Posted by jon f mn on August 06, 2017 at 15:53:25 from (174.221.8.243):
I have a long list of things that can start my angry engine, but one of the things that really revs it up is someone trying to pass the blame to me for their error. Today's incident involves a badly loaded trailer. The first problem was it was too heavy in front. I knew it as soon as I backed under it, but my load gage confirmed it. The shipper wouldn't re-load it til I had a scale ticket so off to the scale I went. Not too bad as it was only a mile and a half each way. Here is the scale ticket.
1700lb over on the drives. So back to get re-loaded. After about an hour in the door they call me in and show me this.
Nearly the entire load had shifted a full pallet length forward. If a trailer is properly loaded there is no way for that to happen. But the person that loaded the trailer left an empty space in the front so as soon as I got the brakes the load moved forward. The problem started when the dock workers started trying to lay the blame on me. At first I explained that if the trailer had been loaded correctly this couldn't happen even if I hit the brakes hard. But since I went less than 3 miles total and never got over 30 mph it would be hard to stop hard enough to damage freight anyway. But he persisted so my final try was that there is a recording device on the truck that records sudden stops and starts, and it is very sensitive and often records when I have to stop hard or even if I take off too fast. I showed him this and the last recorded event was a sudden stop on 7/1/17.
That was when he said I wouldn't know any better because I was just a "dumb@## truckdriver". Lol. Not much will get me going more than that right there. I did hold it together, for the most part, and just left and told them to deal with Dart.
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