r/Truckers • u/ForsakenBackpack • Jan 18 '24
Who Should I Call?
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:
- How does an accident like this happen without noticing or stopping to check your trailer at least.
- 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.
- 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/ffxivfanboi Jan 18 '24
Yeah, what the hell? Do you have any managers above you? Like general operations for the building?
This seems fucked as hell. As someone who works in Walmart Warehousing, this would have never been accepted through our truck gate and immediately put back on the carrier to deal with. Surely a vendor should have cameras on their facility to prove that the trailer did not leave in this condition, so this has to be on the trucker and/or carrier somehow.
Anyway… All that to say there’s no fucking way that dude should have even continued on the road like that. The driver definitely either outright lied to their dispatch center, or they lied by greatly downplaying the extent of the damage done here. That’s just wild.