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

Oth’r ‘n that....how’d it go?

 

I'm at suputo in sulphur springs now .It's been 25 hours since I've parked in the waiting lot . I've watched both seasons of Frontier on Neflix. Walked inside to see if maybe they forgot about me . Waited in line for 30 minutes behind a guy then left .I was supposed to drop this load off yesterday morning then go home for 2 days .It's ridiculous .

 

not to mention outright crazy

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Ha ha very clever huh? i'm just curious why refuse to pay $60 then go and pay >$600 for the disposal of them.or did you mate have to pay that amount anyway for something else, just hope they don't come in here and read these posts huh?

 

And that is why I don't do reefers

 

I'm a newer driver so I don't have much experience but McLane in NC is a dump and slow ### lumpers. They start unloading then stop for hours then all of assudden get up and start unloading again.

$240 later for 4 hours with about 1 hour of actual "work"

 

Dr pepper joint in Jacksonville FL. Sitting here since 1200 it's now 1435 I'm at the dock green light but they haven't even started loading. Took almost 2 hours just to get assigned a door. More then a few reviews said 11 hour load times. Unreal.

But you know what in reality these massive dist centers don't have enough dock workers because nobody wants to do that ####.

 

Back in the 60's we did not have pallets until that time period. In those days a company called Blue Diamond along Pulaski Highway in Baltimore just inside the beltway at the city limits. They used to bring in younger people to do that type of work for good money until they gained enough age to go and learn to be truckers for the company. When you have many dock workers in a place like that (Since demo'ed, it was a roughly 40 docks to a total of three sides about 120 all together with the entire area between all of them one giant sorting area and about 5 floors of different offices for all sorts of staff all the way up to the top floor reserved for the owner who was at the time for many years a friend of the family.) that kind of freighting in Baltimore was termed "Break Bulk" because everything was by hand. Pallets and Containers for trains and shipping was invented about the same time period in the 60's Reducing breakbulk and associated OSD Damage, losses to theft etc to a bare minimum. In those days America had everything, it was possible to graduate high school, learn a trade and go on to raise a massive family own several powerful cars and have a big house and some land on quite the annual income too.

All of that got stopped sometime in the mid to late 70's when everything began to be sent overseas or up to Canada or down to Mexico to re-import to America at cheap pricing. When the industry went away, the potential for making a good living also went away.

That is why you only have three dock workers on forklifts for a 200 dock facility and outside lumpers taking a cut of that money. In my time it was 60 to 110 dollars to unload a truck off the floor if it was not approved by your dispatcher or company, you paid it out of your paycheck.

To understand that drivers pay 240 or 300 dollars to have a trailer unloaded these days really upsets me. The freight is the same. The count and weights are the same. And the costs have more than tripled? And companies pay that much now? And still pay drivers .32 a mile?

No wonder you cannot get people to come into the trucking industry, they are not paid enough to do a very good job or able to make a good living at it.

I think I rather unload several trailers per day at 200 each pay me cash only. I'll make enough to raise a decent family at that kind of work. And when the sons get big enough to do that work, they will make a bunch of cash as well. Beats being paid .32 a mile.

No wonder you have lumpers these days. It beats driving or being abused by dispatcher for 70 hours a week.

 

Been there before. I feel your pain.

 

Still here running out on my 14 I heard some movement for about 20 minutes then it stopped. Supposed to be a truckload of product. Gonna have to unhook soon and come back tomorrow I bet. The pilot in Jacksonville is about 2 miles away and no f'n way there is parking spots left at this hour luckily we have a drop yard we share with other companies in jville a few miles away.