Posts with tag: overnightstories
That freight shift that never let up
Started with an average truck. Nothing out of the ordinary. But then OGP asked for help, three people called out, and the backroom was a war zone before 9PM. We had overstacked pallets that blocked the aisles, a broken jack battery, and the baler filled before midnight.
At one point, a soda pallet collapsed and rolled cans under every shelf. Took 40 minutes just to clean that up, and right after that I got pulled to backup. Came back and half my freight was gone—restocked by someone in the wrong aisles.
No one was communicating. Claims was short, apparel was behind, and every five minutes it was “hey can you check this real quick?”
By the end of the night I was dizzy, covered in dust, and still had to close out a damaged pallet report. Shift ended. Truck wasn’t done. Just another overnight where survival was the only goal.
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