Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

My company is pissing off customers who are still waiting for their freight that has been sitting in trailers or on the dock for up to 2 weeks.There is no space on the dock to move around and we are running short on trailers since most of the ones in our yard are being used as storage.

 

I know, this is going to sound totally crazy and clearly management has a plan (no no, really I'm sure they do, get up off the floor), but ummm, wouldn't it be easier just to deliver it????

I know, I'm just a stupid truck driver and all..............................

 

Yay Mondays! The line haul driver I slipseat with put the truck in the shop Saturday morning and the two beater trucks don't work. One leaks air bad from the emergency line and the other won't start. I am at the shop waiting for them to run to the store to pick up a new air hose. And I have two trailers of deliveries to do after this delay. And the morons at the terminal thought electrical tape would stop the leak- yeah.........no!

 

I got out way late today, the trailer my trailer was attached to had the refer unit go down and that caused a big brewhaha, they had to repack into a different trailer and that took 2 hours and then send the set out. However I had help and we actually got done in a pretty reasonable amount of time.

 

1000 tires to unload by hand? Yeah.......how about "#### that #### for $800 Alex"!

Here is an idea. Load those tires into a 53' or a set,whatever it fits into. Have a driver drop off the trailer or trailers at the customer and leave one of your stupid ### bosses there to sling them while the driver leaves him there to go pick up another trailer to do P&D. When the tires are offloaded have a driver bobtail over to pickup the trailers and the boss.

 

Its called "outsourcing" we do it on a daily basis... call courier, ship Freight....