Pet Peeve....
 

What is your pet peeve about trucking? Mine is when you get to the shipper or receiver, they look at you like what the fck, your doing here. First of all the women that check you in are the worst. You stand there in plain site and they will not look up at you. If you tap on the glass your wrong, if you dont bring you own pen your wrong. No matter how presentably your are, you will still get that look!!!

I just hate going in there , i wish we could have paperless bol. lol

ANYPLACE that don't have a system of doing things. BOLs are "over here" and your trailer is "somewhere over there" not to mention if its a live un/load, and they have no CB radio, and then nobody ever comes out to assign a driver a dock door.

Just the other day, I had a delivery at Dominick's in chicago. They have a system, but if you dont jump thru every hoop just right, they get all upset. So i followed the process. I actually took in a comcheck so i didnt have to go back to the truck. Checked in with the head lumper guy...then he tells me to check in with receiving and she'll assign me a door. So i take the paperwork over to the window (this 70 year old american-african lady) set it down under the glass, notice she is busy filing some other paperwork, so i start filling out my comcheck. about 15-20 sec. go by, and i'm done filling out the check. I look up, and she's now swiveled her chair around looking at me with her hands on the arm rest and says with this tone off The Jeffersons, "are you ready now?" I said, "excuse me?" she said it again, as she was walking toward the window, so i informed her, "paperworks been sitting there...".

sometimes i just want to go off. maybe when i hang up my steering wheel, i might just do that the last week. =)

I went through a lot of that too. No, I did not like it either. But I endured it more times than I'd care to count.

The one thing I really, truly enjoyed about pulling flatbed was the fact that I didn't get even as much of that sort of thing as I got with a dryvan. Pulling reefers, it was CONSTANT.

Truck Drivers!!!! They really piss me off

x2................. and :lol:

I'll add two
smelling urine
cold hot dogs

Just about everything with trucking has pissed me off at one time or another. Shippers, receivers, other truck drivers, 4 wheelers, toll collectors, truck stops, fellow company drivers, truck washes, shop staff, myself, cops, DOT cops, weigh stations, lumpers, there's plenty more but you get the hint :)

Whenever i wanna feel better if i'm having a bad day, if i'm at a unload that requires a lumper, i always ask the lumper how much of that $300 they actually get to take home. They almost always never answer me. =)

You speak Spanish?? Probably why they didn't answer.

You need to change the way you look at it. It's one of my favorite parts of the job. I get to see a miserable POS doing a marginal job in a dismal environment and it reminds me of why I don't do that kind of work. That and the fact it's one of those things I spend the least amount of my time doing.

Now, sitting here waiting for a guy to replace my flat tire . . that's one of those things . .

This would be back in the 80's but I had two loads in my lifetime that gave me the exact same headache. I spent the entire night getting to the destination and then they wanted me to move the freight by hand from normal 40x48 pallets to small pallets.

In both cases, I told them that I am out of hours and require an 8 hour break so if they wanted their freight, they would have accept it as is. It took a couple of hours each time but I won both arguments.

After those two times, I always asked about the details of the load before I accepted it.

On another note: Has anyone here ever been to the Water Street Produce Market in Chicago when it was still around?? Talk about a pet-peeve.