Lunper fees?!

They hire an outside service so they don't have to pay actual employees, or the overhead that comes with those employees.
Not only food places, but they are a big part of it.

 

Usually lumper fees are built into the billing.
I used to unload and keep the lumper fees.
One time I made $350.00 unloading a trailer of saltine crackers that was on pallets.
I'd just make out a receipt showing I paid a lumper.
Can't do that anymore, due to Elogs and trucking companies cracking down on that.
Most companies have an account with lumper services, so the driver doesn't have to be involved at all.

 

It didn’t make sense 30 years ago, but apparently all refer drivers must be okay with it.

 

I was ok with it. Made $500 or more every week tax free, in cash, on top of my paycheck

 

That’s not enough.

 

I could never comprehend the idea of hauling a product to a place, sitting in a dock until they're good and ready to acknowledge your presence, and paying them to unload their crap off your trailer. Seems like legalized extortion to me.

 

In the 80s thats a truck and trailer payment, or 2 months of a mortgage made in a week... today, youre right.

 

Winner!

I tried unloading my own truck once in one of these grocery facilities. Never again. It was a load of paper towels, in big square boxes, I think 12 or 16 boxes per pallet. Sounds like it would be an easy load to unload, but nope, total PITA.

First I had to fight with a dozen other drivers over the 3 working pallet jacks that were available. Then I pulled all the pallets off my trailer and started staging them. “Hey you gotta leave space in between the pallets.” Ok, no prob. Did that and then went to get bills signed. “No, you have to split all the pallets in half before we will sign. They can only be x layers high. There’s some empty pallets over there you can use.” OMG. Ok, got to work on that. “No, you have to turn all the boxes so the labels are facing out.” Ugh, whatever. I kept thinking to myself, if the employee has to keep coming over here to tell me how to do it, then why doesn’t he just unload the #### trailer. Finally got it all done to his liking and asked again for a signature. “It’ll be awhile. I still have to come over and verify the count and put barcodes on all the boxes.”

F me!! Screw all that.

 

Right. You get penalized and punished by the receiver for not using their lumper.

“But Six, it’s not their lumpers.”

Irrelevant. They worked together.