Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

so, that meeting was not a big deal. When I came in Thursday morning, the night supervisor said "good for you not coming to the meeting, took me two hours to get home at 7am. (he lives like 20 miles closer than me) I said "well what did I miss, he said "i have no idea, I've never gone to one, don't worry"

then, I'm driving along thursday morning and notice the elogs has an email so I let it play
"this is your boss, I"ve confirmed with Ryder (F ryder) that they are going to turn the trucks up to 65 on the cruise as they come in for PM's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

woofreakinghooo
currently we're at 62 on both pedal and cruise. 62 is freaking SLOW. 65 at least isn't dangerously slow.

Lost my monday/tuesday route, still I was the bigger man and wrote up all my notes on it for the next driver (where to park, managers' names, which thing to unload first, etc)

 

exactly
BIG difference
also means I'm not a rolling roadblock (as much anyway)

worked a short shift today to help out, oh nice weather, etc
Until I get to work and it's freaking snowing!!!!!!! never really stuck and stopped when I got to where I was going.

Apparantly they lost a pallet. Somebody put a pallet of dry goods for Route X, stop 3 on a different truck and of course no one has found it yet. We all get these messages "stop and go look in your truck"
ummm, I can see probably 3 pallets, the two at the end and maybe one thru a side door, the other 19 are invisible.
As of 11am they still had not found it. (wasn't on my trailer)

 

Probably still on the dock, or sent out on line haul...

 

does anyone pay any attention?????? They gave me a right side door for the freezer trailer. for my thurs/fri/sat regular run. (first couple loads on a front/back trailer always come out the front, it sucks, why would they buy proper equipment, that's much too easy). And the loader designed it for stops 1,2,3, and 4 to all come out the side (which also blows). But at stops 3 and 4 there is no access to the right side of the truck, you're parked up against a wall. I made them reload it before i left.

Then, get to stop 3 and realize that's not water coming out of the liftgate, it's leaking a significant amount of hydraulic oil. Call the bossman and say "you make the call because I have to put 3 pallets of food on the ground to get to the freezer and if the gate breaks, that food is going to be ruined (because it will be hours until they get to me and fix it)" They said go for it, so I finish thru 4, get to hotel at 13:30 hours (typical) and call the 24 hour repair line. Dude takes two hours to show up (mind you I've now been up for 18 hours and have to go again at 5am) and I unlock the truck and say go to town.

Get up Friday morning. Nothing is fixed. (lights out on trailer too, you're here, fix 'em) no notes, no texts, nothing. Efff Ryder.

I'm not really worried because i don't have to move stuff now, the only stuff on the ground will be that customer's (which I can put away). Get to stop 8 (which is a restaurant in a truck stop and you have to block a fuel bay (for 1.5 hours) to deliver. So get delivered and pull up while doing paperwork and getting signed off so somebodoy can fuel and someone says "hey, you're leaking something from under the trailer"

Sure enough, there's a flexible line that goes from the Reefer unit on the front to the 2nd unit in the back (which is stupid, why isn't it a solid line?) and there's no grommets left because it's an old trailer that nobody maintains (again Efff Ryder) and it's blowing something all over the ground. (oilly liquid? refrigerant? coolant? dunno). Shut the reefer unit down and call the bossman and say "I have one more, it's an hour away I'll get it delivered before worthless Ryder ever shows up"
so that's what I did.

and you'll notice i"m home on saturday. surprised the wife and got home late last night. I love paper logs. (Oh yeah, the elogs in teh truck don't work either, nothing happens when pressing keyboard, nobody writes that up either, I notified bossman before i left).

 

We have that issue for a DC. Primary carrier for their stores nationally ( about 4,800-5,500 ) and still have to wait. Justified excuse: The turnover at this place is worse then trucking. It's frustrating RR, it really is, Welcome to P&D my friend :smt068

 

Well it is the dead season, Grateful for some senior guys taking staycations, our barn is barely getting 36-45hrs . the 2 new guys on probation have been off since the 2nd week of january.