About to hand unload trailer in dollar general parking lot

I suspect the customer will claim lots of the freight was stolen or damaged and you'd face consequences from your company, possibly even termination, maybe just a yelling match. I don't know you, your company, or what the customer will say. Not many trucking companies will do nothing while you wait to deliver for 2 weeks. Most typically, the trucking company will have you drop the trailer in a yard of the trucking company or a cooperating other customer until another driver can deliver it. EVERY dollar type store account is just a bundle of problems, anger, and accidents waiting to happen. Very few experienced drivers work on those accounts because of the many issues with them. It's a matter of the type of customer, not the trucking company or the specific name of the account. DG, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, 99cent store, etc, etc. None of them seem to be better than the worst of the bunch.

 

Hound the broker with the intensity you are making new threads and I bet it gets unloaded. Go up and up the food chain to the bosses. Be a thorn in their side. You need to get to the account manager at the very least or the salesman who has the account. Right now he/she is having margaritas and snuggling with the significant other.

 

for sure, somebody paid for that stuff and somebody is going to make bank off of it, you got to find out who it's important to cause nobody else is gonna gaf about it or you with the stuff or your time

 

The funny thing is when you do these jobs the brokers I work with make sure you know. DO NOT MISS YOUR APPOINTMENT! It is a nightmare to get you rescheduled to get unloaded if you miss that appointment. Most of the time it is right at a week at min to reschedule. I have a feeling you will get a big push around on this. Do you have at least a screen shot of your phone showing you on property 20 minutes late? I would had thought they would have at least worked you in for only 20 minutes.

 

Hell, I know that it may be an irresponsible idea but dumping that freight on their parking lot would show someone there that their ridiculous reschedule is met by a ridiculous counteract.
On my last day, before I retire, I'll sure do that too, if they reschedule me like that. I would not wait 2 more weeks, if I were to retire in one day.
Oh boy...I fantasize of doing so many things on my last day before I retire.

 

I personally wouldn't just go willy nilly unloading the trailer like that. At least make sure the store manager will let you put it inside by their back door.

 

I’m assuming that it’s at a DG distribution center. I’ve had that kind of thing happen to me before, it tends to go one of two ways, either they have me wait around and try to work me in, or I get sent to a nearby local freight depot (someone like ABL or Southeastern) where they unload my trailer and store the load until it can be rescheduled, and then one of their trucks takes it back.

I’m a company driver, so I don’t deal with the money side, but I assume that’s a whole lot of money out of someone’s pocket.

I would probably go back in to their receiving office and ask really nicely if there’s any way at all that they could work you in, even if that means waiting a day or two.

 

I can’t wrap my head around this, how is this remotely acceptable. You agree to transport their products for said rate. If they are unable to unload you within a couple hours then hourly pay should kick in.
Late/missed appointment is no excuse to use your trailer as storage for 2 weeks. #### happens all the time, traffic, breakdowns, wrecks, life, etc.
It’s not your problem they can’t unload the trailer due to whatever reason, ie: labor, not enough space, etc.
I would unload it right there on the ground, and charge them for the unload.
I always have another load scheduled after the one I’m dropping and I’m not missing my next job because of stupidity.

With that said I do not nor have I ever pulled any type of dock freight so I’ve never had to deal with this type of trucking. I’ve always pulled equipment that I load/unload by myself or open deck crane off.