Receiver refuse to unload truck.

Hauled a load of medical grade baby food from Casa Grande, Az to a medical supply warehouse in Minneapolis. When i got to the receiver, they had an email from thr shipper saying the product did not pass quality control lab analysis and was to be destroyed. Had to wait for a dumster to be brought in and place at the next dock. They took each pallet off and two guys ripped open each box and threw the bottles into the dumpster breaking them.
24 pallets and it took them 6 hrs to do. I got $25/hr to sit there and watch them.

 

Tell them I can remove your stuff for x dollars. Then find a new buyer. Once he signed for it , it's theirs . Can give it to me and pay me to leave

Fire sale at the truck stop . Donate , get the tax recept . Sale to another receiver.

 

Load refusals are uncommon.

We had a trailer picked up at FFE in the lancaster yard. Reefer was humming, temp was right, fuel was full. (should have been a bell, the fuels are usually somewhat lower...) In that trailer contained mt olive cucumbers to be turned by them into pickles of different kinds up in MN.

On arrival into MN, backed to the unloading rack the staff sniffed and said no way, it's bad. We sniffed and it's all foul. Called Dispatch, then talked to broker, then directed to landfill nearby.

There is something you don't learn in school how to wrestle a loaded 18 wheeler up grades that goats have no problem with and then waddle onto 6 feet of soft mashed garbage while equiptment built a unloading ramp out of same.

Anyhow. Weighed the truck, got a check from the broker payable to landfill about a thousand some odd dollars payable direct to landfill. Not chargeable to us. (Someone is going to get held accountable and they did hold some one...) unloaded the load into the landfill scaled out empty and then hunted a trailer wash for another bunch of money.

It was about the second day before we found the trailer food grade ready and clean able to take loads and the tractor did not suffer undue damage up there keeping in mind you were rolling on smash televisions and glass etc up there.

To this day we are loyal to mt olive pickles. Buy them regularly because we have seen what they do there.

 

Picked up a waitress once and went over to her place after her shift was over. Her husband came home early. She jumped out of bed and ran like blue blazes. So in a way my load was refused that night...

 

I picked up a load of boxed beef in KC going to a small grocery DC near Springfield MA. At the consignee, they unloaded and realized there was about 12 boxes (approx. 600 lbs) which they hadn't ordered. They kept everything that they ordered but put the 12 boxes back on trailer. I called customer service at my company to find out what to do with the boxes. They called the customer who said they wanted it back so I got paid to haul 12 boxes the 1300 miles back to KC. That's pure insanity. The customer could have donated it to a food bank in MA and gotten a tax write off for a charitable contribution and come out way ahead financially vs paying full truckload rate for a second 1300 miles. But what do I know?

 

The Captain on the trawler told us that in order to sell the salted fish for human consumption they had to be free of what he called "non food items". Apparently the fish would be inspected before sale.
If there had been just a few flakes of cement we might have been okay but there were some pretty good sized nuggets and they really stood out.
A couple of the trailers had been hauling lime and a couple of them had hauled ammonium nitrate pellets.
Like I said, we cleaned the trailers but nobody was thinking they had to be food grade clean.

 

Not long ago i have delivered 1small box of temp controlled pharma goods and the person "women" who signed the BOL didn't put the box in the fridge even after i have mention her that she has to do it and i go there once a month.

She was busy talking personal stuff on the phone, last time i was there she wasn't....she lost her job!

 

I once PU a dropped trlr in Coppell Tx one of our driver had shifted the load it was a maple syrup load, there was literally billions & billions of ants all around the trailer, needless to say that costco Grand Prairie has refused that load.