The WORST Shippers and Receivers - Truckers WILL NOT Buy Their Products!

Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by WiseOne, Dec 16, 2006.

  1. Harley1

    Harley1 Bobtail Member

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    International paper Prattville AL. Sat and waited for 6 to 7 Hours just to get assigned a dock then ounc at dock it was shift change had to wait 2 hours to get unloaded all for a scrap load. Have not been back since and will never go back.
     
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  3. Jinx

    Jinx Light Load Member

    My hubby and I have spent plenty of time waiting in docks to get loaded and unloaded, so when I had the chance to volunteer for some extra hours on the receiving dock of the distribution warehouse where I'm working now I figured 'what the heck, I'll make some overtime and find out why I had to wait so many times when I was driving OTR.'

    Well, I found out all right. I unloaded three 53' trailers that had been stuffed to the roof with un-palletized packages (these were store returns delivered to us by UPS), and I unloaded each trailer by myself, pushing each box down a roller to another worker outside the truck to be palletized. It took me two hours per truck.

    Only two hours unload a 53' trailer one box at a time.

    All the regular recieving workers were giving me nasty glares and I even had a few tell me to slow down cause I was making them look bad. I'm a five-foot nothing woman.

    So I've come to the conclusion that the only real reason that I ever had to wait for more than two hours while being unloaded - for someone to pull 20 or so pallets off with a forklift - is pure laziness.
     
  4. Etosha

    Etosha World Citizen

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    Exactly correct Jinx!
    I once had a 53' with boxes stacked from floor to ceiling. I backed into the dock at a shopping mall, and with a fellow dock worker and 2 pallet jacks we loaded all boxes onto skids, used the pallet jack to get them to the store (about one city block or a bit more in distance), and back to repeat the process until the last box was off the trailer. The entire process, took us less than 3 hours...
    And some grocery warehouses take HOW LONG to offload 3 skids?
     
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  5. MO family man

    MO family man Heavy Load Member

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    Do a lot of in and outs there. Bring in a load of scrap pull out a load of paper rolls. get in with the scrap wait anywhere from 2-4 hrs for a dock then sweep out trailer. Outbound load is sitting loaded ready to go. They just don't want to have to sweep out the trailer after the scrap. Getting in there is BS as well. the road in isn't much wider than a golf cart path.
     
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  6. Harley1

    Harley1 Bobtail Member

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    Used to drive G.P. dedicated team been to G.P all over the U.S. and Big Island was one of the worse hurry up and wait is the name of the game there. We started to complain every time we went there because of the delay for live unloads so finally we got all scrap loads to be drops. Still getting in there was an adventure.
     
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  7. lilillill

    lilillill Sarcasm... it's not just for breakfast

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    If I'm not mistaken, that's the GP that is down a very long and winding twisty mountain road? I used to pick up at GP all over the place when I drove for PST Vans. I think I went to that one only once though.

    That particular load sticks in my head--I'm pretty sure this was the one where I hauled rolls of paper through the "Tail of the Dragon".:biggrin_2556: Not very fun for sure, but I did make it through without crushing any Lamborghinis or Ninjas.
     
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  8. Big T

    Big T Bobtail Member

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    Road Rocket, Road Rocket, Road Rocket! :biggrin_25513:

    You really should contact the moderator of this thread and see about getting all references to your statements removed. I would do it ASAP!!
     
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  9. RoamingGnome

    RoamingGnome Medium Load Member

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    Dominos Sugar in Baltimore Maryland. Absolutly the worst place i have ever gone to in my driving days.
     
  10. krisjack

    krisjack Light Load Member

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    Why are they so bad.
     
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  11. LadyTrucker99

    LadyTrucker99 Heavy Load Member

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    So far in my experience--i would have to go with Food Lion DC in virginia--i waited about 21 hours once to get unloaded but the worst part is they had me wait at a truck stop up the road--they wouldnt allow me to wait on their property! LOL So far--that has been the worst. Of course i also had to sit in the docks for 6 hours at target once. Those are prolly the worse ones I have experienced so far.
     
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