No Touch Freight

Look into KLLM - they are 100% no touch and they have regional runs that take you home on weekends but no guarantees for it.

 

Hogan doesn't proclaim all no touch freight, but I've never unloaded a truck yet. Now that I've said that, I'll have to!
Anytime a reciever has told me I have to unload a trailer, Hogan has paid for it. If it came up, I'd do it.

 

sorry i forgot, I get home whenever I ask to be home! Chuck hasn't let me down yet!

 

Hi Don.
You had a nice reply to Crunchy and I had been wondering the same thing. If you MUST 'driver assist' a load are they ever ALL terrible heavy? I am strong but out of shape. If you said no to a driver assist would you get in trouble? Or I guess the dock employees would let the load sit for hours. What's your take on this? Thanks alot

 

Until Don gets to ya, I'll give an answer. I've pulled a couple of "driver assist" loads, and they consisted of at worst sliding the freight to the end of the trailer so the dock guys could get a hold of it to unload. This was at sites that didn't have a dock. Bit of grunt labor for pay. The downside was that if it was 80 degrees outside, it could get up to 110 in the trailer. At least that's what it felt like, haha!

 

i ain't Don, and i see where this thread goes back to 5/2008....???

in any event, if it's driver assist...you WILL ASSIST.....

you will not be allowed to sit...you may be thrown off the property and of course the customer WILL CALL your company..you may very well become unemployed...they (the company) can DAC you for "refusal to work" try collecting unemployment or finding another job...

some loads are heavy, some are not. some driver assist loads are merely for you to keep count...some driver assist loads you must break down pallets and re stack the items on separate pallets...i can assure you, that you WILL BE TOLD what to do...as a brand new driver i can almost assure you that you will have to prove yourself. those drop and hook loads or customer load/unload do not always go to newbies, they many times go to the experienced drivers.

oh yeah as i said they may throw you off the property...?? they may make you come back in 1 or 2 days..try telling your dispatcher how terribly sorry you are after you cause problems.....i wannabe a fly on the wall for that conversation...!!

 

Hello Laner99, and welcome to the forum. Now I realize that the reply you got from Rerun was perhaps not as "nice" as the one that I gave to Crunchy Knees. However, Rerun is known for refraining from sugar coating the poop, as it were. He pretty much told it straight.

Brsims mentioned that he hadn't run into a real heavy driver unload situation, and that is just great. More power to him. But sooner or later, it will be there.

No, you do not tell a receiver that you will not help with a "driver assist" unload. At least not more than one time. If you are with the "right" company, you may be able to decline the load in the first place. But don't count on it.

Even the companies that claim to never be a "forced dispatch," can make it pretty ugly for a driver who refuses loads on the basis of being driver assist. These companies expect you to do what the job requires. And they are not willing to settle for less.

Now most of your loads will likely be "no touch" on the freight, again depending on which company you go to. And please don't as ME what companies you should be looking at. I've been out of it too long, and don't know who is doing what anymore.

I just know that no matter who you are driving for, you need to be both physically able, and mentally willing to do what the company requires.

Good luck!

 

Sure you can....Just drive a hazmat tanker...Oh, that's right, your "new"..You will throw freight, get used to it. And with no experience, you can pretty much forget weekends, holidays or just having a life in general. Perhaps you might consider a new "career" if these issues are important to you ?? Not being critical, but from your questions, perhaps your research into the long hours/days and tasks are a little lacking ?

 

I drove for Schneider for 9 months and never loaded or unloaded anything that I didnt want to. Sometimes, it was financially benificial for me to unload or break down a trailer. I never had a problem with them paying for a lumper, even when the load info stated that driver "must" unload. Get paid to pull off a few skids, sure, break down 1100 little boxes at 3am, no thanks..lol