Failure to understand

I forget where it's at. Seems like WI? MN? the Target DC I been to. They made you drop the trailer in the door and leave the property. And there was no where convenient to park. I went across the street and hid in a small industrial park.

 

I wonder about this stuff too. Will go to a place to get loaded and be in and out within 30-60 minutes. Go to the exact same plant elsewhere and be there for hours.

I was down in Voca, TX day before yesterday at a Unimum plant getting a load of sand. I get in and out of there within 30 minutes. The same company up in Ottawa, MN I never get out of there without waiting at least 4 hours. The loader in TX and I were talking about it and he's like it's just poor management and lazy workers. I have to agree.

 

This was one of my pet peeves until I got a better understanding of inventory control.
Maybe the first (larger) part of the load went to a store with a need for the product, the second to a store stocking up for a Holiday weekend with items for a sale.
Some have no room for the items and are forced to take them and make room for them.
Some will drop it on the dock, others take it into the store and build displays as they unload it.
There is also the poorly managed clock watchers that take all day no matter what, but this is not always the case.

 

Things can change by the day too. I loaded out of a place on Thursday that was nice, organized, and even had a paved parking area outside the gate for trucks to park while waiting. It only took them an hour to get me loaded and out. Good thing they had the parking since they'd ordered in so many trucks to make up for the holiday that it took me 15 minutes to get to the guard shack and 7 hours to get called in to load.

Any other day, there's very little delay there.