Do all food distributors take forever to unload

Some are better than others.....

 

Grocery warehouses are why I pull a flatbed.

I would rather tarp a load in blizzard than ever go back to another grocery warehouse and deal with shady lumpers while I watched the seasons pass waiting to be unloaded.

 

Publix could be a holes back then too.

 

Same reason I switched to tankers.

 

The hold up is the "receiver." This is the individual who checks for accuracy against the BOL and quality control. That's the hold up. They take a long time. And sometimes there may only be two or three on shift.

 

Correct. It usually takes the lumpers about a half hour to an hour to physically unload the truck. It's the pallet breakdown and waiting for the receiver to actually receive the product that takes forever.

 

Dare I ask what's Albertsons?

 

For the first time last week I took a reefer load to Publix DCs. I had one stop in GA and 3 in FL.

1st stop (9 pallets). 10 hours to unload.
2nd stop (4 pallets. 7 hours to unload.
3 r stop (4 pallets). 6 hours to unload.
4th stop (2 pallets). 3 hours to unload .

Never again.

 

That's both crazy and flat out ridiculous. By contrast, I took 5 pallets of empty cereal boxes to Kelloggs yesterday, and the guys unloaded me in about 10 minutes. Including security check in and out, I was on the property about a half hour.