ELD mandate

[kryten]

(09-06-2017 )snailexpress Wrote:  Life after ELD mandate due.
Driver arrived to the receiver but they can unload him only at night.
https://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=63292238fc12
this is Brazil. Here in America shippers and receivers will seat behind something bulletproof.

This reminds me of a story I heard about 25 years ago. I was waiting for a forklift to come unload my flatdeck at one of the ship docks in Vancouver. I got to talking with another driver in the same position I was in and he told me this story.

He says he was on another ship dock and there was another driver waiting for a forklift. Finally one comes over and the first thing the forklift driver asked was "I want to see your union card". Well the driver wasn't union so he didn't have one and the forky drove off. He waited another long length of time before going in search of a manager and telling the story to him. The manager replied since the docks were union the forky wasn't required to unload him.

The driver phones his boss and explains and the bosses reply of course is don't leave unless you're unloaded. The driver thinks for a bit and comes up with an idea that he talks over with the manager and the manager gives his consent. The driver backs up his trailer to a sturdy pole, belly wraps the small diameter pipe and chains the other end to the pole then drives out from under the load. Of course the load now looks like a nightmare game of pick up sticks but the manager signs the bills and adds "no damage" for good measure. Manager goes looking for the forky who refused to unload and informs him that "now that it's off the truck and on the dock, it is your job now clean it up".