The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

Used to load out of a mill that was 2 miles from the U.S./Canada border.

Once asked one of the loaders.
Me; You get trees from Canada?
Loader; Uhh, don’t know, probably.
Me; wonder if those are the ones they cut in metric sizes.
Loader; Uhhh, well, they probably do.

 

I have wrenches that say "Standard" Like 9/16 is the standard. One country uses King Georges system and everyone else is metric so we call it "Standard" . Like Mph !! WTH is that?

 

I used to work on some of them trailers. Talk about a company that didn't wanna spend money... They even used some owner ops. Dad ran a few summers for them. He really liked it.

Then they came to shop and wanted quotes to rebuild,blast and paint all them trailers. Didn't like when I turned down to quote it. I politely said they were 5 years to late to refurbish.

 

I wanted to type this. Fingers were lazy. All vans are not equal.

 

The owner ops were phased out just before I got there. I enjoyed my run with them but as the old man got more removed from the business and his kid Brian got involved the worse it got. I had enough of their nonsense when they combined everything over to Majestic drive by Crown Battery. I was one month from getting a ten year safety award which was a nice little 6 day 5 night vacation at one of the resorts/cruises they had in place at several places when they “revamped” their safety incentive program and I ended up with a 500$ check instead. There was only one other guy who had gotten to that point. Announced the change in a Saturday morning drivers meeting. Went home and told the wife. Her response was “they took away my vacation cruise ?!?!” I replied “well technically they took away MY vacation cruise, but yeah you ain’t goin anywhere either!”. In hindsight I could have phrase that better. I had been wanting to leave for about 12 months prior to that but she was reluctant for me to leave as I was number 1 driver on the Mobile Home side and the pay , schedule and benefits were good for her and the kids. About 6 months later though I was bottom of the board at R&L and that proved to be a good run too. The eventually went to leased Ryder power and Ryder maintenance on their wagons. You referring to those old spread axle baby blue curtain sides they wanted redone @jamespmack ?

 

Yes those were the trailers. Yea, Dad liked it. However disliked lack of maintenance. He finally bought his own curtain side. Hauled about 4 months with it and they announced the end of owner ops.

Yea, I know all about the Son. I did some work for the construction side also. Seemed to tow the equipment weekly.

 

Day light permit only.

 

Saw this guy on Monday. Poor chevy was slammed to the ground trying to haul it.