Dumbest shipper/receiver instructions

Some plastic blow mold place up in Wisconsin. Signs up everywhere "all drivers must wait inside while truck is being loaded" and they mean it.

 

Dumbest instructions - any place with lumpers.

Its your stuff get it off the truck or hire a LTL service. I am not you message boy or banker.

 

must be a Wisconsin thing......I was at a place that ships salt and it was the same deal. Plus, the forklift dude got annoyed when I walked up the ramp rather than using the stairs......whatever

 

give me a pallet jack or the keys to the forklift and i'll do the stupid thing myself.

 

Alot of the time it's not there stuff grocery whses don't buy the stuff they get it from the shipper and sell it for them. Basically lik a consignment store

 

There is a steel place in Charlotte. While loading, you have to STAND on a little pad the size of a small doormat. I say stand, because if you grab the empty chair ten feet away, they'll get upset. While standing on that pad, it lights a light above your truck. Step off, light goes out, loading stops. And if you are in the drivers lounge, they will come get you to make you stand on the "driver safety pad" while loading you. You can't stay in the lounge. Seemed pretty stupid.

 

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Ok back to the conversation....

 

My personal favorite is the Shipper demanding you to use a particular door number.

With a trailer already inside of it.

Walk back to office, inform Mr Frown that his assigned door number is already occupied.

Our papers show that door to be empty.

I cannot abide such dense thinking from Mr Frown. Life is already very difficult for those determined to be too stupid to understand the dock in question is occupied.

And you wonder why sometimes People give me a hard time for being difficult over a assigned dock?

 

Just tell em your yard dog lied to you, i saw him taking a smoke break....

 

I was told to go to dock number 63 once.... There was only 30 docks in the building....

Security guy was pissed off and argued with me when I told him "You guys only have 40 doors".

I said, "well, you get off your fat ### and walk around to find door 63. You ain't gonna find it!"

I got my only late delivery because of that idiot. They had to reschedule me in the next day, which kinda makes me wonder if my load information had the correct date on it...its been known to be messed up before.