'New' revenue stream?

I did that for years. Made lots of tax free money. For years didn't pay road expenses out of my own pocket. Sometimes I made as much as $500.00 per week doing my own lumping an selling pallets. I purchased several different types of receipt books, so all the lumper receipts I turned in weren't the same, and used a variety of different names. Sell your pallets also. That lumper money is going to be paid to someone, so why not you?

Oh, yes, sometimes get static from lumper services, but I just ignore them. It's none of their business anyway.

 

When I pulled a refeer I lumped my own loads, until the company I was leased to said that my receipts didn't match what everyone else was turning in and they would not reimburse me anymore. So that was the end of that, but I made alot of money from doing it. Selling pallets was always a good way to earn a few extra bucks to.

 

Everywhere I went with a lumper service on spot freight always seemed to be all taken care of by "Progressive lumper service" based out of ATL. And the broker knows this and will only reimburse based on progressive's receipt. 12 years ago when I started lumpers always seemed to be freelance sometimes crackheads or all kinds. Could negotiate.It's not what it used to be. Not necessarily better or worse just seems like anything else some sort of mega does it all now. Try to avoid these loads like the plague but money does talk.

 

Not worth the trouble - or possibility of injury - in my opinion. That's all on line 4, cuts into your drive time. I'd rather be on down the road.

 

first time i decided to lump my own load was also a grocery warehouse in glendale,ca. took me a day and a half to unload it and dm wasn,t happy.lol he told me from now on to use the lumper service and from then on i did lol. i wasn,t really sure what i was doong and none of the lumper guys would answer my questions. oh well lesson learned

 

I lumped my first solo load for Stevens Transport...like 1000 cases of meat on the floor 4 stops .... I NEVER lumped another load

 

I lump my whole load every week. With doing LTL refridgerated it gets me down the road a lot faster and I go to many of the same grocery warehouses. Since they know me and how fast I unload I usually get put in a "express door" or one that has a reciever nearby. Also I carry my own electric jack to help with heavy pallets of butter...its way nicer than searching for some beat up POS manual jack. Very seldom do I have a full load that needs lumped at one stop. Most times its 1-8 pallets that are stacked in a couple pallet spots on the trailer. Only a couple shippers won't pay me for lumping and with those I hire and make sure the shipper gets raped on the cost. Most times the lumpers charge about twice what I would. We get a great rate hauling the product and I don't see a reason to rape them if I unload it...but I don't give away my time either. It usually works out to about $60-70 a hour. Not bad for some exersice and its way cheaper than a gym.

 

If is 1 or 2 pallets yes any more i wont touch it

 

I use to lump my loads when I started. A nice floor load of meat was 125.00. I even lumped somebodies load who was asking about lumpers on cb. It was paper towels or something it was light but lot of work. Back then I was making 20cpm and any extra cash would do. I normally don't unload now unless its like 4 pallets with little break down,and lumper is charging a ton of money to take it off. I'll take it off and not even ask for reimbursement Just do it for the exercise and to get out quicker.