How inevitable are driver-unfriendly loads at a typical dry van company?

I’ll put up with just about any ######## as long as it’s legal and I’m being compensated fairly.

Two of the worst pet peeves are wasted time not compensated.

The other is loads that have fees that I have to pay out of pocket, and then spend the next two months fighting to get reimbursed.

 

so then, you worked for an o/o and on a 1099..??

or an owner that offered no benefits, pay raises, good well maintained equipment?

if so, then you MADE that decision on your own.

 

then you worked as a 1099 driver?

i never had any issues, or problems collecting any out of pocket money.

 

Whatd they sayyyy

 

Dealing with rude customers can be a "bad load", that's why it should be approved by carriers to allow us drivers to beat these dock workers. If I knew I could knock a forklift drivers teeth out and not get fired I'd do it more often .

 

We get them. We’re supposed to be no touch. Period.
Had one where shipper didn’t mention receiver wanted it at the door of the trailer. Receiver has no dock.
On top of that. It was right on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood. Pulled to a side street. Both sides lined with cars... apartment renters.
What ended up happening. Had 7 pallets.3 were 8 feet long. Pallet jack don’t work good with those anyways.
My company paid me $100 to get those pallets to the front. The guys at the receiver helped me. Said not to tell they got in the trailer. So I got $100 for 1/2 hours work.
Now I’m The Hollywood Lumper!

 

You know very little, about what I would expect from the level of self-righteousness I’ve seen on this thread.

 

What Buddy said , any load any road , your not loaded til you can't close your doors.
I was pretty destitute when i chose to drive a truck back in the 80s , jobs were not as plentiful as these days.
I put up with 4500 case Ore Ida floor loads , sure it sucked but had a family to feed.
I look back at it today and consider it a right to passage , and in the end it all payed off.

 

I get paid just as much for the easy ones as the hard ones, it pretty much evens out.

 

OP’s good load - Drop and hook to a warehouse/DC just a half mile off the interstate.

OP’s bad load - Back haul where he has to drive city streets to get to an old warehouse district only to blind side into a dock that was made for 48’ trailers.

You guys are over complicating this man’s gripe...