I can’t say how prevalent that really might be, but it is well documented as having been found before on several occasions. There’s one video in Youtube I saw with a Canadian wrecker driver who left a truck sitting once he discovered the pipe from the floor and the human #### all over the place underneath.
Language Barrier ... this is out of hand
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I used to look them up to make sure I wasn't corresponding with an 'uncle' living in California.
I never had the thought to ask if the hole in the floor was common in their experience, LOLborn&raisedintheusa, D.Tibbitt, broke down plumber and 2 others Thank this. -
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A friend of mine has a shop in Yuba City. He confirms the "hole in the sleeper floor" story. His regular customers know not to bring him one of those porta potty trucks but occasionally a stranger tries to slip one through.
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Called a broker about a load and he said "Oh, thank God, you speak English! I'm gonna get you on this load."
I asked if the companies calling him are really that bad & he said "You have no idea...I can't understand what they're asking."Opendeckin, D.Tibbitt, broke down plumber and 3 others Thank this. -
At a previous job we warehoused also, the number of drivers that would show up that couldn't speak English was amazing, it was a daily fight. Most would just come in and point at the picture of the load info on the phone. Some would come in as a 2 or 3 person group with 1 who spoke passable English. Old boss wouldn't tolerate it and refused to load any of them, but there were days we would turn away 4 or 5 carriers for just one load.
We had one guy show up in a Transit van to pick up 4 pallets of plastic weighing 10k lbs, all he kept saying was It's OK you load, when we told him we couldn't load a van, thinking he was still getting the freight then got upset when we finally told him to leave.Opendeckin, born&raisedintheusa, kemosabi49 and 2 others Thank this.
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