Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

That fella is still around here, Numerous user names and many bans. He worked for UPSF not UPS.

 

Ah! I remember PMing him when I was looking for a job 3-4 years ago!

 

You don't have any way to control the temperature that your heater is putting out? That would suck!

Of course, having cold rain and snow blow into your face, and soak your clothes, should help you to stay awake!

 

Especially if you turn the AC on!

 

Don't envy you at all RR. When we have Residential / Commercial stupid crap like that ( schools wanting 10 skids of rock salt ) , We send out a 26' box truck with a lift gate. It's a Ryder straight truck and looks like a Independent contractor showing up in ABF garbs lol


Your company should have some straight trucks available to do this questionable safety hazard/ potential damaging fleet equipment.

 

Shaggy beat me to it! There is no way you should be dealing with that stop with a trailer when it is snowy and icy. Talk to your safety department about it!

The only time I ever ran into a similar situation, was with a straight flatbed. I was delivering HVAC/Plumbing supplies to a house that was under construction. We had one of our very few snowy days in St. George, and I just couldn't make it up the grade of the driveway. I had no tire chains. I called the contractor and gave him the choice of meeting me on the street and packing the stuff into his pickup, (which would have been interesting since I had several sticks of low head,) or waiting until the driveway melted off in a day or so. We compromised by him coming down and picking up what he could carry in the pickup, and then leaving the low head beside the street. I neither knew nor cared how he got that up there, but it wouldn't surprise me if he had some of his laborers pack it up by hand! Better them, than me.

 

And just watch, today is the day your name will be drawn for a "random." And you can try to convince everybody that you were NOT smoking it!

How many times have we seen THIS whine on here? But I'll admit this is the first time I ever saw it "in advance of a failed test!"

You sure your failed lift gate won't be looked at as an "accident" that will require testing? What's the phone number of your company, think I'll "drop a dime" on ya!

I sincerely hope you take the above BS in the light-hearted manner in which it was written!

 

I do food delivery and pallets are right around 2k lbs on average, I can do 3 to 4 pallets an hour broken down and wheeled in. (typically 50 +/- cases on a pallet of all different sized stuff, the same stuff makes it much faster)

yeah, it would be faster to wheel it in.