ok got a insecure load ticket

Another thought as well, "someone" loaded this and pulled it back to the yard.

 

Yea.......maybe he/she should be paying the fine

 

what i underlined in your response..

go ahead with that, and tell me more should he get hit with CSA points..????

i wanna here this one.....

 

All you needed to do, was call your company, and tell them the load shifted. Refuse to take the load any further. Then you don't have a ticket, and your company gets to charge the shipper for not properly securing the load.

When you knew the load shifted, and didn't stop to get it corrected, you became part of the equation. If you had stopped as soon as you knew the load shifted, you would not have gotten a ticket.

 

I meant that the ticket, if he got one, would not be his responsibility. The company should pick it up. the next sentence said that.

 

I always inspect my load. if it is sealed i go through the channels needed to break the seal and inspect for securement. I once charged a shipper 3 hours of detention because of the wait needed for me to get permission to break seal. I had to insist on a qaulcom message saying that company would take all responsibility for the load before they got permission for me to break the seal.
sometimes it can be a pain in the #&%, but such is the nature of life. The problum is, WE are going to be held responsable for the load, so it's just a matter of covering our &!$. There are loads I pick up that are presealed but, these are places we pick up at all the time and we know what the loads are. one place is empty plastic barrels and they are packed tight to the doors, and only wieght 8000 gross. Use common sense, and if your not sure make a call and do what you gotta do to protect your self, your company, and most important all those sharing the road with you.
I hope you can beat the ticket, but more importantly the points, but if not, sometimes you just have to take your licks and learn. Good luck man.
Happy Trails, Be Safe.
b

 

Your load needs to work on building it's self-confidence so it will feel more secure.

 

I've only had two food grade loads that were sealed before I pulled away from the dock, and those were palletized, boxed dry goods. Every other time I've pulled away from the dock to close and seal the trailer, I inspect the load and brace / block it appropriately before applying the seal and getting underway. I can remember at least two times that I've had to get the shipper to rework the load because of instability that was discovered. Always check.

 

---emphasis added

Right here is where you screwed up, and you own this problem.

You picked up in Decatur, IL, and was leaving a truck stop in Binghampton, NY. That's 842 miles, and unless you ran team without stopping, you stopped somewhere before you got to Binghampton,NY for a 10 hour break and or bathroom breaks, eat, etc...

You did not do a walk around or enroute inspection. Regs require you to inspect your vehicle at stops. Used to have to every 300 miles for tire checks in old days, but those days are gone, and I highly doubt you didn't stop for 842 miles. Somewhere along the line you did not do your job and that's the reason for your current predicament.

Don't mean to appear "insensitive" but facts are facts... you didn't do your job.

 

that would normally have been true before the CSA bullcrap. nowadays, the companies are REQUIRING US to be more professional to AVOID tickets of any kind, as well as any possible CSA points.

once a driver accepts the load, he/she accepted all the responsibilities associated with it. we are being held to higher standards now, and i fail to see the company paying for any mistakes we make.