Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

RR's post, quoted below is spot on. I did say I HATE roll up doors. But if they are maintained, they are great. My problem was that working at the corporate headquarters terminal, all of the trailers that were going to be junked out, were sent here. Then some rocket scientist would grab one and load it. Sometimes ignoring the red tag, sometimes the trailer was not properly red tagged, and I honestly believe sometimes they'd tear a red tag off, a pitch it, then load the trailer.
My first trailer off the dock every day was pre-loaded, and often the roll up door was closed. I got to the point of checking the roll up door first thing, if I found it closed.

Sometimes that nine inches is an invaluable asset! We had both roll ups and barn doors. Used for different purposes. And when you are talking about wind catching a door, BTDT and have the scar to prove it. Hadn't been driving very long when that happened. I never did open a door again, without paying attention to what I was doing.

Lordy, I'd like to have that affliction!

Well, accommodating customers is a large part of any business. And in the outfit I worked for, you'd darn well better be accommodating, at least to a certain point. But I had no problems in calling the boss on the Nextel and explaining the situation, often with customer Adam Henry standing there listening. It didn't happen often, but it did occasionally.

Oh yeah! One other wonderful thing about roll up doors. You grab a trailer off the dock, that has just come in from line haul. Through ice and snow. Now it's been backed up to the dock for a time, and the sun has beat down on the top of the trailer for a time, turning the ice that was carried by the door into slush.
You're going to get a cold, nasty shower if you aren't careful when you close that door.

Roll up or barn door, it don't matter. The driver is always the one screwed anyway.....

 

Usually we try to limit back and fourth, but some customers arrive later then others. I just looked and one of my late stops did not come in so that will cut down on the back and fourth travel and actually it'll work out.