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

Bass Pro Shops, Springfield, Mo. Lady at the receiving desk will email complaining about how horrible you are if you're anything less than her perfect little slave. If you show up early for an appt, they'll let you in no problem, but tell you to come back at appt time after you're in the fence. Oh, but you can't leave the fence. No restrooms and no idling allowed while you're in the dock. Hey, it's only like 100 degrees out.

 

smithfield in tar heel nc, not only are they slow to load you, that place smells

 

I don't always have problems there, but have to vent about Dandy/Cross Docks cooler in Salinas. Picked up the first of three pickups a mile away no problem at 8am. Call up Dandy to make an appointment even though one of our pickups there already had one at 11am but the other pickup there didn't. I give them the numbers and they say don't show up til 5:30pm for the 11am appointment even though it is ready already and the other will be ready at 8 or 9.

So we sit about 6-7 hours at the first pickup after we got loaded and head over at 5pm. Check in with the numbers and they say the first one is ready but they'll just wait to load both at the same time and the last one isn't ready. 5 hours later we get a call from them and now suddenly our last pickup number doesn't exist. How did it exist 5 hours ago? After about an hour back and forth on the phone between dispatch and Dandy they finally tell us their excuse.

Their magic excuse was it was probably a good number for day shift but not night shift. My mind was blown. How does that even make the least bit of sense? You either have the stuff or you don't, and I know they didn't and wouldn't admit it. So we essentially sat for 10-11 extra hours to hear this and have them call Kroger and cancel the pickup and we were finally on our way.

 

Do it anyway. I've been to places like that (Walmarts, mostly) but it doesn't stop people from idling anyway, and I've never had them give me a problem about it. I don't run my engine just for the noise though. I only idle if I need the heat/AC or if my problematic Volvo low battery cutoff keeps switching my laptop over to battery power.

The last time I was there, it took them about 36 hours. I bobtailed out of there several times to go eat. The only thing I found was a Subway. You leave the gate, go out to the highway and take a right, and it's down about a mile or two on the right, right after a little gas station where you can get cigarettes, coffee, etc.

 

I personally boycott all Tyson products. They are responsible for putting dangerously tired drivers out on the road. Some plants (Waterloo, IA, Ottawa, IL, Holcomb, KS to name several) won't even call you or knock on your truck when the load is ready. You have to keep calling them or walking into the guard shack to check on it every hour or so. This results in not being able to sleep while waiting. They have zero tolerance for late deliveries, even when it's entirely their fault for not having it loaded on time.

 

Oh I did. I haven't shut this thing off for anything in two weeks, cept for when I go home for the weekend.

 

I have never had anyone say anything to me about idling even tho it is always posted-it is too hot not to have your a/c on-just do it-really doubt anyone will say anything.The only places I have ever had a problem is the caves-a few underground facilities in MO and AR where you cannot run anything-even turn off reefer underground

 

True, but it's not hot in the summer nor is it cold in the winter down in the caves...

 

i still have not had a receiver or shipper tell me that i cant idle. and that includes delaware, DC, NY and NJ. and the first one that tells me i cant, is gonna get a big finger in their direction.

my truck has to run so i can keep my fridge running. screw them.

 

Driver its called a DLD TIME.Has nobody explained this to you.LMAO.You call one hr before or show up one hr before.90 percent of meat loads will be ready right around the Dld.Some will wake you,some will not.Welcome to the meat patch.Thats what the dld is for.So you can sleep.Deetadee Ive got this.