Part two.
But hey they are a billion dollar company. A bad money losing load is no problem provided you carefully pick which teams or drivers to use them to **** with them financially. We had thousands in savings by then and it was rapidly evaporating in that situation.
By July we had quit. Moved on to high dollar pharmacy drop hook, go reload back to shipper, drop hook and gone. Money money money money money. 9-11 came and went and even more money.
If all of trucking was that beautiful I would not be such a angry bitter bastard. But waiting is part of trucking. Little stuff all the way to the big stuff.
Example. A grocery load. You go to ... Stop and shop in Connecticut. Arrive at 7 am sharp. Gaurd shack holds you up for a hour before approving you to enter. You wait half a damn day for a dock maintaining trailer temp burning your :
:. You transfer the fuel from tractor tanks to trailer to keep it going. Dye laws be damned back then.
First...
They give you a manual jack. There is only 4 manual jacks in a warehouse cold storage full of power jacks. 20 drivers fight for use of the manual.
Second.
They stack small wood. YOU restack your :
: onto that wood.
Third.
Small wood comes off into a specific spot between two yellow lines. Thats all the space you get. You leave space between each pallet and have your boxes facing out.
Forth
Nope, count layer etc is not right. Cut that small wood load in half again on more small wood. Be quick. we end the shift by 4PM.
Fifth
Heres the kicker. Now that all that hocus pocus is done and your back is broken, you are emotionally angry ready to go postal and tired of the accumulating BS they are heaping on you... the shift changes.
You bring paper work to the new desk dock boss and tell him to sign please you are unloaded.
No driver. I need to count and inspect.
Sixth. You wait two hours.
Finally a food inspector comes to inspect for damage.
Then a suit inspects the boxes and pallets (Their own small wood) for damage.
Restack. Reject damage if any.
More paper work.
Its now closing on midnight.
New shift.]
Wait into the early morning before dawn before that new dock boss tells you to come back at 7 Am for the original reciever will sign those load bills in your hand. Now covered in additional OSD and so forth for which you must fight with your own company people on the phone when they come at 8 am.
Part three coming up