Shouldn't lumpers be called splitters?

Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by camionneur, Sep 10, 2014.

  1. camionneur

    camionneur Road Train Member

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    I don't know (the name bugs me too), and their reasoning for taking hours to unload my trailer was that they had to "split" the pallets up and sort (or itemize) them, versus throwing them into a confused mass ("lump").

    Lumping and splitting are opposing tendencies in any discipline... otherwise I'd perfer to call them "viviparous eelpouts".
     
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    Hi camionneur, new to trucking? Lumpers are and always have been some of the biggest crooks on the planet. (next to real estate agents and used truck salespeople) In all my years, I never ONCE got a lumper, and I've fingerprinted a lot of loads. (Truck tires were the worst) They work like turtles on valium, and I could unload a wagon in a third of the time a lumper could, provided the forklift guy took the stuff away. Just say no,,,,,to lumpers.
     
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  4. gokiddogo

    gokiddogo Road Train Member

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    'Crook' is also an acceptable term ...






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    dang ... beat me to it ...
     
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  5. Pahrump

    Pahrump Medium Load Member

    The other name for lumpers is drug addicts,,thieves and people that want to screw you in cahoots with the warehouse clerks
     
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  6. MidwestResident

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    [QUOTE="semi" retired;4232158]Hi camionneur, new to trucking? Lumpers are and always have been some of the biggest crooks on the planet. (next to real estate agents and used truck salespeople) In all my years, I never ONCE got a lumper, and I've fingerprinted a lot of loads. (Truck tires were the worst) They work like turtles on valium, and I could unload a wagon in a third of the time a lumper could, provided the forklift guy took the stuff away. Just say no,,,,,to lumpers.[/QUOTE]

    Hi "semi" retired,

    How are you?

    I got quite a laugh on your response to lumpers.
     
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  7. White Dog

    White Dog Road Train Member

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    What I'd like to call them would be filtered on here...and if it did skirt the filter, would be deleted. So.......ya know.....I shall refrain.
     
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  8. camionneur

    camionneur Road Train Member

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    The viviparous eelpout feeds on bottom-dwelling invertebrates... I guess that would be the trucker slouching in a seat, wishing they could also be certified to operate such complex power equipment as the lumper.
     
  9. Bobble

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    Ya'll shouldn't be too hard on the lumpers. Sometimes it's the company they work for. Trucking isn't the only "bottom feeder" business.
     
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    Hi mje, meh, so-so, got a haircut today. After 35 + years, I've got a million of them. Remembering them is another thing.:smt017
     
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  11. camionneur

    camionneur Road Train Member

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    To each their own, I'm just catching up with the slang here, and looking to do something that involves more of me, both in delivering and splitting the freight, out there—I need the exercise after so much "bottom" feeding.
     
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