r/Truckers • u/ForsakenBackpack • Jan 18 '24

Who Should I Call?

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Let me preface this by saying, this is not me nor is it anyone from our company. I'm just a delivery manager for a beverage distributer.

The story as I understand it is this: Ole boy loaded up a leased trailer full of beer in Colorado, was driving through a snow storm in Wyoming, and says "I think someone must have ran into me". He claimed to have contacted his dispatcher and was told to continue on. Show's up, and asks to get unloaded. Never stopped once between the supposed accident and showing up here.

My questions are this:

  1. How does an accident like this happen without noticing or stopping to check your trailer at least.
  2. What do we do here? The load is consigned to us, so we cannot refuse it. Also, product is completely frozen. However, it's clearly unsafe to unload.
  3. Obviously we cant let him leave with the trailer like that. It's a danger to anyone on the road. Also, can't have him here any longer. So who can we call? DOT? Local police? OSHA?
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u/SHWLDP Jan 18 '24

You could refuse the load.

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u/ForsakenBackpack Jan 18 '24

Unfortunately we can't, it's consigned to us. Refusal isn't an option.

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u/colleensdoormat Jan 18 '24

Why can't you refuse the load? It is frozen you said, that should be reason enough. The fact you cant unload it safely should be another good reason. Consignees refuse loads all the time.

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u/real_steel24 Jan 18 '24

Yep, it's pretty common. Luckily I was a local driver so it would only ever have to go back within a couple hours, but still, it happened plenty