There is only one thing that annoys me about trucking

I have experienced the same issue when I pulled a dry van.
And turns out most of the one getting in and out ahead of me were those stinking city LTL day cabs. It's like they would just stop working my load. Off load them then go for a smoke then start back on me till the next LTL truck showed up and repeat the same as before

 

12345678910...that enough?

 

One place I go to doesn't even answer the door if you try to go up to it when they start on 1st shift. They come out about an hour before they actually open up and take everyone's paperwork who's there. It's always a what they need for production situation, not who was there first or who is scheduled first. It sucks, because many times it's the same thing, first in a door, last to leave. Not much you can do about it.

 

Well that explains it and here all along I thought it was my NY Yankees hat---Hmm I wonder if that is my problem when I go to the Bronx??
Cuz I always wear my Red Sox hat at the point---hmmm sumthin to consider?

 

NY Yankees is Americas team! Tell those redsox yo-yos to take a hike! That oughta getcha noticed!

 

Kind of like the Post Office.. You have an appt, but you will not get unloaded till after all the contract trucks are done...

 

That's redundant. I learned this trick a long time ago. You can show up the night before as the first truck. Receiving doesn't know this. Meanwhile the rest of the trucks come in behind you and park. Receiving shows up and goes to the closest truck when he comes out the door and goes right down the line collecting the bills. This is how order is established and not who makes it to the dock first.

What you do is make sure you park closest to the receiving door or you possibly screwed yourself. Appointments mean nothing at certain places. 9 times out of 10 the planners are going to tell you your appointment time is the time the place opens even though no appointment was set.

At places with one dock park against the dock or some weasel might sneak in behind you and park against the dock. Guess who gets unloaded first?

Then like others said there are the regulars which might come off one truck and off it goes to the customer. When a place has multiple deliveries unless you know them you don't know how their operation is ran. On the same note they don't what order the trucks showed up.

You did good newnash and not show emotions. That only makes things worse. In a situation like that you could possibly drag the pallets off yourself or let things fall the way they did. It's not the end of the world to get detention and at worse reschedule the other drops. Usually other drops are willing to work with you. Put the work off on your dispatcher or planner. They want you empty just as quick and their communication with a customer bears more weight than any driver's word. It's not a perfect world and these things will happen. It's kind of like taking the bad with the good. Save the blood pressure and take it in stride.
The outcome is still the same.

 

Evidently y'all haven't had the experience of the great 100-truck 0400 free-fer-all yet. It doesn't matter who shows up first - its first in the gate when they allow anyone one in, backed-in AND up to the window.