Extended forced layover-any recourse?

Is the Winn-Dixie in Sarasota still open? I hate that place. Always tried to force some lumper on me when I didn't want one. Get smart with the driver and try to delay hoping you'd cave in and hire the lumper. Guess they were getting kickbacks. The reefer company let the driver unload and keep the lumper money if we wanted to so I always did the unloading. Sometimes could make $200 - $500 extra a week doing that.

 

What really pissed me off about that, was the difference that the company would pay a lumper service vs a driver. It was explained to me that they would rather their driver, "take a break," and that he was "too likely to get injured," and BLAH BLAH BLAH.
I'm not lazy by nature, and I never had a problem with physical work, but be damed if I'll do the same work, for a third of what they'd pay somebody else to do. An how can you "take a break" when the company wants you on the dock, verifying everything. There were things I just hated about reefer work...

 

You're right. That would be an extra $200-500 a day. For that kind of money, I would still be pulling a reefer.

 

There is a little something to returning said load to shipper. It's back at shipper, dropped and new trailer rolling for another load in the time it takes to get to shipper. They ask what you doing back here? Load refused. Let them do the yelling.

Sometimes got paid both ways. Heh.

There IS usually a VERY good chance will never see that customer ever again. That's fine. I want people who will unload the #### thing today in a short time. Not days and days.

 

Four days? And the trucking company allowed that to happen?
Time to look for a new job.

 

We knew exactly what the lumper charged and our receipt would be for the same. If the lumper charged $200.00 then that's what my receipt would have, except I kept the cash.
I logged sleeper berth and put some phoney name on the receipt. We were lucky, our load planner said she'd rather us keep the money than give it to a lumper and all she wanted to see was a receipt and no questions asked.

 

Eh..... tell them to make a new appointment for about 2 weeks from now.... looks like probably the company took whatever cheap crap load to get close to the produce and hope to make money on produce back to GTA.. put 2 pallets worth of product in your sleeper... carry on with original plan. Drop product back at company yard... someone else redeliver it. Evidently they don't really care when it gets there anyway.

 

One could always call the cops with being held again your will, but that was shot down by the crew than haven't fueled more that I've splashed out of my tanks in the last 37 years.

The OP's husband needs to man up and be Captain of his ship.

 

I grossed lifetime wages close to a million, If I hauled in 100 to 500 per day cash loading and unloading like a lumper got paid... I would have tripled that money and probably stayed in it until snapping a bone or something.

Those lumpers they made out like total bandits on our money. Now... i leave you with this little story.

There is a cider outfit called White House in Virginia I think Winchester not sure. Memory gets fuzzy. They ship glass gallon jugs, 6 to a case, 5 to a layer 4 layers high I think.

Anyway.

Pick up 6 gallons of glass with cider in it, and set it down too hard on cement, CRACKPING! then watch all that cider run out to waste.

Enter two brothers. Could be twins. Something on the order of 6. OMG bend neck backwards to meet and greet these ... ice boxes... fridges.

One stood where the cider is going, the other picked up and threw it to his brother. klink, jingle and clack on the pallet. So help me I stood there watching every box fly for a while. Paid them the cash money. Nothing leaked.

I think I should have had a apartment built in the front half of the trailer and had those two with me whereever we went with a reefer load. I will never forget them.

 

4 days, really?

I can't see it but hubby needs to find a new company if that really happened.