I have refused to pick up dangerous (top heavy , unstable) freight before and by the time I've returned to the terminal , some other driver has picked it up and it's sitting on our dock.I'll pull a trailer with a broken door or non-safety issue, but that's about it. I was asked to pull a m/t with half a tire missing to a shop 15 miles away and I simply said no. No problem. Someone else might, and they know it, just not me.
As far as l know the drivers have not pulled any of this OOS gear. My statement was in a way sarcastic to Gene post about the legal, compliance, and safety dept..Why do drivers agree to pull OOS gear?
I hear ya driver! I made a delivery at a bed & breakfast and damaged a flagstone wall. I restacked it so no harm, no foul, but I did tell our csr's not to send anyone else up there. Sure enough a "super driver" made a delivery there and damaged a light post. Foul!! Unfortunately, some drivers use this as an excuse to not do their job.I have refused to pick up dangerous (top heavy , unstable) freight before and by the time I've returned to the terminal , some other driver has picked it up and it's sitting on our dock.
Sooo , yeah , if you won't do it and it's a safety issue or legally it shouldn't be done , someone else will , unfortunately.
I hear ya driver! I made a delivery at a bed & breakfast and damaged a flagstone wall. I restacked it so no harm, no foul, but I did tell our csr's not to send anyone else up there. Sure enough a "super driver" made a delivery there and damaged a light post. Foul!! Unfortunately, some drivers use this as an excuse to not do their job.
I ask this guestion and did really get a straight answer. The employee handbook states. That the truck needs to be legally park and if it isn't then I'm at fault for the accident if one should happen. So where do I park to make a residential and there driveway is not built for the weight of my vehicleI love going some place small like that with a 53' and having some lady tell you to back down the driveway because everyone else does. Yeah, no. Not happening. You get a pick up truck out here to the road or we can try again tomorrow and you better have a pick up truck out here by the road or you are going to be coming down to the terminal to pick it up yourself.
The employee handbook states. That the truck needs to be legally park and if it isn't then I'm at fault for the accident if one should happen. So where do I park to make a residential and there driveway is not built for the weight of my vehicle
I ask this guestion and did really get a straight answer. The employee handbook states. That the truck needs to be legally park and if it isn't then I'm at fault for the accident if one should happen. So where do I park to make a residential and there driveway is not built for the weight of my vehicle
You can probably park on the street legally in a residential neighborhood. Parking in a travel lane of a 4-lane highway, not so much.
Another stop. Different highway. This one is four lane with a fifth lane down the center for turning. It's a golf course. No access for the big truck at all. I gotta call the pro shop and they come down to the road with a tractor with forks where the bucket goes. Park there on the shoulder. People whooshing the truck not even getting over. Good times.
The last time I read it, it was update with a date of Aug 2016, don't quote me on thatI don't put any faith in that CCX handbook. It's outdated. Has never been updated. And is from three companies ago.
If the road is some back woods farm trail. I'll park wherever. Them boys go around in the ditch no problem and give a wave. If it's some yuppie neighborhood I need to be sure there is clearance, for some idiot in a going twice the speed limit in a way to expensive car, to get around without hurting me or anyone else.
Common sense ain't all that common. So, I trust past results. Experience, if you will.
It is subject to change at any moment they need it too.The last time I read it, it was update with a date of Aug 2016, don't quote me on that
I do believe that if you were rear-end while making that deliver the company will find you at fault and make you up for a preventable accident
It is subject to change at any moment they need it too.
At our barn the running joke is that policy is written with pencil and on loose leaf paper. Erasures and rewriting wears the paper so they get a new sheet. That way policy is for the situation at hand.Policy is what ever some idiot demands you believe policy is, until you call GO and then all of the sudden policy is you don't call GO.
At our barn the running joke is that policy is written with pencil and on loose leaf paper. Erasures and rewriting wears the paper so they get a new sheet. That way policy is for the situation at hand.
Policy is what ever some idiot demands you believe policy is, until you call GO and then all of the sudden policy is you don't call GO.
At our barn the running joke is that policy is written with pencil and on loose leaf paper. Erasures and rewriting wears the paper so they get a new sheet. That way policy is for the situation at hand.
Great idea HS. I wished that I would've thought of that the other day when I had a delivery at a residence out in the woods. I had a delivery ,about 250 pounds off a liftgate , to bring up this person's 200 yard driveway at about a 40° incline. I stopped about three times on my way up that driveway hill to get my breath and my old hernia began acting up. What a fool I was. next time I'll do what you suggest, get another driver to help, have the consignee get a pickup truck at the end of their driveway, or have them pick up their freight at our terminal. Great advise , great post.I love going some place small like that with a 53' and having some lady tell you to back down the driveway because everyone else does. Yeah, no. Not happening. You get a pick up truck out here to the road or we can try again tomorrow and you better have a pick up truck out here by the road or you are going to be coming down to the terminal to pick it up yourself.
I really do not mean disrespect or be of other ill intent, I cannot believe you did this. Think man, they ordered the stuff and you are onlyGreat idea HS. I wished that I would've thought of that the other day when I had a delivery at a residence out in the woods. I had a delivery ,about 250 pounds off a liftgate , to bring up this person's 200 yard driveway at about a 40° incline. I stopped about three times on my way up that driveway hill to get my breath and my old hernia began acting up. What a fool I was. next time I'll do what you suggest, get another driver to help, have the consignee get a pickup truck at the end of their driveway, or have them pick up their freight at our terminal. Great advise , great post.
I had a similar residential (a customer that got a delivery every couple weeks or so) that I always backed into their driveway. One time the driveway had a small amount of ice on it and I couldn't back in. She wasn't happy that I refused to haul her 2,000 lbs of books up her driveway so she had her husband come down with his quad and haul my pallet jack up to her garage. Worked for me!Great idea HS. I wished that I would've thought of that the other day when I had a delivery at a residence out in the woods. I had a delivery ,about 250 pounds off a liftgate , to bring up this person's 200 yard driveway at about a 40° incline. I stopped about three times on my way up that driveway hill to get my breath and my old hernia began acting up. What a fool I was. next time I'll do what you suggest, get another driver to help, have the consignee get a pickup truck at the end of their driveway, or have them pick up their freight at our terminal. Great advise , great post.