Odd Reasons for a Load Refusal

Potatoes stacked high on a hillside in Idaho. It worked out well. Ruined the trailer and needed a proper wash. Yes on the ground. Shows you Russet People what to look for...

I had a load of butter refused because the outside of the cardboard box on the bottom layer get scraped. Well after a go around I am now a proud owner of 3 cases of stick butter. Rolled into NYC to load downtown in Brooklyn. Boss man says in accented english that it will be tonight before finished. I point at butter cases and swept a arm across him and his workforce. Butter goes bye bye and I was loaded in 10 or 20 at most. Done. Beat the GWB outbound rush too. Win!

 

That's secret code for we have too many or we don't like the price...

 

I remember a box truck driver who literally walked away from a 20+ year career and a solid night route because dock manager asked him to put his uniform collared shirt on just for the amount of time he was out on the dock. He was free to wear ANY shirt OUTSIDE the dock. Just needed his uniform shirt on for the thirty minutes or so he was under the roof.

 

Each to his own, or what ever trips your trigger. And his got tripped. von.

 

Thats an easy fix although it would require you to stuff around will all the pallets just wash or sweep off the dirt and bring it back with a new bol.

 

Whole load of bottled water, rejected, receiver claimed they didn't order it. Got the bill signed, refused. Used Google to find a homeless shelter in Atlanta, worked the truck into the tent City around the place, got the truck unloaded, tractor and trailer wash, spent a 10 with these most gracious folks. It was a very enriching experience.

Scanned in the bills like normal with a scanned in note and receipt from the director of the shelter. Company paid and gave me a $100 bonus . Turned out my good will brought in 2 drivers, one is still here. I still stop in the when the load and time allows.

 

Wow so many of these stories doing this gig it's crazy.

12 pallets of green and red leaf refused at a customer in Brooklyn (red hook) I called my customer he told me to dump it, I needed the space for my pick up in Camden. And he didn't want to pay to bring it back. That week everyone in red hook had leaf lettuce on their dinner table. Funny part is nobody had ever seen it before. Took me 45 minutes to get rid of it.

6 pallets of red #2 taters destined to be potato salad refused by the senile owner of the plant. 2 hours at Vince Lombardi with a cardboard sign saying free potatoes. People were looking for hidden cameras

I had frozen pasta in all my families freezers for 2 years with so many rejected cases. I o ly started eating it again recently.

Pulled into hunts point one night with a load of broccoli. Receiver said I was missing a skid I went through his fridge and found it. Then he said it was yellow, I laughed in his face and have him 2 options sign it that you got it it's only been in the trailer for 5 hours or load it back up I get paid to bring it back anyway so I don't give a ####. He unloads and tells me never to come back so for a year after that everytime I pulled around the corner of row a I'd blow my train horn and give him the one finger salute

I guy gave me a pallet of crispy onions from Frenchs once at c&s I still have a case left. I put that on everything

Ahhhh... Good times...

 

Lets just say both deep freezers at home are well stocked.

Fish from highliner in portmouth, nh refused due to boxes being crushed by C&S. These folks like to double stack the pallets, knowing full well it's not going to stay that way.

Took what I could and gave away the rest of about 5 pallets of smithfield pork ribs refused by Safeway. the product wasn't listed on the BoL and the receiver didn't note it was extra so I made some folks day at the local gas station where I was able to park. They said they couldn't take it for personal use as it was against policy, which I can see.

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oops wrong forum

 

We had a load of the blue canisters used in a skin care product out of Mass, south central in one of the old brick textile type mill buildings. It featured really huge pair of stacks. Anyhow... I had a little 48 foot thunderbird type reefer that had a chute a foot and change from the ceiling up in the nose. The forklift driver drove on, wedged against the chute, did not tilt forward and down 2 inches to set it on the floor, backed out and said to me GTFO, we aint loading you. (We meaning "I") as in the tow motor driver. It's supposed to be a full box with just the first two presenting a issue.

That sparked phone calls from the boss's desk about a hour or two. Burned up that old telephone with many big profane words back and forth. It was a colossal waste of time and energy back then. And you wonder why I had the language developed or actually warped from what english was intended to be. Im pretty sure those mills are gone now. A part of our history. It's something else.