Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

We don’t deal with lumpers hardly ever but I did move an over weight and damage container a while back for TQL. Once I got it loaded we realized it was 9k heavier and I couldn’t scale it on my step deck.
So I took it across town to get unloaded and unstuffed, to trans load into one of our dry vans that we had a few hours away. before I left to get the van I asked if we could open the can just to see what we were getting into. When we saw 47k pounds of dog treats floor loaded, the guy said “ the price I quoted them just doubled”. It took 5-8 guys, including me, all freaking day to unload and palletize that load. There was a few feet of the bigger boxes then 30 plus feet of 7 pound boxes. By the end of it the guy said that’s the last container unload they are going to deal with, and I shared the same thoughts.

I bet that $600 lumper feet looks like a hell of a deal compared to what that rigging company hit TQL for. On top of $11,500 in storage at the rail yard because that box sat there for 2 months.

That’s my one and only van load, and I hope it stays that way!

 

Didn't get sent to do that NJ load. Even tho it was preload the shipper wanted me to pu at 12pm - 1pm which I don't do so it was removed.

Got another load heading back to the Walmart DC in NC however I'm going about 130 miles the opposite way to pu the preload so it's now a 600 mile run compared to the 380 from yesterday.

Hoping for loads back out West.

 

we have another droplet on the other side of the interstate. Get the Addy from dispatch and the gate code. A lot of Shaffer drivers are getting pissed and refusing to drop at VGer.

 

It doesn’t make one #### lick a sense to keep using voyager mud pit considering the dry side is using that other paved controlled access lot…

 

. Pfffttt I remember when it was 5 bucks.

 

That’s a fair price. A grocery truck costs that much to load. Like Walmart pays 8 hours of picking @28/hr, 1 hour of loading @23/hr, benefits, manager & support staff fees etc. Probably comes out to $500/trailer just keeping it in house.