What if receiver left empty pallets or trash in your trailer

I don't think it's illegal, just not a good idea. The manager sounds like a first class jerk.
Start a little notebook like China said and keep track of places you can dump pallets.

 

Had that happened to me back when I pulled van/reefer, that crap would have been removed by the customer or it would have been in a pile in front of their dock door. No way I would have left with that crap in my trailer.

 

Another problem I had was dirty full of trash empties after doing a drop and hook. I ran into this one a lot at Mars in NJ. Unless you have hauled peanuts you don't understand how they put up stuff. I think the worse messes were left after a south Florida live flower load was left. That one was bad. A receiver generally can do most whatever they want to do when that trailer is at that door. I have been walking around outside my trailer waiting on it to be finished and have a forklift fork come out of the wall. These people don't give a dang about those trailers.

 

One of our drivers did that at McLane's in Dallas Texas. The company got him on Video, sent us a bill to clean it up. I used to get some great loads out of Illinois going to Dallas then on down to Waco and get candy. I noticed we stopped going into that place in Illinois and actually pulled several empties off the yard there. We did not pay that cleaning bill and lost that account as well as all our loads out of hershey's midwest near St Louis. This effected me several ways. I don't know if we got those accounts back after the merger. I was gone by then.

 

I usually dump that stuff in a dumpster at the next truck stop. Personally I would rather have that than potatoes jammed into the floor.

 

If you did not want to be banned from that particular customer. There are times I find a shipper or reciever pretty bad and I'll manufacture a situation to wit where they do not ever want to see me again in particular and let my company know.

Dispatcher would ask questions to me what the problem was and they will know it. But usually I am never back at that particular shipper ever again in this lifetime with three exceptions to where decades have passed and the original people would remember me from way back then.

Either way that trailer gets swept. Usually there is a dumpster down the dock row a ways or outside at the end dock which is usually never used except for bulk trash.

In those days it was useful not to have to put up with a particularly bad shipper or receiver again. And being banned was not a loss. The company has a thousand other drivers they can call in to do that work.

This is not a post looking for battle, I eventually eliminated that trashy problem among many other issues related to live loading or unloading by carefully running for a fleet that does nothing but drop hook and return. Once I settled into such a fleet, much of the nicky picky problems went away permanently.

 

Would have been MM Mars in Waco by any chance? We did very well with this location and I think Place Location in New Jersey also MM Mars. The candy people. It's a little wonder we did not get consumed by cavities lol.

 

I agree.
All that stuff is part of their load, so it will stay on their property. They can remove it or I will shove it out.

 

That's inexcusable. I would inform them that everything in the trailer is part of the load and needs to be removed. I could see a reciever leaving 1 or 2 pallets but not a trailer full.

 

Yes it was Mars. Between Mars, Hershey and General Mills i guess accounted for close to half our business. I did haul some chewing gum once and Coke products out of Florida.