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

Here's a tip: Before you go into any place that loads food-grade sugar, salt, hell... any kind of food, and you know you've hauled scrap paper or cardboard beforehand, count on some glass chips being in the trailer.

Get yourself one of those gladhand air hose adapters, a 75ft air hose and a blowgun. Blow out your trailer thoroughly BEFORE you go to load--get right down in the cracks. Then, take a flashlight and look for any glass sparkles--if they can see one glint of glass, they'll refuse it. Remove any remaining glass chips or, if you can't remove it, cover it with some flat grey spray paint.

No sparkles = getting your load.

 

that domino sugar plant in louisiana is hard to find. I was rolling through the bad part of town at midnite trying to find that spooky 100 year old place.

 

Three days later I find myself sitting at the same Budweiser dc. The last time was 12 hours gate to gate. I have sat here for 11 hours 45 minutes today and I still have a green light. They haven't even started. I have the right to refuse loads and I should have known better.

 

I cannot understand how this is allowed to go on in light of all the concern for pickup times and delivery deadlines for the drivers and hours of operation why on earth is the ball allowed to completely drop on this end?

I know I must be missing alot of pieces of total picture but with my limited knowledge of the trucking business I would think no company would want to do business with companys that have no respect for the times constraints of the drivers. Seems like everything is all pretty much black and white right up to the point when it is time to load or unload and then your at the mercy of lumpers and warehouse workers. How do they keep their jobs or who is allowing them not to do their jobs?

Like I said I am sure I am missing something here. Any explanations would be appreciated thanks.

 

The companies don't care because, for the most part, their driver's labor is free at the dock. The whole problem with the industry is that mileage pay has to go. Driver's should be paid for ALL on duty time. If this was so, you would not need onboard recorders and the other stupid ideas DOT comes up with to try to regulate drivers. Pay right from the log book. On duty whether you are driving or not. No one would cheat on their logs. You get to a customer, on duty not driving. Get paid to sit around a customer all day. You can bet the sitting around would end when companies had to pay drivers for their time. What a novel concept huh?

 

Well in the specialized side of life, We CHARGE AND COLLECT WAIT TIMES

Even though more people are getting in this side of work and slash the rates

You want us there, you will pay for us to sit and wait.

 

As for InBev (Anheauser Busch) Colorado Distribution Center, it is a live load only facility. Denver, being the large metropolitan area that it is, has MUCH more inbound trucks than outbound. The competition for that freight is fierce, and the freight rates are low. All companies that ship outbound know this. What is the alternative? Deadhead out. Take your pick. Efficency is not part of their business model, as there is a truck to take your place if you choose not to submit yourself to their abuse. Hope that helps....

 

Ah, but it IS part of their business model. Purposeful inefficiencies gives them some room for small improvements every year so they can show the shareholders that QS9000 is working.

I guess the moral of the story is that: InBev in Aurora, Colorado is grossly inefficient and that InBev sucks; truck drivers should not drink Anhueser Busch InBev products; and last but not least, this post is yet one more that will be indexed in Google's search engine to be displayed when someone searches for "InBev Sucks".

 

Places like InBev (what the hell is InBev by the way?!) and InBev are why I am soon to be an ex trucker..

 

InBev makes Budweiser and pretty much every other beer sold in the US that SABMiller, otherwise known as MillerCoors, doesn't make. They're not a monopoly... there are still a few guys who make beer in their basement.