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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
union docks every where you go (as in they are slow and have no problems keeping you all day long because their jobs are protected).
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It has nothing to do with the union. I've sat around plenty of warehouses that were non-union as well. The reason these places get away with having you guys sit around all the livelong day is because you agree to do so for peanuts. Then you bury all the wasted time in the logbook on lines 1 + 2.
There's little incentive for any warehouse to get you loaded/unloaded in a jiffy. Why should they? Everyone inside is on the clock, so they're not gonna hurry up on your account. I ran a forklift at a warehouse for awhile and if an OTR driver showed up at 3:00 PM, you can bet your bottom dollar he was gonna sit there until 5:00 PM. Why? Because he gave us 2 hours for free and at 5:00 PM we clocked in our 8 hours and went home.
LTL and local jobs are a different ballgame. If a warehouse dicks around like that than we leave. Maybe come back later if we have time but probably not. When they call up the next day bitching and complaining why their stuff wasn't shipped, we tell em we were there but your guys on the dock were goofing off and couldn't get us loaded. Like magic, the next time we show up the pallets get loaded onto the truck at MACH 5! Union or no!
You can be the nicest, most respectful driver saying "Sir and Ma'am", have the sharpest-looking rooster cruiser, walk in there with pressed shirt and pants and actually take a shower and guess what? NOBODY CARES! And as long as you're willing to sit around for free, NOBODY EVER WILL!