WAY OT The rules are the rules!!!

jon f mn · Mar 8, 2013

Had to pick up a load at the Norfolk/southern rail yard near Harrisburg Pa today. The green trailer is the one I need, but its in a row I'm not allowed to go in. If it was in the row with the red trailer then it's ok tho. They are sending a yard truck to move it for me. Guess the rules are the rules and that's that. lol

retired farmer · Mar 8, 2013

Need to do like I did when I delivered parts to the coal mines, get the head supervisor and tell him he has ten minutes, either I get loaded, or I am out of here. Only took once leaving a load and the next time they were waiting on me.

El Toro · Mar 8, 2013

My wife worked near a former Air Force base in the 1950's not far from Harrisburg. It was called Olmstead Air base, but it was shutdown in the 1960's. Now called the Harrisburg Internation Airport. Hal

55 50 Ron · Mar 8, 2013

So what are the rules?? Union yard?? Looks like the red and green are side by side.
How far do they move it before it"s OK for you to hook to??

jon f mn · Mar 8, 2013

They pulled it out and parked it right in front of where I was parked when I took the pic, it just took an hour. lol

Pitch1 · Mar 8, 2013

I used to deal with drivers every day day in and day out. Everyone was more important than the one in front of him,everyone had a dispatcher that had promised him head of the line.
Some guys just refused to understand that the trailers went to different divisions and buldings. General freight was different than machine parts was different from oils and lubricants.And that different freight was handled by specific crews.
A couple of guys finally learned after waiting six or eight hours that shutting your mouth was the best way to go.

george md · Mar 8, 2013

John,

I'm 65 miles south of there .

george

scotc · Mar 8, 2013

I will never go back to driving over the road. Threw away 8 1/2 years doing it, no more. Used to love driving, now it doesn't bother me in the least that I have been over an hour from home only once in the last 19 months.

jon f mn · Mar 8, 2013

I deal with shippers and recievers every day and the Napoleon complex is common. They refuse to acknowledge that weather, traffic, breakdowns and logbooks can delay and put pressure on drivers to get things done. They frequently take pleasure in delaying drivers just to show them that they have more power. They are bitter because they make half as much money as a good driver and so they delight in taking some away just because they can. For every disrespectfull driver you've seen I can come up with an equally disrepectful shipper/reciever.

504 · Mar 8, 2013

You can not believe the crap a driver has to put up with messing with rail yards and container lots. I was told once that I had to take the chassis they gave me, the one with smoke rolling from the light wiring. It took a call from the Donaldson Corp and then a brand new chassis showed up. (The load was theirs and the boat it was going on was booked by them.)

Don-Wi · Mar 8, 2013

I'll unload a truck when the S&R guy is making a run or otheriwse not available, and most of the truckers we deal with are ok. We do get a few in tho that just like ot hear themselves talk.

Last Friday I unloaded one that just liked to pi$$ N moan about how rough he had it. I just smile & nod, sign his papers and tell him to have a good one.

We've had a trucker show up with a flatbed to ship out a press system (we make trim tools and presses for the foundry industry) and they only had 6 chains and binders on the whole truck, no straps or tarps. to be seen. He didn't have enough to secure the load and he refused to go buy more at the truck shops around town, so he up & left without mentioning it to anyone. We had to call his dispatch to find out he left and refused the load...

Try explaining that one to the customer who hired the truck...

Like I said, most are alright and we usually deal with the same 10 or 15 on a semi-regular basis.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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