Receiver refuse to unload truck.

I'm right there with ya on the not wanting me in charge part!

 

Same deal, but nobody wanted the special food product. Two years later it went to the Lancaster county landfill. Hooked up 100 ft of hose. Opened up the valve and blew 52,000 pounds of two year old sugar into the makeshift berm at the landfill.

 

Picked up a load of pineapples in Wilmington, de, going to Pittsburgh. Whole load rejected due to "mold". (Guess I don't know what that looked like. Lol) Ended up taking it to a Del Monte facility in Jessup. Had great miles that week.

 

Love this thread! Keep the stupidity coming!

 

It's not terribly uncommon for a receiver to reject a load in the tanker world. It's only happened to me once but I know more people than I can remember that it has happened to. You just head back to the shipper usually.

 

Well, as for getting fired for stupidity, it's much more likely they will get promoted to management. As far as having a load rejected, I never had it happen. Just lucky, I guess.

 

We hauled five loads of bulk rock salt from California to Seattle in pneumatic tankers. The salt was going on a fishing trawler that was headed to Alaska and they planned on salting down a load of cod.
The trailers were normally used for cement and flyash but we cleaned them out thoroughly before loading. Or so we thought.
When we started unloading the first load little gray chunks of dry cement stood out in the white salt like diamonds in a coal pile. The unloading was stopped, all the trailers had samples taken, and every single trailer was rejected. Some of the trailers came out clean but the Captain of the trawler wasn't taking any chances.
Seems the load was supposed to have been hauled in food grade tankers but the shipper thought he'd save some money by using regular pneumatics.
We wound up giving the salt to the Washington Dept. of Highways just to get rid of it.

 

Probably none. But it's food, and it'll get turned away for no reason at all.

Think about the trash dumped in the water ways, cement is the least of the fishes problem. Probably just ate ink from an "Us Weekly" magazine tonight.