Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

13 years and it's always been this way

 

The last company I worked for we did that all the time.

 

9,990 times out of 10,000 its going to be fine. Nine of those other times it will cause you headaches and meetings (which cause more headaches). But that 1 time? Oh, that's going to be a HUGE problem.

 

Assuming it's the customer who is loading their stuff into the trailer - a skid of poison isn't that hard to identify if anyone cares to look.

And the Ops manager who yelled at the driver needs a visit to the woodshed, then church, then back to the woodshed. Any contamination investigation will uncover the paper trail of poison being on the trailer pretty quickly and the carrier will become the scapegoat.

 

Management should think of this way....
Drivers gripe because drivers' care. If they didn’t, they’d be quiet — and quiet is when they should worry.
Instead, they are too Worried about their individual metrics (bonuses).

 

eCFR :: 49 CFR 174.680 -- Division 6.1 (poisonous) materials with foodstuffs.

 

At XPO they tried sending me to a pasta plant with poison. My friend who runs the shipping office said gtfo here with that s###. She called my supervisor and told her to never send a placarded truck there again.

I just laughed at the whole thing. I told the supervisor they won’t load it, because of the poison. Idiots. Truck drivers….. what do we know?