What's wrong with dock work?

To each his own.Trk drivers are paid to drive trk.If my company wants me to unload,not a problem,pay me lumper pay.Consider what otr companies pay their drivers,I won't help save them money by getting paid chump change to unload.But if the price is right and a lot of sucking up I may be persuaded.

 

Dock work is great, if it is your job to work on a dock. My job was to get it there intact and on time.

 

When you say "good pay" there might be a little mis-truth to that. (Some) Dock workers might get paid well but like Pattyj says, why get paid chump change. You might get paid what, 50 bucks to unload a trailer for your carrier that might take 4 hours? While a lumper or service might get paid 200 - 300 for the same load. Lol I don't think so.

 

I worked a shipping job loading vans with a forklift when I was 16.... and loaded reefers by hand out of a freezer warehouse. I agree with the op, its good excercise. Not a bad job at all, beats flippin' burgers. The best part, though, was when I was hauling general freight... bumping the dock and some worker says "hey driver, you have to use that pallet jack to unload". I always did enjoy showing my OSHA forklift certification to their supervisor. Haha

 

I'd imagine there's a difference between knowing that you're going to be a dockworker for the day and showing up at a receiver (after driving, perhaps for most/all of the day) and discovering that you, alone, are suddenly responsible for a load/unload. The pay, yeah, the companies I've looked into, unload pay is garbage, like 10-12 bucks an hour.

 

You're just wasting your genes!

 

Dock work is great...... If you are a dock worker .

 

I've delivered to the save-a-lot warehouse few times where they let you use their electric pallet jack and i unloaded 22-24 pallets in 15-20 min. I got paid $50 to do it. I knew i can unload faster than them and luckily i didn't have to break the pallets down, just count the few different makes of juice and be done with it.

Also been to few distribution centers where you'd have million different things on a pallet and you have to separate everything and a count for it, it was not worth it since i had to drive all day afterwards. It probably would have taken me 3-4 hrs to do it by myself and on top of it you have to deal with BS their supervisor tells you....