Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Must be a Monday thing, LOL. 13-13.5 hours on Mondays. 8 stops, around 1000 cases just on Monday and a 4 hour drive to the first stop. Chain gets 14 hours in the hand held, you local guys only get 12 and you don't have to do the half hour break either.

 

Bolus owner is a con artist, his drivers aren't the smartest people either.

 

Lack of common sense and only thinkimg about himself would be my guess.

 

No, no half hour break for me. Monday-geeze it's already Thursday LOL!

 

My Monday is 8 stops 900 cases and 425 miles 600 of it comes off with a pallet jack at two hospitals but it's still a 14 hr day.

 

They made me go to Tj Maxx at the shopping center to deliver 2 skids only to find out that I can't deliver that, because they don't have a dock door or a forklift. Apparently somebody was there already last week, but this needs a liftgate delivery... why would they send me there second time without the liftgate van??? Ugh

Also we have some more managers from other hub watching people on the dock, because there is huge amount of freight being damaged at our dock and not properly secured when loading. Fun, fun, fun I don't know how we are still in business

 

So I went to work today and had like 15 stops or something I don't know. All close together and not super far from the yard. Anyhow, that got done and I went home.

Was busy making some meat on the grill and my phone beeped. Well turns out it was the boss, a customer far out had an electrical line blow off there restaurant and they were without power and needed a trailer.

So us being the great company we are and me being the great driver I am, I left my house at 4:00pm in the afternoon, drove back to work. Poked around for a trailer to take, found a 2015 year trailer, that had 3/4 of a tank of fuel, so I fired that trailer up to get it down to temperature. Anytime you drop a trailer, you want to make sure it's working and get it going and pre-cooled before you leave the yard.

Anyhow usually when I take a trailer to drop on an emergency drop, I check the fuel, fire up the trailer then I take the trailer over to the dumpster and I sweep the trailer out. You always want to make sure you sweep the trailer out. If a trailer is to dirty on the inside, you don't take it, but if you can clean it up with a good sweep then you take it to the dumpster grab the broom and dust pan and sweep out the trailer.

After that I drove 40 minutes to the place.

Dropped the trailer talked briefly to the chef and bob tailed back to the yard and then went home again and now I'm here!

 

I’m surprised they didn’t ask you to just break the skids down from the tail of the trl and cart them in.

 

I'm fine with that