All we have is dear around here no tree stand needed.
You sure were near my stomping ground. Did you see the GFS yard where I work. Were right around the corner from your terminal.
Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by road_runner, Jun 21, 2013.
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On my way on to work tonight, I came up on a UPS set of doubles throwing a roostertail of sparks from his left rear. His inside tire was flat and beginning to come apart. The outside tire was gone, leaving just a bare rim dragging the road.
I tried to get his attention, but he just flipped me off and kept going. How someone could not notice that, I don't know.darthanubis, misterG, Mike2633 and 1 other person Thank this. -
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My dash cam has been messing up lately and I have to return it for a warranty replacement, otherwise I might have gotten some decent footage! -
What dash cam do you have? I've been thinking it's a good idea to upgrade the cheap one I've been using. One of our guys has one with a second camera that he clips on the right mirror to watch that side as well as record the front. It saved his job a few months ago when a car coming off a ramp sideswiped him then ran.
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One of the reasons I got the one I did was an 18-month warranty. These things just take so much abuse in big trucks; 18 months doing linehaul is the equivalent in miles to what many cars would travel in 10 or 15 years, not to mention all the extra vibration and such.
Before it started getting glitchy, I thought mine worked well. You can see example videos (recorded at less than the highest video quality it's capable of) on these posts of mine:
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Our TM told us this morning in a meeting that we have a theft problem.
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Someone(s) in the billing department really need a short sharp shock.
We get our Delivery Receipts in formats of 1-4 pages. It includes all the instructions such as DO NOT HOLD, ACCESSORY CHARGES MUST BE APPROVED BY SOANDSO, and a bunch of numbers and BS that are only of interest to some drone sitting in an office somewhere.
Does it include the consignee's phone number, included on the original BOL? No.
Does it include the full address, with unit/suite number, included on the original BOL? No.
Do some of them even include the customer's actual name, included on the original BOL? No.
Does it include anything, included on the original BOL, which would possibly be of relevance to the driver actually trying to deliver this crap? No.
Seriously, would it be too much to ask that in this pile of dead trees, hidden among a million instructions that we already mostly know by heart anyway, there would be information that we, as drivers, might actually find useful??darthanubis, misterG, Naptown and 1 other person Thank this. -
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My favorite delivery story was a large bundle of steel tubing ordered by a contractor doing a construction project at a company that was also a customer of ours. Salesman took contractor's order but supplied delivery info for company's receiving dept.
I'd show up, company would turn away delivery because they didn't place an order. Contractor would call up wanting to know why he didn't get his material, salesman would reissue the order with same delivery info, company would turn it away, and so on.
This happened several days in a row. Contractor was pissed, company was too. I didn't care because I got paid for the stop. Eventually one of the adults in charge realized the sales guy was a dip#### and resolved the issue.Gearjammin' Penguin and misterG Thank this.
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