Press the issue or let it go?

This is petty, but I just wanted some different opinions on this. I haul sawdust. I have the type of tarp that pulls back on cables from the front to the back... ( not a auto roller not a side twister etc etc ) The guys at the mill frequently overload the trailer to the point you can’t tarp it because they bury the tarp under a couple tons of dust. It generally gets under my skin because then I have to drive it looking like a lazy arse that can’t tarp his load, not to mention I can get a ticket for that.

All that aside, the other day when they did it, I was so angry that they did it yet again, I got up there and yanked the tarp as hard as I could trying to cover the dust that it snapped a cable and a few of the links and broke the tarp.

When I let my boss know what happened, he more or less insinuated that the reason the tarp got busted was that they loaded in on it because I didn’t pull it back after I dumped it. That really ticked me off because I pulled it back and pulled down the bungee cord to hold it back like I always do. Not to mention I’ve spent a lot of time on the side of the road digging out tarps.

After he told me in so many words that it was my fault, I told him that he could look at the cameras at the mill and see me unhook the bungee cord, and have the end of the tarp in my hands, so no, it wasn’t my fault. It got loaded onto and that’s essentially what broke it.

A day went by or so and it came up in conversation again and he said again, in kind of a smart off way “no, it was my fault I should have taught you to pull the tarps back when I trained you, I just assumed you knew to do that.”

That REALLY got under my skin. I’ve been doing this a few months and several hundred loads have had no tarp issue other than me not being able to tarp an overloaded trailer. I obviously have been pulling the tarps back, because if a tarp is all the way across the trailer and gets loaded on, it breaks it every time, and he knows that. He may as well outright called me a liar. There’s almost nothing that I hate worse is someone insinuating I’m lying.

So my question to you guys is, should I let this slide off my back, say something to his boss, or look for a new job? In the grand scheme of things it’s no big deal, but if this was someone in a bar or someone I didn’t know saying this stuff to me, they would have been punched in the mouth.

 

My finances aren’t that great at the moment but currently my take on the situation is that I was looking for a job when I found this one.

 

I appreciate it... I’m not sure if I’m gonna go that far yet. I love the job other than the fact that the mill needs to learn how to load a trailer and the company needs to understand that every time something happens it’s not automatically the driver’s fault.