Steve B wrote:


"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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Steve B wrote:


"Tex" wrote

IMHO, it's your choice and consider tips as nothing more than wages a
customer pays other peoples' help. It's your money; do as you wish.
As for me, I figure they're already getting paid by somebody else to do
a
job. If they don't like their salary, they can bargain for a larger
one
or change jobs. Hard nosed? Perhaps? So be it!

I can tell you never ran into a real freight man. They have the power
to
send your stuff to Cleveland if they want to. And do all sorts of
things to hold up your business, freight, and heartbeat.

I used to love running into your types. I was a Teamster, and knew 98
ways to make your **** disappear for long periods of time.

OK, tell us _one_ way for a truck driver to "make your **** disappear for
long periods of time" without having anybody ask how it got off the truck
between loading and delivery.

Steve

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Uh, signing it off as delivered, and dropping it in the river?

And how do you explain why the signature doesn't match the customer's?

Marking it
"refused - return to sender" and scribbling a signature?

Ditto.

Marking
"unloading
dock closed" - "return to terminal"?

And when it gets back to the terminal then what do you say to your boss when
the irate customer who has been standing on the loading dock all day
waiting for the shipment complains about it?

Spilling a can of oil on it, and
marking "hazardous material leaking from crate"?

And of course you are qualified to determine that the material is hazardous.

Need I go on?

What I'm seeing from you is a list of ways for a driver to find himself out
of a job. Sorry, but none of those "make your **** disappear for long
periods of time" except the dropping in the river bit and on that one
you've committed grand larceny and can look to spend a good long time in
jail.

Every company has rules regarding handling and delivery. Any good freight
man knows how to hurt a "customer" who is a PITA.

Seems to me that what you're describing doesn't leave the "good freight man"
any better off than if he'd just swatted the customer with a two-by-four.
In every case it is clear who was in charge of the shipment when it went
astray and so it is clear who gets docked/fired/jailed/tossed in the river
for it.

By the way, who do you work for, I want to be sure never to hire them.

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