Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

We have a few of those floating around.

 

Out of the 5 in the yard 4 of them are that style.

 

Question:

Pup A scales out as 19,000 and 12,000.
Pub B scales out as 16,500 and 14,000.

Which one would y'all make the lead?

Would it change if you knew Pup B was fully decked out and Pup A was floor loaded?

 

If I knew that before hooking, I’d put B in front since my drive axle would shift about 1000 lbs off of A and onto B. Even more weight shifted if you drive a twin screw.

But if I’m already hooked up with A in the lead, I’m not swapping them around unless I get down the road and it pulls really badly.

 

Don’t ever front averitt express money for their mistake.

Had a fuel card deactivated on me. The store attend opened the pump, and the corporate card wasn’t working. Corporate couldn’t figure it out.

they asked me to pay for the fuel, and they’d write me a check. They wrote me an EFS check, and it bounces. Now I’m in limbo getting another check delivered tomorrow they claim.

next time I’ll just let them take me to jail, and sue my employer.

luckily I’m a little better off than most, but what if I was a guy with 2 kids? $300 is a lot of money.

 

A light, a glad hand seal, or fluids is one thing to get reimbursed for. Would never do fuel, would just be oh well guess you going to need to call a tow truck out.

Funny story, when Yellow filed bankruptcy for the first few days after they sent management out to secure terminals that didn't have staff, recover equipment, etc. They had sent them out using company credit cards for hotel and rental cars. 3 or 4 days into the bankruptcy the court does what it does and freezes all the cards, so the people out traveling were asked to pay for the hotel or rental cars and be reimbursed when the court approved it. Instead a lot of them just left the hotel in the middle of the night, and drove the rentals back to their home areas and night dropped the keys. A week into it they asked me to travel out to the Northwest to recover equipment but asked me to front all the money and couldn't tell me how I was going to get fuel in the trucks if needed. I said no.

 

It all depends on the situation. A couple of years ago EFS went down. There was a work around, but it was a hassle, took about 30 minutes and you had to have the truck at the pump ready to start fueling. I has 'helping out' on a local account and the manager just had me park at the closet fuel location and anyone who didn't feel like using their own card could text me and I'd put it on my card. Over two days I spent about $5,000 on fuel. Why would I do this? First, I was confident I would be reimbursed promptly. Second, I get 5% cash back on all fuel purchases - so for a little bit of a hassle I made $250 or so.

Now if it was just our company's cards that were down and not EFS, I'd be more hesitant. If my manager wasn't a solid guy, I would be more reluctant.

 

I did that once and it never even occurred to me that I might have trouble getting reimbursed. It was also optional, I could have waited at the truck stop for another driver to pass through, but I wanted to keep moving and it was entirely my fault for forgetting my fuel card (before I started saving them in the apps for pay at the pump).

FedEx never questioned anything I submitted for reimbursement, always got a check in the mail within a week. Windshield wipers, headlight bulb, even a $2 fee to receive a fax of a missing hazmat bill.