Longest Live Load/Unload? Can u top this?

co-worker sat for 11 hrs at Target DC in Pueblo a few months back, my longest that I was in the truck for, 11 hrs at Wal-Mart, I've done many 5 and 6 hr lives before.

Longest I've ever done (but I was in a hotel room), 47 hrs, Houston Tx. waiting for a K-Line container ship to arrive in Galveston. Customer called us and asked if we could deadhead to Galveston for the pickup, they called on Friday said the ship would arrive Sunday night and be ready for off-load Monday @ Noon. I arrived Monday @ 10am. Ship lost power 350 miles out and had to be towed in to port. Broker paid entire hotel tab (room, food, misc. exp.) for a Holiday Inn for me to sit for 47 hrs waiting. The company tried to pull me twice and have me pickup a different container to bring to Denver but the broker said he would pay everything. We charged him the entire hotel bill (over $1,000) and normal trip expenses, plus they billed him for detention. Our normal rate at the times was $50/hr, they charged him for just 20 hrs of det. and gave me 1/2 the det. pay. Best paying/perk load I've ever done, sucked being gone almost a week though.

 

1998 in Los Angeles at a office furniture factory. arrived 1330 for 1500 pu appt. in door 1520 and stated to work on me, loaded at 1705. closing doors, told they put wrong stuff on truck and need to re load. I said "OK how long until be done." Guy said" Well he are done for the day, and it"s friday so come back monday at 1200 and we will load you". I told Him" No, please load me now, stuff in on dock staged to load, and I will help" was told No, got to go, and need to get truck out of here for weekend" I called company, was told just hang out there, and they will take care of it on monday. Come monday arrived at 1000 for 1200, out at 1630. Was told by dock guy that this happens a lot due to loaders not reading english. and loading wrong. so 75 hours. pay recieved was 150.00 dollars layover and 50 dollars for food.

 

Any of the Amazon.com warehouses in Phoenix. Great big suck.

 

Been stuck on different job sites.
In 2006 i believe it was. Stuck in Lodi,Ca. for 21 days. rained out.
The song "Stuck in Lodi" kept going through my mind
Stuck in Mi. on wind job 19 days. They did not have all the proper permits.
Ld. got shipped to upstate Ny.
Now looking at getting stuck at shipping point for maybe 2 weeks.
Talked to an old buddy of mine who works for a different company now.
He has been there waiting to ld. since the 25th of Sept.

To my understanding there are about 45 trks. waiting to ld.
Main issues are bad welds.

Thank goodness for det. $$$$$

 

Truck driving does that to you. Even not driving I heard that several times.

 

20 hours live load at Sunshine Mill in Red Bay, AL. That was two years ago and I have not been back. I wonder if my little phone call to my company had anything to do with it....

 

Man and I though 4-5 hours waiting was long

 

Denver Poultry. Never again.

Day 1... open appointment from 0700 to 1600. Show up at about 1030 immediately after getting into town. Marten is in THE door - has a look like severe battle fatigue on his face, TransAM parked nearby looking PO'd... jams the gears and roars off in a cloud of dust. "We only do 1 truck a day. Come back tomorrow," says this guy in receiving. Consider options, grind teeth, decide dentures aren't worth it. Head over to Sapp Bros for the night.

Day 2... show up at 0530, park my truck in THE door and my butt by the entrance to receiving, bills in hand. TransAM shows up at 0645. He looks PO'd. "OK, you're the truck (meaning me) we'll get you unloaded." TransAM looking more PO'd.

At 1245, getting hungry. Go in and observe that I'm about half unloaded. These guys are taking a case or two off of the truck, and disappear into the processing part of the plant. They use the delivery vehicle as cold storage while they are doing whatever to your load. They are dragging the pallets off of the truck by hand when there is nothing on them.

Come out, TransAM is positively steamed! Go to lunch... Butcher Block Cafe (there are a couple of them in Denver) serves up good food.

1830. Finalllllllly...

...get bills, look over at TransAM - he hasn't moved in awhile - catatonic trance. I think he finally just shot himself, rather than face another day of this sort of torture!

Waterboarding? MEH!

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER AGAIN!

 

Yes i thank you for this post.
Although one should read and take any post with a grain of salt. Wow one truck a day. I'll have to remember this one so as not to forget to refuse any load going there.

 

I had to p/u a load of paper from Macon Ga. got there at the shipper at about 5pm appt for 11pm, if i can remember right. on that wed evenin. didnt get loaded until 11am friday morning. and still had to drive to western arkansas to dlvy.