Odd Reasons for a Load Refusal

And so did you, your carrier or broker call the USDA for inspection?

 

There used to be a grocery company around here many years ago. I won't mention any names, they are still in business, but not in this state.
Anyway, they would refuse produce loads for no good reason. The driver would ask, "what do I do with all this______?"
They would point to a produce distributor across the street. The driver would go across the street, and sell the load for pennies on the dollar.

Thing of it is, the grocery company that first refused the load, owned the place across the street. Had some other weird name. They got in trouble for it, though. Somebody figured out their little game.

 

I'm not very smart but i thought that potatoes were grown in the dirt like any other vegetable.

 

Best one I had was LOAD was to Cold. I was hauling freaking ICE CREAM. Stuff was SUPPOSED to be at -20 or colder. I had a Brnad new Ice Cream Spec Trailer and a HEavy DUTY Carrier with the New Screw style compressor they were trying at the time. Well needless to say I showed up with that load at -32 Degress. The Dock supervisor was SHOCKED. I loaded in Colledge Station TX and took it to City of Industry CA in August that tell you how GOOD THAT UNIT WAS.

 

Groceries and other "food processors" cannot arbitrarily refuse food deliveries unless the food was "mishandled" (not kept frozen, allowed to freeze, etc), and often the threat of of an inspection by the USDA will convince them to unload their crap and stop their B.S.
The USDA has the authority to FORCE them to accept or pay for a load that was wrongly rejected.

 

I hauled a flatbed load of red onions to Boston Market one time and they called
the inspector over a grading question and while we were waiting the guy
says "And these feel a little soft also". I felt them and they were not
so I ripped open a hole in a bag and cut one in half checked it and took
a bite. I said "#### this the best onion I have ever tasted, here try
it. Can I buy a bag to take for snacks? These are delcious" They started
unloading.

 

I had a receiver "refuse" a load of frozen meat because I refused to "lump" it after driving 20 hours to deliver it ontime. I threatened to call the USDA and THEY called the cops on me. I told the cops what was happening and that they could not legally refuse a load for those reasons. The cops told me the receiver would unload, but for me to NOT get out of my truck after I was unloaded until I had cleared the gate, not even to shut my doors, and told me the shipper said to "never come back"..........no problem! LOL
I did have another grocer refuse some onions too, but it was the shippers fault, they loaded all their "bad" onions.

 

The oddest reason that I have ever been given, I $&#+ you not, was "I can't take your load because the frogs died."