Too many Kubotas
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I had one lower itself during a 300-mile drive with a new trailer.
It was the kind where the tube is set to the desired height by a clamp, in addition to the normal crank mechanism. Well, it decided to unclamp itself.
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It was the kind where the tube is set to the desired height by a clamp, in addition to the normal crank mechanism. Well, it decided to unclamp itself.
I know somebody just last night who DID raise the jack but when the hitch didn't lock onto the ball, decided to pull ahead as he knew that the weight of a half cord of wood holding it down would prevent it from popping off.
He was wrong.
He was wrong.
ning
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I learned the hard way not to assume that someone that I watched hook up most of the trailer also put the keeper pin in the hitch. Went over a quick rise and just over it the trailer kinda bounced and popped off of the hitch. Luckily she did set the chains right and I was only going 35. Bend the trailer jack a little as the trailer skidded on the bottom of it; started no wildfires. Hooked it back up, double checked it, and kept going ... I always check every connection twice now, even if I'm the one who hooked it up.
Actually it has been setting in the field since Thanksgiving and was frozen in. My intent was to bring it out onto the plowed road, then hook it down.I suspect that "somebody" was the poster, JstpssngThe weight shift from the trailer bouncing get ya?
I won't be making THAT mistake again!
QRTRHRS
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Whenever I hooked up to a semi trailer, I always crawled under the trailer, no matter how nasty wet or dirty and checked the fifth wheel latch. When I ran doubles, certain dolly's were prone to not latching even if they looked to be so. I used to do a figure eight in the yard before I headed out as a final check. My home yard was next to two other companies that also ran doubles. I saw more than one trailer dropped. One was out on the main road on the ramp to the four lane! One of our drivers was already there helping that driver out. Luckily, his air and electric line had not been torn off.
QRTRHRS
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"Hand Bombing" trailers is not much fun especially if it's 90+ degrees and the trailer is a 48 or a 53 footer.
Bumping docks all day can have it's moments as well. I had to take a pallet of chairs to a college one day. No lift gate on the trailer. The "dock" was a concrete pad about 24" lower than the trailer. The man receiving the chairs sat there with a look of discust on his face. A young lady with him just blank.
Pallet jack in hand, I yanked the load right off of the trailer onto the pad. Lifted the jack which had not broke up onto the trailer, smiled and said "Have a nice day" as the two stood there with their mouths wide open.
Bumping docks all day can have it's moments as well. I had to take a pallet of chairs to a college one day. No lift gate on the trailer. The "dock" was a concrete pad about 24" lower than the trailer. The man receiving the chairs sat there with a look of discust on his face. A young lady with him just blank.
Pallet jack in hand, I yanked the load right off of the trailer onto the pad. Lifted the jack which had not broke up onto the trailer, smiled and said "Have a nice day" as the two stood there with their mouths wide open.
ning
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Has this been here yet?
can't argue with the skillz in this case
can't argue with the skillz in this case
Renze
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Hah that reminds me of the time i was a 10 year old kid, and my brother just had his drivers license and a 199 something Corolla.
We inflated our rubber boat at home with the shop compressor, then put it on the roof of the Corolla and drove to the canal 3km from our home. We had both windows cranked down, my brother held the raft with his left hand and myself with the right hand.
Because this was a shortcut road between two towns, we met 2 or 3 cars oncoming. You could see in their eyes that they were busy processing why two young lads both had their arms up, and that they were holding the raft on the roof... and one guy only nodding his head in their direction as a greeting, because his other hand held a steering wheel. My brother said me, hold the steering wheel so i can wave with my right hand, i want to see their faces !
Childhood memories
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They pull that same stunt with me consistently. I'm a mile down a private road.
Called it a weather delay Monday with clear roads and sunshine.
Lazy or can't wait to get home and pop that beer open. Blatant lies.
When it says out for delivery they should deliver unless they really have a good reason.
They get some shady drivers the way they contract out work.
One driver had wife and child in the van.
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BigBlue1
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I'm less frustrated by the fact they can't get it delivered when it was 'out for delivery' than I am about the blatant lie that they document it with. I'm f'ing home and you didn't show up at all... Don't list it as 'attempted delivery - nobody home'. Especially when I have a sig release on file which make the entire premise invalid.
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Yes the lie is insulting and underhanded. ln their list of reasons for not delivering they should be honest. (Couldn't make it today.
Its about them taking responsibility instead of blaming you or making false excuses.
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Renze
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I havent seen wife and child yet, but because of shady drivers that get exploited by the parcel companies, our government will fine if you hire a self employed worker, if the same job could be done by an employee.
Because the parcel delivery business is a mess, farmers who hire themself out to companies for 3 days in the week during winter, now have a problem; they have to insure themself for the whole week because they are self employed, yet for the days they work at someone else, forced as an employee, they have to pay into mandatory employee insurance as well...
Meanwhile the Dutch IRS is exempt from this rule, because in the past decade, so many civil servants have given up their job and then offered their services as a self employed "advisor" for 3 times their original salary, because the IRS would become too understaffed to nag the self employed, if they quit hiring these people who are now "consultants"
It doesnt effect me because i aint self employed, but the injustice aggrevates me....
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Oaktree
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Do these services still require signatures? I haven't had to sign for a package in ages, maybe a regional thing?
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Around here it seems like few signatures required as the photo replaces that most of the time. Some things still do require a signature when the sender requires it. Also alcohol requires a signature.
BigBlue1
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I'm occasionally asked to sign for a non-special package when I go out and meet the driver. Some packages MUST be signed for, like when a cellular provider ships a cell phone or my company ships me a laptop. Sig release doesn't work for those.
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FedEx policy here is a picture if the drop it, a signature if they hand it to a person. Not all drivers follow protocol.
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I think the Fedex people use the "tried to deliver and not able to" is because they have no way to say they ran out of time on shift.
They are loaded with the idea that everything will go perfectly. So if the last one or two items puts them too far over shift they have no way to say that the pkg is still on the truck at return to depot.
Also here Fedex can be pretty bad about where they drop stuff when running late.
Nothing like wandering around looking to see where the package was dropped.
Kind of adventure I don't need
They are loaded with the idea that everything will go perfectly. So if the last one or two items puts them too far over shift they have no way to say that the pkg is still on the truck at return to depot.
Also here Fedex can be pretty bad about where they drop stuff when running late.
Nothing like wandering around looking to see where the package was dropped.
Kind of adventure I don't need
BigBlue1
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That seems consistent with what I've experienced.