Is that it for reefer?

Like some of the others have said, reefer takes a little more patience. You have another engine that you'll need to do a pretrip on, ought to know what the codes mean if one is thrown, need to know how to read the BOL's to set the right temp for your load, is it supposed to be on cycle or continous, etc.

If your a company driver, lumper fees are paid for by the company, thru you, with a comcheck or a t check. You either call the comapny or do a qualcom to them, tell them what its going to cost, and they'll give you an authorization number to write a check with. You'll then call comdata to make it good. Money comes out of YOUR pocket, till reciept is turned in.

 

Thats what the microwave is for, to dry it out. Make sure to keep an eye on it tho so that it doesn't get so dry, that the nuker smokes it for ya!!!!

 

Carfull there. At Marten Transport, the tell the driver to sweep it out first, then if you get rejected fat a shipper, then go find a wash out.

 

For the exact same delivery, in the same city just a few blocks apart, lumpers at one warehouse charged $50 and at another they charged $250.

 

Try this...

 

Drink more ovaltine - LMAO!

 

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Company-side at Prime is 100% reimbursement on all costs, but you have to have the receipt, send the proper macros, and note any returned PO numbers on your trip reports.

Lease-side... Injun, you or your FM were doing something wrong. Or maybe you had a shady FM who was really out for himself? Outside of about $100 (total) I've been reimbursed every cent I've paid in lumper's fees as a lease operator - and that will be written off on my taxes. As far as I know, nothing has changed in terms of how lumpers are dealt with here in the last few years.

A number of our larger shippers have put unloading fees directly into their contracts with their clients, so we don't even deal with that at some locations. That being said, $40 to a high of $375 is the range I've forked over.

 

You and I have had the fM discussion before. I believe we both agree on that one.

 

You've talked about the lumpers but lets not forget about the pallets. So yes, Supremeguy, sometimes when you go to load the shipper makes YOU pay for the pallets. Anywhere from $6-$9 per pallet. About the equivalent of demanding the UPS guy to buy the box YOU'RE shipping YOUR crap in. Now of course I'm speaking as an independent... as a company driver you should never have to worry about this, your company should have it all worked out.

And as for the fun of reefers. We pulled out of CA once with a load and the reefer starts shutting down for 'High CDT Temp'. Get it looked over in Fontana and they find nothing wrong. Must've just been a glitch... It's a tight team load and we've got zero time to spare to get to Kennesaw GA. Half way across the country again with the "High CDT Temp" "Failed to Start". We've got no more time for another shop, we've got goods that need to stay cool so it became a marathon of going 200mi stopping at a TS to hose the reefer off for 15min to cool it back down and hit the road again.... fun fun... when it was all said and done $1300 to rebuild the compressor... fun fun