ODFL | Mispulls
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No, no. Billy has a limo bring him to and from work. He’s very classy. The limo service is provided by Kubota tractors.They should be more like you, Billo. Walking to work for exercise.
They should be more like you, Billo. Walking to work for exercise.
That’s fbn walking back to his train from the little shop down at the bottom of rice hill,, in his Elvis disguise again after using the tony bennett outfit last week,,
You will be written up,but will get paid. They changed policy in 2015. Befre 2015 you would not get paid.
A miss pull you will not get paid and you will be written up.Been there and done that..
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Billy, your right. About 75 percent of our night guys dont have a clue that the right side exists, wont argue the fact. We probably would not have mis pulls if drives would check seal numbers but as I said, it takes too much time. Thats the problem, everyone is in too much of a darn hurry to get home. If they want to be home so much then maybe they should find a nice cush 9-5 office job. All I know is truckin aint the same any more, too many guys out there dont know what this career used to be and its only getting worse every day.. 3 to go....maybe less
Never hear of a terminal where so many line drivers roll trucks over like ours then those same people in a big hurry a week later after getting the job back,,
Ump said only time he rolled a zero, was when he blew a drive tire.
Fly won't drive a zero without "run flat tires"
Ain’t no thing compare to od line driver, get a new truck roll it over,, hoping he got a faster mower after rolling it
My mowers are all wheel drive!!
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I checked seal numbers but the problem (at least in ATL) was that the seal numbers rarely ever matched the manifest. I usually got dispatch to sign off of the seal numbers didn’t match but I always just double checked to make sure my trailer numbers matched the hook card and manifest. Never had a mispull in 6 years.
You just didn't try hard enough!
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I know I know, I’m sorry to disappoint...
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There were a couple of times I accidentally took a 70 mph tractor on a bag run for a week... oops.
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Ran yesterday.One of my trailers seal didn't match.Got it signed off.RTO driver met me in AVC.One of the 2 he brought me had the wrong seal. He didn't notice and said the guard at RTO must have missed it.He called RTO they said it's OK.Just note on the manifest.
I know the feeling, if you caught one of the West coast PIE tractors you were dangerous at 72, ours were about 62
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Ran yesterday.One of my trailers seal didn't match.Got it signed off.RTO driver met me in AVC.One of the 2 he brought me had the wrong seal. He didn't notice and said the guard at RTO must have missed it.He called RTO they said it's OK.Just note on the manifest.
I never checked at a meet point. I was told any mistakes at a meet were on the other driver. I would call central at a meet for ok to pull if the lead looked heavy on the drive with the air pressure gauge or if both were manifested heavy and no weights were notated.
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You would be mistaken if you thought any trailer pull errors weren't your baby as well, just because another driver brings you equipment it doesn't relieve you of the responsibility of checking the manifests for haz mat,seal numbers etc. even if you're told that by other drivers, or junior managers common sense should tell you differently.
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Thank you Dean...its always the drivers responsibility ro ensure you equipment is road ready weather you got it on a relay or pulled it from a yard. I cannot count the number of times I have found wrong Haz paperwork out here in the west coast but the trailer started in the south or east. How could it go that far and no one even take it out of the haz envelope (its stapled) and just figured it was ok. Its a shame our business has come to this and yes, some drivers dont need a faster truck Billy.
Exactly, that’s what a inter trip in my book is. The equipment and the paperwork. What do I tell the scale master, “Oh, it’s my meet partners fault. He’ll laugh at you as he writes the ticket.” Knucklehead, I used to get the same stuff in MEO coming from California. I remember one place used to staple the crap out of the red envelope.