Have you been to the fairly new Walmart distribution center near Albuquerque? It was being built when I lived there for a short while.

 

Even delivering dry goods in a van trailer is sometimes a pain in the butt. Mostly it's the lumper services these places use that burn me by being rude, making you wait while you watch the entire lumping crew stand on the side of the building and smoke. Or the forklift driver sit there and talk and laugh on his cell phone. Also the driver count they want you to do sometimes is a pain, I don't care to sit there and 'check off' every pallet of cereal or juice boxes this place gets. Either take the freight or don't, sitting there while they shuffle around is costing me money. I know a lot of these services are paid by the trailer they unload, but the unloaders themselves are sometimes paid hourly and in no rush.

 

I've been there. That's the place that caused me to stop shopping at Walmart unless absolutely necessary. There's a half hr line that stretches to the road to get to the guard shack so you can get a door assignment.... only they couldn't give me one b/c one of the 57 pcs of paper they have to fill out had the wrong number on it or something. So then I went around back and waited in the line to talk to the receiving people and she told me that she'd call me on the cb when I got a door. An hour later she called me in and told me what door to back into and then asked if I was going to unload it or pay Walmart to. I told her I guessed I'd pay walmart to. She said it would be $30.

I backed in to the door and unhooked to pull into the bobtail area. Two and a half hrs later they told me on the cb that it was unloaded to come in a get the paperwork. I asked the woman to sign a receipt so I could get reimbursed and she said she wasn't signing anything. So I told her she wasn't getting pd and went back out to call dispatch. They told me to pay her with a TCH check and I wouldn't need a receipt. I pd with the TCH check and found that there was a receipt that she hadn't bothered to mention included already.

I will not miss pulling a van....

Geez

 

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.

 

The government seems so hell bent on regulating this industry. I am amazed that they have never addressed this aspect. I suppose organized crime doesn't mess with organized crime. :roll:

 

Ouch that was below the belt GMAN.... try to keep the gloves up. :P :shock:





By the way.... I AGREE.

 

Double post...... damn I have to get rid of this 14.4k modem.

 

It is OK, Over The Road. I repeat myself sometimes, too. :wink: :lol:

 

thats why i always say i do not have a cb and they usually park me right next to the shack so they dont have ot walk in the open lot with out supervision. its always wporked for me and i usually get a god few hours sleep too.

 

Wood's Country DC outside of St Louis 10 hours waiting and 300 for a lumper! never again