Lumper Fees?

He’s not happy there.
He’ll never be happy there.

 

What’s the 20 on the 3rd degree? You said

You state this as a fact. And then you ask if this a normal thing for companies to do.

He responds, “I doubt this” and then goes on to tell you what is normal for most companies. He questioned your understanding of the situation. Do you consider that as a 3rd degree burn? Just asking for future reference.

 

He seems to keep having supposed problems with this job with Stevens. Yet, with all of the posters sending solutions, explanations, or possible job relocations, he stays. Is he not making any money?

 

Think somethings missing in the story between kid, parent and here?

 

From my understanding, junior is having troubles and venting to mom. Mom is trying to do junior’s legwork, coming to TTR and asking questions based on her understanding of junior’s complaints. Whenever anyone questions mom’s understanding, mom feels threatened.

For example, mom states in the opening post about Steven’s requiring drivers to pay out of pocket first. We know that cannot be true. How so? Lumper charges $200 and driver only has $50 available. What happens then? Does Steven pull the load somewhere else or wire money through an EFS code? If Stevens wires money, OP’s understanding she got through junior is wrong.

If OP’s understanding is wrong in this instance, that would shed doubt on all the other issues junior is having. So, how do you TTR people who are trying to help people do so without communicating with junior?

 

Remember before electronic comm devices/Qualcomm type devices. Your headed to the Northeast, maybe NYC, so you took a $300-$400 cash advance to cover the cash tolls and lumper fees. You made dang sure you got a receipt for every outlay. After the delivery, you put all the paperwork, BOL's, receipts, your load sheet, and Logs in a FedEx envelope and dropped it in the first drop box you came to. Then came TripPak, which a lot of companies went to which allowed you to fax in all of the paperwork. That way you got paid pretty soon after the load was done.
Drivers now have it easy.

 

The way most companies do it that I've seen is with an EFS check. The EFS checks work like this... driver fills out the check with a code thier company gives them, EFS pays the lumper, driver is then in debt to EFS, company then pays EFS for the driver. My company shows this on my pay stub as me paying the lumper and them reimbursing me. But no money ever actually passes through my hands or accounts.

 

My company still does it the old way... cash advances and EFS checks, save all receipts and put them in your trip envelope, turn in envelope once a week at the terminal to get paid.