Whats the deal with Lumpers

By law, the driver cannot be made to pay unloading charges. An O/O might have to front the cash, but will be reimbursed in the settlement. It is not part of the rate.

 

Lumpers,gotta love em or you'll go insane.This is how they get you by wanting a forklift certification.Be lucky you're not pulling reefer.They have warehouses and the majority of customers have lumpers.Its crap ,pay to unload their stuff.Think all walmart DCS have lumpers $50.00 is all I ever had to pay them.Still too much far as im concerned.Just imagine what they make per shift with all the trks coming in.I don't know why they charge,I suppose because they hire lumpers.Maybe not enough staff to unload it.

 

Lumpers are usually outside employees. They do not work for the company you are delivering to and they do not get a percentage of what you pay to have them unload you. Those guys are paid by the hour mostly. The reason your company will pay a lumper $300 and only pay you maybe $75 to unload the same freight is because that $300 is actually being paid by the shipper not your company as opposed to your company having you do it and having to pay you.

Also the reason most grocery places use lumpers is because not only do they unload the truck they have to sort through all of it and restack it to ship to their stores. It's cheaper to use contract labor for that than it is to actually hire people to do it.

 

Basha's in Phoenix charges an arm and a leg for a lumper, AND they are one of the slowest warehouses EVER! Associated in Phoenix charges a lot also, but they are slightly quicker. Kings in Aurora is pretty pricey too. I was fortunate and the companies I worked for all had comdata checks and paid for it.

 

I live warehouses with lumpers it's where I make my funny money.

 

After pulling a flatbed why would you ever start pulling groceries? Must be one of those weirdos that gets off on being treated like garbage

 

Lumpers are NOT employees of the receiver. They are either day labor that just shows up to make some extra money (less common these days) or are employees of a third party company. The practice started in unionized warehouses because the receiver refused to hire yet another union employee to drive up their labor costs. It's still going on for the same reason although there are a lot fewer union companies.