Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Where in PA?

 

Right in the middle of Philly.

 

Only brick yard I’ve ever been to is Adel Iowa. The loader seemed to know what he was doing, but talk about a bizarre check in procedure.

Pull up to the first building... “No, the shipping office is that building over there.”

Pull up to the shipping office... “Yes this is the shipping office, but you gotta check in at that building over there.”

Go inside that building, pick up a phone and call... you guessed it, the SHIPPING OFFICE!!! “OK, pull your truck over here and I’ll load you, then go to the shipping office for your bills.”

FML.

 

Been there. Been to three different ones so far, and they're all the same like that. Their own brand of stupid. Different check in procedures, but all equally as convoluted.

At Adel, I got passed by two trucks, and the forklift drivers weren't pulling me in. I walked into the office to ask WTF. They asked if I checked in at the little building? I said I went in there, and there wasn't anyone in there to check me in. Oh, you're supposed to pick up the phone....

#### YOU.

 

LOL!

And of course you can’t use your cell phone, you have to use their stupid dirty pos circa 1975 dinosaur phone that has been manhandled by 10 bazillion grimy hands.

What the hell, if we have to call then why can’t we just call from our cell phone when we are 10 minutes out, then we pull in and get the #### loaded!?

 

What a racket!!

 

sorry sir, that is to logical and efficient and would make them actually have to do their jobs . therefore it will never work and you will be kicked off the property for such asinine thinking !

 

And the company wonders WHY you don't want to go near, through or by New York, when it pays so much money...yeah...and then take it right back. No thanks.
Not to mention the theft that occurs while you sleep.

 

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