Safeway / Sobeys unloading policy s

I'd say "my job title is DRIVER - not receiver. I won't be responsible for unloading and placing your product. I don't get paid for that".

 

This has been going on forever. They expect you to stock their shelves if your appointment was on time.
Go to the main warehouses and they want you (Driver) to sort any mixed skid and any product that goes on small wood. (Grocery People, Gordon Food Service) If the product is on softwood pallets, they want you to put it on hardwood pallets.
I used to call it pallet breeding.

Funny story, I was delivering a 6 pallet order of Hartz Mountain pet supplies to Mac-Con. An American driver pulled in and was very upset when he found out that he had to swamp the trailer and made no attempt to hide his anger. They told him to call his dispatch, if they could make other arrangements so be it. They could not.
So now he has no choice but to swamp his own trailer. He had made no friends by this time so the power-jack operators were purposely being slow at getting around to his freight. He gets to a point where he has no room to unload the rest and starts barking at one of the operators to get their #### out of his way.
the power-jack operator walks over to one of his pallets and kicked over the freight stating that it was the wrong block and tier. And the fight was on!
Upside is, he didn't have to swamp the rest himself as he was not allowed back in the building.
The 80's were fun!

 

Been like this for years. This is the reason the Safeway rate was as high as it was.

 

Lazy unionized workers.

 

My wife works at a Sobeys in Ontario. They have a receiver at her store that unloads the grocery loads. The only ones that unload their own trucks is the pop and chip guys and the bread guy.

 

This falls under your WCB policy, and your companies general liability policy.

 

I’ve delivered Hartz to that same place back in 1987.
My brother went there, everything was good. Guy picked up a pen to sign the BOL. The buzzer went for coffee break, guy drops the pen and walked away.
My brother was pretty upset about that. But he was able to get a supervisor to sign it off.

 

I'M confused,
The OP say's they are an O/O but doesn't get paid to unload,
What does the contract say?
That's the real ????. and answer.

 

Just to be facetious
WCB ,What is the % of O/O's that have WCB? IMO very low, that costs money, and the general liability insurance is to protect the company, Not the O/O.