Why I hate reefer

Yep get treated as a second class citizen. If I had a pet I'll be dammed if anyone is telling me I can't walk it. I remember a guard shack told a buddy of mine he'd have to tie his dog to a fence before he entered the receiver Mercedes. Hot freight, production line about to go down.. ..and they kept insisting on this asinine nonsense... ...until finally they reasoned it would be OK if his dog stayed in the cab. Lol

 

That's one thing I've noticed over the years. If a place makes you go through a guard shack or the shipping / receiving staff hides behind a glass panel it's usually the place is a PITA to deal with, but most places were there's no guard shack and just a couple of forklift guys who take or hand over the bills directly they are usually good to deal with.

 

Definitely. Last place like that had one guy in the whole warehouse. I have to call him when I get there so he can go to the warehouse. Still get u loaded in 45 minutes.vs going to a warehouse with hundreds of workers and waiting nine hours to unload.

 

Yessir been pullin since march haven't stopped yet 3/4 times a week up ####s creek Toronto - Montreal , worst part is the 401 other than that money keeps comin to each their own , have a good one boys

 

I wouldn't be happy either if the place I work is like a jail where I am locked up all day long, and who wants to see someone walk up happy on the outside?

 

I never had to deal with most of those things that you mentioned.
If a trailer was loaded incorrectly I never would leave until they did it correctly. I always told them how to load my trailer and if they didn't like it I wouldn't let them load the product.
All of my loads were 2800 Mile loads.
Hearing the reefer run never bothered me or interfered with my sleep.
I kind of miss pulling a reefer Coast to Coast.

 

I can't sleep without mine. I run dedicated Chiquita and if you know reefers well enough, you know that's continuous. As for anyone asking me to move cuz of my reefer, you can #### right off. If it bothers you that much you can move. And him complaining about precooling a trailer? Are you that much of a cheapskate to precool while on your way to the customer? I love driving reefers. And if they paid 6 bucks a mile he'd drop his pants and bend over backwards to get that reefer job he hates so much back. P*ssy

 

Back in the late '90's I use to deliver Reefer loads to a Giant foods DC in Landover, Md. You'd walk inside and stand at the window and the only way of communicating was through the little tray at the bottom of the window where you slid you bills into them so you never could hear what the women were saying because of the blowers going and heaven forbid they raised they're voice any. They wouldn't look at you or reply to anything you said. Sometimes they would just make you stand there while they did whatever, no.....it will be a minute or could you come back, or how are you, hello, nothing. And after you got finished with that humiliation you had to go stand at your door, and I mean stand, no opening your door, moving pallet jack, talking to anybody, you just had to stand there waiting for the checkers to give you permission to do anything. You buck the system you wait and again they would come out from they're breaks or whatever they were doing and not even acknowledge you were there, they were all Teamsters and they made #### sure you knew who was in charge. They checked boxes in for Pete's sake it wasn't like they weren't launching Nuclear missiles or anything like that, what a bunch of prima donnas! I went there about once a week and after about 4 yrs I finally kind of got on the good side of one of them and he started treating me halfway decent when I came in but not so much that I didn't know he was running the show. They were by far the worst place I ever delivered to in 8 yrs of driving.

I know there are a thousand stories like mine and sorry for the rant but there is no way I would put up with that kind of humiliation, and to me, it was total humiliation to be treated like that. I don't treat people that way and I won't put up with anybody doing it to me, especially now that I have gotten older.

 

I have done at least 15 years pulling reefer! No way I would EVER do that again!
I hate anything to do with food warehouses...They suck balls!!