How long can it take to unload a trailer?

longest load was 22 hr's
same trip unload time was 19 hr's

on the other hand I bumped a dock at ford walked around the front of the truck down the side of the trailer and in the door and by the time I walked in with the keys they had the 38,600 lb. unloaded

 

That's not the half of it. Factor in HOS limits counting down, traffic rush hour approaching, bad weather moving in, pickup appointments becoming impossible.

Lost revenue outcomes approaching from several angles.

 

Is a Lumper service involved?

lol

 

If you go to Fry's(Kroger) in West Phoenix, time is measured in days , not hours.

 

Coca-Cola in White Plains, NY.

Shouldn't be possible to do a 10-hour break while still attached to the dock, but I did. Must have been a union thing.

 

Depends upon how much you need it off your trailer. Put here in the high side of reverse, and back up as fast as she will go, and slam on the brakes. Easy 30 second unload (van, reefer drivers0

Flatbedders unstrap, unchain, do same as above, only just turn sharp real fast. Esy offload.

 

2.5 days to load. Bad schedule by broker.

 

Pallets were not invented until about the 60's Otherwise everything is breakbulk on the floor.

Teenagers used to come in work for money part time moving boxes. Many boxes. Later they became truckers doing the same work but now driving them once they reached of age.

Even in my time you still do it manually.

It has taken me 30 hours to empty a trailer. Straight. It has taken the Military at the Richmond Defense depot 10 hours to unload a simple load of matches out of a container. The problem is they need to verify down to the match inside the little boxes that they are actual count as shipped, billed etc to uncle sam. So 5 soldiers sit around counting 100 matches in little boxes as it comes out of my container. I get to sleep in the bunk. It's not my job to count matches once Uncle Sam started unloading it. But it will certainly be made known to me if there is OSD, (Over, short and damage) which will be a entirely different process that could take as long as half a day to deal with in a variety of ways.

Unloading a semi trailer is not a overtime paid work. It is not a federally regulated activity under HOS. You just cannot drive until you have had 10 hours rest. Now even just saying that is a can of worms within our regulations which become painfully grotesque and monstrous as people attempt work around to keep the wheels rolling.

There is no overtime in trucking. You get 70 hours in 8 days. The problem is you commonly spend more than 100 thinking about your truck and job when you exclude the small number out of 168 hours weekly spent sleeping. You can literally BURN all 70 hours and not move a inch. And cannot until you have had either a 34 hour reset in which you are not allowed to do any work period. Or midnight new day going back 8 on your recap.

Now that I have sufficiently confused you. Let's add two truckers to a team. Put them into the same truck. Now that truck can roll 140 hours a week theoretically.

Just because you unloading dont mean you are finished just yet. You need to take that reefer to a washout. That will take a while. Then you need to do paperwork, I have estimated that two to three hours daily is burned in doing paperwork daily. Just to keep up. I had my wife do the papers while we drive. Technically that puts her on duty in the HOS. On paper logs that time does not exist beause again once that 70 is burned up. You dont work. You don't drive. And no money is made. zip.

Wanna go home? HA. The time you use in commuting to the house from the company property in which you left your truck and the time you need to travel to that truck under dispatchers orders is also counting against your HOS.

Wonder why so many trucks and no parking? that is because many truckers run 11 hours driving. Then look for a parking spot which cannot be found for love and money. You could offer a million dollars in a truckstop for parking of you and your rig. But no one will move a inch to get it because the new ELD says VIOLATION against them.

Which opens a whole nother can of worms.

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