Everyday Is A New Experience

Grabbing the wrong trailer is pretty tough to do. You have the trailer number you're supposed to be picking up and you match it up with the trailer number printed on the trailer. I guess it can happen, but it's easy to match trailer 29125 with 29125.

As for what happened with this load, they made me drop it in a drop yard within an hour from me and it sat there until they figured out what to do with it (didn't take long). They ended up giving it to another driver to drive back to the shipper and return it to them.

Ahh mystery solved.

Yeah, this was a long time ago. If I was an old man like OS I wouldn't have remembered.

I was board and went to the very last page and read backwards lol

I haven't taken a load that was refused due to cancellation. But in training we repowered a load picked up by a wil-trans driver that couldn't make delivery so he called dispatch to get it repowered. When he got confirmation he was off, he popped the seal to get his load locks and wrote a fictitious story about the security guard at the 01 broke the seal and forgot to put a new one on. We took the load and drove it 1850 miles and the receiver refused the load because of the seal mismatch. We drove it all the way back to the shipper. Joplin MO to Dillon SC.

The wil-trans driver got fired over it. The load turned into a claim.

Shipper:

The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.

Wil-Trans:

Darrel Wilson bought his first tractor in 1980 at age 20, but, being too young to meet OTR age requirements, he leased the truck out and hired a driver.

Through growth and acquisition, Wil-Trans now employs over 200 drivers, and has a long-standing partnership with Prime, Inc. to haul their refrigerated freight. The family of businesses also includes Jim Palmer Trucking and O & S Trucking.

I haven't taken a load that was refused due to cancellation. But in training we repowered a load picked up by a wil-trans driver that couldn't make delivery so he called dispatch to get it repowered. When he got confirmation he was off, he popped the seal to get his load locks and wrote a fictitious story about the security guard at the 01 broke the seal and forgot to put a new one on. We took the load and drove it 1850 miles and the receiver refused the load because of the seal mismatch. We drove it all the way back to the shipper. Joplin MO to Dillon SC.

The wil-trans driver got fired over it. The load turned into a claim.

Well maybe Prime shouldn't charge a fortune for these load locks. I absolutely hate how they charge for equipment even if you're a company driver. 70$ for two load locks makes a huge difference in your paycheck. While I do think this driver went way too far, in the end Prime brought it upon themselves in my opinion.

Shipper:

The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.

Wil-Trans:

Darrel Wilson bought his first tractor in 1980 at age 20, but, being too young to meet OTR age requirements, he leased the truck out and hired a driver.

Through growth and acquisition, Wil-Trans now employs over 200 drivers, and has a long-standing partnership with Prime, Inc. to haul their refrigerated freight. The family of businesses also includes Jim Palmer Trucking and O & S Trucking.