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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Jennifer thinks she's one. But most of her animal shipping jobs seem to say otherwise.

** Roy deals with a couple who bought a food truck in "Tavern on the Greenbacks." The couple seem to show noi animosity to Roy and give him endless amounts of grief when delivering the truck at the final destination to the point where THEY force him to wait for a flat tow-bed to pickup their load from Roy's trailer. This compounds the fact that Roy's time waiting could be better spent making money with other loads.

** In "One Crystal Short of a Geode," Marc deals with a guy who sends out a job to haul Geodes across the country. Upon arriving to pickup the load, he encounters a situation where the shipper wants Marc to break numerous laws and regulations to ship his Geodes, which Marc refuses to do. After going thru the hassle of dealing with the shipper and partially shipping the load (to be in compliance of weight limits), upon arriving at the destination, the shipper has called ahead and told the receiver not to pay Marc until he arrives and gives Marc the riot act. After an endless rant, the shipper eventually pays Marc and has the goods unloaded. Marc comments this is one of the worse loads he's ever did.
** Roy deals with a couple who bought a food truck in "Tavern on the Greenbacks." The couple seem to show no animosity to Roy and give him endless amounts of grief when delivering the truck at the final destination to the point where THEY force him to wait for a flat tow-bed to pickup their load from Roy's trailer. This compounds the fact that Roy's time waiting could be better spent making money with other loads.

* CatchPhrase: Roy's "Perfect, just like me."

* Adorkable: Jarrett. As much as a newbie he is, it's hard to hate him for his sometimes dorkish behavior.

''ShippingWars'' is an 2012 A&E reality TV series that follows the lives of 6 individual shippers. In each episode, the shippers log into uShip to win shipping jobs. Two of the shippers get a job during the show and the rest of the episode follows their journey from start to finish (along with snarky comments from the other shippers). The four main people of the show are Marc Springer (The Big Rig), Roy Garber (The {{Handyman}}), Jennifer Brennan (The Cowgirl), and Jarrett Joyce (The Rookie). Season 1 had Suzanne and Scott Bawcom (The Veterans), but they have been replaced in Season 2 by Christopher Hanna and Robbie Walsh (The Hotshot Couple).

* {{Jerkass}}: Roy. The guy has practically no people skills, though it's sometimes justified when customers make rather unreasonable demands.
** The episode "From Sphere To Infinity & Beyond", one shipping job was to deliver a Buzz Lightyear coin-operated ride to a boy who just lost his parents. All the shippers talk about doing the job at a reduced rate until Roy wins the bid by doing the job for free. In the ConfessionCam, Roy talks about how he's doing this job for the kid. Turns out he may just be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold (thought that remains to be seen)

** Roy deals with a couple who bought a food truck in "Tavern on the Greenbacks." The couple seem to show no animosity to Roy and give him endless amounts of grief when delivering the truck at the final destination to the point where THEY force him to wait for a flat tow-bed to pickup their load from Roy's trailer.
*** That actually goes both ways, since Roy's reaction, though understandable, could have been better. The couple's heart is in the right place- not wanting their truck to get damaged- but they really didn't need a towtruck to back it off a trailer. When the lady calls him out for his impatience, asking him if he has anything better to do, its a case of JerkAssHasAPoint, since Roy actually didn't seem to.
* RightHandCat: Muffy, Roy's pet cat that always goes with him on the job. Whether it's villainous or not depends on if you see Roy as a villain.
* SmugSnake: Roy by leaps and bounds. He seems to to be the most snarked on of the other shippers.
** Chris is starting to be one.

* ConfessionCam: The shippers not on the job spend the episode snarking on those that are.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Hinted with Roy and Marc.
* WorldOfSnark: Everyone who doesn't win a given job gets a chance to make a running commentary on the job in progress. Nastiness abounds.

* {{Auction}}: Inverted. The winner is the person with the lowest bid, though at times some of the shippers will bid the same price and hope that their reputation (based on customer feedback) will win the bid. The shippers have to be careful not to bid so low that there is no profit to be made for the job.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Hinted with Roy and Marc.

* KarmaHoudini: A non-villain example, the episode "Chicken Ship", Marc wins a bid to transport a custom-built hot-rod. The shipper asks him if he has a tarp, which Marc replied no and won't be covering it. One storm later, all the exposed metal on the hot-rod is rusted. To his credit, Marc did feel bad about it and was dreading the dropoff, but to his surprise, the receiver was actually fine with it (Prompting a BigWhat from Jarett).

* VitriolicBestBuds: Hinted with Roy and Marc.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In one episode, Roy undercuts Jennifer on a bid, thinking that she was desperate to get the job. Jen decides not to bite, leaving him with a low-paying job he really didn't want. Cue an almost {{PrecisionFStrike}}.

* MacGyvering: They don't call Roy the Handyman for nothing. For as much as a Jerkass he is, he's very intelligent and has MacGyvered many solutions to potential shipping problems.

''ShippingWars'' is an 2012 A&E reality TV series that follows the lives of 6 individual shippers. In each episode, the shippers log into uShip to win shipping jobs. Two of the shippers get a job during the show and the rest of the episode follows their journey from start to finish. The four main people of the show are Marc Springer (The Big Rig), Roy Garber (The {{Handyman}}), Jennifer Brennan (The Cowgirl), and Jarrett Joyce (The Rookie). Season 1 had Suzanne and Scott Bawcom (The Veterans), but they have been replaced in Season 2 by Christopher Hanna and Robbie Walsh (The Hotshot Couple).

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In one episode, Roy undercuts Jennifer on a bid, thinking that she was desperate to get the job. Jen decides not to bid, leaving Roy with a low-paying job. Cue an almost {{PrecisionFStrike}} from Roy.

* RightHandCat: Muffy, Roy's pet cat that always goes with him on the job. Whether it's villainous or not is a YMMV

* MacGyvering: They don't call Roy the Handyman for nothing. For as much as a Jerkass he is, he's very intelligent and has MacGuvered many solutions to potential shipping problems.

* IdiotOfTheWeek: Mostly Jarrett. Jennifer has her moments too.

* MacGyvering: They don't call Roy the Handyman for nothing.

* ILikeToMakeFunOf: The shippers on the job. The ones that are not on the job spend the episode snarking on those that are.

* {{Auction}}: Inverted. The winner is the person with the lowest bid, hough at times some of the shippers will bid the same price and hope that their reputation (based on customer feedback) will win the bid. The shippers have to be careful not to bid so low that there is no profit to be made for the job.

''ShippingWars'' is an A&E reality TV series that follows independent shippers bidding on the online shipping site uShip for shipping jobs across the country. In each episode, they show two shippers that wins the bid in a reverse auction (the lowest bid wins) and then follow their trip from start to finish, chronicling mishaps, weird people, breakdowns, and more.

The four main people of the show are Marc Springer (The Big Rig), Roy Garber (The {{Handyman}}), Jennifer Brennan (The Cowgirl), and Jarrett Joyce (The Rookie). Season 1 had Suzanne and Scott Bawcom (The Veterans), but they have been replaced in Season 2 by Christopher Hanna and Robbie Walsh (The Hotshot Couple).

* {{Auction}}: Subverted as it's a reverse auction, though at times some of the shippers will bid the same price and hope that their reputation (based on customer feedback) will win the bid.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Marc's big rig is awesome, but massive overkill for smaller loads. His rig also becomes an issue when he has to go to places that don't have a lot a maneuvering room.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Jennifer thinks she's one. But all of her animal shipping jobs seem to say otherwise.

* ILikeToMakeFunOf: The shippers snark on the shippers that are on the job
* Jerkass: Roy. The guy has practically no people skills, though it's sometimes justified when customers make rather unreasonable demands.

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