Who said it's Hazmat or going to Canada? If you're opening up trailers on inbound for example , this happens plenty of times ( ghosting of freight ) Also , I wish more people with higher standards loaded trailers.
Hold on upnorth , what side of the border was this on?
In Canada. We’ve almost lost our privileges several times. The company pays thousands in fines daily.Hold on upnorth , what side of the border was this on?
That’s Con-way/XPO in a nutshell-trip over dollars bending over to pick up a dime.
Don’t hate the player,hate the game!Xpo haters!
Right....calling out hypocrisy is hating. Got it, thanks.
: about what an old school driver has to say.Here's my take on that. Correct me if I'm wrong but freight years ago was fingerprinted and stacked/loaded properly by hand. Now freight is mostly all on pallets and that freight is just pushed on with little or no manual handling. Those pallets are not uniform is shape/size so there's lots of room for movement. I remember when doing pickups and loading to ride was the norm. Not any more it seems. Corrections/comments??So last night on the FAC. I got freight in the nose of a breaker that I'm digging out. The trailer was loaded total ZDM. I'm talking this trailer could have been used for training manual pictures, it was perfect. But you know something, we don't need perfect trailers to move freight undamaged, good enough would have worked just fine. By the time I got to my freight, I had unhooked 20 straps and removed 8 airbags at a substantial cost in time and effort. You know for years and years, during the CCX and Conway days, the freight traveled just fine using less complicated loading techniques, what's changed? Why this need for an overly complicated way of securing freight? Rant over. Like anyone gives a :::
I learned from other drivers how to load correctly. Light on heavy , the high side of a trailer , how much weight to put in the nose , when to use dunnage and how to tie knots for different kinds of situations.So last night on the FAC. I got freight in the nose of a breaker that I'm digging out. The trailer was loaded total ZDM. I'm talking this trailer could have been used for training manual pictures, it was perfect. But you know something, we don't need perfect trailers to move freight undamaged, good enough would have worked just fine. By the time I got to my freight, I had unhooked 20 straps and removed 8 airbags at a substantial cost in time and effort. You know for years and years, during the CCX and Conway days, the freight traveled just fine using less complicated loading techniques, what's changed? Why this need for an overly complicated way of securing freight? Rant over. Like anyone gives a :::
No corrections as you're right. As for off size pallets, they can be secured using straps, airbags, or dunnage walls, without strapping them to the sides of a trailer on top of a loading deck. My airbag comment in the earlier post was to note that the loader used airbags where they weren't necessary, just as they strapped freight to the walls that was floor loaded, also not necessary in most cases.
When I watch supervisors closing trailers , they are fearful of pictures an emails , not over freight being damaged or not secure.
I find it annoying too, but even if every breaker took 20% longer it’s worth it from a damage claims perspective. They don’t mind. The bigger problem is accountability. Accountability for not wasting time, not damaging our tools and equipment, and of course the freight itself.So last night on the FAC. I got freight in the nose of a breaker that I'm digging out. The trailer was loaded total ZDM. I'm talking this trailer could have been used for training manual pictures, it was perfect. But you know something, we don't need perfect trailers to move freight undamaged, good enough would have worked just fine. By the time I got to my freight, I had unhooked 20 straps and removed 8 airbags at a substantial cost in time and effort. You know for years and years, during the CCX and Conway days, the freight traveled just fine using less complicated loading techniques, what's changed? Why this need for an overly complicated way of securing freight? Rant over. Like anyone gives a :::
They don’t have to de-emphasize anything, that’s just not the way the world works anymore. Experience is not valued because they know they don’t need to pay for it. Business is good (enough). They put “safety professional” on the sleeve but that’s about as far as it goes. If they really cared about professionalism, wages vs. inflation wouldn’t have stagnated, they wouldn’t throw just any warm body in the cab, and the EOL terminals would see a truck wash more than once per year. Driver from another company told me theirs get washed weekly; I laughed out loud and climbed back in my dirty million-mile :
: box with rusty wheels. Sure I kept it as clean as I could but it was still a sad sight.
What do you get for spending 20-30 yrs at XPO? Nothing just a cake and a little party and that's the same at most places.
I drove shinny wheels, but for some reason the dirty ones paid more and made paying the bill easierI laughed out loud and climbed back in my dirty million-mile :::::
