Fedex Pfizer load Hi-Jacked

RichM · Nov 23, 2005

Also since the driver admitted to leaving the truck running the insurance company may decline to pay due to driver negilence.
Fedex insures cargo for 50K, then their insurance company takes over, the customer must then declare a value and pay a premium for additional coverage. This one should be interestering but us peons will never know the outcome.

greg334 · Nov 24, 2005

>Also since the driver admitted to leaving the truck running
>the insurance company may decline to pay due to driver
>negilence.
>Fedex insures cargo for 50K, then their insurance company
>takes over, the customer must then declare a value and pay
>a premium for additional coverage. This one should be
>interestering but us peons will never know the outcome.

Before that shipment is even wrapped and on the skid, they know the value of it down to the penny, Retail and Wholesale. Every product has a cost assiged to it and I would think that FedEx may already have a rider policy for these types of shipments to protect themselves. But you are right about the driver, admitting things changes everything.

lineboss · Nov 26, 2005

If I'm ready these posts correctly , then how can any shipper say you can't stop driving util 1st 300 hundred miles! What about tire checks every 3 hours for nonhazmat loads or is that not considered a stop!!!!!!!!!! By the way my theft deturant system is a dirty truck:+

davekc · Nov 26, 2005

What about tire checks every 3 hours for nonhazmat loads or is that not considered a stop!!!!!!!!!!

Might be a tough sell on this kind of load because that is not a DOT requirement.
The whole thread would give meaning of a review of insurance if hauling Fedex white glove. With all the deductables and other items, it seems like the drivers are under insured and carry alot of exposure if I am reading this right.
It would seem that additional coverages would be warranted. Even if the driver didn't admit fault, it would appear a long period of litigation is possible based on some of these responses.
Would the carrier help the driver or accomadate the wishes of a good customer?
It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Davekc
owner
21 years

DANMELISSA_FDCC · Nov 28, 2005

You is really funny...lol, I suspect it was an inside job on the drivers side, kind of like the one that happened supposedly today..11/28, yet they have the van's lic plate # and that there are 4 black fellers involved........Now ya know how some people offer 10k-50k cash in a briefcase or even more for ya to just walk away from yer truck and the load. But a solo running high dollar pfizer load???? Fdcc is starting to slack off.......

DANMELISSA_FDCC · Nov 28, 2005

We are a team and have'nt hauled pfizer in a few months, when did they start that cuff thing??? And we never knew about that 300 mile thing, we usually fuel right after we load, then boogie all the way to the stop, non-stop....But then again, when we do fuel, I stay with the truck while the wife goes inside and we run an unmarked trailer and our fdcc stickers are quite different than other trucks, so it might throw the theives off...But I still think it was an inside job.......

DANMELISSA_FDCC · Nov 28, 2005

With certain loads we dont have to stop and do that tire check thing cuz it was ruled that it wasnt safe due to the homeland security thing. Besides we check'em before we roll......

cheri1122 · Nov 29, 2005

In orientation for Swift a few years ago, we were told the same thing: stopping every 2 hrs for a tire check is too predictable, and we should not create a pattern that hijackers could anticipate. It seems to me, though, that a hijacker would prefer that he choose where to accomplish his mission, rather than working with the location chosen by the driver. So it wouldn't matter if the stops were on a schedule or not, the driver just has to be hyper-vigilant when hauling a high value load. And, the point about the locks being a dead giveaway was a very good one. Using a particular lock on only high value loads is like a neon sign, duuh!

greg334 · Nov 30, 2005

>If I'm ready these posts correctly , then how can any
>shipper say you can't stop driving util 1st 300 hundred
>miles! What about tire checks every 3 hours for nonhazmat
>loads or is that not considered a stop!!!!!!!!!! By the way
>my theft deturant system is a dirty truck:+

I am going to throw this; I don't know what the requirments are for hauling Nuke waste or Nuke Material but some biological material (vacine making material for one) shipments are exempt from a lot of laws abd rules so not to stop in transit. When companies like Pfizer have a shipment of say Viagra, which is covered by specific laws by compound name I might add, they just don't pick any carrier out out of a hat to ship the stuff and they make sure the carrier understands the policies and laws before the stuff is even wraped and the contracts are signed.

DANMELISSA_FDCC · Dec 21, 2005

UPDATE.................. They found the trailer in the same truckstop 5 days later.......moved to a different spot. I dont know if they found the tractor.

Dynamite 1 · Dec 21, 2005

i may stand for correction, but i believe since shortly after 9/11 the homeland security act declared that stopping for tire checks on any load were not required anymore. like was previously stated, much of it has to do with not being so predictable. while i dont believe that anyone is in any more danger of having their trucks stole for a terrorist act than for the freight. probably the latter is more likely.