Loading and Unloading

Its not a dumb question,it depends on the customer.You can sit from an hr to all day.You'll sometimes deliver to the same customer more then once and you'll be dreading it all the way.Some customers could get you right away but they choose to wait because they're lazy.Then some wait just before detention kicks in to get you unloaded or loaded which could be 4 hrs and then takes another 2 hrs to unloaded say 10 pallets of product.If it wasn't for the long wait times there would be some good money to be had.

 

I've been at customer getting loaded or unloaded for as short as 40 mins before for full tanker loads and I've been their for 11 hours before.. I just learned to pack a lunch because you never know...

 

If you. think you're going to be late you need to tell your dispatcher so they can give the customer a heads up and you better have a good reason for being late otherwise too many late loads means your company will let you go with an ugly mark on your DAC.

 

Things can happen, if you have a good reason and you let people know aa soon as you can they will work it out and you will be fine.. If your late due to taking 14 hour breaks instead of 10 hr or because your stopping at every little small casino then u might have a problem.. Only stop at 1 casino and so you don't use so much time parking works great

 

Thanks for your service, I retired last last year and started trucking.. The first couple months will be the hardest and the most stressful, don't rush for nobody or anything, get out and look as many times as you need.. you will do just fine

 

2 days sometimes .... No kidding .... Happened to me this weekend. I work for a great company so there will be extra money for me on it plus they asked me what I wanted to do ? Great company plus great attitude mak s it something to laugh about.

 

Thank you both for your service !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thank you Sir