Unloading Tires

Yeah, this is what I was talking about. But if the guy who is "catching" can't "catch," it doesn't matter how STRAIGHT you roll them. . . Most dealers don't have docks. In fact, I've never seen one that did.

 

"snickers" I'm 61 and the mainstay of the company I work for is hauling tires. I've unloaded more than a few in the past year. I looked at that first load and thought gezz, how am I going to do all this ?(about 1100 is the average) It takes me about 3 to 3.5 hours to unload them.There's a method and a rhythm to get it done.

I delivered a load to a warehouse in Baton Rouge a couple of months ago. The manager put 1 guy at the back of the trailer to check #'s and stack them. There are usually 3 guys. After about 45 minutes the guy walked away. The manager came back and told me I was doing it all wrong. I was ( according to him) suppose to read out the #, the fellow on the dock. He would tell me how many of that # there was suppose to be and he thought I needed to find all of that type tire and unload those in that order. I told him my job is to unload. It's black it's round they're coming out of the trailer. He stormed off to call in on me. When that didn't go his way he cut the delivery off for the day. Several phone calls later ( to dispatch) I was paid to layover, and paid a second time for the delivery the next day.

Tons of fun!

 

It is amazing what some of these dorks think they can get away with. "Well, I KNOW that no driver has ever done it my way before, but I just wanted to try it with you to see if you would fall for it."

SCREWEM!

I got them off the truck. It was the receiver's responsibility to separate them out to appropriate size, type etc.

I had a new "manager" with Payless shoes try the same crap with me. She "insisted" that I separate the order for her. Told her I was not being paid to do HER job. She called her district manager and got her butt reamed.

 

Be sure the truck faces uphill so you can roll those tires downhill

When I worked at Pep Boys, the Werner driver said "I never thought of that before".
I stacked some 2x4s under his rear drives. It only lifted the front of the trailer 2"s, but that made a huge difference

 

I would think unloading tires would be easy, make a couple rows, pull ahead slightly and back up slam on the brakes, they would roll out like a limey at closing time. Then again thats why god gave up lumpers.