Why I hate reefer

IH Truck Guy · Feb 26, 2017

All I know is my local food store is out of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and I'm pizzed at all reefer drivers. Lmao

Giant foods. Blast fom the past.
Great,now I'm going to need more therapy

OOwannaBE · Feb 26, 2017

Bear135 said: ↑

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.
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Nearly every Walmart does this lol. I am used to it and smile since I make three times more money than the office liberals.

scottied67 · Feb 26, 2017

HalpinUout said: ↑

Is this a requirement of your company? Do they compensate you?
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yes washouts are required and no we don't get paid to do it.

OOwannaBE · Feb 26, 2017

Yup and I don't know if blue beacon employees are fewer or work slower but it seems there is always a 30 minute to an hour wait until you can get a wash. I really like the blue beacons with a separate washout only bay but they are not many of them that offer that.

HalpinUout · Feb 26, 2017

scottied67 said: ↑

yes washouts are required and no we don't get paid to do it.
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That sucks.

scottied67 · Feb 26, 2017

OOwannaBE said: ↑

Yup and I don't know if blue beacon employees are fewer or work slower but it seems there is always a 30 minute to am hour wait until you can get a wash. I really like the blue beacons with a separate washout only bay but they are not many of them that offer that.
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Got it washed out at BB and didn't check their work. Got to customer and open doors and see a huge wallop of grease right at the end of the trailer. luckily i had a pocket full of redneck kleenex (napkins) and wiped it up before the guard coming to check out the trailer could see it.

OOwannaBE · Feb 26, 2017

Heh, the only problem I ever had with a BB was after I got a wash I was driving in a tight construction zone where they have no shoulder. I tap my brakes since four wheelers in front of me slam on their brakes when they see a construction sign and my hood flies up and I cannot see a thing lol. Surprisingly traffic was way behind me so I hopped out in the middle of the road, push the hood down and hop back in before traffic reached me. BB forgot to latch my hood back. I am surprised that doesn't happen more often.

aussiejosh · Feb 26, 2017

I get the feeling you hate reefers? Out of all the problems you labeled the only one i had was with loading where some don't allow for the weight of the fridge motor but that didn't happen to often. Other than that i had a great time all truck stops are noisy full stop so 1 more reefer don't make all that much difference.

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