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Old 05.28.2008
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damn i wish i read this post earlier,c and ### dunmore,pa arrived at 5:45 for 6am appointment thru jb slut, finally thru a confence call w dispatch got labor ready to unload at 13:00, i think i still have 3 pallets to go and its 22:30
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Old 06.18.2008
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I dunno if home depot has been mentioned or not, but they get my vote. when I started out (flatbed with keim) was training with a guy and they gave us a 3am delivery time. we get there about 11 figuring we're gonna have to wait a bit. get there and check in with them just to let them know we were there, and they tell us that they can't unload us untill 11am because they had a apt complex on the backside of the store (oh btw iirc this was the one in arvada co) so we crash out. no heat since we couldn't idle on their lot, blah blah blah.

Next morning we hear ppl outside and get up and check it out, it's about 9am at this point and the girl was like "I could've unloaded you at 6am...." that was the only time I ever saw the guy training me get totally po'd.

gp in medicine lodge ks comes in a close 2nd. when I was working for quality timber products we would usually start our week off there. go down there drop our trailers and sit for 1/2 to 3/4 of the day... but on the plus side they would throw the tarps for us.
then gp in blue rapids ks. always a good 6-12 hour wait to get loaded.

crap, I think I may have put this in the wrong thread...

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Old 06.19.2008
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(oh btw iirc this was the one in arvada co) so we crash out. no heat since we couldn't idle on their lot, blah blah blah.
To hell with them. It's cold and they wont let you idle. I would have kept it running and the heat on. If they want their freight thry dont have a choice. We need to stand uo to this kind of treatment.
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Old 07.02.2008
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Home Depot DC in Lancaster, CA gets my vote. On time delivery at this DC with 200 doors. Arrived at gate 15 minutes early, got door assignment and list of "rules". The usual: Open trailer doors, put paperwork in trailer, back into dock, don't get out of your truck. No facilities for drivers, no bathrooms, no vending, no idling...yada yada yada. Every time I started to drift off to sleep the fork went into my trailer and started rocking and rolling my tractor. I'd arrived at 1745 and was in the door for almost 8 hours. Not able to sleep because they kept rocking the trailer...at 0130 some idjit on a fork comes blazing around my tractor, pounding on the door - "Driver wake up. You are unloaded and you have to LEAVE."

Oh great. I was out of my 11 when I checked in at the dock and ran my clock out the rest of the way while backing in, etc. I told him, NO, I'm staying to finish my 10 hour break. If you want me to leave, then tow my truck. I moved out of the dock door (one of 3 occupied out of 200 doors) and finished my break.

I will never shop in Home Depot again.
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Old 07.16.2008
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pathmark\supermarkets general in woodbridge,n.j.delivered there in the `80s.always a pain in the ###.last time there had a discrepancy in the count-potpies-2 over on 1 item,2 short on another.guardshack had paperwork and told me to park outside and go get this straight..i had finally had enough of them (over the last 3 yrs) so things escalated into a shouting match with him and his buddies ending with me leaving with no paperwork and banned from their property.Can`t say i miss them.
Anything having to do with any of the pork plants in va. or n.c. is always good for an overnite stay or longer.don`t miss them either.
everybody knows foodlion and krogers both suck.
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Old 07.21.2008
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Hormel/Diamond crystal farms near des moines IA

I arrived at 5:30pm for a 6pm pick up. the guy that runs shipping told me they were still waiting on some of the order. I called our dispatch they said to find a place to park for the night, then call the shipper first thing in the morning. So at 8am i called them and was told that it would be ready at 9am. walked into shipping and was told it wouldn't be long. Making a long story short, the light turned green at 8:15PM. I pulled away from the dock and before i got out of the truck two fork lift operators ran out and sealed the doors. I thought that was nice after 27 hours of b.s.. Then I get to the receiver and figured out why they sealed the doors.
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Old 07.22.2008
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dear drivers,
I know it is tough setting at a shipper or receivers place but times are tough and the freight is going to get tough to get. If your the one who louses up a job and causes your company to loose that account that is just one more job you won't have.
I am not saying not to contact your dispatcher to get help getting in or out. Always be nice. Cuss them out if you have to but just not to their face. The accounts you have can be filled by anyone at all. Your the only one that the shipper or receiver will know from your company. The worst or best you act will trickle down to the next of your company drivers that comes to them.
It may be that is why your getting the business because someone from your company or not even your company has shown their rear-end and acted like a spoiled kid.
Keep it cool and take the abuse and then the next time you have to go there they will remember you in a good light.
Treat others like you want to be treated no matter what they do. It works I did that most of the time and I didn't have very much trouble. I was even asked for, to be the driver to go back to some of the places.
You can't change any one but yourself. Try it sometime you will be surprised at how well it works.
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Who are the WORST shippers and receivers out there? Who should truckers and their families NOT EVER buy products from?

My Vote?

FOOD LION ([LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. )

I despise Food Lion and they HAVE made me unsafe on the freeways and I HAVE driven unsafe AND tired because of them!

Who will YOU not use because they make our highways UNsafe due to their practices with truckers?
I hauled some of their loads, That sounds like food lion
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Old 07.23.2008
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My vote goes to IBP/Tyson Foods

these 2, IBP and Tyson Foods has had me sitting at their plants for a minimum of 6 hours to the maximum of 4 days and expects me to make a 1500 to 1800 mile run in a governed 70 mph vehicle in 9 hours, not a minute less.

These 2 plants do have the manpower, they rather load Tyson trailers first, then outside carriers last......WAY LAST!!! One of the outside carriers i worked for was Priority, they wanted me to sit, sit and sit some more, then qualcomm me complaining why the load is not at point B. It does not take a brain sergeon to figure this one out.
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...to the maximum of 4 days....
Four days?!?! WTF? That's just insane!

Please tell me you did not actually have to wait onsite for four days while they loaded/unloaded you.

I quit a job once because of a 12 hour wait that my dispatcher wanted to turn into a 24 hour wait—with NO extra pay. cough...NTB...cough...Kal Kan in Columbus, OH...cough cough.
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