Miller beer factory - irwindale, ca

bobobrazil · Oct 29, 2008

SkiddyFisk said: ↑

This place is a fine example of how to suck at shipping.

My appointment to load was for 6 AM. I got there at 5.45. They checked me in and said they'd call me on CB4 when they needed me. I told them I don't have a CB and they said someone would come round and knock in that case.

I was told I had to buy a bulkhead. This pitiful device consisted of 8 pieces of 2x4 nailed together. Apparently this is worth $65 in their world. These 2x4s are probably the ones the hardware store rejects for being warped or shoddy, because when the trailer was empty the thing fell apart. If Swift hadn't paid for the thing that would have been the end of my involvement. The bulkhead guy told me that they would NOT come get me and i should check in with the loading dock to give them my cell # so they could call me up.

I check in at the dock, they take my number, and i wait.

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At 10 AM i go to sleep. These guys suck.

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4 PM i wake up. No calls.

5 PM the space I've been in for 10 hours magically becomes a drop space and security has me move into a dirt lot outside.

6 PM the dirt lot magically becomes yard goat parking and security has me move to another lot.

7 PM i give up and begin cooking myself dinner.

7.05 they call and tell me they're ready to load me. I elect to finish cooking first. #### 'em.

7.30 i roll into the dock and install the bulkhead.

8.30 they finish loading.

8.40 PM i check out the front gate. They have a lovely 3-section scale but refuse to give out weights. Their directions to the nearest cat scale take me through a no-truck residential street. Had i been ticketed for this i would have turned around and had words with the direction giver.

Total detention pay to me: $172.00.

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10.00 AM next day: their load shifts, causing me to drive 800 miles with a trailer heeling to the right. Had they provided airbags this would have been prevented. The load does NOT shift fore or aft, as i did secure it properly. Axle weights remain legal.

Will not go here again. UGH.
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Exactly why we spot trailers here. Drop and hook makes alot more sense.

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