Do most of you unload?

Unloading??? After a healthy dose of truck stop buffet, you better believe I unload. Be advised, stand upwind!!

 

Delivering office furniture and sun rooms, I used to unload the freight, it gave me a lot of pleasure, it did my body a lot of good and I got to meet a lot of nice people that appreciated me helping and some also gave me a little extra tips, plus we got stop pay for doing our job.
One stop in Vermont and one in New Hampshire both gave me $ 20.00 each and when I got to Burlington, Vt. to take the ferry across Lake Champlain which used to cost $ 42.50 to cross, I only paid out of my pocket $ 2.50, there was no effort from me, but it paid off!!!
So what goes around, comes around, even in this business !!!

 

Hi rexmanno, that's true. Many times, even if the freight was on pallets, I'd go inside and asked the forklift driver if there was anything I could do to help. Be it throw a slip sheet on top, if the wanted to double stack it, or take off the shrink wrap, and it really made a difference. I don't ever remember getting a tip, but the next time I went in there, they'd remember me, and take the freight off that much sooner.

 

If the work is minimal (top layer off each skid for example) and the lumper is asking an obnoxious amount...even though it is not MY money; I will do it out of spite.
Also on a "go home" load, I will do it. Would rather be home than waiting on slow lumpers.

Getting too old for that stuff any more...but have very little patience, and have found I can lump a load in a third of the time it takes three hired lumpers. But then it seems like the service gets mad that they didn't make any money off you, so they take forever to count and sign off on the freight. Can't win in some cases.

 

Even when I was a O/O, i never unloaded unless someone was paying me, I wont work for free, I get paid to deliver your product, You can unload it, I've been to places telling me "you must unload your trailer" I try and be polite, but inform them that's not in my duties, my job was to get it here, They usually will get PO'd at me screaming their calling my company, and just wait and see driver YOU ARE GOING TO OFF LOAD THIS TRAILER!, I just smile and say? "let me know what the company tells you", after about 10-15 minutes, whats this? why is the trailer bouncing around? feels like someone is unloading the trailer, cant be me, I'm still sitting in the drivers seat

 

When I started trucking in the '70s, we hand-stacked everything. We liked booze. Somehow, a case of wine always got banged enough to crack one bottle and it filtered through the cardboard into a cup. Tires, like previously mentioned, had to be laced. Pain on, pain off.

At Gordon and last outfit, merely bumped the dock. Touched nothing. Gained 20 pounds at Gordon and 15 at last job, and I'm working on THAT right now. Gotta get it off.

Current job we have option to get exercise, do more for some locations than others. Yesterday I pallet-jacked almost the entire 23 pallets. No sweat. Didn't have to. Could have waited. Happy to do it. I pay my $26/month for my membership at the local YMCA, can't always get there. Happy to have some exercise on the run.

 

I used to do a lot of unloading, back in my meat hauling days (Monfort), every load was floor loaded so it all had to be palletized by product. Some places there were good lumpers that would get it done in a couple of hours for $60 - $70 per load. Other places they were a bunch of crack heads and I could unload it faster myself so I did. I haven't touched a load in years now, I do dry van and I just don't take loads that require me to unload it or hire lumpers either one.

 

Hi Freddy, GOOD LORD, did you say you were a Monfort driver??? Can you believe I've run into people that have never heard of Monfort? Maybe you can tell me, a while back, a friend saw an older wagon on it's side (accident) and on the top of the wagon, he was sure he could make out the faded word "Monfort". I said, back then, I heard, bears in the air would see Monfort trucks and radio to the cruiser's on the ground, a Monfort truck was coming ( at a high rate of speed) and to leave them alone. Any truth to that?

 

[h=2]Do most of you unload?[/h]
yes i do. i drop the air bags,unlatch the tailgate and swing it to the side where i fasten it to the side with a chain,hop back in the truck and engage the pto while watching side to side for sway, and OFF the load goes.well,maybe i off my load as opposed to unloading it.

 

My company is 99% no touch and should basically be 100% because we don't touch freight period. Now, one day I decided when I first started here to unload myself in jersey. The customer told me how he wanted the pallets and also to be spaced enough so someone can walk in the lanes basically like a 4 by 5 square with 4 lanes. I did exactly as they said. All of sudden it wasn't good enough and some woman that thought she was a man wouldn't give me the bills. So, I guess a couple pallets were broken from the shipper because I didn't break them. So I had to restack them about 5 pallets of about 50lb buckets by like 10 buckets stacked full of dunkin donuts icing. That wasn't that hard but once again it wasn't good enough for them. Finally one of the other guys a unloaded helped me because he knew they were being jerks. Never again will I ever unload again.