Load shifted damage product

The big problem is those flimsy made crates, they were never made to stack like that.

When you drive a dry van, or even a reefer at times, idiots on the dock just treat your trailer like a big garbage can: they stuff whatever they can in it and leave it to you to haul the trash.

This is a light load, so some idiot in the front office figured you could stack these warehouse crates like cord wood and send you off and collect the claims later. The idiot on the dock was probably his brother-in-law and just got fired from screwing up his 20th order at Burger King.

These crates needed to be stacked in order for them to keep from moving around and collapsing. Air bags, straps, nailers, and load bars would all have to be used. But filing a claim on your trucking company is cheaper and sells more units, so you see what happened.

Like moose said you need to take pictures on an unsealed trailer. A sealed trailer you need to note on the bills that the load was picked up sealed: when, where, and by whom.

 

Get a bunch of these--


and use this to tie the load down/across/wrap or whatever--

 

If there’s only e-track every 3 or 4 feet and you can’t really get straps to hold back crates that collapse on each other I think it’s totally on the shipper. I’d like to know if that was the manufacturer that loaded it that way or wholesaler or?

 

8 rolls only weighed 35k? That’s light. We haul about ten loads of them a day to our box plant, and they weight 4500 on the light side to 7000 on the heavy side. When they first started loading them years ago, they blew the air bags in one of our tractors. I have seen close to 60k in a trailer before personally, luckily it’s a four mile trip with no scales in between.