The WORST Shippers and Receivers - Truckers WILL NOT Buy Their Products!

GE Perrysville MD.
Constantly calling dispatch asking for eta,but you can only arrive 15 minutes,prior to appointment.HTF do I perfectly estimate my time,from Laredo to Maryland,without sitting there 24 hours for a new appointment?
Waste of time and money accepting a load going there.

 

United States cold storage whether it's in Dallas or Laredo, Texas. Lazy idiots, plan on spending your whole day there as they will take at least several hours with you sitting in the dock burning up all of your reefer fuel while they take breaks after each pallet.

 

Seems (to me) that the only people who ask questions like that are people who have never driven before.

 

Is it me, or do the vast majority of the shippers and recievers in this ENTIRE thread happen to be grocery warehouses? What is it about that industry which causes them to not give a flying &@#! about causing truckers all sorts of problems?

 

That's because the trucking industry as a whole is too chicken#### to stand up against the abuses by the grocery industry.

 

We deal with grocers half of the time. At least one grocer drop a week. Those we deal with just don't screw around [like they did decades ago]. As a general rule our grocers are better then some of the other shippers/receivers we deal with.

Although I'm not a fan of some Walmarts, sometimes, but sometimes they are good to deal with. Just depends.

You can complain about the lumper costs but if the shippers don't have a problem paying it and the carriers don't have a problem paying it, I'm not going to let it bother me

 

Anyone here familiar with the Carnival Cruise lines warehouse in Hialeah Fl? I did some Class B deliveries there for the past couple of years and they do nothing, absolutely nothing but piss and moan about "the type of freight" and how expensive it is, so they don't "want to deal with it". They're union workers contracted out not actual carnival employees, might be the problem...

It blows my eyeballs out my sockets, you were hired to unload freight, any and all freight that the company who keeps you in a job wants to have; and you don't want to touch it? OR complain that I keep bringing more of it? Who knew Casino related equipment who be such a big issue to deal with, I am the one securing and driving it safely. All you do is scoot it with a pallet jack 5ft and ##### and moan.

 

Colorado Boxed Beef. Lakeland, FL.

They schedule all delivery appointments for 5am. The driver checks in and then is told to leave the property until called.

The driver who checked in before me was just pulling in while I was pulling out 12 hrs later. Never again.

If you get caught down there you can try the wal mart on 98 and Daugherty. They have no truck parking signs everywhere but they weren't enforcing it this morning. Failing that you can head up to a good sized turnout on 98 and 471.

Allegedly there is an abandoned truck stop somewhere off of I-4 exit 28.

Very tight lot. Total zoo.

 

Lamb Weston, American Falls, ID. Not slow, they actually worked me in early, but the grouchy dude in shipping...

I went in with a BOL number, he said that was wrong, so I went back out to my truck, called dispatch, got the correct number only to be told, they needed the trailer number, I had that memorized, then he said, they need the trailer license, back out to the parking lot, got that, he gave me a door, but failed to mention, leave the door closed and stay about 10 feet out, I figured that out by the other truck at the next door.

 

US Mail facility in Nashua, NH. Back in December of 2001, I had to pick up a pre-loaded trailer that had been sitting in the door for a few days. There were several inches of ice on the ground, enough to cover the pads on the bottom of the landing gear legs. I asked the yard drivers if one of them would please pick the trailer up with his hydraulic 5th wheel lift (to break the ice), and then set it right back down. But neither of them could be bothered to take time out of their ice drifting...