You don't wanna come here...

[Malaki86]

Ok - I've been driving now for 8 years and have officially found the worst shippers that I've ever experienced.

Mid-Florida Mining
Reddick, FL

My appointment time was for 8am this morning.
I arrived at 7:30am.
I was told that the product wasn't ready and to come back at 4pm.
I came back at 3:30pm.
No one knew anything about my load.
At 4:30pm they finally rediscovered my paperwork and put me in the dock.
It's now 12:35am and they're still not done loading me.

I want, soooooo bad, to go in and start beating people with a 2x4 it's unreal. In the time I've been here, they've loaded a total of 2 trucks out of the 10 sitting here.

[BanditsCousin]

Drop the trailer an go to a motel. Let them worry about loading it. Come back in a day or so. Then run leagl all the way so its late because of them

[doctorfillgood]

Drop the trailer an go to a motel. Let them worry about loading it. Come back in a day or so. Then run leagl all the way so its late because of them


Sounds good but as we all know it doesn't matter who caused the delay when you get to the recv the driver is the one who gets the axe for being late with load since they don't or wont contact the shipper/dispatch to complain to. the driver is the one who pays the price for the load being late one of the perks they don't tell you about in CDL school the longer you drive the more you learn

[BanditsCousin]

What is CDL school? I find myself bribing everyone from forklift drivers to warehouseman more than I'd like, but it does save me LOTS of time. I zip in and out of tradeshows, unlike most :wink:

BTW- my 1st response was sarcasm 8)

[repete]

Drop the trailer an go to a motel. Let them worry about loading it. Come back in a day or so. Then run leagl all the way so its late because of them


Sounds good but as we all know it doesn't matter who caused the delay when you get to the recv the driver is the one who gets the axe for being late with load since they don't or wont contact the shipper/dispatch to complain to. the driver is the one who pays the price for the load being late one of the perks they don't tell you about in CDL school the longer you drive the more you learn

when you sign the bill write the time/date and a note that it's "late due to loading issues" It worked for me (helps if it's time stamped)

[Malaki86]

I finally got out of there at 2:30am... When I pulled out of the dock, I drove about 200 feet and took up about 15 of their employee parking spaces (for the dayshift). Within about 5 minutes of me parking, the same idiot running the dock came out and told me I had to move. I politely explained that I was A) so far out of hours it wasn't funny and B) I was too fatigued to drive, which by federal law, means I cannot drive the truck.

He just huffed and walked away. I woke up at 11am and started my run after calling my dispatcher at home and explaining the situation.