who never knew what it was like to struggle, and the business slowly self destructs. You've seen it.
The Honda haul was the only real plum they had and of course they lost that when the load was stolen. They struggled on for a year or so and then folded up.
We bought a couple of their trailers at the auction.
The son, last I heard, was managing a sandwich shop.

 

The highest value thing I've moved was 5 million. It was a robotic cell that assembled brake calipers. On it, there was never any worry of somebody stealing it, but you had to really worry about it getting damaged. Wasn't that heavy (around 40K) but was 14' in diameter. The company wanted to make sure all our insurance was in order before we even touched it.

Million dollar loads are quite common for us.

 

Load value is irrelevant.

Company policy according to OP was not being followed. High value load puts everyone's job and the company at risk. If the driver is doing something legitimate he will have communicated that to the folks with the money on the line if it goes sideways.

Nothing wrong with verifying that they know about trailers condition. Not one #### thing. If the bozo who dropped the trailer is on the up and up nothing happens. If he is not McDonalds is hiring.