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It seems like I see stuff daily that makes me wonder if anybody on the dock is held accountable. I'll share them with you guys as they pop up. Here's the first one

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A 900 pound skid loaded on top of flammable liquid. No strap or anything to hold it in place and no dunnage to prevent damaging the bottom skid upon removal.
 
It seems like I see stuff daily that makes me wonder if anybody on the dock is held accountable. I'll share them with you guys as they pop up. Here's the first one

20210720_212944.md.jpg

A 900 pound skid loaded on top of flammable liquid. No strap or anything to hold it in place and no dunnage to prevent damaging the bottom skid upon removal.
I have never seen so many damages in my 35+ years of careless damages and things not being strapped. It seems like nobody cares anymore. We keep having hazmat spills on a daily basis and they just don’t seem to care anymore. I don’t get it
 
I have never seen so many damages in my 35+ years of careless damages and things not being strapped. It seems like nobody cares anymore. We keep having hazmat spills on a daily basis and they just don’t seem to care anymore. I don’t get it
Trust me when I say, it's not just at Fed Ex. I have been here at ABF over 27 years, and it is just as bad here as well. You are right when you said "they just don't seem to care anymore". Just imagine what the customers must be thinking. And with this happening everywhere, where is the customer going to go for better service?
 
They can always fire me. I don't give a damn.

Ive taken pictures when I felt like it. Problems begin in highly secure facilities and they eyeball you to make sure you don't have a damn thing.

Those piles and hazmat on bottom tells me the drivers and dock people cannot be bothered to care. They wont bend down for a thousand dollars scattered on the floor. Its going to get really ugly in the future.

I have refused shippers when they offered a load in a pile. My Company roars that I have no authority to say no, I tell them to get on a plane and see for yourself. You want to lose a little money now or a one hell of a lot money on cargo value at arrival when its REFUSED?

Silence.

Then again there are times they tell me I will be taking it anyway money be damned, I say cut me a little extra of that and you wont hear another word. Those loads come out to be some of the absolute worst and causes me to question investing my life into such a horrible POS industry at all sometimes.

One load stands out over all others in my memory. Little blue facial cream cups. No lids. Empty going to noxeuma factory or some such out of Mass to be filled up for retail. Forklift man has to tilt two pallets to fit the whole thing under the old return chute up top that was scraping just a little tiny bit.

That dried up old unlubricated yankee went off and said F-you I aint loading ::shit:: on this trailer. BYE. My phone call to dispatch bounced around to bigger and bigger suits. All of them asking WTF?

Forklift driver gets called into his office with a profanity attached to his name at the end of the dock there. The muted screaming was mostly one way. Forklift driver roars back, I aint loading THAT. F-you and stomped to his car and screeched off.

Everyone was out a one hell of a lot of money. And there was the question of two pallets to unjam from the front of my trailer.

One cup at a time. To this day I cannot stand to see that product in any store.
 
I didn't know there is a no picture policy. Mgmt is always asking for pictures of damaged equipment or freight. Bastards lied again .
I was once told not to use a customers forklift again after damaging a $20,000 + piece of extreme length hydraulic something or other that was packed in a crate made out of butterfly wings. I got out of it because it was a satellite facility that was often unmanned and that was the normal unwritten practice for all the ltl's that picked up there. I was told Co. policy is no using customers equipment period. Sure as ::shit:: I went back a month or so later and no one was there but our freight was stickered and ready to go. I called dispatch and the same guy told me to load it ! Bottom line is if it is expedient or puts them in a good light you're good but I'm quite sure you'll hang from the same rope that was once a lifeline if needed.
 
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