Pickups you wouldn't take...

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by MACK E-6, Oct 8, 2016.

  1. REO6205

    REO6205 Road Train Member

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    The driver took some pictures of it but I didn't save them. Just imagine a huge pile of five gallon buckets. Thousands of them.
    We haul a lot of flatbed LTL but if we can't tie it down it stays on the ground.
     
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  3. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    As @TripleSix might say, that's a "doorslammer" load. :laughing-guffaw:

    And I won't even touch that unless they're palletized and wrapped up.
     
  4. Big Don

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    We used to get entire trailer loads of 5 gallon plastic buckets with lids on them. They were floor loaded and stacked as high as they could be stacked in a high cube. 53' trailer, filled front to back. Weight was next to nothing, but you had to fingerprint each bucket.
    These were food grade with sealed lids, that delivered to a large food supplement manufacturer. They never had more than two people working receiving, and the drivers had to help them unload. I always thought that should be a drop and hook load, but since their receiving doors were limited, it just didn't work that way. They were always a PITA to deliver to, no matter what you were taking them. They'd take a florescent light and shine it all around the trailer, looking for mouse, rat, or human piss.
    OTOH, there shipping was good business. And they usually had their act together.
     
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