FedEx Freight

The driver's responsibility is to get the freight to the back of the truck.

Many drivers will do more in the interest of time. They may choose to drop a crate on the dock rather than wait for a forklift, etc. Once is a while, they may ask that we use our forklift to reposition a pallet for the next stop. Courtesy goes both ways.

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Edwin Pawlowski
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Last year I bought a Jet oscillating sander (I think it is about 300 pounds). I did not expect any help from the driver, so I had a strong friend over to help me get it off the truck. The driver went out of his way to help and offered to help get it into my shop. We talked with the driver for 10-15 minutes, just small talk. Personally, I want to help anyone, a stranger, I see struggling. It doesn't cost anything to be courteous, and to those who are not, well, what can I say?

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Phisherman

From the Grizzly website:

"Truck drivers are subject to a number of regulations, one of which is that they are not required to give assistance unloading. Please be prepared for this "curbside" delivery, as you are responsible for unloading the item(s) and placing them in your shop. This normally takes a couple of "friends". Your location must be tractor-trailer accessible. We recommend that you make arrangements with the trucking company to take delivery at the freight terminal if you can. They will load it onto your vehicle. Make sure your vehicle is capable of handling the weight. Also, bring plenty of tie downs to properly secure the load.

We have a discounted lift program available. Please ask your order taker for more details."

Now, WTF was it about the above that you did not understand?

Regards, Tom.

Thos. J. Watson - Cabinetmaker

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Tom Watson

And we shall be blessed even further. Many of these self serving nitwits deem it necessary to procreate, so we will have even more of their offspring among us that don't understand what a contract actually means.

It seems to many these days to simply mean a tacit agreement, molded to their advantage as needed.

What happened to the good old days about being pissed off because someone lied to you and didn't do what they agreed to do?

Man do I feel like a dinosaur.

Robert

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nailshooter41

Translated into lawyerese: "It was merely a statement of /intent/."

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Morris Dovey

In the solid surface business, shipping is, was, and always will be a nightmare. 30" wide by 12 feet long, on a skid that no ordinary forklifts can handle, unless you have a side-curtain trailer and you can scoop it from the side...which never happens.

So, hand-bombing it is, was, and always will be. At an average of 160 pounds per sheet, those flappy windcatchers sometimes feel a lot heavier. Carrying them 'on the flat' in the summer is a hoot, as the middle of the sheet almost drags the ground and in the winter too risky due to cold/brittle issues. So on their side, we carry them.

To make matters worse, I pay a premium for the 'unused cubes' above my material, as truckers aren't allowed to stack anything on top.

Now, lucky for me, I am serviced by 3 companies who know my needs well enough now to advise their driver, that he better eat his Wheaties before he shows up at my shop with a lift ( 8 sheets) which, including the skid, weighs over 1300 pounds. And a hydraulic platform lift is useless. (Guys with air-ride do drop their trailers.)

NEVER a complaint, as some of the drivers WANT to come to my shop as I often slap the driver a 50 if it is a full skid. I call it grease. Makes the job go better. A 20 if it is only a few sheets. I need these guys, and as granma used tell me, it is easier to catch a bee with sugar than with vinegar.

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Robatoy

Well yes,......and no.

There has always been a thing called "tailgate rule", which originated in Teamster Work Rules. Driver was obligated to only move the cargo "TO" the tailgate, customer required to unload to dock, second vehicle, whatever. Customer had a certain contracturally specified time to remove freight before demurrrage charges commenced. That has changed in the 70's, though. Even then, most drivers would help get the stuff off, because it meant that they could go on about their day, maybe even finish early, or (better yet) finish their shift at the coffee shop, instead of waiting out in the weather for some guy to find and finagle a forklift.

Some purchase orders, some delivery orders specify now to offload only to dock, some specify how cargo is to be stacked, whether shrink-wrapped, or whatever. Palletized ? - that's an option, often left unstated. Depends a lot on what the freight is, however. And "regular customer" earns a lot of consideration, too.

What it boils down to now is that just about each delivery has its own set of rules. "Caveat emptor" is a safe policy. Specify it beforehand, and you'll probably get just what you require. Be prepared to pay for the

*service*, as well as the product. *************

In the early 70's I drove a flatbed tractor-trailer for a truck-assembling company, picking up freight which was owned by that company, off the docks at South Clinton St. in Baltimore.

Needing to make three turns daily, I always took two ten-dollar bills, loading two truck-bodies each trip. Yes, I listed it in petty cash as "grease", I left it on the clipboard under the pier's copy of the Loading Manifest/Receipt of Freight form. Not saying it was a fair arrangement, but it worked. Everybody was satisfied. Half of the $$ went to the forklift driver, the other went to his supervisor, for essentiallly allowing the deal to operate as it did.

Being liberal with $$ helps, being a nice guy does, too. Being aware , reading the fiene print of the contract is probably a good idea too.

Flash

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Flash

Be aware...

There's FedEx, FedEx Freight, FedEx Ground, and FedEx Custom Critical.

They aren't the same companies. Related, but not the same.

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B A R R Y

and Brittany's ex husband aka FedEx.

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Robatoy

After reading the responses, I guess I could understand if the trucking company sent out a truck without a lift gate. I imagine they're in shorter supply than trucks without one. But once it was there, I don't see what the driver gained by not using it. He just guaranteed himself a longer stop and no tip. If it was me, I wouldn't have complained, but it would have given me a chuckle.

todd

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todd

SNIP of some pretty precise info

You sound as confused as I am. I don't know how it could be clearer.

This is the guy that necessitates the warnings on paint that says not to ingest it. He is the guy that requires a sticker that says hot soldering irons can cause burns. He is the guy that needs to read the warning on a bag of charcoal to tell him not to barbecue in the house, or heat his house with an open charcoal pit. This is the person that has to be reminded at the propane filling station that open flames or leaking gas could cause explosions.

How long does the cycle of Darwinism take to work again?

Robert

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nailshooter41

This is the person who makes you wish they did not put the "do not eat" label on Claymores.

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J. Clarke

No kidding...

But the strange thing is that they obviously don't comprehend or believe the things they read, so how in the hell do they get this far?

Robert

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nailshooter41

My dad worked for the Federal Trade Comm. A law suit came in from a guy who used a gas powered rotary lawnmower to trim the sides of his hedges. Picked it up, flipped it 90 degrees and trimmed away, till...OOOPS!! He was hurt, it's the lawnmower company's fault.

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Rick Samuel

Guess he's been able to take advantage of some of the built in protections society affords people who just don't know any better. Don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it's obvious they seem to be working.

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Upscale

Wow! Maybe you can get a case number or some other positive identifying data about that case, because Snopes has been looking for something to confirm that story (which has been around for years) but hasn't been able to find anything.

But don't listen to me:

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LRod

Here's a recent local one as reported in the paper...

A truck driver was delivering eggs to a supermarket. He -and eggs, supposedly - were on the truck's lift about five feet up in the air. He dropped the remote that operates the lift.

He didn't want to jump off because he did that a couple of months ago and hurt a knee so he yells for market employees to come help him. No one came so he sits down on the lift so he can scoot off. Remember now, he was all of five feet up which means that once he sat down his feet were maybe 24-30" off the ground.

Well, he botched it and fell on his head. Now he is suing the supermarket for $10,000,000 because of their negligence. They were negligent because he is inept and/or stupid? I say he should have sued his parents for genetic deficiency.

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dadiOH

run that way for long as my intuition tells me that the oil from the crank-case would take out the piston pretty quickly (maybe a 2 stroke?) and as those mowers have no fuel-pump, I can't imagine it running for very long. I say shenanigans!!

Reply to
Robatoy

Various parks and highway departments are using an articulated mowing machine for this very task. They lift the mower up and turn it sideways and trim the ditch trees along a roadway.

Dave N

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David G. Nagel

It's my understanding most of that type of personal injury case is taken on a contingency fee basis. I don't think a competent lawyer would want to waste time on a case that has absolutely no merit and a poor chance for a payout. If the guy found a lawyer willing to take the case, there may be something more to the story. Although, I guess there are some attorneys that are willing to try suing everybody within a 1/4 mile radius of the accident site and hope one of them will settle to avoid the harassment.

I agree that if the report posted is a fair compilation of the relevant facts, the guy's best case is against the parents for not using effective birth control.

Tom Veatch Wichita, KS USA

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Tom Veatch

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