This is why I like after-hours pick ups.

its rediculous when its a pain to get in and out during the day,but at night its just swap it and seal it and go.... its the same stuff day or night

 

I picked up at a place in Nashville late at night once, same setup (might be same customer). There were little mailboxes by the docks, you just dropped your trailer down in the holding area, hooked to your trailer, pulled it from the dock, put your seal on, and left.

Never had another pick up like that in four years, sadly.

 

lots of places like this just depends if your company is willing to buy the extra trls to sit at the shipper so they can load them when ever they want to

 

It's like that in the ltl world at any hour

 

When I was at Risinger one of our main customers was like that. Uline in Pleasant Prairie,Wi. They let Risinger know which trailer was loaded with which load and they forwarded it on to us. Show up with the shipper there drop your empty and hook up to assigned loaded trailer and the bills were in the bill box and go. Never had to talk to anyone. Loads delivered as soon as you got there on the other end. On that end if they were there you had to find out which dock to drop it in and grab an empty but if they were not there you dropped in the yard and got an empty no signature required.

 

This is true. plenty of places where i pickup, there is no-one in shipping and rec. Just wrapped skids on the dock with different carrier names on them. you grab the right skid and load it yourself and go.

 

Boy, I wouldn't know how to act on a drop and hook situation like that. I've only got the one trailer, so I don't seeing it happening anytime in the near future either.

 

That was a good thing at Risinger, the biggest problem with doing that at Risinger was half the trailers dropped in there had bad tires, flat, bald spots, or about 20psi in them!!!