The shipper loads the load onto pallets that are split and cracked. The food warehouse does not want them, so the load must be transferred to good pallets. At $20/pallet. What do they do to transfer them? Take a forklift that will grab the slip-sheet on top of the pallet, pull the product off, and place it on another pallet. Comes out to about $20/minute. For the whole load, it cost $285.00. And, NO, YOU CAN NOT DO IT YOURSELF. The lumper service owns all the equipment. If you want any kind of equipment to take the load off your trailer, the lumpers are the only ones qualified to operate it. I'd like to unload it myself. About 60 feet in HIGH-RANGE REVERSE, and hit the dock. But that might fold up the back of the trailer like an accordian. Keep me out of the food warehouses and I promise I won't kill anybody.
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YES ! ! ! There is life after trucking.
a GOOD life
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