Posted on 18-05-2006

The Rest of the Story

Filed Under ( Trucking - General ) by Wayne Weisser

UPDATE about the last post: That might have sounded like I was being trivial, but it wasn’t just counting cases on one pallet and multiplying by pallets. Some pallets had 16 some had 70. So, it wasn’t as simple as it sounded. The shipper had their count, I didn’t agree with it, but I signed [...]

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Posted on 16-05-2006

Put Up or Shut Up

Filed Under ( Trucking - Technology ) by Wayne Weisser

Remember when I mentioned about shippers treating drivers like crap in the previous post? These two signs were at our latest pickup. Between the New York attitude and these signs it didn’t put me in a very good mood. Then when I was told I was responsible for the case count, my response was, “Nope”. [...]

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Posted on 04-05-2006

Solutions for the Dreaded Driver Shortage II

Filed Under ( Trucking - General ) by Wayne Weisser

Hooray! Someone save us poor trucking companies from the dreaded Driver Shortage!
The ATA reports average turnover is 136%. That means every driver plus a third more are replaced every year. (Not every driver is literally replaced, but others come and go in less than a year. That’s the average, some are actually worse? [...]

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