Why do lumpers exist?

Im running ltl reefer and i dont pay for a lumper i use my pallet jack and pull off the pallets then break them down myself but i get paid by the hour so no big deal to me.

 

More times than not in the grocery warehouses, the warehouse also owns the lumper service. They don't save on comp, because no business would allow anyone to operate on their property without proper coverage (one exception would be if you were the owner and only employee in certain states, and even then they would require gen liability).

The warehouse saves on labor because they are effectively having the shipper pay to make the product fit in their racks. The shipper is saving money because they can cube out every load (unless weight comes into play). And one skid fits all. No need to change up automation for each customer. Otherwise they would have to do custom runs and have those orders laying around waiting to be shipped instead of skids of product that can go on the next truck.

 

Is it Walmart that uses THEIR own employees to work the dock, but still makes YOU pay THEIR employees to get THEIR crap that THEY ordered? I thought I heard someone talking about that some time.

 

the most i have ever seen at a walmart was $50 that is nothing, I have seen lumpers on Frozen food Loads go all the way up to $500 which is insane and it was only 9 pallets !!!! absolute BS if you ask me just another racket for some one to make money on the trucking industry.

 

Been at this way too long&have lived the entire evolution of this nonsence&imho ain't even worth the time to go into....But I Will say this....All yall that say it don't matter cuz the company..the shipper whoever is payin for it....quit foolin yourselves WE are the one payin for it...everytime you buy somethin...in the end like everything else the cost is passed onto the CONSUMER.....

 

all im gona say is ive made more money in the past breakin down my own meat loads at wakefern foods in keasby nj than ya can shake a stick at ! 250 bucks for 4hrs of work isnt bad vig .

 

Most grocery shipping contracts state that product must be delivered on to the receiver's dock

Either the driver can do it or they can hire lumper to do it. Wal-Mart charges a fixed fee to finish the contracted work.

Now trying to get a grocery receiving person to sign for a load that has not been restacked will be a challenge.

 

used to tell the chicken haulers to get outa the way as that good nebraska beef hit the dock lol.

 

Then it seems to me, to stand to reason, as drivers, we could make more money if we went into lumping instead of driving?