Lumper receipt question

Dont make one up. Orignal is gonna have a TIN or SS# on it.
Best way to get a copy is to call up again, have a fax # avaliable and tell them you need to verify your drivers lumper reciept and ask them to fax it to you.
Dont mention your the driver or its lost but you act like your a repesentive of the company trying to verify the lumper reciept. Once you mention driver your a lost cause to them.

 

Yep; call them and act as if your from your company in the office side and you are trying to see if the driver has paded the lumper fee.
most of the time they will fax you a copy of the Orignal

 

Hopefully,these guys are right and you will get one faxed.Your company should realize that someone had to unload and do the right thing.At my company the driver could explain what happened and they would take care of the rest,or ask you to make another receipt.

 

Here is my lumper receipt story. I had two drops the last week of April...two drops required lumpers, one for $80 and another for $165. I paid cash for the $80 one, and wrote a comcheck for the $165. The comcheck i wrote, i actually was checking the account balance on my fuel card, and saw where they advanced the $165 on the card, then after i registered the check, the funds were gone. Okay....deal.....we are all even. I scaned in my lumper receipts, log book pages, BOLs, scale tickets, etc. the next paycheck, i saw nothing about lumper receipts. Nor should i, since it was a wash....the co. and me were all square. This past paycheck, i saw a deduction for $80 and $165 with the proper load number. I asked my DM to check into this, and finally got a hold of someone in payroll, and she told him she just happen to have found the receipts. Oh really......i had no missing logs, no missing BOLs and any CAT scale tickets from that week, i had repaid. So my $600 check ended up being a $300 check. But ill be getting that back next paycheck.

Watch the companies on lumpers. they will try to fool the driver by sneaking charges on their paycheck, and hope they dont get caught.

 

Its all a matter of playin the numbers with these companies. For every 1 driver that catches them skimming, calls them out on it, and gets it taken care of,....there are 10 or 12 that they get over on....This theft is not by chance...but by design.....

 

Another thing with any receipt is get yourself into a pattern!

Do it the same way every time!

When you get to the cab with a receipt write it on your load sheet and put it in your envelope for the trip!

DO NOT put it on the dash,

DO NOT throw it on the floor,

DO NOT put it in your pocket.

It ONLY stays in your hand until it is written down on the load sheet and has made it's way to the envelope! Don't even put it in your 3 ring log book binder pockets!

Murphy's law says it will disappear if put anywhere but in an envelope! Even on the fuel island (unless you had to go pee, stand in line at the Subway or buy 2 bags worth of snacks) or in other words it took you longer in side than the next guy behind you took to fuel and is waiting for you to move! Then move the truck to the parking lot to do your paper work!

I'm a teckie. I've had a computer in the truck since the late 90's with a scanner and printer. At the end of each day I scanned all paper work into the computer and then made sure it was put into the trip pak envelope! I've had some problems with something missing and they would have a copy faxed at the next truck stop! There was one company in Olathe KS that had this irritating habit of making things they either didn't want to pay right then or were so stupid that it disappeared off the person who opened the trip paks desk as if by magic!
I loved my printer scanner! it paid for itself with the first "lost" or "it wasn't in the "trip pak" happening! That was a tire repair!

But to answer your question first, not every company out there will "give" you the benefit of the doubt! If they think that load crawled off the truck by its self then just try as much as you can to get them to take one from you for that amount! Or if you couldn't get the replacement receipt from the lumper service, then chalk it up to experience and kiss it good by!

It's a steep learning curve in trucking. Hopefully you learned to CYA with a copy of every piece of paper that crosses your fingers! If you have that laptop then get a travel scanner or a scanner printer. Tax deduct them as you're using them for your job even as a company driver! Scan it but don't make a paper copy! You don't need that much crapola in the truck such as a filing cabinet! next you'll be putting ads in Craigs List for a secretary! BUT do back up your files daily to that flash drive on your key chain or to an online backup service or to your home computer that I know you can access while out on the road!

 

This really good advise no matter the line of work your in.

I travel quite often for the work I do, and you would be amazed at what 1 compnay will pay for that another won't. Even though it's a write off for both.

I keep every receipt I can and make copies of them and trun them all in at the end of the trip and let them sort through what they will and won't pay for. Of course there are the given Have Too pay fors, there are the This Company Payd this but not that, and the occasional Generous we'll atke care that even though we don't usually.

Either way I make sure I get copies of everything. What they don't/won't pay for a lot of times is deductible for me.

From what I am gathering there really is a fine line that you walk between the world of a Company Driver and an O/O.

 

There is a line but it's not all that fine! Yes the O/O has more taxables but a company driver can get into some of them like fuel,oil, parts and other things that the company refused to fix "waiting to get the truck back to the yard!" or "we didn't authorize that repair" kind of stupid idea and other things like "get it fixed" and then decide that the oil pump going out or the turbo dying is your fault! LOL
Yeah those "lines" can de fine some things! Like a BFI award!