Lowes RDC in Minersvile, PA
When I drove for Western Express, We did a lot drop and hooks here and never had any empties available at THIS RDC, so after you dropped your loaded one, you had to wait for an empty to become available, so a live unload was out of the question.
I am not saying avoid shopping at Lowes
Lowes was courteous about this and worked quickly to get an empty for me.
The only downfall was you couldnt be on their property for more then an hour. I just bobtailed off the property, down the street aound the corner and pulled off a dead end street and waited there.
Lowes RDC (Minersville PA)
Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by truckntim80, Feb 4, 2007.
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I worked for Lowes for a time at one of there stores. Now imagine if you will, taking a trailer and holding it so the doors faced the sky. Dump the whole load into it shut the doors and place it on the ground , hook it to a truck and take it to a store where when the doors are opened, all the friegth at the back dumps out. The whole trailer is unloaded by hand at the point except the heavy stuff that was placed for weight distrubution in the trailer . So at the DC's they are loaded by hand as well. Just for some insight on how they do it.
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Once a truck driver backed over some freight (caulking, air filters and some other items) He said he didnt feel anything. I would think you would have felt a little when you ran over the big box of caulking with like 40 tubes in it, I know you wouldnt feel the air filters.
I wonder how they load the trucks at the DC? -
TruckinTim,
I know the feeling when i worked for werner they would say no emptys try going to sears dc down the road and thats when you would get the same anwser no emptys why don't you try lowes lol!
I wish they would call and see if they have any emptys before sending a driver. -
I work at one of the stores - Not the DC. We always unloaded at least one truck a night, sometimes 2 a night, so an empty was available for the driver dropping off the next nights truck for us. [drop n hook] -
Since when did lowes start unloading thier own freight?
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something about trucks breaking while going uphill -
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On the other end, they tend to unload other companies first because they get billed for holding trailers were as say, a Walmart will use Werners or Schnieders as storage trailers till someone catches on. Who gets screwed at the end? The driver of course.
I haven't been bounced around averaging $4 an hour looking for an mt in quite a while now and don't miss it!
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