Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
I'm. 6' only 185
I could be thrown out by not meeting the weight requirements
Why do drivers have this elitist attitude?
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I could be thrown out by not meeting the weight requirements
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
You must be the guy making the snack runs.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
I'm at the airport right now !!
I don't stoop low enough to talk to those pre madonnas.
Non sequitur
Well-Known Member
Their serving Crown when you only got margaritas.
Unlike @over9five ?
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
Gawd yes ,, he has 4 airbags in his tractor , and has to step out at the weigh station
quad decade guy
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No photography allowed at our airport......in great big signs at the gate.......beware...
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
Oops !!!
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quad decade guy
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Read my reply carefully....
Now, a teachable moment if you please....
With my receding respect.....
Declined a trip to the hospital......wow.
How do you know? Well....a great but pretty easy solution.....all loads must have load retainers(actually deployed)! See?
Now, this is no GUARANTEE. Granted. But with load retainers being eliminated, odds of getting hurt are greatly increased. This is why the determination they are not required was a bad day for all UPS'ers.
So, there was no discussion from anyone about what happened, fault(blame), prevention etc.? I can only assume, speculate based on what you've supplied. You did seem to laugh about it (lol) I believe). Here, the only discussion was "You've been instructed on how to open a door away from you.....". I would like to see the Hub made responsible for door opening safety.
Your question is a good one that should be addressed on a National level.
I will say, I've encountered(at work) many people like yourself. Who just seem to look the other way or yes, shrug. It is odd to me. How so many people could be so united in looking the other way from safety and security.
I do wonder how you would have felt (if possible) if you would had been disfigured or medically retired? Or your Family?
quad decade guy
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Doubling down....attaboy!
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
I don't need to learn anything from the likes of you. Is it true that you and Dave are never seen at the same place at the same time?
Coldworld
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A disgrace to feeder drivers with everywhere… need to get you on a feeder food plan ASAP!!
Disgraceful. At that weight he's probably not even on BP meds.
I've convoyed with @Covemastah . With all the coffee he drinks, there is no room for food. Had no idea there were 27 coffee places where TTs could park between here and Bangor!
quad decade guy
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Absolutely true. As we are not the same person and live thousands of miles away.
As for teaching and learning....I will say I've never been knocked unconscious by a falling object....IDK. MOF I've never had a lost time injury....
I have known many, many co-workers that have spent months and even years on comp and injury....some never come back. Why some even hit in the head. One, broken vertebrae, chipped teeth....
Superteeth2478
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That feeder driver was a dillweed for blowing up on you for not being able to tell him something that wasn't your job to tell him.Like theyre so important? Actually its the feeder drivers im talking about. Huge egos on them. Im pt pickoff and had an idiot feeder driver ask me if he can pull the truck. I told him im not a supervisor. He stormed off and yelled "no accountability here". Wtf?
I talked to a package car driver on the way out and he was telling me feeder drivers dont do jack.
But that package car driver who you talked to is either just as stupid or hasn't been there for very long as a driver (or anything, for that matter) to not realize that, more often than not, a feeder driver's job of (almost) doing jack
(other than the fact that operating an 18-wheeler is a skill) is merited because they've put in their time doing all kinds of other ty jobs either inside the warehouse or on the road as a package car driver (or both).
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Superteeth2478
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I agree that they did put in their time, but loading trucks before PALs is NOT as hard as old-timers make it out to be. They had a TON less volume before there were PALs. Not to mention they were making a part-time rate that was actually HIGHER than minimum wage in, I'm guessing, every state at the time (meaning pre-1982, when part-time wage rates froze at $8.50 for the next 30 years).
PreTrippin’
Stinkin Ginzo
I told them this exact same thing and they just belittled me even more. God damned drivers. They’re all a bunch of princesses.
PT Car Washer
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Preloading before PAL was not a bad job and I was paid $.50/hr less then top rate drivers after 90 days. PT wages were not frozen. Only the starting wage.
PreTrippin’
Stinkin Ginzo
Ya now we get minimum, load 4 trucks off a full and stacked belt and get berated by teenage “supervisors”. Then the driver queens come in cussing us out and demanding why the new girl buried that 60 piece ups store bulk on your 2 shelf like the load sheet says to do.
