Load shifted damage product

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by 1278PA, Feb 19, 2018.

  1. 1278PA

    1278PA Road Train Member

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    This is my day. Got to the cosignee and opened the doors to find this.

    I feel like I'm gonna get canned for this. I really enjoy this career and out a lot of work into this. I wasn't driving erratic or anything for this to happen. The last 2-3 units got damaged the rest shifted. This was about a 1200 mile run through mountains of West Virgina and Virginia from Indiana.

    I got this trailer preloaded picked from our drop yard. No seal I opened the doors and saw the crate on the end on top. I put 2 straps across. This whole load is light 9500 lbs that being a factor too I bet why it shifted like that.

    This is my 11th run on my own just got my own truck about 2 1/2 weeks ago.

    Called dispatch and safety over an hour ago cosignee won't take any of the load they rejected the whole truck. Only the last few are damaged the ones in the front just shifted no damage.

    These fans aren't cheap I'm sure a couple Grand each. I called safety and my fm a few hours ago now I wait to hear my fate I guess.

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  3. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Uhoh...

    I have a question: if you could do this run all over again, what would you do differently? Driving is a continuous learning experience, and it's experiences like this one that can make us better...but only if we learn. So, what would you do differently?
     
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  4. pmdriver

    pmdriver Road Train Member

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    Bad strap and must have been a earthquake you drove into, always give them straps a real hard tug from every direction, not a good day.
     
  5. Coover

    Coover Road Train Member

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    Don't understand the strapping your walls together? Anyways this is what happens when they customers want to go with "ship via cheapest way"
     
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  6. pmdriver

    pmdriver Road Train Member

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    But then the straps are still hooked, speed bumps on your way?
     
  7. 1278PA

    1278PA Road Train Member

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    I learned that if I still have a job that I'm not moving a trailer unless I know 1000 percent all contents are locked in place.
    There is about a foot gap along the wall right side of the trailer between the crates and the wall. I would get the shipper to put filler blocks in or rework it somehow. On the end straps and load locks.
     
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  8. DUNE-T

    DUNE-T Road Train Member

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    Each of those 2nd level crates needed to be strapped individually.
    Everybody can be blamed for this, the shipper, the first driver and you too.
    Your company will start blaming the shipper first I think
     
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  9. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    i blame the shipper for using balsa wood. i blame the forklift driver for double stacking. i blame the shipper for not sealing the trailer. i blame the shipper for not using dunnage or air bags.

    i'd never take the blame, nor should you. be a real person like me and a few others, blame someone else.
     
  10. Roberts450

    Roberts450 Road Train Member

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    I see more then one was stacked in there. Guessing someone cheaped out and put a flatbed load in a van.
     
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  11. STexan

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    With that poor level of crating, it's a good thing it went in a van. Few flatbedders would accept that load double-stacked.
     
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