ODFL | Handles up

You seen most of our drivers lately?? Their beards are down to their fat bellies not even trimmed because they're so lazy so what makes a guy think they'd use what little energy it requires to put the handle down??
 
What do these brain dead drivers think will happen when a hostler gets a hold of them and puts them six inches apart in the yard whether at a terminal or dropped at a distribution center. Every time we have to grab ahold of a bent one thank these drivers. Probably same drivers who think it's ok to only use the top clips to hold the placards.
 
Out at SEA our worthless school grads and dock grads recovering from drug addictions and crimes with their first real jobs can't even park the trucks evenly. Some stick out so far they block the path of the scale.
Yes that's so irritating. I've came to work at night my tractor is back in so crooked the back of it is on spot the front is in another . How do these guys back a trailor to the dock
 
Yes that's so irritating. I've came to work at night my tractor is back in so crooked the back of it is on spot the front is in another . How do these guys back a trailor to the dock

Look at the sides of the mirrors. When they back a pup next to a long box just at our terminal they make sure to scrape the mirror half way down the trailer and then say it was always like that.

Watched an idiot the other week while putting my pallet Jack away keep backing into a newer 48' LG. We all kept shouting at him but he kept pulling forward and repeating the process wondering why the truck stopped moving each time he hit it.
 
On top of that,I'm of the belief that forklift driving is a lost art.There are a few quality professionals out there.But sometimes it's a SMH moment.
 
For informational purposes I am curious as to why so many drivers are leaving the trailer handles up and out after they drop their trailer. Is there something I didn't learn my first 25 years of driving?

They are doing that for the same reason so many of them are driving around with airlines on the catwalk instead of putting them on dummy glad hands behind the cab, or only crank the landing gear up 2-3 inches instead of all the way up, it saves valuable seconds that add up to a minute or two, so you get to go home sooner.
 
They are doing that for the same reason so many of them are driving around with airlines on the catwalk instead of putting them on dummy glad hands behind the cab, or only crank the landing gear up 2-3 inches instead of all the way up, it saves valuable seconds that add up to a minute or two, so you get to go home sooner.

I love getting home ASAP, but it's just not worth cutting corners on safety for what it saves, IMNSHO.
 
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