is that possible. We've tried several things. So far no luck. LOLHas anybody that does ltl come up with a good system for keeping track of load bars straps and blankets etc
Exactly! Straps, chains and even empty pallets are company property that is purchased as equipment or supplies to be used by employees to carry out their jobs. Every fall I spend hundreds of dollars on extension cords for plugging in trucks during the winter that mysteriously seem to disappear over the summer. It all adds up. and it's not just drivers. I have caught office staff "borrowing" photo copy paper, working late so they can run their Christmas cards through the postage machine and one guy filling his back pack with toilet paper.Make the the carrier/driver responsible for them. It's not too much to ask that you take care of the straps, dunnage, chains, skids on your truck. We used to have a huge dunnage and pallet problem at one of the carriers I worked at. Skids would go missing by the hundreds, and it was costing us alot of money. Drivers shrugged their shoulders.. some whisptered that "Bill" has stacks of skids behind his house he sells on the side. So we implemented a program whereby we charged (the owner-operators in our case) back for the pallets. If 24 skids went out then we'd expect 24 skids of the same type back.. and if not we took $75.00 X the number of skids missing off their revenue.. Suddenly the pallet problem disappeared. It so it goes for straps, chains, dunnage etc.
Every fall I spend hundreds of dollars on extension cords for plugging in trucks during the winter that mysteriously seem to disappear over the summer.