What takes longer...loading or unloading?

Hauling gas you get to load and unload yourself in anywhere from 15-45 minutes.


Feels good

 

The loads that irritated me the most, was melons out of Nogales. When they were "waiting for them to come in out of the field."

What I hated was having to bobtail all over hell's half acre to find an empty. Then not finding one.

Yes, getting rid of your gas, always feels good!

 

Inconclusive. There's no set rhyme or reason how fast you load and unload with van loads, or any box, for that matter. Fastest loading and unloading in trucking I've experienced in all my years,,,,is a dump truck.

 

Even in a dumptruck you can wait with 50 other dump trucks an hour to load. We used to have two dump trucks so that one of us will do the waiting while the other drove the loaded to the job and drove back. Swap trucks. It worked out well that day, 100 plus yards of gravel and such put down on that big common road we had built. If we had to do that job with just one truck waiting one hour each load, it would have taken three days to get it done. Three days more than what the people were willing to pay or put up with disruption while the new road was built. It was a day to remember. I did a awful lot of waiting with one of both dump trucks that day and loading. But the other worker was running them back and forth. If we had access to a second plant to load out, we would probably had three or even 4 trucks to do the work faster at a bigger profit due to charges per ton and mile hauled.

 

The only thing I ever waited for in dump trucks was hauling salt. In the winter, it was the only game in town, and there could very well be 30 trucks ahead of you. The hot setup, was to "pre-load" for the next day. Otherwise, it was "stockpile", ( I used to HATE when the boss said "stockpile today")the most boring job on earth. At least I got to run a loader, which was kind of fun.

 

I can't count the number of times that I've wished there was a dump mechanism on the van i was hooked to!

 

There is. I have seen many drivers use it. But then there's the expense of cleanup and towing to get the freeway open again.

 

For palletized freight, they can both be done in 15mins, but you will seldom see that happen.

As long as a portion of truck drivers are willing to donate their time free of charge to trucking companies, trucking's customers will use and abuse that time to their benefit.

 

I am going to buck the trend here and say that generally, loading is faster than unloading box trailers because orders can be pulled and staged before a truck arrives to speed the process along.

Receiving requires unloading, counting and in many cases break down of pallets none of which can be done before the truck arrives.

 

Is it really the truck driver's fault that his or her company does not pay him or her for detention or layover?

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