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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;x1Heavy, post: 9883312, member: 178676&quot;]I have not spoken much about places like Kroger, Associated Grocers etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can expect to arrive sometime at the place, be told to camp out and wait. And what a wait. Towards morning you get a dock. Then told to enter this office. You are then told that you will pay 300.00 in lumper charges comcheck or cash so you will be unloaded OR you unload it yourself. 48000 pounds in many boxes on the big pallets to their small pallets custom layer and height to match their store orders. (For them)</p><p><br /></p><p>Throw away that day and into the afternoon and wait for inspection and count. For damage or not. Only then you will get your paperwork and told to get off the property now. REGARDLESS of your HOS status. (PC conveyance straight to proper truckstop or equivalent for rest and safety, no further say to a better truckstop)</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a young mans work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I disposed all that loss of time, filth and piles of outgoing money that I am not sure I will be paid back on and so forth associated with food when I discovered medicine loads.Ive had it to the back teeth with a life time of food. All kinds coming and going. I hope the blessed People are happy with the meals.</p><p><br /></p><p>I favor bulk, flatbed and some liquid tankers non hazmat. (Very few of those) Even if I would be a county water boy feeding tanker off our Tower twice a day in season filling pools for hourly I would be happy. because my life has passed around the USA, parts of Mexico and Canada in every way good and bad. I don&#039;t need or expect hot time intense precision OTR work. I can do that if need be. But let someone else sweat it out. That might be you. You follow me?</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever it is you are told to do with a tractor trailer, keep in mind you got into this of your own free will and can only carefully consider everything about that load until the papers are signed and done. (Always sign them shipper load and count, no matter how much they scream, it comes out of your pay if the product comes up short.... one time they got me for 11 childrens bikes. Thats&#039; 900 gone and that was 80&#039;s money, equal to about 3000 today. Shipper load and count)</p><p><br /></p><p>The bikes?</p><p><br /></p><p>Loaded on the floor of my trailer for Lionel in Landover DC in Maryland. Hand count marks by 5&#039;s on wall of trailer with crayon. Every box. Forklifter showed me a count about 11 off mine. I count bars top to bottom on my wall, 11 off. I said my count is good. He says his count is good. I said get his boss. oh no.. Our count is good, yours is not, sign this.</p><p><br /></p><p>No I aint signing *&amp;^% my count or nothing. Boss comes up. Says we close today in 2 hours what do you want to do? </p><p><br /></p><p>Get your staff and pull all these bikes off me and between those two sets of yellow lines (60 feet long, 10 foot staging behind their dock) floor to floor and recount the whole #### thing (After 5 hours of labor)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh no. My count not yours driver.</p><p><br /></p><p>round and round round. I lost my temper and said eff this... signed the bills their count so I can get the eff out of that place. I had enough of them. That little loss of temper cost me 900 when I showed up and found 11 short my count. Cost me that much to be right.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a little black school childs notebook. In it goes bad shippers and recievers. I check against that growing list to be sure I never go back. In four cases places where I was banned with malice 20 years ago recognized me when I showed up again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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