Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

get my ticket to leave shop at 5:30am to go to place 30 minutes away for them to unload. Ummmmmmm I've been there, they don't have lights on site, no way i need to be there at 6am. don't argue with dispatch. (insert grouchy dispatch face here) Get there. sit for an hour cuz guess what? they don't work in the dark. Yeah, it's a crappy pic, this is maybe 5 minutes before they started unloading after I had been there for an hour.

then get to sent to emergency go pull a Double T cuz they screwed up yesterday and they poured a replacement last night. I thought it would take a week to dry, but noooo. Apparently they can come out of the mold in less than 24 hours. I had no idea. Of course I sat for 4 hours cuz it wasn't ready yet. Typical trucking emergency They were actually doing QC while it was on my trailer.


then get there and the guy is like "yeah, we're sending the bad one back with you". Well ok, but i don't think anyone knew that. So no, this is not the same Double T. And when i pulled in with his one, the yard boss about had a heart attack "why are you back?" no no, this is the bad one.


turns out it was the very last piece in the whole structure and they lose the crane tomorrow. It had to get there today. They basically put a notch (it's in the back not in picture)on the wrong side. That's one expensive mistake.

 

That notch is clearly your fault, driver.

;P

Its always the drivers fault.

 

Country road, take me home...

 

In response to a text- no I wouldn’t actually have a janitor cut off a control panel: you just say that to the broker and hang up on him, let him sweat while you don’t pick up. While having the rigging crew unload you.
Ideally this happens just before 5 on a Friday so shifty broker gets to pay someone else a lot more and gets to pay the rigging crew to stay late.


Most of the time I’m the bigger man and do everything to be a professional. Sometimes I deal with scum bags that I feel a professional obligation to teach them “cheap will cost you”.
I learn not to deal with them again; hopefully they learn to be honest when asked a direct question, and not get themselves set on trying to screw over the person doing the work for them.

 

People like him will never change. No matter how many times someone teaches them a lesson.

They still think they are smarter than the teacher.

 

Because when turned around backwards to unload the steering wheel is backwards. Always messes with my head. So if you want to adjust a little to the left you have to turn the steering wheel to the right and vise versa. And I don’t do enough to get use to it.

 

Some ppl hate pipe loads i don't mind em other than this place takes forever to load you

 

So i go drop the JLG's in la vergne and theres a $2.25/mi no tarp load on a rainy day in nashville. Get it booked and get over there. Oh i have to take a $13 united rentals safety coarse thats 45 min long before youll load me. Uhh.. Ohhhkay.

Im sitting in the truck doing this video class, hearing all about how united rentals prides itself on safety yada yada.. While one of their loaders is to my left, completely crushing a porta poddy by lowering some big steel platform onto it by accident. No joke. I thought it was a skit for punked or something.

Lotta gear for a flip flopper. Had just enough to get all 4 down pat.