"Truck must be locked or load will be rejected"

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  1. REO6205

    REO6205 Road Train Member

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    Good advice. He probably should have checked on that before he left the shipper.
     
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  3. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Everyone involved, including shipper, receiver, my company, other drivers have no idea what it means. I'm new to tankers so if I get a note saying "obbly upply giraffe quinich" I would try to do that. Luckily I haven't been sent after flux capacitors, diesel spark plugs, etc.
     
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  4. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Since I'm new to tankers, not driving, I never know when I'll be yelled at for something "everyone knows" but nobody told me. In dry vans it is common for the customer's clerk to demand to know why you didn't do X when they are the only customer in North America doing X. I guess after decades of dry vans I'm still waiting for customers to freak out over something. Tanker customers are not like van customers, thank God.
     
  5. x1Heavy

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    I agree.
     
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  6. slim shady

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    Pretty sure they mean sealed, Which is very important for many customers.
    There is no way to really lock a tanker, Unless your external valve behind a box with doors
    Even then you have all the washout caps that cannot be locked anyways
     
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  7. Oxbow

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    Break window..... appropriate if it is an emergency.
     
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  8. scottied67

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    Thank you for not writing an entire book to say you agree LOL ... just a little ribbing my friend....
     
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  9. bzinger

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    Lmao
     
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  10. tnpete

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    I used to deliver to a place. That made us back into the dock. With doors closed, then they would made you pull forward. Open the doors there self. Dock doors were every other space. So lots of room for doing it this way.

    As for the lock, I used to pull tankers. And anytime we had X0 for a load. They made us lock the truck. Bring in our keys or they would not unload us.
     
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  11. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    Yep been to a couple places in the last couple weeks that said back up to the dock with doors closed and chock the wheels. I jump in the bed and wait.

    Knock Knock, "can you pull forward?"

    Then they cut the seal and open the doors themselves. Weird.
     
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