It seems that the trucking industry doesn't want you to succeed

"Yeah thats my stuff, those cans on the bottom... Nope, just those cans."

LOL

 

You delivered there too? LOL

 

You remind me of me. But our stories are seasonally opposite haha

One time a few years ago, I didnt care that my drivers side window was smashed out by a rock kicked up by another truck in the middle of winter. I drove the 5 hours home at 10f.

I couldn't get it fixed locally for 3-4 days. So instead of ordering parts and sitting on my ###, I grabbed another load. Then I put on my best gloves, a warm hat, and some dirt biking goggles, and took that load to the city where the nearest window was, delivered, picked up the new window, drove the 5 hours home, and put it in when I got there.

 

Little Lumping that needs to be done?

 

You don’t have any home improvement stores that sell sheets of thin plexiglass and ductape?

 

Long ago we had stories told of a dispatcher who complained of a incessant morning upgrade run out of Union Bridge Maryland, it's about a two mile and change pull, maybe 5% give or take a little bit. It's not much of a pull running up and over a ridge. Once we had 500+ detriots to work with, those little hills are not a obstacle. Anyway. He becamse a dispatcher because there was too much upgrade work for him. He was a good dispatcher and was able to put the upgrade behind him.

The biggest challenge in delivery would be McCormick Spices out of either Baltimore or Hunt Valley Md (I understand the Baltimore facility may no longer exist).

When you get to a Sysco with it, it's about 6000 little boxes of spices, about 150 different kinds give or take a litle bit. The original collection is easiest only about 60 plus in a distinctive packaging. The rest of the more modern stuff with the barcode and a unique product number to check against a massive amount of spreadsheet paperwork will take a while.

As far as I know I have not had any OSD with this type of a load. I would think that if I was missing a $6.50 tin of cinnamon, Im paying the #### thing cash rather than endure a multi hour recount of the affected freight. I literally don't make enough money to burn time I don't have over something that small. They can go down street to the coop store and get the #### thing retail. =)

 

I don't think the trucking industry is out to "keep the little guy down". The only person who "keeps the little guy down" is the little guy. As a company driver, you must come to terms with the fact that the "company's" objective is to get their freight moved as efficiently and cheaply as possible. Yes, they are in business to make money and the company driver is a tool for them to achieve that goal.
It is possible to make a good living working for someone else, but you have to come to terms with it...whether it be in the trucking industry or any other profession.

 

Success is not the same thing to all people.

What is success to you?

Look it up and the dictionary and you may find more than one definition.

 

Just a little LOL!