Is that it for reefer?

It means when you back into the customer's dock with their freight..... You have to pay them to unload it!

Are you just slow? Can you not understand?

 

Actually that is what it means, except there is a third person involved. That person or company is paid by the driver to unload the trailer for the driver. Walmart is the only place I have seen that also runs the lumpers. Most places the lumpers work for a separate company.

 

I've seen that "failed to restart" a bunch of times on the reefers at my old job. If your trailer isn't loaded to the nuts and you can make it up into the nose, check the fan and make sure nothing got stuck up in there. I've found shrink wrap that's come away from a pallet and it got sucked up into the fan. Of course, make sure the reefer is OFF when you check this! Also, if the reefer has a "manual defrost" switch, try switching it to manual and fire it up again. This helped to keep the reefer running until the reefer repair guy could make it to our yard, he lived 90 minutes away in another city! Those two things have saved my bacon a few times with frozen freight during the height of summer.

 

So quit bogarting, and pass the reefer... man!

Yeah, but unless you pull for a cheap, lousy #######, you get reimbursed.

Nah, man! You passed him the reefer!

Speakin' of which... Dave's not here, so we can turn off the reefer - but quit bogartin' and pass that thar roach!

 

Ok let's think a bit before you ask a dumb question. If you are leaving a trailer they aren't unloading it.. no fee.. you pay the lumper because they are unloading your trailer while you sit fat dumb and happy in your truck,so you can drive off with an empty trailer..

Not rocket science.....

 

Many companies who say they reimburse for lumpers will only do so if they get reimbursed by the shipper. I have paid as much as $450 to unload a trailer. Lumper pay is part of the reason I lost my arse at Prime. Some of the shippers didn't reimburse for it, therefore, I did not get reimbursed.

If it was the $50 pittance that Walmart demands, it wouldn't be such a big issue. My average expense for lumper loads was in the $150 to $200 range. This generally applies to live unloads. When you decide to pull the freight off your own trailer, some of those lumper companies get downright militant and mean about it.

*sigh* I am soooo happy to be out of grocery!

 

You must be talking about O/O's. If I, as a company driver, didn't get reimbursed for a lumper fee, and I had to pay out of my own pocket, I'd be working there just long enough to get their truck and trailer back to a terminal to clean it out and hand in the keys.

 

Yes. I don't know how the company side of the outfit works.

 

The highest I have had to pay a lumper so far was $100. Well Central paid it. I just filled out the comchek. Food Lion is outrageous with their lumper fees, but they have an account with Kraft.

Walmart is 'Always' $50.