I hate Tyson, I HATE Tyson, I HATE TYSON!

never been to tyson, but i've heard that they have a nice cafateria available to drivers. i think it is FREE to the tyson drivers

 

Yes..Cargill at Butler,wi is to be avoided as well..got in for my unload (appointment)..at 5am today....got out of there at 630pm!!!!
Also a Cargill ownerop spent 17 hrs sitting between loading and unloading on his last run for them..hes pissed.

 

A couple of them do, like in Perry, IA. Most do not, and it is easy to get stuck there for hours and hours... if not days. I spent two solid days at Waterloo, IA one week!

 

Trucker You Sit Over Night They live up to their name.!!!!!!

Sitting in alabama for a FROZEN chicken patty load, appointment time 10am, arrive at 9am, go out to the dirt lot half mile away and wait and wait....

Dispatch wants to know what is taking so long,
My answer "this is tyson, they do not care about appointment times, or how long they abuse the driver and the equipment, trailer must be precooled before loading to -10, and it is 100 outside...refer is running high speed continuous. And you the trucking company allow this abuse to continue." It is 2pm now.

I walk back in to ask the shipping clerk for an honest answer on when I will be loaded, and am told "come back after 4pm and ask the 2nd shift."

I inform dispatch of this.

3pm I am told to put it in door 1, I walk in expecting the ususal tyson loading of hours and hours, but no 28 pallets of product staged and ready to be loaded with two fork lifts loading. Took 15 minutes. Handed me my paperwork, and told me to have a good day.

Dont know what happened in the back ground, but Tyson should respect the appointment time, and when the driver is there on time, should be loaded within a short time, not hours later.

 

Someone in your office called someone in their office most likely. I had that happen at a Lowe's dc. I got there before my appt, pulled in where they wanted me, untarped, and waited while they unloaded all the trucks ahead of me, started unloading the trucks that came in after me, then went to lunch. I called the office, the office called them, and they came off lunch early to unload me immediately.

They don't care about you, but if someone they think is important starts raising hell about it they get worried.

 

I pick up at a Tyson in Chicago. Usually I am out of there within an hour and a half, even if I am late. Our company has top priority there and they will force someone out a door to load us.

Super nice people there. Crazy security guard that will talk you to death about the cubs or eatting girls out. Fat guy.

Worst place I've been to is Dawn in Indiana. Takes so long.

 

I went to the Tyson over at Pasco Washington for a load of lard going to sysco in Boise Idaho, man we sat there for a few hours and does that place ever stink, it was all we could do not to lose the milk and cookies, finally got in a dock loaded and gone, but then you go toward oregon to highway 12 and there is that mineral plant where they make cattle supplements out of fish scales, it stinks even worse than tyson.

 

Why do you agree to sit around for free like that? Doesn't your time have any value?

Here's something to try. Call up a cab to your house and tell him to sit in the driveway for 5 hours while you goof around inside. See how many are there after 30 seconds let alone 5 hours.

But the Great American Trucker (AKA: Knight of the Open Road, AKA: Last American Cowboy) is expected to do just that.

Well not on my account I can assure you.