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<blockquote data-quote="retiredTxfeeder" data-source="post: 3473297" data-attributes="member: 52978"><p>There must be a memo from the ivory tower once a year about load retainers.&nbsp; Feeders would tell us &quot;no loads pulled without retainers.&quot;&nbsp; Like you said, it usually lasted a week or so, then it changed to &quot;why were you late hitting the gate?&quot;&nbsp; When you tell the PT sup on the door that you aren&#039;t going to pull without a retainer, he rolls his eyes and then goes into the &quot;go steal a load retainer from another nearby trailer mode.&quot; There was a time when the PT hub sups would would get on their little orange electric cart and go through the yard before their shifts start, &quot;borrowing&quot; load retainers from empties on the yard.&nbsp; Feeders told them to stop, because it caused a ripple effect with drivers on their SW.&nbsp; I pulled a CPU trailer every day on my first leg, and it would sometimes take me 15-20 minutes to find a load retainer to use.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="retiredTxfeeder, post: 3473297, member: 52978"] There must be a memo from the ivory tower once a year about load retainers. Feeders would tell us "no loads pulled without retainers." Like you said, it usually lasted a week or so, then it changed to "why were you late hitting the gate?" When you tell the PT sup on the door that you aren't going to pull without a retainer, he rolls his eyes and then goes into the "go steal a load retainer from another nearby trailer mode." There was a time when the PT hub sups would would get on their little orange electric cart and go through the yard before their shifts start, "borrowing" load retainers from empties on the yard. Feeders told them to stop, because it caused a ripple effect with drivers on their SW. I pulled a CPU trailer every day on my first leg, and it would sometimes take me 15-20 minutes to find a load retainer to use. [/QUOTE]

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