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Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad Load O' Freight That Just Can't Wait. Had a good or bad experience with a shipper or receiver? Discuss grocery warehouses, lumpers, and anything dealing with pickups or deliveries here. Does that shipper let you park and sleep? Does the receiver FORCE you to get a lumper? Trucker Directions

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Old 11.16.2008
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I've had to wait 14 hours to get loaded at some cheap beer distribution warehouse in Hodgkins IL once. The black ghetto queen working the shipping window had the worst attitude you could imagine. It was a HORRIBLE experience. Plus I was in a day cab tractor so that made for a very looooong 14 hours.





Also I had to wait 24 hours to get unloaded at Rocky produce in Detroit's produce market TWICE. These people really are in a class of their own, when they don't have storage space for the product you bring them they have no problem using your trailer as their "storage" area. They have ZERO respect for a drivers time or his reefer fuel for that matter.
If you go and try to complain they act like they don't see you or feed some BS run around.


Granted these are rare and extreme examples it will happen to you sooner or later. In trucking no matter who screws up, the driver gets the shittty end of the stick 9 out of 10 times.
Thats when the reefer has a "Breakdown" and you tell them it has to come off now.
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Since switching to dry van my times have dropped. Still, I had a Safeway load of paper towels which took like 6 hours to get off the trailer, and the company that made the towels (Potlatch!) took 18 hours after my appt time to make....

Picked up a load of Pepsi bottles (plastic) out of Denver, took them like 30 minutes from start to finish, took Pepsi out of SLC 5 hours....

4000 pounds and five hours.
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A day and 1/2 last week at Cargill in Fort Morgan Colorado. It didn't take much time to load it was just waiting to get to the door. O'well sat through most of the snow storms.
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Most of my waits are 1 to 2 hrs with the very rare exception of 5 or 6 hrs.

The longest I have waited was brings some blow out tools to cap a oil well the had blown. The fire from the well was still to big to get any where near it so I waited 12hrs for it to go down. It makes you feel good when they had you paper work saying all personnel has been evacuated but they are sending you there with the equipment to put it out. Just all warm and fuzzy.
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At a place I went to this week. I was parked halfway out into the street with cones and my triangles, they had to hand unload the paper to the fork lift in the back, 3 hours!
to get to that dock, I had to back from an Alley across a 4 lane main street and to a garage door that was not back far enough off of the highway to get all of my truck off of main st.
It was fun getting into that spot.
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We often have to double park in the Bronx and have labor manually offload product onto the street and walked into facility. Pretty cool stuff. Still clear in less then one hour.
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We often have to double park in the Bronx and have labor manually offload product onto the street and walked into facility. Pretty cool stuff. Still clear in less then one hour.
I would go insane! Hats off to ya man. Give me the large turn around areas and lots of space!
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That's almost impossible to answer. It varies widely. I have spent less than 20 minutes waiting and over 12 hours. Yes it really took Mclane Food Distribution in Temple, Tx 12 hours to unload me. Gotta love lumpers. Most of the time when you get into the dock it doesn't take too long, sometimes it's the waiting to get a dock that takes a while.
Wow i go to the Mclane in manassas Va Alot they are pretty quick
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Have you heard of the saying "Hurry up and wait"? You may find this at a few places. We have found most places are 30 mins-2 hrs with the handful of slowpokes thrown in. But if you go in with an attitude or late for an appt time, your wait could be even longer.
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Wow i go to the Mclane in manassas Va Alot they are pretty quick

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