The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Probably sold all those slick sided ones to a certain Utah outfit...
One of the more frustrating things I saw was an idiotic dock hand load our PLAINLY MARKED ramp pup,(issue, one each,) out on a line haul bound for L.A.
Needless to say, we never saw it again.

 

Obviously this customer has built quite a reputation....

 

Had the worst day yesterday. I had a pallet of craft beer that I picked up. Even though I tied it in real good, the two flimsy layers of shrink wrap didn't hold. About twenty or thirty cases (2-3 rows) came tumbling down from above the tie down point. It sucked. Beer everywhere. And we had to dump a bunch of stuff. I tried to salvage what I could. Man that sucked.

 

That sucks. Had a load of Pepsi from Denver to Albuquerque one time that did that. Knight didn't say a word about paying lumpers to clean it up!
Then we had the Coke loads from Total Warehouse in Phoenix going to wherever. Those loads, the driver was responsible for shrink wrapping and loading his own truck. That sucked, because they didn't even pay us local time for doing it. One of the many reasons I told them bye-bye back in 2004.

On the other hand, I never has any problem with the loads I shrink wrapped and loaded myself...

 

When I worked for the beer company I had a pallet 11foot high it got caught on a dock plate and came toumbling down you talk about an mess. So I know what your talking about.

 

Yeah... Roughly 30 cases. About 300 bottles. Prolly $1100 in lost sales. Speaking of sales .. our sales guy almost had a heart attack when I told him how much got dumped.

Maybe next time not so stingy on the shrink wrap? Doesnt cost you that much to make an extra two or three laps around the freight?

I agree with @MACK E-6 on the corner guards... Those can take some serious stress and prevent a pallet from collapsing.

 

On their company trucks, it is really REALLY stupid to not use 'em, and shrink wrap properly. But when they ship on common carrier, once that load is signed for, it belongs to the trucking company, until the consignee signs for it. They figure let the trucking company's insurance pay for it.
Stupid. Just plain stupid.