Your Dispatcher sent you....

Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by x1Heavy, Nov 30, 2019.

  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Kicking around a idea for a Thread to showcase really horrible loads. All Companies have loads both good and bad. Someone has to haul it.

    If your Dispatcher sent you....
     
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  3. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    In our business we have entirely too many pickups that consist of “duh.... I don’t know what a Bill of Lading is”.

    Someone may have to haul it, but sometimes nobody does because nobody has a clue, let alone paperwork.
     
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  4. tarmadilo

    tarmadilo Road Train Member

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    I spent 20 years driving bus charters. You can’t scare me!
     
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  5. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Someone has to haul it....

    Sewage
    Beef hides...
    Track mounted equipment with bad final drives.... had some personal experience with that one.
     
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  6. starmac

    starmac Road Train Member

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    Back not long after I first started driving a truck, I was sent to Beaumont Tx to get a dozer. They had hno real address or directions, just an auxillary football field on 25th ave, or something along those lines.
    It was on one of those nice gulf coast days when it was raining probably an inch an hour, and the 25th avenue started and stopped several times through town. I looked for 3 hours or so and called in wanting some directions, no can do hey tell me. lol
    I look for another hour or so and call back, no can find without directions of some kind. lol
    they had sent me to the wrong town, once they got the town right, it was down right easy to find. lol
     
  7. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    Probably delivering onions to the Bronx or Queens. The tight backing into some small building and all the cars parked along the side of an already narrow street is a fun challenge. But the people will drive right up behind your trailer and stop so you can't backup without hitting them.

    Just get me 30 seconds and you can go by. Nope, gotta run up your but and then sit there and honk and cuss..
     
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  8. LoneRanger

    LoneRanger Road Train Member

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    I sent my self 2 Darwin awards for forgetting to unhook lines twice while pulling away.

    mind I add both times I was on the phone with either my wife or kid, so not sure who to blame Adam and his descendants or Eve and her descendants.
     
  9. Shawn2130

    Shawn2130 Heavy Load Member

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    Dispatcher sent me to 6509 14th concession rd near this town.

    I see it in the map book and according to gps as well. No street view yet.

    I drive there..... no 6509 but I’m on 14th concession.... reached the end of the road.

    Double checked map, I’m on the road....

    While going through, I see Fourteenth concession 20 mins away... near same town. GPS confirms that is 6509 according to street view.

    I back up a little ways, get to Fourteenth concession, there it is, 6509.
     
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