Originally published at: Does DOT’s enforcement policy put truck safety at risk? - FreightWaves
A new enforcement policy proposed by DOT raises the question of whether the trucking industry will become less safe or will be better able to comply with regulations.
Know what’s even a bigger safety issue?
When you get up at 6:00 a.m. arrive at the shipper at 2:30 p.m. they give you a door and then they string you along until 1:00 in the morning. You didn’t get any sleep because they tell you to listen for a text or watch the green light they can’t be bothered to call you. So after being up for roughly 20 hours frustrated hungry tired You’re now told to leave the property and you must go find some place to park only to find out that the place you’re in doesn’t like you parking anywhere. That is a biggest safety issue than anything else
Steven, shipper here. You were probably late for your 2:30pm appointment time and then you want to complain that the shipper held you up all day. If you show up for your appointment on time, you will be loaded in a timely fashion. Showing up late throws a wrench into our already tight schedule and slows us down. You’re a trucker, you should know this.
32 year driver here…My Appt was 1530, our requirement is to be 30 minutes early. I arrived 1430. Ill be more than happy to post my logs with gps tracking and qualcomm information proving my story.
How do you explain Albertsons in Portland? Been there 6x in the past year. Always arrive about 1600-1700 appt ON TIME and LUCKY to get out by 0100. Or what about the time everyone went home and I was still in a door waiting to be unloaded? Security came running out thinking I was trying to rob the place.
I post reviews of many places and I always post the truth, even that time I screwed up and opened my doors when I was supposed to keep them shut which screwed me on the precool and I had to pay a $350 late fee.
Steven, shipper here again. I’m not saying shippers don’t make mistakes, however in my experience, the driver is usually to blame for not being loaded in a timely fashion. 80% of the time it’s a missed appointment, 10% is driver not following shipper protocols, and the remaining 10% is the shipper’s fault.
Have you ever loaded out of my facility? I guarantee as long as you showed up on time for your appointment, you were loaded within an hour and on your way.