unloading trucks

Well mostly if you have to unload there are lumpers you can hire to do it for you. Call the company up and tell them about it and they pay for it..


Most of the time it is on pallets
Most of the time you will only be able to use a pallet jack, but some do allow you to use a motorized pallet jack.. It is a good ideal to get certified because some do require you to be or you going to be using a non motor pallet jack.. Vary few and I mean very few will let you use a forklift..

Now I have had a few loads that was on the floor (no pallets) i did unload them so it can happen..

Usually loads with multiple stops ext.. are the ones you will end up unloading..

 

KLLM = 100% no touch

 

I'm retired now, but remember a few unexpected floor loads. Once, I got forced on a load of canned goods from a Veterans Administration warehouse in Chicago to a federal prison in Kentucky. I thought I knew what to expect, and I was correct in that I had to help throw the boxes while loading. However, I thought there would be plenty of help in the prison. To my surprise, the prison's head cook explained that he would provide one man in the trailer with me, but I was required to use their conveyors for unloading. At least, they served coffee and fresh donuts. It was a co-ed, narcotics offenders prison.

Another time, I had to finger-print a load of dynamite onto conveyors while my lead driver stacked the boxes in a quonset hut at Grand Coulee Dam. We found a way to be paid double-time for that one.

 

When I was OTR years ago I used to dread the tire loads, also Cereal loads to . Once I had a five stop load of attic insulation in Georgia and South Carolina in mid August.

 

What is sort of a bad back? You'll find just about all companies are concerned with this because the industry has had more lawsuits from bad backs than any other. Most require that you be able to lift a certain amount of weight like 50lbs, 70lbs, or whatever. Also they might just ask if you've had any back problems on the job aplication.

It's not only because you might have to touch the load but you might have to perform duties with the truck that will require a strain on your back as well. If you don't have to mention it I wouldn't.