Need Advice about Load Shift Issue

I have had the time.

Wrap wrap wrap wrap and wrap some more.

I only hauled cans of soda etc of that kind 4 times, all arrived perfect. Thank goodness.

Now the Beer.. that's one step above hauling cans when they bring out the taller pallets of bottles.

Call me lucky.

Now Ive shaken down freight before, paid for that with lumping and reorganizing etc nothing too outrageous.

I like shippers that air bag each and all pallets the length of the trailer and then there are the load bars etc. Now when faced with a sealed trailer to pickup and its already loaded? Ha we will find out when we open the doors.

If anything that I have to worry about is eggs. Any time I open a door on a load of eggs, there is at least one big box contain cases plural of eggs falling so you learn to open those carefully. They can potentially take you out. I have had more trouble with eggs than anything. A couple cracks dont bother anyone. But a whole box or three? Certainly.

 

Irony...I posted "slow down" earlier. I picked up a load of water in Zephyr hills, FL. 5 miles out of the pickup in a 35 zone 2cars try to go the wrong way on a 2 lane road. I'm fine braking down for the guy ahead of me but the mook who gets in my lane the wrong way ... hammer down the brake pedal. Well, this is one of 22. Costco store in Jax refused the whole load at 0700 this morning. Didn't even drip a drop. My fault? Yup. Time to buy a dashcam.

 

Refused the load on what grounds because ghetto didn’t want to straighten the skid?

 

My previous employer had me delivering multi-stop loads consisting of pallets of mixed cases of wine and spirits. Very unstable, especially when there was high turnover in the warehouse pick staff. I had to move the pallets to the tail of the trailer at each delivery with a hand jack, so if any of them shifted it became very labor intensive. I quickly learned how to drive so that the pallets didn't shift. Soon, I was able to get by with one strap across the rearmost pallets.

Best advice I can give you is to imagine a golf ball on a tee on your dash. If you make any maneuver that causes that ball to fall off the tee, then you can expect your load to have shifted.

 

So drive normal then?

 

Costco store. They can't stack em to the sky like that. SMHPallet jack jockey.Luckily, my home terminal's in town. OSD is gonna have to hire labor to restack. I'm mortified. There was nothing I could've done differently. A true S#*T happens event. BTW...all 22 shifted top forward. Golfball fell into the vent. 25 to zero on a half dollar.

 

Some things a driver has no control over. off-spec box sidewall (new supplier) where bottom boxes or cases collapse. Shipper stacking boxes or cases 1 layer too high, wrapper putting only half the preferred wraps, poor pallets. All the straps or load locks in the world isn't going to prevent some of these loads from collapsing, especially on the rear pallets.

I'm getting a little tired of others who have no idea what they're talking about accusing others of being "negligent" over matters they might well have had no control over.

This was the second stop after the first came off. I was at fault for this? The product was received in good order but I don't have a lot of shifted product images to look for so this was the only recent example I could find. I've seen numerous meat cases where the bottom layer collapsed. Tyson admitted to having problems with new boxes they were using.

 

I agree, but as the captain of my ship I am responsible. If you don't believe me ask my boss and everyone else who screwed up. You know how it flows. Sometimes the best you can do isn't enough. Do it right a million times? That's the way. Mess up once?

 

No. I'm not responsible for poor packaging or poor loading practices. You can be responsible if you want.

 

Didn't say I wanted to be but the buck stops here. Explaining sounds like excuses to the bean counters. Having to apologize for not wrecking the truck as opposed to explaining how it happened. The bosses will roll their eyes. I couldn't care less but now I'm THE topic of conversation Monday morning. I'll be 800 miles away but wanna bet my phone'll ring?