Lumpers... I don't understand...

Lumper service won't cost you any money at all.
If you're with a decent company, you actually make some money while the lumper is unloading you.
You should receive "stop pay" for just being there, plus hourly pay (detention pay) while waiting for the lumper service to unload.
All the reefer outfits I worked for, the stop pay covered first one or two hours of sitting, then the hourly pay kicked in. Where I worked, the hourly pay kicked in after the first one hour or first two hours.
You'll hear horror stories of having to sit 4 hours or more before hourly pay starts or "my company makes me sit for free; they don't pay hourly pay." That's the drivers fault; the driver chooses the company to work for.

 

Ive already been burned by lumpers more ofthen than not.

In my time you got maybe 60 dollars max for the trailer. Lumper wants 100, guess what the 40 out of your pocket. So you did it yourself and took the rest of the day off when empty to take care of your rest and chores etc. There is no money in it.

It got to the point that I chose to run a particular freight that has nothing to do anymore with food and lumpers in particular.

A long time ago before palletatzion, young teenagers before they became of age to drive made money moving break bulk and lumping. That would be roughly to the late 60's

 

I’m a lumper expert

 

One lump or two.

He he hee...

 

Are you a lumper humper dumper?


Or do you cuddle afterwards?

 

3 actually

I hit and run

 

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At first I'm thinking, "how pathetic?" But then I think, "someone needs a cuddle..."


I'm only doing it because I'm such a giver.

 

I quit a job in N.J. once cause of lumpers.
Probably mid 80s.

Direct Transit wanted me to take the trailer load of floor loaded tires, 15000 lbs, to a reconsignment address in NYC and unload it w no help.

Mid summer temps and a hour of arguing w the reciever got me 2 guys who stacked tires once I got them to the floor, about 5 hours, being paid $1 a thousand.




Finished and drove to the yard, parked at the fuel pump and cleaned out the truck.
Called dispatch and told em I was done.
Walked to the town park and never looked back.

Slept on top of a park gazebo till morning when I hooked a ride east to grand central and then took the greydog 1500 miles west w all my otr gear.
A miserable ride home.

Later, w another company, after breaking down a trlr load of Jiffy mixes onto 55 small pallets ( is that still a thing?)at Nash Finch in Rapid City I vowed never again.
And I haven't.
And that's my lumper story.

 

Sysco mostly but a few us foods use small wood