Lunper fees?!

Its still dumb, if unloading a truck is x dollars, and receiving company is paying for freight anyway, they can easily just pay the lumper "company" per truck quite easily, no need to involve the cash going from

Trucking company, to lumper, to be reimbursed by broker, who is reimbursed by receiving company...

3 transfers of money versus 1, guess which is a smarter way to set it up?

Why should a trucking company subsidise a receiver's cashflow?

 

No, that is only accurate if you can negotiate who does the out of the trailer, onto the dock stuff. If you MUST use their lumpers, loading/unloading is neither considered part of the service youre providing, nor should there ever be any discussion of a fee for it at point of delivery

 

Back in the day I was paid 45$ for a Ore Ida floor load by my carrier and either you paid out out of pocket and ate the difference after you been up for days or you paid the thugs and went to bed for little sleep , small wood was a scam.

 

Not sure what you are talking about. Your comments have nothing to do with what I said or lumper for that matter.

 

Does the mattress store make the bed and fluff the pillow too?

Do the movers unpack the boxes and put your clothes in the dresser?

An interesting thing happened when eee switched from trippak envelops to transflow scanning. The company was getting the lumper receipts in time to charge them back to the customer. Then the shippers started doing direct billing with the receiver and the driver is taken out of the equation.

From my perspective most lumper situations are away to push costs on to carriers and drivers.

 

Yep. Used to run cooking oil down to Florida. Heavy loads. Back of the trailer uphill. When you the driver lumped, couldn’t use the powered equipment, plus you had to play the stacking games and “find the receiving clerk.” Would easily eat up a half a day. Your dumb arse got porked and penalized for not using their lumper. If you had the same rules to play by as the lumper, I would be more agreeable, but OBVIOUSLY the rules are different.

So, I don’t agree with lumpers, and want no part. I am not handing anyone an express pay code. Since it’s all worked in with the brokers, why in the hell do they need you to do anything more than open the doors, set your brakes and wait? Why does the driver have A N Y involvement in the process when there’s absolutely no reason for it?

 

I’m curious to know how many that have commented have actually paid a lumper in the last 30 days... 6 months... etc.