Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

You ever feel like everyone has either gone lazy or stupid? One of the two.

 

Certainly true of the HR depts I've been trying to reach lately. You'd think they'd talk to people who want to work instead of hiding from them. Or maybe I'm on a parallel planet.

road_runner, I think that shipping guy comes from a family line that scampers up trees and buries nuts in the ground. Purebred example.

 

Leeland James at CF wouldn't have put up with the way things work today that's for sure.

 

Carriers are to afraid of losing a customer. Sometimes losing a customer actually SAVES money.
I didn't have very many no-goes and never had them more than once. I guess everybody is allowed a screwup now and then.
But what used to drive me batschidt crazy, was one large account we had, that would call for a "rush" pickup, then keep you waiting for them to finish crating up their products. I've waited as long as almost two hours for them to get it together, with my boss driving me nuts, telling me on the one hand that I had to wait for it, but on the other hand, calling every five minutes on the Nextel to see if "They are ready yet!"
Give me a freaking break here, if they WERE ready, I'd be calling you and confirming that I was loaded and rolling.

Particularly after what went before!

Yeahbut! That won't help the driver who is hurt or killed because he doesn't know what he is dealing with!

Some of these clowns in shipping departments are just too stupid to see the gamble here.

Shoot, I feel that way all the time! And it's everywhere!

 

Used to pick up at a battery manufacturer in GA all the time. Not my normal route but when the normal guy that ran it was out from a car wreck I ran it for about two months straight.

The shipping guy had no clue how to mark hazmat or do a proper bol. AT A BATTERY PLANT! I refused to pick up unmarked batteries and all I got was "the other guy always took it." I had a conversation with his supervisor about it then had a conversation with my supervisor about it. Never saw that guy again and my barn started emphasizing proper marking and bol for hazmat.

It's unbeleivable how much stuff goes through the system unmarked or incorrect because people don't get the info on how to do it properly.

 

I had one stop where I had to educate the store GM about batteries. When we brought batteries to them, they were dry, therefore not hazmat. Of course the chemical was hazmat.
For some reason, he just couldn't, (or wouldn't,) understand that return batteries had to be marked hazmat. It took a refusal on my part to let him load them, and a phone call from my boss to his district supervisor to convince him! And he STILL thought he was right and everybody else wrong! smh