If you don't play the lumper game, you'll get shafted

I tried that once and it got me nowhere, really. This is because I was a mere company schmuck, and the company had already arranged to pay a lumper to unload it. I really had no choice in that case but to fork over the company's dimes and nickels to a lumper, who may have taken home 30% of what I paid him.

After that, I just forked over the dimes and nickels. This is because they weren't my dimes and nickels.

 

The company I drive for only only deals with grocery warehouse on paper products, floor loaded boxes of paper towels or napkins. The BOL has DRIVER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR UNLOADING in Bold, along with detention charged at $165 over 2 hours. I never sit more than 1.5 hours, it works wonders on the management of the warehouse.

Only had a problem once, at the ALDI warehouse in Salisbury NC. Manager stated I don't care what the BOL states, you have to pay to unload at my dock. After a call to my dispatcher, I waited 2 hours and left. Was told to bring the load back to the shipper, after about 5 hours of driving got a Q-call message to return to ALDI. For some reason they were very sorry for the mix-up and had me unloaded in less than an hour. I got paid for all the miles driven to boot.

Mark

 

i don't care to touch the crap myself!! the Co. i am going to work for pays 15.00 an hour IF driver has to unload/load but it is supposed to be 90% drop and hook

 

I don't see the big deal though. If you have to pay a lumper, I assume that your company is going to foot the bill.

 

Not all companies foot the bill...............

Mark

 

Schneider National. 1991

I was delivering to one of the dreaded grocery places with a hand unload that had to be swapped to the warehouse's pallets and totally rearanged to their specification. To add insult to injury, this was a crap load pinned on me after some other driver dropped it in the Ohio yard and moved onto his next cushy load. I forgot the name of the place but I believe it was in Delaware. They required a lumper, even if it was just to assist me. Here were my options:

Lumper unload: $120
Lumper assist me: $80
Schneider willing to pay lumper: $60
Schneider willing to pay me: $30

Schneider would pay the lumper or me, not both to a maximum of $60. So my choice was:
1. Pay the lumper $60 out of my pocket plus $60 from Shneider.
2. Pay the lumper $20 out of my pocket plus $60 from Shneider and assist him for free.

This, of course, lead to about 2 hours of very unpleasent phone conversations between me and my dispatcher with phrases uttered such as, "You can't hold that truck for ransom!!" and, "Where do you want me to take this loaded trailer and drop it?" In the end, Schneider paid $120 for the lumper, then routed me back to Seville, Oh. for an arse chewing of biblical proportions that ended in clenched fists on both sides, them telling me if I ever "pulled that crap" again, I would be fired, and me handing my truck keys to the man, foaming at the mouth on the the other side of the desk from me and bidding him and his company farewell and good riddance.

 

stories like these make me glad May pays lumpers - period. I send in a note stating how much, they put the money on my Comdata, and I write a check. Ba-da-bing

Of course, they do need the receipt, but I don't see that as a hardship.

 

That is why I am a steel hauler. Hey lumpy I need to get this 50.000 lbs coil off!! Do what???

 

I've never had to ask for a wakeup call, when they are done unloading me they always come out and give me the paperwork... I especially like the ones that leave the paperwork on the windshield rather then knock on my door and wake me up. Hehe

Done lumpers 2x. My husband was dumb enough to unload once, 10.00 an hour is what they pay us... hahaha... dummy.

I don't care really, Werner wants to pay 200 bucks to some idiot to unload the trailer, oh well. Cause I am not doing it for 10.00 an hour sorry.

 

hi ,reading these post remind me when i was least on to b right out of Youngstown Ohio. i was in Nashville Tenn. and was told to get this load at a ware house there and deliver it to another warehouse Michigan and i was told it wouldn't be unloaded till 12 hours after i got there. well i got there and was told to drop the trailer ,so i did and after 12 hours i got out of the truck and asked when would the trailer be unloaded,; i told the guy id been there for 12 hours and the i had dropped the trailer as i was told .well the guy told me it would be 24 hours before they were going to unload me .another day there.no i said i lease this trailer and i have appointments to keep and i need it unloaded he said I'm sorry .so i called my dispatcher and she said to go into there office and then call her back on my phone once i was in the office. well i got in there office and told the Foreman in the office that my dispatcher was on the phone and wonted to talk to him . i put the phone on speaker and the man told my dispatch it would be 24 hours before id get unloaded ,well my dispatcher told him i had to pick up another load the next day and that the trailer had to be unload with in 30 mins are she would have me back under the trail and would be taking the load to a impound yard under lock and key at a rate of $300 a hour . the Foreman started getting mad he told my dispatcher that i couldn't take the load a way because it was his load . well my dispatcher told him you either unload the trailer in 30 mins are I'm going to tell the drive to leave with the load .she said the load had not been released off to that company yet and that is was property of b right until the load was unloaded and manifest was signed and terned over to the receivers .i was shocked at the way my dispatcher told that Foreman off and gave him a ultimatum my dispatcher Had's some balls man she was roofless to that Foreman i was unloaded in 25 mins. and i was on my way what a day that was,i learned the law real quick that day about loads. she had been a dispature for 20 some years she told me and she wasn't about to take no #### off any one ,.i can still hear her in my mind she was down right vishus,! never seen one like her sense.this was in 2002.that same year i was loaded with over 47,000 of onions and was pulled in to a weigh station and told i was over weight and i needed to shift my load well i couldn't . i was told by this dot Lady i wasn't going any where till i had my weight under the limits .well i called my dispatcher and i gave her the number for that weigh station she called and told that dot officer that if i was over weight to give me a ticket and to release me so i could go on .my dispatcher told her unless i was in violation and put out of service she had no legal right to hold me . and if i were are-least she would call the us Marshall and wouldn't go well for her if they cam ,the dot lady let me go . another trucking less ion i learned .the only thing about this dispatcher was when i first started getting runs from her i was making great money for the loads but after about 4 months she was getting me low paying loads and i fount my self not being able to make my truck payments + she would say she didn't have the time to give me PO numbers and when i would be unloaded and try to get fuel she would have my fuel put on the last load and id wind up a week later getting $300 settlement checks some were even - saying i owed the company money .i tried to get her to realise that by me not getting the correct PO numbers when i fueled up it was taking all my pay check for those loads . i had to Findley quit that company loads sucked bad. i think she was on drugs ripping me off . she had control of money she worked out of her home .the first week i worked she brought to me a $1300 check to the truck stop nice but,later turned in to real ### hole .