Shippers/receivers that want your keys

I hope that is a theoretical scenario. I guess I need to start a list of "dummy items". So far I have a dummy wallet, a dummy key, and a dummy cell phone...

 

Haven't been to many military bases yet, have you?

 

Last Wednesday I had Armstrong Wood Products in Vicksburg, MS ask for my keys(was also on sign)...They had a driver, a few months back, pull away while being loaded and had the pictures to prove it!...After that incident, it's become their policy...Excel in Irving, TX(which I was at last Monday) has you disconnect from trailer and pull 5' forward...I've had some disconnect and lock airline...

It's just a safety thing...

 

I got to sit in my truck and use my spare so I could listen to radio!

>>>>Taking the key has nothing to do with safety.

Really?...You think they just do it to look at keys?...Of course it's a safety thing...Armstrong put it in a lock box...

 

Just carry an orphan key, you have no idea what it goes to, if they ask for a key give them one to your old lawnmower or some padlock you haven't seen in years. The only customer that got my real truck key was the first one that asked. It never entered my mind somebody would want my truck key when I started driving. I soon raided my orphaned key pile back home to hand over the next time.

 

Newbie knows best.

 

Story for ya:

Live unload at a Sears store. I got a knock on my sleeper, guy hands me the paperwork. I ask "all done?" He nods and walks back inside. So I start up the truck, release brakes, pull forward a little, and go back to shut the doors. Only to find there's still freight in the trailer. Right about then, the fellow unloading comes back, stands in the door, and says "I wasn't done."

Yeah, I see that......

I told him what had happened, and recommended he get on the other guys case about it. People get hurt like that.

 

At my old company, there was an incident where the truck driver pulled out of a dock while getting loaded, forklift came crashing to the ground. Only, it wasn't the trucker's fault.

Turns out, the driver had paperwork in hand, went and looked at the back of the trailer and the dock plate was lifted up. He went back to the truck, started to pull away, and all of a sudden a forklift came crashing to the ground. From what I hear, the first person who was initially loading had decided to go either home, or on break, and lifted the dock plate up (why he did this I don't know). I'm not sure how the driver got the paperwork, perhaps a miscommunication with the shipping office, and then another forklift operator went to pick up where the first forklift operator left off. As soon as the driver walked back to the truck, the loading had commenced and due to perfect timing, the incident occured. That's something you'd never expect to see, but it happened, we saw pictures of it. Trucker was not disciplined as there was nothing else he could of done.