Quick question on LTL Freight unloading

DATS out of SW Utah. http://datstrucking.com/

Of course they have their downsides, but all companies do. Overall, they were a good outfit to work for.

 

Well soda pop delivery the whole truck is unloaded by hand.

ltl maybe 10%-20% a day depending on the days load.

 

I hardly ever break pallets down unless im running a liftgate route

 

Errr... I filled in for P&D when some of the guys decided to go fishing. I've experienced it all. Good days you would back your trailer to a dock and they would load/unload you. Bad days are 2k lbs pallets of clay for the high school that you had to push with a pallet jack. Some areas don't have docks and it is all liftgate. Worse case scenario for me was unloading 180 tyres by hand that were going to the local tyre dealerships. Backbreaking work.

I've never done COD. All of our freight is prepaid.

I am also sticking to linehaul.

 

I dealt with a lot of tires, from your local tire dealer, to commercial tires to big construction tires. They all handle a bit differently. As far as off loading regular tires, once you get the hang of it, it is easy and goes fast. Particularly if the tire shop has a "catcher" who knows what he is doing.

Dealing with heavy equipment tires, is a different game altogether though. Fun times. NOT.

 

Riiiiiight, lady. Do you want me to load your copy machines as well?

I had a delivery to a Payless Shoe store where this (very new & very short lasting) manager told me to separate the shoe boxes out so that the color key on the boxes was all the same. Sorry, isn't going to happen. "Well they told me at a manager's meeting that you would." Sorry, isn't going to happen. "WELL, then I'm going to CALL MY SUPERVISOR." Fine, go ahead. Meanwhile, I will be reloading them back into my truck. "But but but We NEED those shoes." No problem, count the number of cartons, sign the bill and everything will be good. "You aren't gonna sort those out for me are you." No ma'am, I'm not. I don't have the time, nor the patience, nor does my company pay me to do that. All I do is deliver them.

She signed the BOL, and was on the phone to her district supervisor as I was leaving. Next time I went there, she was gone. . . People will try anything to get out of doing their jobs.

Normally, I was pretty easy going, but there was no way I was gonna get that crap started. Once it starts, it never stops. Then they expect it, and are calling in to the company and complaining about the driver. . .

 

We also did a lot of hospitality deliveries. Almost all the hotels and motels were extremely reasonable. Driver gets it off the truck, the maintenance folks take it from there. EXCEPT a couple of places where they had contracts for inside delivery. Now I didn't mind the inside delivery, except where you had to go through their main lobby to get the stuff to where they wanted it - In rain or snow, and there is the head housekeeper screaming at you for dragging mud/snow/moisture in on her carpet. Hey lady, if you had a service door, with a paved area for parking, this wouldn't happen. In fact, if you hadn't pitched a fit one time when I parked on the driveway near the entrance, this wouldn't happen. But you want me to park in that mud hole back there, and then keep your carpet clean? Sorry, ain't likely to happen.

 

Thanks! I'll definitely have to keep them in mind. There's a terminal in Sparks, next door.