My first time rejecting a shipper load

Maybe they will get a clue.

 

Just how dry was this lumber if they had nearly 55 feet of it at 8 feet high?

 

Chaos,i think the OP meant was that if they had put those last bundles,that were sticking out,on top he would have been loaded 8 foot high.
Bundles sticking out.....low load.
Bundles on top........8 foot high.

 

Oh really?

That is my old stomping grounds in driving school. Beth steel owned that entire peice of land and the town contained within it once upon a time. It's supposed to have been demo'ed by now and made into condominiums.

I sometimes shoved overhanging wood back into the bundle by finding a strong wall and docking with it most carefully. Call me stubborn. It's loaded. At most I hang a rag on it and go. If I was going to have a problem with wood, it's going to be the weight versus a certain bridge that no longer exist on 340 at harpers ferry wva after loading to the west of there with eastbound loads.

Im wondering if all these 4 drivers still have a job after refusing to load there. That would be very good to know. Usually if you refused a load as a company driver, you are dismissed and sent home. OR hung out to sit in a truckstop with no work long enough for you to run out of money and then quit.

 

Might have been a new customer that wanted smaller bundle sizes for whatever reason and they had hoped they could get away with not requesting 53 foot flats

I'm guessing the others were there for the same product to the same customer and voied the same objections.

 

No, that's about 1/3 of the bundle. Throw 2 straps up near the front of the bundle with a 3rd strap about a foot ahead of the rear of the trailer and that'll secure that one...then IF they stack anything on top of that, make sure it's either longer (say a 14' bundle) or doesn't overhang as much...or at least stacked so the layers overlap.

Is it ideal? No. But it can be done. I don't like crap hanging off the rear, either, but that has more to do with weight distribution and my dislike of running a spread heavy on the spread. I like 33.5 to 34K on my drives, so I might have had them shift the entire load forward, too...2' overhang at each end would also solve the issue and balance the weight better.

It is good to see driver's sticking up for themselves. I don't care how many trailers the forklift driver loads per day or how many of those drivers don't care. MY trailer will be loaded to MY satisfaction or else it won't leave with a load on it.