Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by road_runner, Jun 21, 2013.

  1. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    I get a kick out of that. :rolleyes:

    They are certainly never first in line to take the farthest runs.
     
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  3. Lrh502

    Lrh502 Light Load Member

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    Another favorite of mine. I get my trailer loaded with deliveries and head on out. One or two stops before emptying out I get a text "come back after last delivery". Get back to the terminal and they have a few more deliveries to get out. Why could they not load that stuff in my half empty trailer in the morning so I could get it all off in one shot instead of coming back and going back out? Or I have to deliver to a place that they cannot send another driver to because he got into a big argument with the receiver.
     
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  4. Mike2633

    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    We do silly things like that in the food business, well we don't go back to the yard once we leave in the morning there's none of that, but the so and so can't go there anymore or what ever it is, we get that to.
    Our side of the line though is only delivery no pick ups, well we grab back hauls, but that's not the same, but our deliveries can be harder sometimes, while we don't have the trouble with residential deliveries every single one of our stops is usually an inside delivery.
     
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  5. Lrh502

    Lrh502 Light Load Member

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    I can't do food service. Schlepping all that crap down a ramp with a hand truck doing inside deliveries where some arrogant ######## chef tells you where he wants you to put his crap. You guys earn your pay that's for sure.
     
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  6. Mike2633

    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    That's sounds about right, you got a pretty good handle on it.
     
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  7. road_runner

    road_runner Road Train Member

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    Going out tonight. Trying to decide what to wear. XD9, FN 509, bottom two are XDS, the solid black one has a Crimson Trace laser pointer/flashlight combo. Flashlight has a bright strobe mode.

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  8. Lrh502

    Lrh502 Light Load Member

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  9. Mike2633

    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    @ZachG91,

    (Disclaimer) *This is not my picture*

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    Does Springfield have any of these confusing converter dollies still around:
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    Word on the street was they still had a few up in Brighton, MI and I bet there's a couple in Grand Rapids as well. They used to be everywhere they were the only kind of converter gear GFS would buy. I've asked many times what the purpose of that goofy converter gear was and never got an answer from anyone. I've asked at our yard, I've asked on this forum that double axle single tire converter is the most foreign odd ball thing out there and I swear GFS was the only company who ran those converters and they ran those things forever too, I bet what happened was those converters went out of production.

    I don't know if those things existed just to make things more difficult or what it was.
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  10. ZachG91

    ZachG91 Light Load Member

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    Ha I've never seen any of those ... Seems like they'd be a pain in the butt though. I know our transit guys would be crying up a storm if we had those
     
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