Rejected loads

Reefer trucking is fun, but remember, you will be forced to use your brain for critical thinking at times.

 

Hope they dont charge him for it.

 

So a different driver took pictures and documented the damages with his DM. My son took the load (trailer) over because the truck broke down. He assumed he could just give it away. He says that's what the CDL school told him to do.

 

Ground beef runs $350 to $450 a case depending on grind. How many cases did he just give away? The shipper says what to do with it, not the CDL school.

 

Don't know. All he said was it was stacked wrong and a bottom pallet was crushed a little.

 

I remember a driver making a produce load to a grocery warehouse in Florida. The produce manager told him the load is hot and being rejected. He told the driver to just put the pallets of produce on the dock and he'd have someone throw it in the dumpster.
Another driver heard what was said and told the driver to not unload it because the produce manager would falsify some paperwork and put the produce in stock, then when the grocery warehouse paid the bill it would go to the address on the falsified paperwork, which meant the produce manager would get the money and no one would ever know.
So, the driver left the property with the load, called his company, and was dispatched somewhere else that had accepted the load at a steep discount.

 

Nope. Not as you described it. Unless driver told him to “get rid of it” ÎF trainer he might keep his job. But depends on decision. I have had bags damaged on poorly wrapped pallet, or one speared by forklift. The dock accepts their fault, takes load. But offered. “You split it to this other pallet. You can have every damaged in any way package”
We got 3 50 lb bags of spuds for 15 minutes work.
I hope he only got rid of crushed, damaged box. Maybe $100 he has to pay. Texts are good. Screen shots of them better. Question, and order/reply, who.

 

Always wait on the trucking company, shipper and receiver to make their minds up on what to do with the load.

NEVER dispose or give away on your own, hopefully he’ll still have a job.

 

Phew....he was only written up and not fired. Lesson learned. Always check with your DM before making any decisions.