Your most pain in the ### freight

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Lrh502, Aug 24, 2017.

  1. Canned Spam

    Canned Spam Road Train Member

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    Reminds me of my first time EVER using a forklift. Was instructed to jump on forklift and unload giant tote of DEF fluid. Mind you, I told them during the interview before I was hired that I had no forklift experience and again when owner came out and asked me to unload it so LTL driver could go on his way. I managed to get it out of the truck and backed up a little bit then the tote and the forklift slammed forward. The tote slid off the forks and fell over on its side and the forklift slammed back down. Thankfully it didn't bust and we had a crane on a truck inside the warehouse to turn it right side up.


    Used to have to deliver those huge totes of DEF with nothing but a pallet jack. Can understand some of the ltl frustrations in this thread lol. Had one customer that would always order like 16 drums of assorted hydraulic fluids and oils at a time, no idea why they couldn't space them out or something, but I was always beat after getting them on/off the liftgate then dragging them up a rock covered ramp and thru their facility
     
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  3. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    "Look mummy. Look what I did almost all by myself". :rolleyes:
     
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  4. BUMBACLADWAR

    BUMBACLADWAR Road Train Member

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    We had a Yahoo Company...would order Anhydrous Ethyl Alchohol 190proof in the 435 Kansas City Caves that thought placards? Were the little stickers on da barrels? Ex Navy Seal Boss ,Rick Kelly? I heard youre out in Washington,running "Oversized Loads",miss you Buddy.You taught me how to survive in this Cutthroat Business. Did you not? Anyway...Ill catch up with you later.Any way ######### at this company...something Labratories? Thought Placards were the "little stickers on the 55 gallon drums and gave me Sh.t about it! He drove his POV down in de and chewed as. IT WAS AWESOME.
     
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  5. ChaoSS

    ChaoSS Road Train Member

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    Just curious, have you been drinking a little bit of that 190 proof tonight?

    There weren't many coherent sentences in that post.
     
  6. Canned Spam

    Canned Spam Road Train Member

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    Chicken ain't nothin but a bird, right?
     
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  7. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    If he did, I certainly didn't get to have any.

    Next time, bring enough for everybody. :p
     
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  8. Big Don

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    I had one customer, actually a very good one, usually, that could not get it through his head that return battery cores were hazmat. "But the new batteries don't come in as hazmat, I don't think you know what you're talking about."
     
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  9. road_runner

    road_runner Road Train Member

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    That's a good one. People that normally don't ship hazmat but then try to ship hazmat.

    Unless they have a good broker who prepares their paperwork, the encounter usually ends with an argument and the driver leaving empty handed.
     
  10. BUMBACLADWAR

    BUMBACLADWAR Road Train Member

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    Yes...I was.I think I was a little "tore outta my frame".
     
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  11. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Thankfully it was only once that I had to fill out a hazmat BOL by hand. That will never happen again thanks be to the requirement now that a contract number has to be included with the emergency response info.
     
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