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My feeders department (maybe district or company wide for all I know )has decided that every customer pick up (CPU) whether a swap of trailer,live pickup, or drop of a trailer needs to have a load bar on the incoming trailer. This is in order to prevent damages and hence save the company money on claims.
Other than a live pickup, the load bar is not in control of a driver. So what is happening is that we are losing the load bars. For example, I bring an empty trailer with a load bar to a customer location and pull a sealed loaded trailer (a trailer I brought there the day before) out of there . I get back to hub and have seal broken and out of curiosity , open the door and take a peek and see no load bar.
This goes on for a while until I get to the customer early one day and manage to get into the building because they are not closed and see a bunch of our load bars leaning against the wall. Not all of them because some other truckers , when making their deliveries and pickups helped themselves to a few of them. Yes, I tried talking to this customer and a few others but they fail to utilize the load bar or fail to chuck it back on the trailer.
We have some customers who also have their own trucks. For those customers , we are basically buying , supplying, and delivering load bars .
This won't go on forever, our newly replenished supply of load bars is diminishing and eventually our hub won't have enough load bars to secure our own rail loads so we will end up having damaged freight anyway .
If this company gave discretion to the drivers about who gets a load bar and who doesn't, the above scenario wouldn't take place but Nooooo, it's do as we say, they all get load bars.
I am sure this decision was made in response to the 4th quarter loss.
Other than a live pickup, the load bar is not in control of a driver. So what is happening is that we are losing the load bars. For example, I bring an empty trailer with a load bar to a customer location and pull a sealed loaded trailer (a trailer I brought there the day before) out of there . I get back to hub and have seal broken and out of curiosity , open the door and take a peek and see no load bar.
This goes on for a while until I get to the customer early one day and manage to get into the building because they are not closed and see a bunch of our load bars leaning against the wall. Not all of them because some other truckers , when making their deliveries and pickups helped themselves to a few of them. Yes, I tried talking to this customer and a few others but they fail to utilize the load bar or fail to chuck it back on the trailer.
We have some customers who also have their own trucks. For those customers , we are basically buying , supplying, and delivering load bars .
This won't go on forever, our newly replenished supply of load bars is diminishing and eventually our hub won't have enough load bars to secure our own rail loads so we will end up having damaged freight anyway .
If this company gave discretion to the drivers about who gets a load bar and who doesn't, the above scenario wouldn't take place but Nooooo, it's do as we say, they all get load bars.
I am sure this decision was made in response to the 4th quarter loss.
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