Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by road_runner, Jun 21, 2013.

  1. Texas_hwy_287

    Texas_hwy_287 Road Train Member

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    Man I got to rant which im sure this have been wrote before but here it goes. Why is it whenever you called a customer or arrived at location they always ask what are you bringing or where is it coming from.:mad:

    It definitely makes me wonder if they know what they be ordering.
     
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  3. McUzi

    McUzi Road Train Member

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    "Whatcha got for me?!"
    "IDK, whatever you ordered!"
     
  4. Gearjammin' Penguin

    Gearjammin' Penguin "Ride Fast-Truck Safe"

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    "What did we order?"

    "How should I know, I don't work here."
     
  5. road_runner

    road_runner Road Train Member

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    Gonna start passing this headache on to the Amazon driver.

    "What's in the box? Waddayamean you don't know what's inside? Show me packaging list, I want some reassurance from you that it's something I actually ordered."
     
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  6. road_runner

    road_runner Road Train Member

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    Most companies will can you for refusing to deliver freight. We get hired to do a job and deliver freight. If the clock runs out, tough tits; it needs to go out again the next day. But to blantanly say "I will not make this delivery" before even doing a pretrip on a truck....

    It's the kinda crap that is pissing off all the other drivers while diminishing profits cause you have to run the same route multiple times for the same freight.

    Our barn works nothing like the normal world.
     
  7. jmz

    jmz Road Train Member

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    I’ve got two pallets for you, they’re coming from my trailer.
     
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  8. Digman943

    Digman943 Medium Load Member

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    I swear there’s zero accountability for the shop that works on our equipment. We have 6 trailers out of service in the yard. Half our tractors are down. The tractors get towed to the hub that works on them. They break down after they were supposedly fixed. Then they get towed back. Ridiculous. We have 4 road units that were “put out of service” due to lack of freight that have been sitting for over a year now. I had to turn back and head back to the yard the other night and there were zero road units. I had to take a city tractor. The worthless mechanic that comes out to do repairs can’t even change a head light or fix a broken mudflap on a dolly. The dolly needing a mudflap has been sitting for at least 2 months now. Next time they tell me to take a city unit I’m just gonna go home. There are only rated for 52 or 54k lbs GVWR.
     
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  9. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    They should, but in our terminal that might create the potential for bad optics and HR troubles.
     
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  10. Texas_hwy_287

    Texas_hwy_287 Road Train Member

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    Whats everyones policy when it comes to inside delivery. Does yall company allows yall to bring the pallet jack inside the building knowing that it can scratch the floor.o_O
     
  11. Air Cooled

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    I had a skid yesterday that went to a pot lab. It had some 55g drums of hydrogen peroxide 34%. I told the stoner that I had a pallet for them. He asked ME if I had a forklift to get it off wtf
     
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