What shipper is this?

That's one place I will not do. My truck my house. They are welcome to Sit IN it for the coffee....

Its unfortunate. I ignore certain flaws in my lower body in the back and it would kill me to sit in a hard chair 12 hours. Pick me and chair and shove the whole thing into the hospital.

 

There's absolutely no reason why one couldn't lower the landing gear. Shut the truck off and shipper takes the keys.

Had a glass place do that once.

Course, if the temps sucked. But at least you could stay in your truck.

 

He'd them make us drop trailer go around building to bobtail lot.

 

I'm going to be the devils advocate here..........
Is it really that bad to wait in a room for unloading a few hours? Was there coffee/soda machines? A TV?

When I did van work early on........the majority of shippers/receivers wanted you ON THE DOCK,To either Count or Watch the loading/unloading process-

Thats what your 8 off (Well 10 now) was for....

And Dont even think about hauling other modes of transportation (Flatbed/Tanker) Because there is no "sitting in the truck" At the Customers- You'll never get nothing done.

Besides- Get outta that truck for a few- Walk around- Have conversation with others...........Take my advice, Its gonna make you miserable Confining yourself to a truck all day .

 

If you're in the truck you can at least sleep to safely take your 10, but if you're on the dock for 8 hours how are you going to be rested for your 11 hours of driving after that. At least with flatbed you get loaded in half an hour. Usually gone in an hour and a half with tarping.

 

Most places unless produce was no drivers on dock- I had them note on bol shipper count & load. Had then sign under it. Too many insurance companies don't want non workers on dock.

 

Lot of places in wa. State & Oregon put glad hand locks on trailer while loading.

 

Same thing at a cookie maker in the south for me. Keebler in GA IIRC.

 

And we got the exercise.

 

What most Shipping companies tell drivers for safety is they should simply unhook for the duration of the shipper unloading time or they have sufficient dock locks locking the trailers to the buildings. It only makes sense for a legit Shipping company to have those types of setups especially for OTR drivers. Worse case scenario is they have key dropoff signin/out box at a desk including a unhook policy. Most drivers have other things to do especially with any down time they can get besides sitting in a closed space room with other drivers.