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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Load shifted damage product
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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?Lonesome and Blackshack46 Thank this. -
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.
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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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But then the straps are still hooked, speed bumps on your way?
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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. -
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 thinkThull, Lonesome, Farmerbob1 and 4 others Thank this. -
i'd never take the blame, nor should you. be a real person like me and a few others, blame someone else.Thull, bottomdumpin, Paddlewagon and 13 others Thank this. -
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