who takes the fall!!

Well if you pick up a sealed trailer its pretty hard to know whats in there, only what the bills state and if the shipper falseifies the bills then thats a pretty major offence

 

...driver was let go after I-95 stop revealed a million dollars in cash...

 

All drivers are "told" thousands of things, and about 1% of it is completely true. This scenario happens to fall into the other 99%.

 

Specifics aside... As i get older, one of the things I'm begining to realize is that responsability and authority should at least, go hand in hand. If I am assigned the responsability for something, I danged sure should have the authority, or license, to affect the the eventual outcome. I think sometimes that alot of stress we experience is due to having too little opportunity to direct what actually happens, and the inherent fear of being held responsable for anything bad that may occur.

Kinda similar to my thread (crossing the line). "Oh, you better be carefull!" But when I ask how to better prepare myself.... precious little. I guess my point is, I get tired of fighting the boogie man. I'll never win. But more importantly, it detracts from learning what i really need to know to survive this industry. Fear mongering... I get enough on cable news.

 

With my employer, the rule is that we check the seals on the trailer, and that the seals are not removed from the trailer until an employee of the receiver is there. We hand them the seals and they check them against the bill of lading. I have a few receivers that remove every seal from the trailer and just one not on the BOL is just cause to reject the load. Typically, I have a minimum of 12 seals on a trailer, and that can go up to over 60 seals on certain types of trailers. We take seals very seriously in the food business, since that is the only way to prove that the load has not been tampered with.

On the drug issue, with starch, flour, sugar, and other things I haul, I move white powder in quantities that a Mexican drug lord can only dream of.....

 

Hey Burky, what do you haul and on what types of trailers would you need so many seals? Thanx