try swift frozen foods in col. roll in at 5 pm appt @ 7 didn't get loaded until 11 am the next day -n- kodak in rochester ny didn't get load until 20 some hrs later
Longest Live Load/Unload? Can u top this?
Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by shaken, Dec 22, 2006.
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I always tried to be extremely nice, especially if it the driver in front of me just gave the guy/gal a bunch of crap. In most cases, I would be pulling out of the gate and on my way, while the guy/gal in front of me who was yelling about their "appointment time" is probably just getting a door.
Sometimes, the shippers will get out of hand though, and something needs to be said, but saying something to the people that are loading/unoading your truck does not good. Your company needs to call into someone over their head, although some companies won't do that. -
Thanks for the clarification, Sportsoutlaw! I was expecting some "magical words" - LOL -, but in the end it's just the "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", "you get out what you put in", and "don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes kind of common sense. Reminds me of this anecdote:A man wants to hang a picture. He has the nail but not the hammer. The neighbour has one. So our man decides to go over and borrow it. But then he has some doubts: What if the neighbour does not want to lend me the hammer? Yesterday, already, he greeted me somewhat hastily. Perhaps he was in a rush. Maybe, he just pretended to be in a hurry, and he has something against me. But what? I did not do anything to him; he is imagining something. If someone wanted to borrow a tool from me, I would give it to him right away. And why not? How can someone deny such a simple favour to a fellow human? People like this guy poison others lives. And then he imagines that I depend on him. Just because he has a hammer. Now, thats enough. Thus, he rushes over, rings, the neighbour opens the door, but before he can say Hello, our man shouts at him: Keep your hammer, you lout! (Source: http://www.ierg.net/confs/2003/proceeds/Falkenberg.html)Life is full of self-fulfilling prophecies! *nods*
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Well I guess I have been lucky after reading some of these horror stories. I have had a few long waits. One was Paterson Tubulars in Houston TX. sat for 7 1/2 hours to get a load of pipe unloaded. One place in Delaware spent six hours getting a few pieces of plate steel loaded. The longest was at a Power Plant in Nebraska, took out one of six pieces of a portable bridge from Cincinnatti, OH got out there and had to wait a day before they got a crane there to unload me and five other drivers, that one worked out though they ended up paying $600.00 detention pay.
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Ran a load over, about 80 - 100 miles. I was told load needed to be there before 11PM and they needed the material right away. I made it over by 10 or 10:30 PM.
Told to back in over the pit, bulk load, and they would unload me shortly. This went on some time, I would check with receiving every so often. I crawled in bunk and told them to wake me when ready to unload. I finally left about 8 hours later.
I had been to Doane several times before and usually had to wait 3-4 hrs to unload every time. -
Aahhh National Beef in Liberal, I spent 3 days there over a 4th of July weekend waiting for a load to go to Bangor sub base in Washington... Oh did I mention I was already late when I left Liberal... And dispatch wanted to know if I could make up the time... 14 hours till appointment time and all that distance...
At least I have to say one thing, I had my daughter who was a big Wizard of Oz fan, so we stayed at the Texaco and she was there like 399 times... She had fun at the museum...
Oh boy am I glad taht I am just a tow truck driver now... I load and unload my own freight LOL... -
Sat for 31 hours in Plainview, Tx waiting for a meat load to Stockton,Ca
only to have a 4 hr monsoon rain jusy before i left. -
Took a load to Simplot in Idaho......got there around 4:30a.m. and it took until around 9:30 a.m. the next morning to get unloaded, then loaded with another load and get out of there...how many things can go wrong at 1 feedlot???
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my longest live load ever was a 9 hour one at some place in the chicago area over off of 47-- some grocery place.
at least they let me park there because my hours ran out setting there.
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