The WORST Shippers and Receivers - Truckers WILL NOT Buy Their Products!

Walmart Supercenter, Sylacauga, AL. The most agonizing Walmart to deliver to. 2.5 hours to unload 10 pallets and get them checked in. The other 2 Walmart's took a grand total of 1hr 15 mins to unload and check in 19 pallets. Even Walmart private fleet drivers hate this store

 

Roundys DC in Oconamowac WI
10PM appt. Check in @ 9:30 and got a door promptly. Light flipped to red around 11PM or so. Around midnight called and asked why they haven't started to unload me. Called again around 1AM. Shortly after I called the second time, receiving supervisor called me and told me they were short staffed (this is a Capstone place) and apologized. Never mind it's 3 hours past my appt time and they havent even started on my trailer yet. By 1:30 am they finally start unloading me and at 3:40 I got the call to get my bills and fork over $359 for the lumper fee. I was there for nearly 6 hours and they have the nerve to charge me an outrageous lumper fee. This place makes Walmart look like a saint when it comes to unloading.

 

Home Depot
any Home Depot

 

Was there about 3 years ago, same story, about the same wait. Nice to know they've not bothered to streamline anything.

 

HAWHAWHAWHAW...

The "LITTLE CAT FOOD WHISKAS... "

Im losing it totally. =)

Alpo in West Allentown would be it.

48 pallets 5 layer 11 high THUMP into the trailer.

Get to where you are going?

that 48 pallets now get broken down into a 96 to 110 small wood nightmare. Guess what YOU do it.

It's disgusting. I take up all of my reciever's designated yellow stripes 100 feet behind my stupid docked trailer (How do you make a 53 foot load 9 feet wide into a overflowing 100 feet by 10 space and then take the next two on both sides of you?

HOW.....

 

First off you have my sincere sympathy. The problem is grocery warehouses period. It is why I do not deal with them. It does happen but it is extremely rare with me. Pulling a dry van helps - I ditched my reefer. Sometimes I get held up but it doesn't happen to the level that I want to kill anybody. That is the whole point. Life is too short. Therefore if a particular type of trucking continuously makes you mental don't do it.
That is why I avoid DCs and lumpers. It is a racket. If I go to a warehouse and they unload a trailer load of fiberglass in short order then why can't a grocery warehouse? It is because they don't care. Simple. They just couldn't care less about you, your electronic log, your wasting fuel, your lack of sleep etc.
So they pay a couple of cents more, I couldn't care less. Not worth the heartburn.
My advice prosidious? Stay away from them. If enough truckers do this then they will have a serious problem. I thought the ELD mandate would shake them up but I couldn't convince myself 100%. Maybe it is too early for a 'bite' to happen yet.

 

My very first late reefer load leaves me with a really bad taste even today.

This was a I think some kind of Stop and Shop in CT, probably a hour east of Newburgh Bridge.

15 minutes past designated appt time. (This is long before the days of internet, qualcomm, cell phones etc etc etc.) I had finished about 40 minutes at the phone booth in the rest area dumping quarters trying to get directions to this stupid hole... (Nvm, Im the one who is stupid for dumping quarters... I finally got a ATT credit card good for National, until the first 400 dollar bill rolled in...)

ANYWAY...

I get there to gaurd shack. Shuffle bills hand it over. Lady sit there and go over them. Eyeballs my tractor, Eyeballs the number on the trailer, reefer is gurgling away in some kind of defrost or whatever... splashing fluid all over her spot...

I hear a profane word and the echoing "GTFO my property, yer late. We aint taking you today."

This is Butter. From Baltimore. Loaded the previous night. I'll be ######### if this lady tossed me out like a common bum. I lit into her with words. She stood arms wide and said, OUT.

Then she said I was banned. [echoing....]

I had a hard time processing that problem that now got to be a REAL problem.

Hey Boss... you wont believe this...

That was a very long time ago. I don't think it's proper to abuse drivers the way they did that day. Now in today's sensitive snowflakey society they would consider me with anger management issues to use horribly big words pigeonholding a sticker on me and my big temper mouth.

That load ended up going back to Baltimore. Federal Hill had a wholesaler, that takes in anything and everything for resale if you can get it there before it turns foul and starts to stink.

 

x1Heavy when I had that reefer - for only 4 nail biting months - I dreaded a situation like you describe. I would consider all the possibilities that could go wrong and look at the money I was getting. The increased insurance plus the additional responsibility made it completely unviable.
Getting rid of the trailer and untangling myself from a crooked little company in Mississippi is another story. Never again will I run a reefer OR lease to anyone. It is all risk for no extra money.
No sir. I will stick with my dry van and working virtually regular hours for what I consider to be perfectly adequate money.
We are here for a good time not a long time. You can't put a value on peace of mind.

 

That’s what has always chaffed at me about this industry since I started driving. Usually when I go into a shipping/receiving office I put my game face on and act politely. Of course I get it we’re supposed to be “professional” towards customers and all, but I’ve been to more than my share of places that are just plain abusive or hostile towards drivers, but if we dare say anything back we’re banned or penalized by our employers, even threatened with arrests.

About 10 years ago I arrived at a schreiber foods plant in Clinton Missouri, and the directions had me at the wrong building. After getting a rather unfriendly “your at the wrong building!!” And a window slamming shut in front of me, I turned around in that building’s yard, keeping in mind the “keep your wheels on the pavement” sign and noting the last person to turn around in there managed to fail that little directive and plowed a furrow into the grass with his or her steer tire. I delivered at the correct building and told I could park on the side street in between buildings to wait for dispatch to send me another load.
After about an hour I get a knock on my door. “The shipping supervisor wants to talk to you”. “Oh great I can re-load out of here” I thought. WROOOONG!!.


No sooner I stepped into the office in the other building with the unfriendly clerk shrinking away, the “supervisor”, a skinny, prissy acting ####head decides to get in my face and accuse me of plowing that furrow into his grass, “I saw it all on video!!”, blah blah blah. In about 2 seconds flat I went from barely being polite to wanting to grab the nail-puller out of the side box and bury it in this whining pipsqeak’s skull. Now if I made the mistake of course I’d have to admit I messed up, being accused of something I did do infuriated me. Of course explaining to Mr. Prissy Fit that the “grass gash” was already there BEFORE I made that turn around keeping ALL of my tires on the concrete did nothing to correct his hysteria over the precious greenery. After insisting I should’ve backed out onto the busy two lane, which I informed him that was unsafe, I got a haughty reply of “that’s not my problem”. This time I blew a fuse. I LOUDLY shot back in HIS face, “I YOUR SUCH AN EXPERT AT DRIVING WHY DONT YOU GET IN THAT CAB AND SHOW ME HOW TO BACK OUT OF THERE!!”. His reply? “If your going to threaten me like that I’ll call the police!! I want you off my property and I will be calling your company!!”. Fuming and fighting the urge to subject Prissy Pants to a slow, agonizing death but wanting to keep my ### from winding up on death row in a Missouri prison I headed to a nearby shopping center where a few other trucks were parked. I later called in the safety guy at the now- defunct company I was with at the time I explained my being banned from that customer and what happened, I got a reply of “screw them. If that guy wanted trucks off of his lawn they should’ve built a bigger yard. Don’t worry about them, I’ll handle it if they call. Needless to say the company never got a call and thankfully I never had to go back to that place.

 

Saputo - Sulphur Springs, Tx

17 hrs. Here is how I spent my days

- detailed cab interior
- made lunch
- read a little bit
- had a nap
- read a little bit more
- had another nap
- walked inside for a candy bar and coke and to ask wtf problem was
- got into a door after 9hrs and 48 min in staging area
- had a melatonin and went to sleep
- felt them load me
- felt them unload me
- felt them reload me
- knock on the door time for paperwork
- spent 30min in the shipping office commiserating with a Gordon food service driver who had been there for 16 hrs dealing with a massive os&d issue because they loaded a hot trailer with a malfunctioning reefer full of dairy.
- departed just after 4 am