TMC Transportation, Inc. - Des Moines, Ia.

I never heard that. You're probably safer IN the truck than standing near it.

 

I've been to places where the shipper required you to be out of the truck but that was only for their safety. Supposedly.

 

I've only been to one place that required you to sit away from your truck while loading. I forgot the name. They were in West Virginia and they made very large I joists.

 

..yeah, i think it was during loading, he got wrote up for being on the trailer when the loadmaster told him to get off, well i dont remember what company that was, it was several months ago when i read that, but i am sure it was here on this forum.. well it makes sense that you should be able to stay in the truck unless they tell you not to, if that ever happens.. I could see in some instances it might be too dangerous to stay in the truck, like when they're offloading a very large piece of heavy equipment that could crush your cab like a tin can; i think in that case i would want to be outside watching!

 

You only been driving a year or less. There is several places that make you exit the area and wait in the drivers area. The last place I loaded at like that I had to throw gut straps on the load. Kind of silly and takes extra time to have to go to a drivers area, then wait come out toss straps go back to the drivers area...

 

Safety isn't silly.

 

You don't have a clue........ I been doing this since back in the 80's I am pretty sure I do this safely.... How safe is walking back and forth between a bunch of lifts flying by with loads of beams 50 foot long 30 feet in the air so you can toss your gut straps? Not to mention 100 trucks waiting to load and you spend a half hour walking back from the shed to your truck just to toss the gut straps, not including securing the load.... oh my mistake you been doing this a year or less....

 

There are places that don't worry about safety they worry about lawsuits. A couple of years ago I loaded at a place that has staging areas. They do not allow you to step on the running board, cat walk or trailer on the property. Plenty of places on site to secure and tarp, but they will not allow you to do so. You place your boards on the trailer. They put your bar or angle iron on the trailer and you do not secure with anything. You drive to the scale, weight and pull out on a busy street and secure and tarp with cars whizzing buy off of their property.
They are worried about getting sued if a driver falls off a trailer on their property. Just wait till one gets killed by getting hit by a car while doing what should have been done in one of the many staging areas that they have. It is not about safety. It is about lawsuits.

 

Hell, if they make you pull out on the street to secure their load, they're still liable. You can't drive off with it and they're forcing you to stand in traffic. Not too bright, are they?

 

He's right about the lawsuit. They could care less about a drivers safety, it's all about not getting sued.

I really love the places that don't trust you to do what you've been doing for years and get up on YOUR trailer to tarp YOUR load.. and instead they believe it to be safer to hand you the controls to an overhead crane that you've never been trained to operate.

Bravo, idiots, bravo.