Odd Reasons for a Load Refusal

my girls ate free cookies for a year becouse there were a few box crushed. I ended up with three pallets of oreos. They told me to throw them away. So i took them home.

 

oh nice woulda loved the oreos

 

the girls loved them

 

one of our customers used to be Kraft Foods. I would have to drop 4 trailers of cookies, inbound from Chicago between 1am and 5 am 3 days a week. One morning I opened the doors and two pallets of Oreos came tumbling out. Took me 30 minutes to toss all that crap back into the trailer or stack it on the door between the door and the trailer. Next morning, when I delivered my 4 trailers, the receiving manager handed me 15 cases of oreos as payment for my work the previous morning. That was '06, I still get sick at the sight of oreo cookies.

 

I dont know, they "NEVER" refuse a load of Bulls, even the dead ones come off. They never tie you up at the chute, (Well 2 cowgirls did once)

 

Only thing I ever had refused was one pallet of Dow Scrubbing Bubbles because one case had gotten wet at the shipper and the cardboard was ruined. All the other cases were fine but they still didn't want it. Dispatch finally told me to dump it.

Everyone in my extended family has had sparkly clean bathrooms free of charge for years.

 

two cowgirls tied you up? where do i sign up?!

dead ones? how often do they die?

 

When I did dry and delivered a lot of cereal I always came home with a few cases and that really took care of breakfast for 2 young boys! And other stuff as well and cookies were always getting broken! Lot of good canned stuff also! Reefer is a little harder but a good refrigerator and a CB takes care of that problem! I still like to tell the story of sitting at the Vince Lombardi rest area below NYC with a few cases of frozen chicken that was refused and I was doing my $10 a box for 20 pounds when some moron came on the CB telling me I was ripping the drivers off because he could buy chicken at .98 a pound and I called his arse out on it and the moron actually wanted to fight over it when another r driver walked up and wanted box of my over priced frozen pre breaded 20 pound box of chicken and told the fool to leave as he was full of chicken shzz! Told him he could go ahead and buy his at .98 when I'm selling it at .50 chicken Some drivers are just wasting good breathable air that the mentally handicapped need to survive!

I did have a load of floor loaded beef refused due to IBX loading it hot thinking a reefer would get it down to temp before getting it to NJ but when it came off I had 4 temps , 1 for each layer, the top at temp but the rest all the way to 50*, 5 a layer! That load went up to Rochester, NY to Empire where they had no problem with the temps!

I also had a load of mustard in those 40 gallon cardboard drums refused because the one on the end rubbed against the load lock and leaked. I had to go to a Blue Beacon to get the mustard washed off the floor so they would unload.

As for the USDA telling a receiver they HAVE to unload a load, what moron told you that? Must be a new CB hoax like the US Marshals will come to your aid for about the same reasons! LOL. The USDA ONLY inspects product to ensure that it is editable by the public, and they inspect the manufactures of products and even the warehouses where product is stored but to tell a receiver they HAVE to take your product, ROFLMFAO! That a good one!

Just be cool and let your dispatcher or broker handle the problem. You'll more than likely will either take it to ABF, Yellow or someone to reshipp it to the shipper or you'll get the load to haul back but by no means sit there and let your mouth get your arse in a bind! The days of "bass ### trucker" is gone. Give a dock foreman a hard time could loose you COMPANY a lot of loads that eaqueal money out of their pockets and you'll be looking for another job! OR jail time when that dock foreman has you thrown in jail! Seen it happen and it'll only keep happening. I learned 20 years ago that the dispatcher or broker can handle the problems even as an O/O it worked out as that's not on my CDL! I let them have that bundle of fun and watch the outcome. Never hurt MY paycheck! A mile is a mile and arguing with a receiver is like wrestling with a pig in the mud, after a while you'll figure out he likes it and will win in the end!

If you so much as have a torn box they can refuse the whole load. I've seen it happen. If the temp if wrong they cam refuse the whole load, if there is water they can refuse the whole load. It's their call to refuse anything they want and then the cost is on the carrier and the shipper as to what to do with the product.

 

Here's an odd one (first time in 37 years). Last thursday I had a load of chemicals "refused" at Monsanto in Muscatine Iowa because it had "Too many seals" on the top of the trailer. Did my 10 off in their drop yard and took it back in the next morning and unloaded no problem.

See, when our guys "prep' a trailer for BASF they are required to put seals on anything that leads to outside air. BASF puts their seals on the loading and unloading points only and enters those numbers on the bill of lading. First reciever was a young guy who I guess was scared of doing something wrong and the chemical involved carries a DEA listing (you know it as the "Date Rape" drug). The "old guys" on the morning shift had a great chuckle about it.... and my 10 off now counted as demurrage in my paycheck.