Is loading&unloading a surefire way to make money as a o/o

what companies pay there company drivers for loading/unloading????

never heard of such a thing.

 

What's the lumper fee?

Don't work for less than the lumper gets paid.

 

Usually the lumper/unload money is built into the paperwork. If you know the paperwork, you can figure out what the unload fee is or ask the lumper service what they charge. I always unloaded myself and kept the unload fee. I made from $200.00 to $500.00 weekly just on unload money; that was reefer OTR for years. Some companies turn a blind eye to this & some companies don't allow the driver to unload. The driver is supposed to log sleeper berth while someone else unloads. Most of us log sleeper berth and unload anyway. We always kept different types of receipt books, from Office Depot, and made a receipt to turn in. After unloading we tell the receiver we need a pallet exchange and then later sell the pallets for $2-$5 dollars each.; that adds up at 22 or 44 pallets per load. What's really good is, you can go for years without spending your paycheck money on road expenses.

 

Carrier's pay different rates to drivers. Some may only pay $60 to unload, but pay a lumper $250. You can pick up extra money when you unload, but I believe that if you will pay a lumper $250 that you should pay your own driver the same rate. Due to the possibility of injury, some carriers prohibit drivers from unloading their own trailers.

 

I personally dont care what others do. Transam doesnt allow us to unload and get the lumper fee at 60 years old i dont want to anyway
If I was going to steal from the company on pallet exchange I probably wouldn't tell all you guys
or admit on an open forum i am not asleep when logged into sleeper berth
i am not morally superior by any means but putting my transgressions on paper
will lead to more restrictions for everyone

Every driver not using a headset today will be the reason no one can talk on thier cell phone while driving in 5 years

 

Most companies have a set hourly rate that they pay drivers for hourly compensation, such as loading/unloading, detention, local work, yard dogging, etc. More then likely they are getting paid more then you for the service provided but hey, you should find out what they pay before you hired on.

Now some 0/0's find out what the broker is willing to pay for having the truck unloaded and then do the work themselves rather then using that money to pay the Lumper, I see nothing wrong with that.

 

If the receiver is notoriously rough on my equipment and / or has damaged the product in the past, I will unload it myself and keep the com check, submitting my own generic unload receipt. It gets old really fast when you have mario andretti on a hyster poking holes in cases, and bashing the goods into other pallets and expects to claim damage against your cargo insurance.

 

Don't be so hard on me Mr. Pete! At 66 yrs. old I was unloading floor loads by myself. I didn't steal pallets, I just relocated them. The receiver/shipper at the next point would just reject most of them anyway, then they sell the rejected pallets anyway; that's the way grocery warehouses are. They tell you the rejected pallets go in the dumpster, but that's not true at all, the warehouse guys sell them. My company was well aware of the scam by the grocery warehouses.

 

Who says you need to be asleep to log sleeper berth? There is really not any laws that say a truck driver has to ever sleep.