So yesterday I was about to hook up to a empty trailer. They assigned me a different one but didn't feel like driving all over the yard looking for the exact trailer they put on me. So while doing my walk around some driver is just blaring the air horn right by me. So I walk around and it's some Schneider driver ######## that is "his empty" and that we are supposed to only grab whatever trailer they assign to us. So here I am standing there getting lectured by some toothless wonder about following proper procedures when it makes no difference what trailer we take. So I drive around for a bit and find "MY" trailer, he drives by and waves like I'm supposed to show Mr. tooth decay recognition and respect. Sometimes I wonder why I work for this operation.
Wow..i would have jacked that trailer high as it could go before i dropped it, or told him...hey dude its already dispatched on me, i have the dvir report on it
Your a better man than me...If he came up hollering about thats his trailer and all that..Hell take it man, but I'll be ###### if I will stand there and listen to him lecture me...I've lost patience in that ***t in my older age lol
I never hook up to it prior to doing my PTI. I just do it that way all the time because it seems 3 out of 4 times the prior driver drops it way too high so most of the time I have to lower the nose anyway
Funny thing was we were both parked at the same Walmart overnight. He said "I seen you leave the Walmart this morning and I figured I'd better leave as well so my trailer didn't get stolen" and then I just so happen to back up to the exact same trailer that was put on him coincidentally. As much of a jerk he might be, you have to give the guy credit for having the sixth sense that I would take his trailer. Then again, it's pretty creepy the guy was lurking in the back of his sleeper berth watching my every move.
Sounds like that jackwagon that I had in Gordonville. I should just get in the habit of attaching the trl to me as soon as I hook it. But then I worry if it's a bad one. I have seen more damaged, crappy trailers at Walmart than I have any other place. But technically, that is why they came up with "Trailer assignments" So they could assign it to a Driver, send him there, and know that His trailer would be there. I honestly don't care. Because I know that I will take whatever trailer is there, that isn't damaged, and I would not hold it against another Driver for doing the same. But I would NEVER walk up to a guy already hooked and tell him to scoot. That is just horrible manners and begging for a knuckle sandwiche
