Loading and Unloading

Haha sometimes youll wish dispatch would call the shipper or receiver and make them hurry up. What are you hauling?

 

They might ask what's the hold up..... which isn't your fault.....

 

If they call like that it can make your wait much longer?

 

Go straight to skate. Be happy.

 

Which company are you with?

 

Reefer is a lot of dc's like walmart. And they can be so effing slow. When i ran reefer, i did a few ten hour breaks at walmart on the dock.

And dont forget the meat patch....ive waited a full day there before.

But reefer does have a lot of long cross country hauls...which can be nice

 

If I'm sitting for an hour waiting to unload, I go check in and see what the hold up is. When they give me their bs response, I tell them that it's cool, because my detention time starts at 2 hours after arrival (assuming I'm on time) and that it's charged at a rate of $75 an hour till empty. That usually gets then moving. Sometimes not

 

I loaded and unloaded by myself, usually an hour each time . It was usually 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of linen on wheeled carts .