Werner family dollar dedicated!

Discussion in 'Werner' started by Garlicbread56, Mar 27, 2013.

  1. oneshyne

    oneshyne Light Load Member

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    real that's what I don't get the only thing I can understand is if you open up the doors then the packages can fall if the loader didn't load it correctly *about 70% of the times they don't* & boxes or items can just coming down from the top smacking you in the face that's why I brace myself with the load stand to make sure I can reach to the top & unload correctly from the top to the bottom.
     
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  3. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    If it's like what I did the freight is not in "roller containers",it's stacked on pallets and wrapped with plastic to keep it from falling in the warehouse then loaded in the trailers using pallet jacks.
    The driver has to cut the plastic and un-stack it by hand onto freight rollers and roll it out the back of the truck to the store employees.
     
  4. realsupatrucka

    realsupatrucka Road Train Member

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    if its like that I could see a box or too falling on you and u getting a bruis or two.... but some people claim they have been broken nose and getting knocked out...and been off work for weeks. ..if they older guys or women okay...but 35 and younger and a box fall on you and u off work for week...idk about that cheif...imho just sound like people dknt want to wkrk
     
  5. Y2K

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    I've been knocked out cold and nose bloodied and black eyes and broken glasses.
    Whole pallet loads can fall on you doing this , they're stacked two pallets high to the ceiling ,sometimes a small ladder/stool is required to reach the top and I've had a pallet tip on me while I was on the ladder knocking me over onto the rollers and floor.
    We had drivers knocked out of the truck onto the ground and injured while I was doing this job.
     
  6. realsupatrucka

    realsupatrucka Road Train Member

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    are you on the family dollar or dollar general account
     
  7. oneshyne

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    Y2k you talking about items that's stacked double the standard height and they used shrink wraps to holding them and once the shrink wraps get cut open they start falling like a avalanche because the items wasn't stacked properly
     
  8. Y2K

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    Neither, I did Dollar Tree stores for 8 months then threw in the towel.

    Yes, sometimes they fall even before cutting the plastic wrap.
    I've even seen pallets fall out of the truck when the doors are opened!
     
  9. Chris50

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    I did Family Dollar for a couple weeks on a volunteer basis a few years back..Its HARD work especially in the summer. I went to several stores that took the whole truck, fingerprint 40k lbs, 2500 pieces, 2lbs to 50lbs boxes and your spent. Id be soaked to my underwear and out of hours unable to leave,it sucked.. One store the unload was uphill so i had to get the rollers full then push the freight in, it sucked. Several stores in the ghetto took all #### day, the store employees taking a break every 15 minutes, rollers always full, i have to wait to put freight on, with 3 guys running around like stooges, couldnt keep up with an old trucker..sheeesh...not worth what you get paid no how!
     
  10. oneshyne

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    lol chris you just had the taste & glance of unloading 1 truck in a day in the summer time. try unloading about 6 of them from 3-11pm in the summertime or do it from 4pm-8pm & wow y2k I never seen opening trailer doors pallets fallen out. thats crazy. my another employee kind of gave me a hint for conserving time so you can driveout he told me hell remain off duty but when he got 1 hour or less remaining hell then put on the Qualcomm unloading so this way hell have time to drive out. cause I was telling him I was thinking about how can I beat the odds to conserve time & I told him that's a pretty good #### idea imma use that
     
  11. realsupatrucka

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    I havent opened trailer doors in like 4 years but dont you stand in front of the door and its stops freight from falling on you?and u have load lock right?
     
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