Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Yeah, but this makes too much sense. Besides, it costs the company a nickle. They'd much rather work a sick driver to death, than to part with a penny.

 

Driver health is no small matter. Last year I found two lumps, in shall we say a sensitive area. My dispatcher gave me a short route, in the town where my Dr. is.
And told me to take all the time I needed.
Thankfully it turned out to be nothing.

 

i am sorry but
ALL CUSTOMERS SHOULD DIE:

1) Based on my observations/experiences, a certain gender tends to not want to touch boxes----because they feel 'it's not for them." Even though IT'S THEIR STUFF. And some boxes are quite light.
a) This same gender also tends to feel that talking and sharing pictures on the phone is much more important than attending to the door, though which a driver, who may be standing in 90 degree weather, is waiting to enter----to deliver their stuff.

2) i am officially opposed to the wall that president Trump is proposing because, ironically enough, the one group he wants to keep out is not only NOT afraid to handle boxes, they seem very enthusiastic to do so.

i am finished with all customers, i wish their imminent demise, and i wish to switch to drop and hook truckload where i don't come into contact with anyone.

 

You sound like a prime candidate for a nice LTL night line haul gig! I dream about such things sometimes, but in our bidding system, I don't bid on the nasty customers. So they don't bother me quite as much, unless I get forced to go to one.

 

That's the life right there. No showing up 1/2 hr. before a customer's scheduled lunch break only to discover everyone is on pre-break. No going to the door you were given at check in and being told to put it in a different door only to have to take it back to the first door. No setting up for a back only to have another truck slip in behind you and sneak the door. No getting your first drop rejected and having to work around it the entire day. You get the idea.

Hardest thing I have to deal with is pulling into a rest area for a whiz and not finding a parking spot.

 

I run LTL, mostly 4 stops,maybe up to 6 or 7 then back empty 99% of the time. I have a few customers that like to b!tch and moan about accepting the load. Fortunately, I have a shipper I haul for that says "bring it back, I will call your next stops and have them work around it".

So I love the look on the receiver's face when they say "I don't want this today!" My response is "just sign here that you are refusing the shipment, and I'm gone. I get paid regardless, and you will pay shipping twice." Then it's "oh wait, hold on, give me a sec, I will get it."

I enjoy the interaction with different customers and going to new places, looking inside their facilities, seeing the products they make. You can learn a lot. That being said, I won't take any lip from anyone and don't care about getting fired over anything. My friend put it best when he said "I was looking for a job when I found this one."