I agree with you in principal. However many of today's carriers employ daycab's to shuttle loaded and unloaded trailers around. When an OTR driver is picking up a loaded trailer at a terminal or drop yard it almost takes an act of congress to bust that seal with no blow back. Once busted some receivers like most Walmart DCs won't accept the load and some shippers go apoplectic if you take it back with a busted seal. Could you imagine some green driver having to deal with this. This system about load's inside a sealed van/reefer being secure being totally on the driver is broken and needs to be fixed.
How to prevent uneven cargo, is it my fault?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by cbelman18, Mar 26, 2018.
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Would just like to add.. an improperly secured load is as many csa/psp points as a DUI or reckless driving. 800 bucks is the smaller of his problems. I’d fight it. Not for money sake, but for career sake. It’s a huge deal.
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I'm a new driver. One thing that stuck with me from driving school is load securement responsibilities. Driver responsibility. My second load on my own was a load of tires. I could see the side of the trailer bulging and I refused to even hook up. My dispatcher told me to just take it. I asked where to leave the truck. The load got re-loaded properly. And I start for a new company next week.
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One of the things that really pissed me off was drivers bringing in to a terminal empties and having extended service done to their tractors. Then they would put false seals on their trailers and set the reefers on, and sometime glad hand locked it. I went through this once and got fooled. The next time I came upon a trailer set up this way I called in to dispatch with the trailer number. If it really was under a load I got the truth. Otherwise I cut the seal off or went into the shop and a mechanic came out and cut the lock off. Drivers get by doing this even with a carrier seal because most drivers won't even think about busting a seal.
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