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Jan 17 (edited) • 💭 Chat

Freaky Friday

Hello, my dear colleagues! I would like to share something that happened to me just yesterday. It was a super complicated Friday. It started as another Friday, all loads booked, just waiting for our carriers to get load/unloaded to receive the paperwork and send it to brokers and bill the loads to our factoring.

Out of the sudden, one of the carriers call me to tell me that at the receiver he was delivering they were being super slow unloading his trailer, and he was not going to beable to make it to pick up the next load. 😱😱😱😱😱😱

Obviously, we had to cancel that load and start looking for another one. Happily, we could book one after 3 hours of search, calling and emailing. The driver arrives on time to pick the load up, and at the shipper they refused to use his trailer because they wanted to load the product in a specific position that was just simply imposible in that trailer, even when there was enough space to load easily their product. Another cancellation on Friday afternoon 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

In addition, I had another carrier in Texas trying to go to California, every week we book his load early, not much of a problem (usually), but yesterday it was difficult to find it.

I was hopeless, honestly, late afternoon, Friday, it is almost impossible to find a decent load. But i did!! Almost 7 pm!! I got both loads! I got some mercy from Heaven, an ángel came down and out his hand on my head, i don’t know what supernatural strengh helped me but i got it. 😂😂

After that, i was exhausted, i just wanted to be in bed watching a movie and having some wine 🍷😂

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