To lump, or not to lump?

Discussion in 'Swift' started by DickJones, Jan 22, 2011.

  1. Sequoia

    Sequoia Road Train Member

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    Dollar General and Family Dollar are hard work too. You get paid for it but it's a work out.
    DG you unload the freight and push their pre-loaded carts into the store or back room. Then you take their empties and load those up into the trailer.
    FD I believe you set up rollers and send their delivery down the rollers into the stockroom where an employee unloads it...box by box, or tote by tote. They probably send back empty totes that you stack inside the truck.

    Oh and on DG once you're done with your delivery if you have to go somewhere to pick up a loaded trailer from a shipper then you have to back your dunnage trailer up to another dunnage trailer, set down some wood to act as a bridge and then transfer all your empty containers and totes and whatnot into the other trailer. Then you drop your now empty trailer in a slot and pick up your loaded trailer and go.
     
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  3. Injun

    Injun Road Train Member

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    *snicker*

    Be happy you're not in grocery. Two places, right off the top of my head, Wakefern in New Jersey and FSA n Kent, WA. Sure, you can unoad your own trailer. You may not use the electric pallet jack, they don't have a manual one and oh, by the way, you have to be done in 30 minutes.

    Sounds like coercion to me...
     
  4. fallinangel

    fallinangel Medium Load Member

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    Well I remember the old days In huntspoint so I dont unload or load anymore and I also remeber the lumper rate back then to it was a 1.00 a thousand so usually 40 to 45 dollars to unload so never touched a load back then Ill open the doors and back into the dock but then its nap time till empty.As I run from point A to point B with stopping except to grab coffee or a meal.
     
  5. WMGUY

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    i delivered to FSA in Kent several times. :biggrin_25523: i would rather gather my detention time then lump there freight that is always packaged so well:biggrin_2554:
     
  6. Hamshoe

    Hamshoe Medium Load Member

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    'ol hamshoe is an old man...he needs lots of rest and drop and hooks...but if it helps i did a cooper tire load...lol...never seen the inside the trailer ..sealed when I hooked and sealed when i dropped
     
  7. Dionysus

    Dionysus Medium Load Member

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    Sounds like Mesacold in Phoenix AZ. If you unload yourself you have 2 hours from start to finish. If you pay their lumpers there is no time limit. I often wonder if anyone ever tried to charge them detention for waiting more than 2 hours. Seems to me it should cut both ways.
     
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  8. chris397

    chris397 Bobtail Member

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    Drivers should be charging a paperwork fee. Or just refuse to do a comcheck to pay the lumper. Make the company handle the lumper payment. That way you can sleep. :)
     
  9. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    And sleep, and sleep and...
    Because you will be sitting there for a very long time.

    This is a very old thread, by the way.
     
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