Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I'm currently doing Delivery and Pick-up. Not sure how you all do it the other way around.

Shippers cheaping out on pallets has really started to annoy me. Used to work for a company that reman-ed pallets (among other things) and (insert bad language) for five bucks more, you could be loading your precious commodity on a pallet whose boards won't break at the slightest bounce from a pothole in the road. It is ridiculous. Had an appliance get rejected because a pallet board failed and the thing tipped over. In saving five bucks, they are going to spend hundreds.
Wait a minute driver I hear you say. How do we know it wasn't your poor driving?
Because, all the other pallets with appliances on that load were fine. You could see the exact board that failed and exactly where it cracked and broke.
Okay, rant over.

 

I saw that very thing today. Super Precision Metal Machining built a crate/pallet that collapsed before it got back to the yard. If these guys could build crates as well as they build metal, they'd save a whole bunch of time, money and hassle in claims.

But that's none of my business...

 

This is such a sh-tty situation and all it would/should take is a quick talk to stop his dumb behavior. But dumb people are stubborn most of the time. Hopefully this gets resolved easily without all those headaches.

 

@road_runner thank you for your service man.

 

A Wompus and a Platybat would throw him for a real loop!

 

I think I pissed off someone on the dock. That was a fun 30 minutes of putting all those on.