Do all food distributors take forever to unload

Rite Aid, CVS, McLane, Dollar General, and even some 3 party whse folks are NOTORIOUS for taking a long time. The closer to the east coast it is the longer the time it takes to unload, since now your talking about a 10 minute break for 50 minutes work, (union stuff) etc... Even being nice and saying that when you have 50 docks full there can only be so much time spent on one load at a time to get it right. Cause we all know that if something goes wrong, we WILL raise holy h3ll to make sure it's not OUR fault.

I try to be nice when I'm sitting for a while, cause it's not always the lumper or the receive person, but when I get to 4 plus hours, then I start to wonder how long it takes to unload 20 skids of XXX

I spent 3 hours at one of the above locations getting 5 skids off my trailer, but then at the same time I spent 2 hours getting 54 skids off and they said "subject to count" and let me go... since they knew it wasn't the drivers fault that the load was wrong... (Common sense was evident in that situation)

 

I heard Americold is the worst for making drivers wait.

 

Don't curse my very existence with that name...

Americold in Allentown, PA

DO NOT WASTE your very breath by trying to load there

 

man im glad i pull flatbed... i pulled onto a property to deliver a liftgate to morgan corp in central pa the other day.. only 1 strap to remove.....they unloaded me so fast my qualcomm was still on line 3 when i pushed in the breaks to head out to my next drop....i dont know how u guys can sit a dock for 10+ hours sometimes.... i start #####in around hour 3 thats like an eternity at most flatbed places it seems like, ...although some lumber yard and steel yards are notoriously slow

 

Bummer but detention helps. You had a total of 26 hours. I would have received 18 hours in detention at 50 per hr. So 900 bucks for my time.

 

UNFI, all of them should be burned to the ground. It's not just reefer's, try dry goods also. I've sat for 10 hrs to unload at the UNFI in Denver. Typically, my boss turns the loads down, or he quotes them exorbitant rates. If they still bite on it, he'll have one of our O/O's do it. King Soopers/Kroger, depending on the warehouse, not too bad. We get a bunch of random Sunday morning unloads for them, usually 2 to 3 hours on the clock, but they are typically straight pulls with no breakdown.

Target in Pueblo, Co., can vary from drop/hook to 10 hr unloads. Few years back, one of our day cabs ran one down, supposed to be a 4 hr unload, they released him with 30 minutes left on his 14. Boss had him get a hotel room for his 10, billed the customer 5x the hotel rate for the layover.

 

Wait until you go to a Sysco, H.E.B., or one of the union places in eastern PA. There's one in Chi Town that's good for 6 hours too.

 

Food distributers follow three unwritten commandments.

1. Thou shalt take no fewer than 5 hours to load/unload.

2. Thou shalt post no fewer than 8 instructional signs writen in a demanding manner at the shipping/receiving window.

3. Thou shall be as condescending as possible to drivers at all times.

 

Lumpers Testament; Book of Capstone 3:16
“And he’th who shalt require unloading, shall be bestowed upon prices not conceivable by man or beast. Pay-ethable by the sacred elder scroll Comcheck”