Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

No yard jockey there, I take it?

 

Alright people, if I had to work today so can all of you. Go move some freight.

 

Ok, you got me there.

Had to run to an interline carrier and retrieve an extra trailer

 

I’ve been meaning to type up this story but have always been forgetting.

On the Saturday before Christmas eve I get an interline run, which is always fine by me. Only problem was, some idiot came up with the bright idea of “oh, let’s stick this residential delivery on the back of that 53’ that he can do before or after”.

That wasn’t going to happen, at least not on those terms, so I spent 2 hours swinging the load over to pups, leaving the delivery freight on the back of whichever trailer it would fit on, which turned out to be the lead.

I’m surprised that wiggle wagon pulled as good as it did for my first time loading pups. There wasn’t even a twitch.

I get to the interline company and drop the tail, went and did the delivery, came back and dropped the lead, hooked up to the empty long box and went home.

Now, on Christmas eve for some reason they sent somebody else there with a load, and the day after Christmas I found out he only brought one of the pups back, because apparently “the dolly wouldn’t hold air”.

Bull ####, I said. I grabbed that dolly the day before because I knew I would need it, and it’s almost brand new.

The following Saturday I took a load there, dropped the long box, dragged the dolly out into the lot, hooked up to the pup, and backed it up to the dolly. The first thing I was going to do was put air to the dolly to see exactly what the hell is going on here.

I found the drain valve open, but I thought the guy couldn’t possibly be that stupid because the air blows out of it right on your legs when you’re disconnecting everything.

I connected everything to the back of the trailer, and the air lines that would have went to the rear trailer got connected to the dummy couplers. I charged the emergency side and didn’t hear a peep, so no problems there. I went and pulled the trolley valve handle and blocked it, since that’s what you have to do on my truck to make it stay put, went to the back and opened the other valve to charge the service side. No noise there either. Hmmm....

I closed the service valve back up since I didn’t really want service air going to a dolly with no rear trailer, got back in the truck and went to take off, only to notice the service side still pressurized preventing the wheels from rolling, so I went back and reopened the valve. The air bled off and freed the wheels up, so I figured it should be alright to roll since the dolly is equipped with ABS.

Now, barring drain valve stupidity which means the last driver is in fact a colossal idiot, the only thing that could have fooled him was that service brake deal.

What do you all think?