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

I wholeheartedly agree. But have you considered this. I once picked up an "empty" 53 loaded to the gills with pallets. Apparently this DC was using it for storage thinking my company would never get to it ... I went to a pallet fix-it place (someplace in WA can't remember now) and sold the pallets for 6 bucks a piece. Had me a nice steak dinner thanks to that little romp.

 

Before I drove a truck, I drove a cab. If a passenger wanted me to wait I had no issue with that, I'd just put the meter on wait and the price would keep ticking away. You'd think that there would be a way through the QC, a macro or something that would start jacking up the price after a certain wait time. I think that would probably motivate some of these docks to get 'er dun!

 

I was delivering at a small food place in the midwest...I told them I don't pay lumper fees...Its you stuff get it off my truck ...I was at the dock about an hour early...Told them they had 2 hour after scheduled time...Needless to say they didn't unload...At 2:01adter appointment I called cops...told them they refused to unload truck and was leaving...Officer came out and escorted me from the place with there load still on...Took it home and waited for the calls to start...ended up getting paid $2000 to bring it back and unload...They refused to unload so they "abandoned" the load...It was mine and NO insurance claim was possiable...They now unload me FAST and NO lumper fees...I
I was at MalWort DC and same thing started...I waited my 2 hours after scheduled time and I started unloading watermelons in the parking lot...Was in the dock after the 8th one hit the ground....
I just don't take there crap any more...
Its my truck...my wagon and there #####...they want it... Get it off now...

 

Nothing wrong with that.... If you know how there are many ways to make a little extra cash on the road

 

The worse for me is any grocery chain. Specifically the Albertsons in Portland, OR. Two hours to unload followed by another five hours to count and sort the product. Then the lumpers have the nerve to charge my company over four hundred dollars.

But it gets better being on elogs and everything. After sitting for seven hours, they didn't let me sit for another hour to complete my break. Talk about a total disregard for the hours of service that we have to follow.

 

yup this is exactly how it should be. i'm always good to my good customers, but when they piss me off, forget it. i've told grocery store managers i'll be glad if you refused the load i will walk right out of here just fine. people put up with too much crap i think.

 

Loffredo Produce, Des Moines, IA - HATE hauling their crap. They babysit and ##### on your entire way home from teh west coast. Go to hell, Loffredo.

 

Is there a big difference between flatbedding and reefers as far as wait times and such? Any recommendations on flatbed training companies? I'm seriously thinking about changing over to flatbed but I would need training. I've pulled reefers most of my years.

 

Crazy - we had the exact same thing with the plastic bottles. We were running late and left the dock with paperwork ans seal in the cab. Stopped soon after for a pit stop and went to seal the load, seal was gone. nowhere to be found. We just said screw it, it'll be fine. We got bounced at the receiver because the seal we put on it didn't match. They tried to claim that they only take properly sealed loads for sanitation reasons and that all the bottles are sterilized so a broken seal meant they couldn't take it. Thankfully the bottle company had a dock about 90 miles away.

We get to the dock at the bottle mfg. and the guy there was laughing about the whole thing. "Sterile?! Hell no they ain't sterilized! These things sit in this dusty warehouse and these pallets are just wrapped with a little bit of plastic to make 'em stick. We don't sterilize $###" is what he told us. He took them right off of our trailer and put them on another trailer next to us to take back to the receiver.

Thankfully we got paid on the load and for taking the bottles back to the mfg. warehouse. They had one of the mfg local haul guys go back and re-deliver. It worked out well.

 

unions.. good luck