Paid more for unloading my truck than driving it?

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  1. gravdigr

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    I think you misunderstood...I was paid more to lump the load than I was paid to deliver it. I normally drive a delivery route for restaurants, meat markets, etc. but occasionally we get asked to deliver one of the otr runs. Most of our delivery guys only have class B so those of US with the class A get worked like this a lot. Anyway we get te choice of paying the lumper and being reimbursed or lumping it ourselves and the company pays us what they would have paid the lumper. I was just suprised I got paid twice as much for the hours worth of work unloading the truck than I did for the 6+ hours driving it.
     
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    Oh, and my company also pays us for any extra pallets we bring back. We don't accept product on chep pallets.
     
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    Did you read my post just above yours?
    Bashas did not FORCE me to pay. They simply would not let me use their fork lift/pallet jack... So I could have stayed all night breaking down pallets and restacking in the warehouse. Or pay them to use their forklift. Would you do 8 hours of hard labor for $400 when you could drive for 8 hours and make more than that?
     
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    Lumping charges aren't always "built" into the rate. Especially in the LTL segment the lumper rate can vary tremendously depending on who is quoting the rate and how pissy they are that day. All the loads I handle are based off a simple rate per pallet with FSC tacked on. After the unloading is done (whether by a lumper or me) the customer is contacted and informed of the charges that will be added to the shipping bill. Only on a couple of occasion have the customers complained about the unloading charges.

    Everyone only thinks of lumping a whole load and consider it a big "no-no" due to the chances of getting hurt. But that mentality costs a lot of money and time in the long run when you are in the LTL business. There are guys I know that will not lump a load and then complain cause they can only make 3-4 drops a day. Where as I purchased my own electric jack and unload close to 100% of the freight. This gives me a big advantage to getting a extra 1-2 drops made in a day. This can equate to about a extra $400-1000 in one day just from the extra stops and not including unloading charges. Add in the unloading charges and it more than offsets my pallet jack purchase and the disability insurance in case something does happen.
     
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    Yes I did read yours but no I wasn't replying to you but playing off of patti's post right above mine. Had I replied to an earlier post I would of quoted it.
     
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    Did the broker tell you about the lumper fee?
     
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