There is only one thing that annoys me about trucking

As long as you/truck drivers keep hauling their crap and putting up with their crap there's NO reason for a shipper or consignee to change their business practices.

 

Some customers unload the most needed products first, regardless of appointment times. They don't really care about the other stops on your truck or your pre-plan. Let your company know whats going on so that they can be prepared for the change of plans.

 

Record time-IN and time-OUT on your copy of the bills. Your logs will back you up. Like was said above...call your company and let them deal with it.

 

Ralph,,,he hauls what they tell him to, where they tell him to, when they tell him to. He's a company driver and can't make those kinda choices.
It's the companys that need to quit hauling that "crap" as ya put it.

 

If the shipper had to come out and knock on your door to rouse you out, you're already too "late". Those trucks that got unloaded in front of you were in line at the receiving desk with their papers while you were snoozing. They probably scheduled 6 trucks for 05:00. Have a 05:00? Get up at 04:30 and wait at the receiving door if you're pressed for time and have subsequent drops/appointments that day.

Maybe ths is not exactly what happened, but we can tell the slackers in this industry who have a 06:00 appointment, and their staring at themselves in the mirror in the staging lot trying to wake up at 06:10 ... and these are often the same ones who wonder why they can't make money.

 

This is why I unload my own truck whenever it's possible. Obviously I can't always move 2200 lb pallets of pickles or canned goods with a manual pallet jack, but I will unload myself whenever possible.

 

Good point STexan!
We wern't there tho, so don't know how it went down. You are right tho and maybe that's the key to this, maybe not.

 

its trucking, some days are diamonds , some days are coal.

 

Then QUIT working for folks that haul crap freight OR work for carriers that pay a living wage and then you don't care IF/WHEN you get dicked around @ a dock.