so i goofed today at my job and grabbed the wrong trailer.

@mickeyrat

 

Well, in light of the fact that nothing in that trailer is supposed to be in Reno, you have a big problem. Chances are, you are gonna drive for free back to So. Ca. You need to call your company, like 2 or 3 hours ago, and find out how they want to fix this. They needto advise their customers that everything is now going to be backed up at least a full day. This is a complicated and costly mistake. Good luck.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if they canned you. Still in probation period when most are extremely cautious, and if they don't count it a blessing.

 

1st offense at my company is 1 day off, and it escalates from there. A driver also forfeits the miles he ran because they were wasted. Hopefully your consequences are no worse.

Just understand potentially dozens of customers can be affected and the company can lose lots of money if any of those shipments are guaranteed by a certain time, not to mention all the lost money potentially lost due to other drivers or dock workers down the line if anyone has to wait on that freight or the freight you took the wrong direction. Those mistakes snowball big time.

Always check the seal number if you guys have them on your manifest against the one on the trailer as a secondary check and also check the trailer number on the Qualcomm or whatever computer you guys use against the trailer number out your back window. That's what I do-- double and triple check everything before I roll. I'm pretty paranoid. The consequences are just too severe.

 

fess up to company asap, in delaying you hurting other driver badly. Then be prepared for the lumps coming.

 

Tell them "May he who is without a ####up cast the first stone."

 

Hey, they never mess up, you just mistook what they were saying when hey said it. Hopefully they are reasonable about it, but fess up quick because any delays will look bad on your part. plus when you notify them have a plan to never do that again, play humility hard.

 

You’ll probably be working for free today and/or working a Saturday this week. Hopefully they’ll give you a mulligan on this one but certainly don’t let it happen again. They could lose customers over this because of delayed freight not to mention the fuel and time you wasted.

We had a guy at an old job of mine that had a load to Portland, ME and he drove all the way out to Portland, OR before he even realized he F’d up. He was fired when he returned to the terminal with the load and another driver took it to Maine..

 

I'm sure there's plenty of stories of loads meant to go to Cleveland (TN) or Columbus (GA) that ended up in Ohio, but that Portland example is about as severe as it gets!

I had a guy at an old job of mine who took my trailer, which had 3,000# of crackers on it when he was supposed to take a trailer with over 40,000# of aluminum. Luckily he was headed in the right direction for me, so it didn't hurt me any but he had to double back to meet me. I just thought wouldn't you notice that trailer felt a little light going up those hills in Kentucky?