City Driver
Well-Known Member
if you didnt hear about it, you should of
at our ups freight terminal, it was about 2 weeks ago when management put workers lives at risk to save a couple bucks
a yard jockey started to pull out a loaded pup from a door...after she made her cut, the trailer fell off (for disputed reasons)....the landing gear was really torn up and the trailer was leaning at like a 45 degree angle BARELY staying up....so they put another trailer next to it so if it fell it would fall into the other trailer and stay up
this trailer had 15,000 lbs of poison and 5,000 lbs of flammable liquids...very dangerous situation
did they call a wrecker? no
did they call a hazmat team? no
who did they call? 6 dockworkers and 1 yard jockey all on forklifts....the yard jockey is also a stuard
they move the 2nd trailer that was being used to block it in case it fell, had 4 forklifts pick it up and 3 more on the other side to hold the forks up and keep it from tipping back over to the other side
this whole situation was handled in the worst way possible....there was hazmat drums breaking through the side trailer wall
i wasnt out there but i watched almost the whole thing from the dock
there was a dock superviser and the dock manager out there to tell everybody what to do
i talked to some of the dockworkers and they said it was pretty scary being underneath a trailer that was ready to tip over on them
i know they could of refused to do it, and i would of refused to.....but still, this whole thing was crazy
then to top it all off they back the trailer into the dock and open it up...much of the hazmat was spilled obviously and hazmat trailers that are believed to have leaks or damage should be closed up and kept away from workers
thats the end of my rant
at our ups freight terminal, it was about 2 weeks ago when management put workers lives at risk to save a couple bucks
a yard jockey started to pull out a loaded pup from a door...after she made her cut, the trailer fell off (for disputed reasons)....the landing gear was really torn up and the trailer was leaning at like a 45 degree angle BARELY staying up....so they put another trailer next to it so if it fell it would fall into the other trailer and stay up
this trailer had 15,000 lbs of poison and 5,000 lbs of flammable liquids...very dangerous situation
did they call a wrecker? no
did they call a hazmat team? no
who did they call? 6 dockworkers and 1 yard jockey all on forklifts....the yard jockey is also a stuard
they move the 2nd trailer that was being used to block it in case it fell, had 4 forklifts pick it up and 3 more on the other side to hold the forks up and keep it from tipping back over to the other side
this whole situation was handled in the worst way possible....there was hazmat drums breaking through the side trailer wall
i wasnt out there but i watched almost the whole thing from the dock
there was a dock superviser and the dock manager out there to tell everybody what to do
i talked to some of the dockworkers and they said it was pretty scary being underneath a trailer that was ready to tip over on them
i know they could of refused to do it, and i would of refused to.....but still, this whole thing was crazy
then to top it all off they back the trailer into the dock and open it up...much of the hazmat was spilled obviously and hazmat trailers that are believed to have leaks or damage should be closed up and kept away from workers
thats the end of my rant