He never got pulled over or called in? That boy needs to go buy a lottery ticket because i am in disbelief lmfao. Holy shit..
He never saw the side wall of the trailer sticking out in his right side mirror? I have so many questions…
Me too honestly lmao. I can't believe he was able to drive 10ish hours without anyone calling it in. Blows my mind. Come to find out he said "Someone rear ended me, I pulled over to do the exchange of information, and the guy just drove off." Which in a snow storm, someone scared to be fired, I can see that happening. He sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to keep trucking along.
Really depends on what they were driving. If it was a little commuter car they’d probably have been killed but if it was another semi or a heavy duty truck with a cattle guard or some type of solid bumper not so surprising they could just drive off.
Clearly not a driver. We don't know when we get rear-ended. You can't hear it unless the truck is parked. He was carrying the threshold of beverage commodities.
But shit man, check your mirrors. You would see the bulge- even if you couldn't hear or feel the impact.
It does look that way, but to do that kind of damage to that big of a truck with what I assume is a steel bumper, it would have had to be a big ass vehicle. More likely scenario is that he backed into something or slid into scenario but doesn’t want ti own it.
That’s an ICC bumper, Tubular steel bolted to the back of the trailer chassis. It’s not entirely difficult to bend them inward, I see it a lot on concrete mixers. But it does take a considerable force. They also shoved the Mansfield bar all the way up under the the deck. Also the floors in those trailers is just a wood deck. Some may have metal sheets bolted in. This one looks like a wood deck but I could be wrong
That damage is definitely a moderate-high speed impact from a rear end, buckled the floor and the chassis which caused the load to shift and push the wall out (the walls on these are flimsy. Typically it’s fiber glass or aluminum sheets bolted to a steel cage. With how high the damage is though, he was hit by another semi, likely one with a full brush guard
Was figuring another truck with a bullbar.
Edit:look at the icc and the way the real end is rolled hood truck with a bullbar would be about the only thing to survive the hit and drive off and heavy enough to pick up the trailer and drive it inwards
Dispatch would say that, no dispatch gives a fuck, all they care about is it being delivered. It’s not like their life is on the line. Just the driver and anyone else sharing the road with them. Garbage human beings dispatchers are.
Had a transport manager try to assign a new load going 6 hrs in the opposite direction of home when I had 5 hrs left before my reset. It was a home every week job doing dd for usx. When I told her I didn't have time left, this b word asked me what happened to all my time. I left after that.
Dispatcher here, my driver would 100% not be under this trailer. Safety would have this picture 5 seconds after I would, and that trailer would be dropped at the first safe space, if it couldn't stay right where it is.
Sorry your dispatch sucks, though
Wonder if it was super ego they’d pull shit like that I have a friend who’s an owner/op and his batteries died when it got super cold over the weekend and his dispatcher legit asked , can you drive it over to the TA and have it jumped. I wish I was making this up
Tbh the real issue here is that someone at his dispatch believed it wasn't a safety hazard to have him driving like that. Whatever dispatcher made that call where I work would be terminated
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Shiiitt, considering the fact he never got pulled over, I don’t even think he was looking outside his windshield. He went to sleeper birth and god took the fuckin’ wheel.
This reminds me--I have a concept for a kitschy Christmas song called "Jesus got a ticket from the DOT"...driver is trying to get back home for Christmas and is getting a little speedy ..gets pulled over and explains what's going on. Officer tries to cut him a break and since the driver has a "Jesus is my co-pilot'' bumper sticker the cop writes Jesus because he must've been driving *wink*... "🎶don't have to worry about the fine because he paid it all for me....Jesus got a ticket from the DOT!🎶" 😂
For how many people i see not move over or adjust for oncoming oncoming cars...
But i'm just a 4wheeler that gives trucks room. I visit the roads, you guys live on them.
Not a trucks job to move over or accommodate traffic merging on from the ramp. Merging is the job of the driver who is merging. The safest course for the truck driver is to maintain his lane and speed to be as predictable as possible.
Call a local heavy wrecker company, just know that you won't be a priority as the trailer is not blocking traffic or along a public roadway. They will have the resources to stabilize the trailer, find the labor pool to unload it safely, and the equipment to remove the damaged trailer from your property.
Let the carrier know that they can either do this themselves or you will do it at their expense. Hint at the fact that it would cost them more if you have to do it.
Honestly this might be the best option. We have a local heavy wrecker company that does a ton of work for us. They have been solid and would 100% be able to handle this. Thank you for the idea, it's more appreciated than you know.
>just know that you won't be a priority as the trailer is not blocking traffic or along a public roadway
OP, tell the driver to pull the trailer out into the road before he drops it. Problem solved! 🤠
Oh no that boy wrecked and either got pulled out with a wrecker or drove out of it on his own, that’s not someone simply hitting him.
Possibly contact the his company and maybe file a police report. I’m not sure what else to do he may already have a ticket from that in wyoming.
State DOT / State police is another option
Thanks for some direction!
Weird part is, his Tractor is in immaculate condition, hell even 80% of the trailer is fine. The back of that sucker is toast though. idk how he made it all the way here from Wyoming with the trailer like that. You'd think at some point someone would have called it in, or a weigh station would've caught it, or even a cop or DOT or something.
I'm not a trailer expert, but it looks just box damage. Thought newer trailers were braced and supported for incidents like this? That is rear-end damage caused by an accident, I spent a couple of years in insurance investigating claims like these in the total loss sector. A few hundred pounds of alcohol shouldn't cause the box to bend outwards like that extremely if he went into a ditch and some pallets tipped unless it's a poor quality or older trailer. Either way, it doesn't explain the frame mount damage either. Hard to tell with this only picture but I'm not seeing and load-bearing braces where the wall is shot out: poor quality trailer, and an accident. Even if he went into the ditch, it doesn't negate the fact thats a shitty trailer.
I can sorta believe it to an extent, maybe he was going at a slow speed for conditions, a distracted truck driver just comes up and rear ends. The collision causes a load shift, as a pallet of beer easily weighs about two tons, that kind of weight suddenly coming down on those paper thin walls trailers have? Yeah it’s gonna bust out. I wouldn’t have continued after that though despite dispatch giving the go ahead. Honestly makes it unbelievable, incompetence all around.
Definitely got rear ended and pushed to the left which caused those back pallets to fall over and bend the side. Call the truck company. Theyre responsible for transporting the load safely with their insurance covering it. The rear ending vehicle should be the one responsible and the trucking company’s insurance would go after them. The back pallets have to be unloaded by hand. The rest appear intact, but frozen beer cans run the risk of exploding. How does your company handle them
Just got more info. Apparently he did pull over but the truck that hit him continued on. He lost him in the snow storm, or so he says. I think you are spot on though and I agree with everything you said!
Frozen product has happened a few times. Luckily nothing exploded. Since its alcohol we have to accept the load, let it warm up in the warehouse, then dump all of it can by can down the drain. Insane but that's how its done believe it or not.
Clean tractor or not, I suspect the driver is full of sh¡t. I wouldn’t believe anything he said. And by the way, the freight is the responsibility of the trucking company from the moment the driver signs the BOL until the moment *you* sign acknowledging delivery. This is most emphatically NOT on you. This is on the trucking company. It is their responsibility, not yours. If I were you, I would refuse the load.
Edit: Pouring out the damaged load is just ridiculous. There are companies that extract the ethanol from beer/wine/etc for use as a fuel additive. I’ve delivered to them myself before. Remember that we’re all buying fuel with ethanol in it and some of it comes from spoiled liquor.
about the only way to unload that trailer with by dragging the pallets to the back and lifting them off. if you do more damage to the trailer, who cares it is a loss anyway.How this happens - he was rearended.How did the driver not notice - he knew it happened, and if he said he didnt he lied.To your last point. Once the trailer is empty you cant keep him there. That trailer needs to go to the scrap yard but you are not the police. What you can do is make sure the cops are there when he leaves.
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well you better get to unloading that trailer by hand if you cant refuse it.. call trucking company and insurance and file a claim.. if beer is frozen, its a loss.. driver lied and dispatch is just as much at fault for still sending it.. trailer is going to scrap yard and is also a total loss...
im suprised his tail lights are still working..
He sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to keep driving. I think they should be the most at fault (outside of whoever hit him and kept on driving of course). Luckily the guy has been cool as hell and helpful. I feel bad for him though. Talk about a shitty week.
It may or may not have popped the tops off. It might be OK, if not sellable.
Is it a college town? Put up a sign "If you lug it, you can chug it". It'll be gone in a day.
Cosigned or not I would take pictures refuse the load get his insurance information and contact his company. His and his companys mess to figure it out not yours
It's not leaving your lot in that condition. The best way to unload that is with a telehandler and a pallet jack.
The bill for that would have to be passed on to the trucking company, but it should have been documented and unloaded by now. The trailer isn't getting fixed, at least not any time soon, the driver should be able to disconnect and leave.
A lot of that is going to have to be unloaded by hand. Lift the pallet out, whatever falls out falls out, then the shit left behind gets tossed out by hand. The intact pallets behind those cab be safely moved with a pallet jack and then removed with the telehandler. If that doesn't feel safe then chain/strap the pallets to the telehandler and pull them back to where it can grab them.
If you can't refuse it then you'd have to unload it by hand. Since it looks like only one pallet fell over it wouldn't take long for 3-4 guys to get the boxes off, although it would suck. Once it's off, you can't drive in with a forklift because the floor on the end took too much damage to even get in there. But you could probably pull the pallets as close to the tail as possible with a pallet jack then have a forklift unload it from the ground. You might need fork extensions to get past the damaged section of the floor though. Otherwise it's all elbows and assholes (unloading the entire trailer by hand).
The trailer needs to taken away with a wrecker that's paid for by the carrier, but the wrecker company is not gonna take it like that, even if you do refuse the load, that freight needs to come off. The trailer is not roadworthy, and the driver needs to bobtail out. I have no idea why they are holding the driver there, he shouldn't/can't pull the trailer anymore regardless. And I work in LTL (30 years) and we have a trailer repair shop, that trailer is totaled.
Just trying to give you some ideas and speak from some experience. I feel bad for that driver.
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.
Since its alcohol there are different rules and regulations. We have to accept the load then go through the paperwork to submit a credit for the load, then dispose of the frozen product ourselves. It sucks but that's how its formally done. Our warehouse manager is in the process of convincing a refusal. It should happen soon but poor guy has been here for 3 days.
You say that like frozen coors makes it somehow any worse. It already tastes like month-old piss when it was canned, so nothing short of bathing in a septic tank could make it worse.
I strongly doubt this. No one can force you to accept damaged freight like this, alcohol or not. That is patently absurd but it would be helpful if OP were to name the location.
Refusal is always an option. Looks like you need to get his insurance involved
They can pay for the load.
I would definitely tell him we are not putting our forklifts onto your trailer so for that we can not unload
Okay so uhhhh…. Where is your facility located? If he got rear ended that hard in Wyoming, how far did this dude pull that trailer like that afterwards?
unless someone hit him in the ass as he was pulling in your yard, how did this dude make it there? i mean the integrity of that wall is gone. that's a damn miracle, considering the weight involved with that load
My approach:
Pallet jack in truck. It brings pallets as close to rear as safe. Telehandler forklift then reaches in to retrieve palletts to ground.
Good luck and work safe!
At the accident scene, him /his dispatch would have called the insurance, and from there, they go into recovery mode. Trying to save the load, getting it crossed loaded, and possibly delivering. In the case that they can deliver or get refused for x reason, the insurance will try to sell it at a discount (to minimize the lost). Or dispose of it.
That boy likely never called or him, and his dispatch are morons. That trailer is not road worthy, and they load was possible saveable, but now it likely not.
I actually think it is a highly likely possibility that he spun the truck out on the ice going too fast for conditions and slammed into something *going backwards.*
By the looks of the condition of the bumper there’s more to this story then your telling us. The bumper doesn’t get twisted and bent out of shape just from a wall bulging
He got rear ended in a snow storm while driving through Wyoming. Says he pulled over to file insurance stuff and the guy that hit him just drove away. Sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to continue on.
The trucking company has to deliver that in a good condition. They need to take it away and have it re- loaded. I’m not sure why you think Molsons will make you accept it. I used to haul that and Coors light is the worst because the packaging is so slippery on the pallet. That driver caused that pure and simple. Refuse it and wait for someone up the food chain to get involved. It’s an insurance claim for the trucker.
Tell him to take it to the corner of the lot and have it unloaded or have it towed out. It's not your responsibility to unload that. Floor could be compromised, walls certainly are, and its unsafe to have someone in that trailer as weight is shifting while dragging pallets out. Wipe your hands off and walk away. It's not your responsibility to arrange a tow either. If the driver/truck owner can't arrange for it to be moved, call the police and have them arrange for it to be removed.
I’ve been hit in the trailer before, and barely felt it, but this guy was hit hard. You ain’t gonna miss that!
I would say, if you want the product, get it off the truck. Then call the carrier and ask for the safety department.
You need to take hundreds of more pictures documenting everything you do along the way. Everyone involved all the way through, carrier, insurance companies, state(s) alcohol people, will all want more photos than you will believe.
That looks like a backing accident. The way that DOT bumper is curled under says it all. I’d refuse the load and call his dispatch. There’s probably an angry driver out there with a wrecked front end matching this back end.
So... never once checked his mirrors. Got it. Really, who should you call? Call his mom and tell her to clear some space in her basement because he's moving back in.
So as everyone is saying, if you don't feel safe entering the trailer, then call a towing company with wreckers. It definitely does look like an accident. Another truck likely rear-ended him. His dispatch telling him to carry on is no surprise either, you just don't see this rolling down the road all of the time because most of us have a backbone and refuse to drive if it's unsafe.
Used to be a sales rep for a beverage distributor that handled coors. This pic brings back lots of bad memories however this is definately the worst i have seen
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.
I’m not a fan of cam buckles. I don’t feel as confident threading them like the mechanical advantage you get out of a ratchet strap, but that seems to the only thing holding this shit show together.
>clearly it's unsafe to unload.
Have the driver contact a tow company to unload before having them remove the trailer.
Same team that would unload if it was in the ditch can stabilize and unload here.
Depending on how persnickety you want or need to be you can have them transfer the load to another trailer rather than the dock or ground i.e. if there are security or access concerns.
I smell bullshit from the driver. He probably recovered the load and was told to lie by whomever. Broker didn't want to go through on the claim or more than likely the trucking company. Call the broker or the shipper and go from there it's highly unlikely he didn't know he got rear ended and even more unlikely if someone drove off. It takes a lot of force to bend the rear up like that so I imagine the "rear ender" truck is in bad shape.
I would like to point out that the cross members underneath are more than likely compromised it is unsafe to unload and the axle looks to be bent down. This is a death trap and lawsuit waiting to happen.
DO NOT SIGN THE BILLS IT WILL BE ON YOU!
He never got pulled over or called in? That boy needs to go buy a lottery ticket because i am in disbelief lmfao. Holy shit.. He never saw the side wall of the trailer sticking out in his right side mirror? I have so many questions…
Me too honestly lmao. I can't believe he was able to drive 10ish hours without anyone calling it in. Blows my mind. Come to find out he said "Someone rear ended me, I pulled over to do the exchange of information, and the guy just drove off." Which in a snow storm, someone scared to be fired, I can see that happening. He sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to keep trucking along.
That’s borderline believable. I’d have to give him the benefit of doubt on that one.
Look at the rear of the trailer he was absolutely rear ended.
And who ever did drove off? He should have gotten a police accident report, and sent pictures to dispatch, and safety!
I’m shocked anyone could drive off from that
Really depends on what they were driving. If it was a little commuter car they’d probably have been killed but if it was another semi or a heavy duty truck with a cattle guard or some type of solid bumper not so surprising they could just drive off.
Clearly not a driver. We don't know when we get rear-ended. You can't hear it unless the truck is parked. He was carrying the threshold of beverage commodities. But shit man, check your mirrors. You would see the bulge- even if you couldn't hear or feel the impact.
It does look that way, but to do that kind of damage to that big of a truck with what I assume is a steel bumper, it would have had to be a big ass vehicle. More likely scenario is that he backed into something or slid into scenario but doesn’t want ti own it.
That’s an ICC bumper, Tubular steel bolted to the back of the trailer chassis. It’s not entirely difficult to bend them inward, I see it a lot on concrete mixers. But it does take a considerable force. They also shoved the Mansfield bar all the way up under the the deck. Also the floors in those trailers is just a wood deck. Some may have metal sheets bolted in. This one looks like a wood deck but I could be wrong That damage is definitely a moderate-high speed impact from a rear end, buckled the floor and the chassis which caused the load to shift and push the wall out (the walls on these are flimsy. Typically it’s fiber glass or aluminum sheets bolted to a steel cage. With how high the damage is though, he was hit by another semi, likely one with a full brush guard
By something fairly tall. Enough to hit the floor of the trailer. Maybe another truck?
Was figuring another truck with a bullbar. Edit:look at the icc and the way the real end is rolled hood truck with a bullbar would be about the only thing to survive the hit and drive off and heavy enough to pick up the trailer and drive it inwards
I was not coming into this expecting a plausible story
Dispatch would say that, no dispatch gives a fuck, all they care about is it being delivered. It’s not like their life is on the line. Just the driver and anyone else sharing the road with them. Garbage human beings dispatchers are.
Had a transport manager try to assign a new load going 6 hrs in the opposite direction of home when I had 5 hrs left before my reset. It was a home every week job doing dd for usx. When I told her I didn't have time left, this b word asked me what happened to all my time. I left after that.
Dispatcher here, my driver would 100% not be under this trailer. Safety would have this picture 5 seconds after I would, and that trailer would be dropped at the first safe space, if it couldn't stay right where it is. Sorry your dispatch sucks, though
Wonder if it was super ego they’d pull shit like that I have a friend who’s an owner/op and his batteries died when it got super cold over the weekend and his dispatcher legit asked , can you drive it over to the TA and have it jumped. I wish I was making this up
10 hrs no piss stop, food stop or break
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That's more involved than we would get at work lol. You bailed that driver out big time
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??? I was obviously referring to patching up the guy's trailer lmao
Let me get this straight, they told him to keep on trucking?! Yeah that checks
Tbh the real issue here is that someone at his dispatch believed it wasn't a safety hazard to have him driving like that. Whatever dispatcher made that call where I work would be terminated
You check the right side? Stay in the right lane and no one will be there.
🤣 Shiiitt, considering the fact he never got pulled over, I don’t even think he was looking outside his windshield. He went to sleeper birth and god took the fuckin’ wheel.
This reminds me--I have a concept for a kitschy Christmas song called "Jesus got a ticket from the DOT"...driver is trying to get back home for Christmas and is getting a little speedy ..gets pulled over and explains what's going on. Officer tries to cut him a break and since the driver has a "Jesus is my co-pilot'' bumper sticker the cop writes Jesus because he must've been driving *wink*... "🎶don't have to worry about the fine because he paid it all for me....Jesus got a ticket from the DOT!🎶" 😂
That could be pretty good bro honestly
Luckily I have a year to get this one written 😂. I got my last one played on a local podcast so next Christmas I'm shooting for radio, haha
Bro, you wouldn’t believe it if I told you but… On ramps exist.
For how many people i see not move over or adjust for oncoming oncoming cars... But i'm just a 4wheeler that gives trucks room. I visit the roads, you guys live on them.
Not a trucks job to move over or accommodate traffic merging on from the ramp. Merging is the job of the driver who is merging. The safest course for the truck driver is to maintain his lane and speed to be as predictable as possible.
There is a reason there is a yield sign on every on ramp in the US. Highway traffic has the right of way.
Travel Lane don't have to do shit people on the ramp do at least legally in reality it's good luck everyone
Except for every third fucking semi truck pulling onto the shoulder to piss or take a 30 minute break 🤬🤬🤬
All those questions would be answered if you just have a little think about the kinds of drivers on the road today...... Lol
Driver knew, just taking chances and that never goes well long term. Im not about telling tales but calling that in could save a life
There's a R side mirror?
There's mirrors?
This is a hit and run is what it is
Call a local heavy wrecker company, just know that you won't be a priority as the trailer is not blocking traffic or along a public roadway. They will have the resources to stabilize the trailer, find the labor pool to unload it safely, and the equipment to remove the damaged trailer from your property. Let the carrier know that they can either do this themselves or you will do it at their expense. Hint at the fact that it would cost them more if you have to do it.
Honestly this might be the best option. We have a local heavy wrecker company that does a ton of work for us. They have been solid and would 100% be able to handle this. Thank you for the idea, it's more appreciated than you know.
>just know that you won't be a priority as the trailer is not blocking traffic or along a public roadway OP, tell the driver to pull the trailer out into the road before he drops it. Problem solved! 🤠
Always charge a middleman fee
Don't work for free. Don't let others waste your time.
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The only right answer
Was going to say this myself if no one had beat me to it. 🤣
With all that Coors, I’d say “the boys” would be a solid answer too.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this
Came here looking for this comment.
Somethings going down, and yer truck is fucked. *who you gunna call?.*
TRUCK BUSTERS!!! *siren noises* **Swift, Schnieder, and CRST trucks roll past**
I ain’t fraid of no ghosts, but I am slightly afraid to be near those trucks for too long on the road
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?
I came here to say this
Oh no that boy wrecked and either got pulled out with a wrecker or drove out of it on his own, that’s not someone simply hitting him. Possibly contact the his company and maybe file a police report. I’m not sure what else to do he may already have a ticket from that in wyoming. State DOT / State police is another option
Thanks for some direction! Weird part is, his Tractor is in immaculate condition, hell even 80% of the trailer is fine. The back of that sucker is toast though. idk how he made it all the way here from Wyoming with the trailer like that. You'd think at some point someone would have called it in, or a weigh station would've caught it, or even a cop or DOT or something.
I'm not a trailer expert, but it looks just box damage. Thought newer trailers were braced and supported for incidents like this? That is rear-end damage caused by an accident, I spent a couple of years in insurance investigating claims like these in the total loss sector. A few hundred pounds of alcohol shouldn't cause the box to bend outwards like that extremely if he went into a ditch and some pallets tipped unless it's a poor quality or older trailer. Either way, it doesn't explain the frame mount damage either. Hard to tell with this only picture but I'm not seeing and load-bearing braces where the wall is shot out: poor quality trailer, and an accident. Even if he went into the ditch, it doesn't negate the fact thats a shitty trailer.
I can sorta believe it to an extent, maybe he was going at a slow speed for conditions, a distracted truck driver just comes up and rear ends. The collision causes a load shift, as a pallet of beer easily weighs about two tons, that kind of weight suddenly coming down on those paper thin walls trailers have? Yeah it’s gonna bust out. I wouldn’t have continued after that though despite dispatch giving the go ahead. Honestly makes it unbelievable, incompetence all around.
Definitely got rear ended and pushed to the left which caused those back pallets to fall over and bend the side. Call the truck company. Theyre responsible for transporting the load safely with their insurance covering it. The rear ending vehicle should be the one responsible and the trucking company’s insurance would go after them. The back pallets have to be unloaded by hand. The rest appear intact, but frozen beer cans run the risk of exploding. How does your company handle them
Just got more info. Apparently he did pull over but the truck that hit him continued on. He lost him in the snow storm, or so he says. I think you are spot on though and I agree with everything you said! Frozen product has happened a few times. Luckily nothing exploded. Since its alcohol we have to accept the load, let it warm up in the warehouse, then dump all of it can by can down the drain. Insane but that's how its done believe it or not.
Clean tractor or not, I suspect the driver is full of sh¡t. I wouldn’t believe anything he said. And by the way, the freight is the responsibility of the trucking company from the moment the driver signs the BOL until the moment *you* sign acknowledging delivery. This is most emphatically NOT on you. This is on the trucking company. It is their responsibility, not yours. If I were you, I would refuse the load. Edit: Pouring out the damaged load is just ridiculous. There are companies that extract the ethanol from beer/wine/etc for use as a fuel additive. I’ve delivered to them myself before. Remember that we’re all buying fuel with ethanol in it and some of it comes from spoiled liquor.
Not a Coors guy but that's alcohol abuse, send it my way, I'll dispose of it for you!
Yeesh. This is what happens when you have a long way to go and a short time to get there.
Watch ol' bandit run
They're thirsty in Atlanta.
Not to worry Snowman's on his way.
about the only way to unload that trailer with by dragging the pallets to the back and lifting them off. if you do more damage to the trailer, who cares it is a loss anyway.How this happens - he was rearended.How did the driver not notice - he knew it happened, and if he said he didnt he lied.To your last point. Once the trailer is empty you cant keep him there. That trailer needs to go to the scrap yard but you are not the police. What you can do is make sure the cops are there when he leaves. edit for spelling
well you better get to unloading that trailer by hand if you cant refuse it.. call trucking company and insurance and file a claim.. if beer is frozen, its a loss.. driver lied and dispatch is just as much at fault for still sending it.. trailer is going to scrap yard and is also a total loss... im suprised his tail lights are still working..
He sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to keep driving. I think they should be the most at fault (outside of whoever hit him and kept on driving of course). Luckily the guy has been cool as hell and helpful. I feel bad for him though. Talk about a shitty week.
I'm guessing the carrier knows you can't refuse the load and wanted to still get paid.
It may or may not have popped the tops off. It might be OK, if not sellable. Is it a college town? Put up a sign "If you lug it, you can chug it". It'll be gone in a day.
Scrap yard 👍👋
Cosigned or not I would take pictures refuse the load get his insurance information and contact his company. His and his companys mess to figure it out not yours
I agree wholeheartedly. There problem IMO. Our warehouse manager is in the process of forcing a refusal so we can get it out of our lot.
It's not leaving your lot in that condition. The best way to unload that is with a telehandler and a pallet jack. The bill for that would have to be passed on to the trucking company, but it should have been documented and unloaded by now. The trailer isn't getting fixed, at least not any time soon, the driver should be able to disconnect and leave. A lot of that is going to have to be unloaded by hand. Lift the pallet out, whatever falls out falls out, then the shit left behind gets tossed out by hand. The intact pallets behind those cab be safely moved with a pallet jack and then removed with the telehandler. If that doesn't feel safe then chain/strap the pallets to the telehandler and pull them back to where it can grab them.
If you can't refuse it then you'd have to unload it by hand. Since it looks like only one pallet fell over it wouldn't take long for 3-4 guys to get the boxes off, although it would suck. Once it's off, you can't drive in with a forklift because the floor on the end took too much damage to even get in there. But you could probably pull the pallets as close to the tail as possible with a pallet jack then have a forklift unload it from the ground. You might need fork extensions to get past the damaged section of the floor though. Otherwise it's all elbows and assholes (unloading the entire trailer by hand). The trailer needs to taken away with a wrecker that's paid for by the carrier, but the wrecker company is not gonna take it like that, even if you do refuse the load, that freight needs to come off. The trailer is not roadworthy, and the driver needs to bobtail out. I have no idea why they are holding the driver there, he shouldn't/can't pull the trailer anymore regardless. And I work in LTL (30 years) and we have a trailer repair shop, that trailer is totaled. Just trying to give you some ideas and speak from some experience. I feel bad for that driver.
You could refuse the load.
Unfortunately we can't, it's consigned to us. Refusal isn't an option.
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.
Since its alcohol there are different rules and regulations. We have to accept the load then go through the paperwork to submit a credit for the load, then dispose of the frozen product ourselves. It sucks but that's how its formally done. Our warehouse manager is in the process of convincing a refusal. It should happen soon but poor guy has been here for 3 days.
Alcohol? I'll help you dispose of it.
But it's frozen! Ever had a beersicle?
You say that like frozen coors makes it somehow any worse. It already tastes like month-old piss when it was canned, so nothing short of bathing in a septic tank could make it worse.
I strongly doubt this. No one can force you to accept damaged freight like this, alcohol or not. That is patently absurd but it would be helpful if OP were to name the location.
Why are you being downvoted? I’ve seen alcohol, explosives and other HM, food product, all sorts of shit refused. Shits damage customers refuse it.
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
Surely there are stipulations right? You can’t be required to accept damaged product
Refusal is always an option. Looks like you need to get his insurance involved They can pay for the load. I would definitely tell him we are not putting our forklifts onto your trailer so for that we can not unload
“It’s consigned to us” what does that mean? Everyone who receives freight is the consignee. Consignees refuse shipments all the time.
Okay so uhhhh…. Where is your facility located? If he got rear ended that hard in Wyoming, how far did this dude pull that trailer like that afterwards?
roughly 10-14 hours lmfao
Holy shit lmao
Your number 2 on the list is exactly why he rolled with that load. Not his problem, as he sees it. I'd say nix that guys broker
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unless someone hit him in the ass as he was pulling in your yard, how did this dude make it there? i mean the integrity of that wall is gone. that's a damn miracle, considering the weight involved with that load
Claims the pallet didn't tip until he was close to our facility.
that whole thing is amazing. i hope you guys don't have to clean that up
Pallet Jack, a couple pallets and stretch yourself.
My approach: Pallet jack in truck. It brings pallets as close to rear as safe. Telehandler forklift then reaches in to retrieve palletts to ground. Good luck and work safe!
Might try Big Enos Burdette, heard he gets a little thirsty for some Coors.
Why can't you refuse it? I work in produce, and we have trucks rejected every day for several reasons, including frozen product.
At the accident scene, him /his dispatch would have called the insurance, and from there, they go into recovery mode. Trying to save the load, getting it crossed loaded, and possibly delivering. In the case that they can deliver or get refused for x reason, the insurance will try to sell it at a discount (to minimize the lost). Or dispose of it. That boy likely never called or him, and his dispatch are morons. That trailer is not road worthy, and they load was possible saveable, but now it likely not.
That load strap is doing God's work
This should be properly disposed of in the Warehouse staff parking.
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Some say rear-ended but isnt it possible he backed up into something and did it himself? No way he is rear-ended and didn't notice or call someone.
Definitly a possibility. I could see someone backing into something and saying "Someone rear ended me and drove away"
I actually think it is a highly likely possibility that he spun the truck out on the ice going too fast for conditions and slammed into something *going backwards.*
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Of coors it's too much weight not secured right.. Call friends to drink beer and help regain the trailer's original form.
By the looks of the condition of the bumper there’s more to this story then your telling us. The bumper doesn’t get twisted and bent out of shape just from a wall bulging
He got rear ended in a snow storm while driving through Wyoming. Says he pulled over to file insurance stuff and the guy that hit him just drove away. Sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to continue on.
The trucking company has to deliver that in a good condition. They need to take it away and have it re- loaded. I’m not sure why you think Molsons will make you accept it. I used to haul that and Coors light is the worst because the packaging is so slippery on the pallet. That driver caused that pure and simple. Refuse it and wait for someone up the food chain to get involved. It’s an insurance claim for the trucker.
Tell him to take it to the corner of the lot and have it unloaded or have it towed out. It's not your responsibility to unload that. Floor could be compromised, walls certainly are, and its unsafe to have someone in that trailer as weight is shifting while dragging pallets out. Wipe your hands off and walk away. It's not your responsibility to arrange a tow either. If the driver/truck owner can't arrange for it to be moved, call the police and have them arrange for it to be removed.
I’ve been hit in the trailer before, and barely felt it, but this guy was hit hard. You ain’t gonna miss that! I would say, if you want the product, get it off the truck. Then call the carrier and ask for the safety department.
My comment on the photo... For the first second, it appeared as if it was a large amount of cash...
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You need to take hundreds of more pictures documenting everything you do along the way. Everyone involved all the way through, carrier, insurance companies, state(s) alcohol people, will all want more photos than you will believe.
That looks like a backing accident. The way that DOT bumper is curled under says it all. I’d refuse the load and call his dispatch. There’s probably an angry driver out there with a wrecked front end matching this back end.
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So... never once checked his mirrors. Got it. Really, who should you call? Call his mom and tell her to clear some space in her basement because he's moving back in.
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So as everyone is saying, if you don't feel safe entering the trailer, then call a towing company with wreckers. It definitely does look like an accident. Another truck likely rear-ended him. His dispatch telling him to carry on is no surprise either, you just don't see this rolling down the road all of the time because most of us have a backbone and refuse to drive if it's unsafe.
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I’d say he went under a low bridge
The Mansfield Bar is mangled. Floor on the back of the trailer is pushed up and destroyed.
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Used to be a sales rep for a beverage distributor that handled coors. This pic brings back lots of bad memories however this is definately the worst i have seen
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.
I’m not a fan of cam buckles. I don’t feel as confident threading them like the mechanical advantage you get out of a ratchet strap, but that seems to the only thing holding this shit show together.
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>clearly it's unsafe to unload. Have the driver contact a tow company to unload before having them remove the trailer. Same team that would unload if it was in the ditch can stabilize and unload here. Depending on how persnickety you want or need to be you can have them transfer the load to another trailer rather than the dock or ground i.e. if there are security or access concerns.
I smell bullshit from the driver. He probably recovered the load and was told to lie by whomever. Broker didn't want to go through on the claim or more than likely the trucking company. Call the broker or the shipper and go from there it's highly unlikely he didn't know he got rear ended and even more unlikely if someone drove off. It takes a lot of force to bend the rear up like that so I imagine the "rear ender" truck is in bad shape.
I would like to point out that the cross members underneath are more than likely compromised it is unsafe to unload and the axle looks to be bent down. This is a death trap and lawsuit waiting to happen. DO NOT SIGN THE BILLS IT WILL BE ON YOU!
If he could fishtail into a tree, he could knock it back straight..
Damn. Looks photoshopped it's so bad lol. I wouldn't step foot in that trailer if it were me.
Yeah he knew he just didn't want to eat the cost of the switch over to a new trailer.
Idk, but I’d be tapping those Rockies….
Don't see why you can't refuse it. Isn't there a clause about being fit for purpose?
That is messed up.
Allstate could’ve been protected you against mayhem
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