Trash left in trailer

There are no real easy answers to this problem. Thankfully I was never confronted with this problem very much. I seen several replies stating to stay on the dock till the trash is removed or your allowed to remove it. Well your rights in this situation is a grey area of the law. I have never seen it done, but almost every state has some form of a trespass/criminal trespass law and they all have littering laws. Once you are asked to leave a dock you might be committing trespass if you refuse to leave and are subject to littering charges if you just "dump" the trash out. The last time I remember this happening to me was a drop and hook at the Mars plant in New Jersey. The empty trailer was full of the paper the shipper taped to the walls for a peanut shipment from Georgia. I took it to a drop yard on the other side of town and had it washed out there. They also took the trash out for me. My company paid for the washout.

 

When I worked at Lowes Home Improvement here in Baton Rouge, I was a un unloader for the truck. & we were REQUIRED to take a push broom or push mop & sweep the back of the trailer out.

 

Yes most places are reasonable and will either take the trash out or will allow you to do it. But there are a few places that won't.

 

Didn't know that. Good to know !

 

It's called "dunnage". Anything used to secure the load, stays with the load. ( you didn't have it before you picked up the load) These receivers don't want it, as it fills their dumpsters, which cost hundreds of dollars to pick up. So if they can pawn it off on an unsuspecting driver, problem solved. That's happened to just about every truck driver, and when you mention "dunnage" it seems they know what you are talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnage

 

The only place I've seen them so far is the Ocala terminal and in and around Atlanta. We used to have drop space on the Ocala yard until they flooded the place with those things and we couldn't use the space anymore. they bought a bunch of them off of Malwart late last year. The only marking on the trailer is a swift logo on the front of the reefer unit.

You know we can't miss an opportunity to pick on the swifties lol if you work there you're just guilty by association.

You're only like the 5th one to get defensive about that pic. Wish I'd gotten the long pic with the tractor too but he dumped his trash and got out of there too quick before I could pull up.

I can say something good about them though lol.....we also have drop space on their Richmond yard. They do seem to have a fairly well put together school there. The instructors put those newbs through their paces pretty hard. It's a complete disconnect between the level of teaching you see there and what we see on the road.

 

First, that in not 'Walmart' whited out. That is a former Walmart trailer with the Walmart sticker removed. The paint surrounding the sticker has oxidized. Swift has and will buy walmarts old equipment (trailer's that is). They have bought them by the hundreds. I know because I myself have shuffled old walmart equipment from the walmart depots to Swift terminals, and UPS. Swift leases used trailers to UPS during the holiday surge.

Swift has also labeled their vans and refer's with the Walmart logo to meet contract obligations. They have done this with other companies as well: JCP, Rite Aide ....

I recognized that as a Swift long before I read the musicians post. And from the quality of the trailer I would say it was a walmart trailer before it was a Swift.

The argument 'that Swift is larger and therefore more visible' does not wash. 0/0 and small companies (0/0 + ) make up 90% of the industry. So, even if one was to agree with you, that '0/0 do more stupid things', that is what you should see since they comprise most of the industry. Seeing a Swifty do something stupid, by comparison of size, should be a rare occurrence. That is not the case. And if you compare Swift incidents of stupidity with a larger company like UPS you should see people making jokes about UPS more often. That too, is not the case.

 

When i was otr nobody told me its the receivers responsibility. Of course i never asked anyone either. The receiver would just tell me to keep it and leave their property. I came up with all kinds of creative ways to dispose of the crap. Almost got busted once in Detroit trying to unload everything in this businesses dumpster. The backing into a truck stop parking lot all the way in the back of the lot out of the way then dumping everything there was my personal favorite. Then just jump in the truck and find a different truck stop and go there for the night to leave the scene.

 

I saw a guy dump trash out like that at one of the rest areas on the Pa turnpike. He got by with it as far as I know, but it really made me feel proud to be a trucker watching this guy just push all that trash out. I was on a 10 hour break there and just watched the wind carry that trash all over the parking lots.

 

This the professional way to handle it