Your most pain in the ### freight

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

 

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.

 

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

There weren't many coherent sentences in that post.

 

Chicken ain't nothin but a bird, right?

 

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."

 

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.

 

Yes...I was.I think I was a little "tore outta my frame".