Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

The shop we use is generally pretty good at keeping up with PMs and quickly fixing anything we write up, but about a third of our small fleet is made up of rentals right now and nobody has a good explanation why.

 

We have our own in house fleet shop, but they do get overwhelmed and every now and then and send stuff out. We did have some rentals for a while, but they bought some new tractors and the rentals faded away.

 

why does shipper get mad when i park the truck at an angle at the "dock" thats made for a 28 footer? the curb is really high here and i had drums on board

 

What did they expect you to do instead? Seems like you made a reasonable decision to me (although I’m in foodservice so I’ll do anything to use a dock if it’s available).

 

check out the red car and the 53s on my blind side lmao and the dock worker said "we cant take the fork lift out side, so put it in the dock or come in a smaller truck, i dont even argue with these receivers anymore i just leave

 

I delivered to Reinhart Food Service today. 3 pallets, 102 pieces total. Was there for 3 hours, then they had the nerve to charge a lumper fee. I don't miss OTR one bit (I pulled reefer OTR). At least I was getting paid for those 3 hours.

 

Yeah but wait until you get that trailer perfectly centered and straight between the lines, you feel good about yourself, then you walk inside and realize the lines are so far off that the ramp barely makes it into the trailer.