Receiver forgot 1 pallet, clean bills

Erm its not much of one. As a company driver with FFE for example we have people in Lancaster Texas office who deal with Over, short, damage product.

I get to inventory the over, short or damaged product to the nth degree, relay all of that on the phone to the OSD lady and then sit while she decides what to do with it.

I DO NOT envy her work. It usually involves a Company VP upstairs at some point who asks three questions.

What?

Why not?

Who is?

Its the who is followed by the what and how much determines if I still have a job or not.

 

Honesty was always my policy l always believed in Karma , at least donate it to the food bank.
Check with the shipper.

 

Let the broker go. If you are free to donate that to the food pantry, church pantry or whatever have at it. It I think would be the most... fulfilling situation feeding many people.

I used to be a lot boss organizing a few hundred people by number in our church before I needed eye surgery a long time ago, and whenever something quality comes into the the bags for them, its like almost christmas.

However the one problem we can never solve is that particular pantry is going on pretty close to about 14 years and the same families keep coming back for food in poverty that is plain to see. Either in the cars with rotting maintenance or perhaps declining physical health.

One day I found myself with about 72 pounds of premium steak from Garden City cut to order for export at the port of new orleans refused by reciever for a small forklift slice on a corner.

Then I had a driver offering me about 10.00 a pound then and there below the approximate retail value of about 16.00 a pound.

I told him to wait. OSD told me FFE cannot release that product to me to dispose of.

And that was the end of that. The other driver was decent enough to remove himself from the situation. It was almost enough profit on that blackmarket economy there for that particular meat to make it worth my life if I had to stop him from taking it.

Its not worth it. But I refuse to be a party to theft etc.

 

If the product isn't on the bills, it doesn't exist. If the broker takes more than an hour to resolve, dump it at the closet food bank, or if one is not close, the nearest dumpster.
You are only hurting yourself if you sit around waiting on some broker who could care less about your time or your truck.

 

I agree, you have clean bills so what is there to file a claim on? If the broker tried Id say that conversation never happened. At this point you are warehousing the pallet while the broker works out the details. Get rid of it and make your business intrests a priority. You did the right thing with a not so great outcome so move on to the next load. Karmically you are good in the universe...LOL

 

My local food lion ran out of cheese.

They got more, but now it's the stuff nobody wanted.

I to like good cheese.

Sirscrapntruckalot & a mouse.

 

If a thorough driver checked the trailer properly before departing receiver, you, him, and the company wouldn’t have such a big soap opera to deal with. If you can’t see a pallet in the nose of the trailer, get a flashlight and/or new glasses. No excuses. Any driver should see one box inside an empty trailer and realize it’s not empty. That’s part of our job.