A Question For You Reefer Drivers
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I've also never had a full load rejected. I did have about 40 cases of bagged salad get turned away, because the shipper sent the wrong product. Claims had me take it to a local food bank.
Btw, thatsm WAS you at the hutchins terminal the other day. I showed up and saw a flatbed loaded with bags of onions, and then I saw that hat on the dash. I thought, "I wonder if that's old school?". But I didn't want to bother whoever was in the truck, so I just went past.
Had I known, I would have come up and said hi....and I remember something about you offering a steak dinner when we met.....at least that's the way I remember it...im sure of it!
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.
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Yep, that was me!
Hmmm, Steak with carmelized onions would have been good too! Sorry I missed you.
The only food products I tend to haul are sugar (not getting rejected) and taco stuff. The place I pickup the taco shipment from always gives me a Ortega taco meal kit. That and bottles of Ortega taco sauce.
Most of the time I am hauling paper products. I don't mind sometimes getting a few cases of toilet paper and paper towels rejected. I take what I need and my the dock workers at my next shipper are always appreciative of TP and paper towels. I am always loaded real quick when I show up with product.
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.
Apparently, hauling onions on flatbeds is fairly common. I've seen several on the road. Yesterday at a TA in New Mexico, one scaled in front of me as I was walking to throw out my trash. Man did that truck smell good.
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It's pretty simple with my company. We call our claims department and they tell us what to do. I've never had a whole load rejected, but had six cases of cherries rejected while in training. We were told to dispose of them, so we took them to a food bank and let them grab however many they wanted. There were still a couple cases that they couldn't take due to room, so my trainer ate them. He loves cherries. Or at least did before that, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some love lost there.
A lot of the customers I go to have directions to the local food banks for rejected product. I hear some that just head to a truck stop, take a 34, and use that time to sell off the rejected product to other drivers if it's something drivers would like. One of the guys I went through part of my training with got some steak rejected and happened to have a grill, so he went to a TS and just started cooking free cooked-to-order steaks for anyone that wanted one.