Lunper fees?!

Company drivers don't pay to have a truck unloaded.

 

Hankook? Falken moved to Robbinsville years ago so it had to be Hankook; the company I retired from brings the containers from the port to both companies.

I remember an owner operator coming from reefers to tanks saying humping a few hoses sure beats fingerprinting 10,000 cases of candy bars on the floor...

 

Yeah I know. But it's still really dumb

 

I'm waiting on a package from UPS. I'll try that

 

I was sore for days. After unloading all those tires inside that hot van trailer I had to drop it, hook to a flatbed and load trim board stacked 13'4" high and tarp it with 8 footers. Wasn't long after that I went back to tankers lol

 

I believe it was Hankook

 

Screw that. I was on the dock for 4 1/2 hours. I was like wtf is taking them so long?? I pulled away from the dock and when I went to close my door I saw them stacked...
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At that point I decided it was time to buy some aspirin

 

A lease-to-own situation with 0 chance of actually finishing out the lease and owning the company eh? Sounds highly efficient and not at all like graft or a shell-company tax-evasion strategy at all...

 

The customer is paying for it, its just an odd way of conducting the transaction.

The customer contracts a company, they employ the lumpers. Driver/company pays the lumpers. Driver/company got paid for the lumpers in the rate for hauling the product (built in higher rate by the amount the lumpers charge). Broker paid more because the lumpers had to be covered (unless contract freight), and the broker charges the customer for the lumper fees.

Its basically a way for the customer to avoid paying payroll taxes and insurance for the lumpers. Just odd accounting where you actually see the cost at the door, rather than completely hidden, such as in a case where there are employees to load/unload and their labor cost is built into the product cost rather than the shipping cost.