lumper fees...why???

Just wish every load was like that. We do mainly customer loads now. Ton's of drops, but man I used to love hauling out of Jackson. Light load,quick unload, trailer still clean after unloaded (unless consignee had pigs working for them but that is another story). The only bad load I ever had from P+G. Was toiletries out of Brown Summit,NC. Someone miscounted the pallets of mouthwash and I was 2500 over gross.

I have never seen a shipper so apologetic for screwing up. Got paid detention time for the whole time between when I originally left with the load to the time I scaled it after rework.

I am sure some have had bad experiences with them. I know punkin' trucks were forever sitting out front of Browns waiting and whining, but I think that was more a company thing than a P+G thing.

And like I said they put an end to that lumper crap on their loads.

 

Up until my last reefer job, the times I had to use a lumper I either unloaded it myself & kept the money for dinners that week ($150) or let the lumper do it, add 25% to the fee, for my pain & suffering, and turned in the bill. At my last reefer job doing things like that was ok'd by them because they were told by the shipper, "what ever the fee is, we will pay it." On one load I would have 5 to 6 drops all over the LA area & lumpers required for every drop at $80 to $170 per drop. I was in LA weekly unloading. Can we say $$$Cha-ching$$$

 

Ha, I guess I'm doing something wrong. I always try making my money on the load it's self and not hoping someone will pay me to unload it.:smt064

 

See, that's what I love about truckers! Great sense of humor! LOL

 

Totally cool. There's more than one way to skin the trucking cat! Sometimes I welcomed the exercise of an unload and sometimes there's decent money in unloading (there should be!). But most times, opening the doors and seeing boxes stacked floor-to-ceiling and front-to-back, and knowing that I was looking for a little carton 53 feet away, ah, I hated it and I was thankful for lumpers. More than thankful. Still, nothing beat a 15-minute power-off by a consignee who actually seemed glad to see me.

 

Well the answer to a load that requires a lumper is the walking floor. Then you can give the warehouse the choice of the loading being pushed on the dock or in front of it.

 

That wont help when each trailer spot is stacked 5 skids high & needs to be broken down so that they are all separate. And going from 28 trailer spots to over 100 skids. Another Hint for you lumper haters>>> Sometimes slipping the forklift operator an extra $20 will save you a lot of work. And you can still put in a receipt for the full lumper fee + $20

 

Lumper charged $500 this morning. Shippers/receivers/carriers love it because it shell games the taxes/workman's comp etc. Carriers love it because 1 simple clerical error on the driver's part, the driver will be paying the taxes on the lumper fee at the very least and maybe the whole bill plus the taxes.

 

Hey, scottied67, did your carrier pay that? I hope you're not on the hook for it, bro. Yikes! $500! What was it, a shipment of gold bullion?

 

How is this the drivers problem? Your in charge of the warehouse, unload the truck, sign the bills and he drives away. It's your warehouse, you break it down and put it away. Am I out of line for thinking this way?

We owned a lumberyard for 20+ yrs. I guess all that time when I would unload lumber trucks I should have made the driver put the lumber in the racks. Instead I figured it wasn't his job, it was mine being how I managed the yard. Silly me!

It isn't about making an extra $100, hell I could probably get the mailman to mow my yard if I slipped him some cash. It's "who's job is it?". His job is to bring the mail to the box, not to open it, sort out the junk and stack it neatly. Looks like we need more companies like P&G to tell the customers who's job it is.