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    Well you guys on this forum are the exception and not the rule, we on this SMF by majority are honest hard working people that just want to treated with respect and professionalism, and you will be after you basically earn it. You have to understand that most will try to do take advantage of a yard every chance they get, I can tell you that after nine years of owing my yard I have seen many things that just make you shake your head and change the way you look at people, that's one of the reasons I had enough and sold out, It got to be like a battle us against them, the most common was three guys come in on a truck, they dump and on the way out to the scale the two helpers had to relive themselves, or on the way out keeping the back wheel off the scale because you were not on the scale straight, those are common and occur many times through out the day, I am not going into what the spotter watching the people unloading see's, many tricks that a few have mentioned in there posts before me, and some that I won't mention because of the open forum we are on. It's common for the spotter to call the scale house and say the u-haul truck deduct 400 lbs for glass, or the best was that red Chevy impala being junked has four fifty gallon garbage bags in the trunk loaded with water, that guy would try to get paid and let's just say he didn't and was banned, these things go on every day, it's very common for a yard to send a load of baled tin and the shredder or mill that was buying the load puts in a dedication of 10% for concrete or wood garbage, so that's why the yard cannot pay you the highest price! to finish my rant I will just say that the guy screwing the yard is also screwing you. That's just the plain truth.



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