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.

I probably shouldn't even respond... but, I will.

For the first few years, I pulled a reefer. I've been to every Chitty produce shipper in Cali (including Coachella and that town just south of there,) and Salinas, and everything around Bakersfield and north to Fresno! And don't get me started about YUMA! :hellno::lol2:

I found the Mexican women working in the office to be VERY helpful, because I didn't treat them like they OWED me something. There's a lady in (what WAS the name of that town south of Coachella?) ... oh yeah... BRAWLEY! ... that brought homemade burritos to work, and I always bought a couple and RAVED about them to her!

I've spoken broken Spanish to (nearly) every forklift driver in the Western part of this country... and got EXCELLENT service and co-operation from them!

I NEVER looked at a Mexican worker in a shipper like he was below me. Heck... HE gets to go HOME every night to his family! I've had them stay OVER and finish loading me, cuz I told them how much "I" wanted to go home.

As many of you know, I live alone and don't have many friends. MANY of these guys out there TREATED me like I was a friend. Maybe, simply because I TRIED a little Spanish... maybe, just because I wasn't CONDESCENDING.

I really MISS going to the West Coast! I MISS these guys! I had VERY FEW problems out there! So.... KNOWING what an A-hole I can be, how would you rationalize this?

I got BETTER service from these Mexicans (legal or NOT) than I get NOW from my own dispatchers at FedEx! And, believe ME.... If I could get the same money and go BACK there? I'd go in a FLASH!

But, I never DID the whole "48 state" deal that many have had to do. I really think the problem lies with the dirty little situations in the NorthEast... although, I never had a problem THERE either!

Hobo

My biggest pet peeve was when I had codriver that could never stop farting every 3 minutes. Yes,I counted the intervals between the farts. I told him to not eat anymore burritos or taco bell supremes but he no listen. I try Gas-X but to no avail. Glad to get that off my chest. Such pleasant memories of teaming in a Prime Fleece truck,NOT. My other pet peeve was stupid people that stay in the left lane for no reason.
Stupid people that increase speed when I pass(both cars and trucks). Stupid people that jump in front of me and slow down for no reason. Never had much problem with shippers/receivers/lumpers. As long as I followed their policies I was in and out within 2 hours or less. Anything over that and detention pay would start at anywhere from 20.00 to 50.00 per hour. My other pet peeve was a doofus hillbilly redneck DOT officer in NC that doesn't even know how to read a logbook during level 1 inspection.