[Sonny Pruitt]

General Trading, Carlstadt NJ
Straight pull off is 80 to 100$ Lumpers are the Polish Mafia and are the same outfit that does Key Food in the Bronx. Any breakdown and you pay through the nose. Ok you pay your 180.00. you look in the back of you truck and it is full of discarded shrink wrap and cardboard. They dont take the wrapping they cut off the skids! They throw it back in your truck!

[GMAN]

I remember several years ago when I pulled a van, they loaded the wrapping back in my truck. Before leaving the dock, I got in the trailer and unloaded it on their dock. I figure that as much as I had to pay them to unload THEIR freight that they could dispose of THEIR trash. :wink:

[classicxl]

got that right. SAM's club tried to throw pallets back in my van. I told them to take them off or I would dump them on the dock. They took them off. I refuse to deliver to grocery wharehouses anymore.

[GMAN]

I think that anyone who deals with grocery warehouses deserves a premium in pay. I have no intention of EVER delivering to another grocery warehouse. I normally don't have to worry about that with a flat bed or step deck. The only way I would deliver to a grocery warehouse is to have a clause in the contract where I would be paid very well for sitting and waiting on them and that they would pay for their own lumpers. It is not my responsibility to pay for their labor to unload and repack THEIR freight. Since most carriers cave in to these extortionists, that is not likely to happen. :evil:

[classicxl]

I hear that. My first time at a safeway wharehouse I sat there for 14 hrs waiting for them to finish. Could not do anything I was a company driver then and my dispatcher just said that is normal

[GMAN]

It may be normal, but still isn't right. I think it time to change the norm. :wink:

[solo379]

Originally Posted by classicxl

My first time at a safeway wharehouse I sat there for 14 hrs waiting for them to finish. Could not do anything I was a company driver then....

And what would you do, being an O/O? :roll:

Unless you have pre arrange everything in writing, in your contract....

[Hardtime196]

Friend,

I pulled a reefer for over 10 years, every warehose that you go two, weather its sysco, us foods, walmart, piggly wiggly, food lion, a otr driver is most always treated just like a 3 class person and you give up most of you rights at the guard shack..
This is the main reason that i parked my reefer at home and hooked my step deck back up, the difference in the people , you deal with is like night and day ..

Best of wishes....

[Sonny Pruitt]

I have a regular run of ltl to all the major whole in the walls eg US Foods
Allentown, Pittston and Englwood. Sysco in Philly. (small wood)United Natural Foods etc. The pay is decent but I have been going to some of these places weekly for a year and still have not broken the ice with some of these miserable essobees.

[Windwalker]

Originally Posted by OverTheRoad

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





By the way.... I AGREE.

I agree with Gman. And NO THAT WAS NOT BELOW THE BELT... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
There are now a number of locations that have "lumper service" the OWNS ALL THE EQUIPMENT and you will not get your load unloaded without them. You don't have a choice. You MUST hire them. With one recent load, I informed the broker that I was not making a dime on the load, and if I had to deal with lumpers at the receiving end, the load was going to stay right where it was. I would not take it. I guess the broker arranged for, and paid for, the lumper because I never even saw one, much less heard from one. But other guys were hiring them. And, actually, I did make a few dimes off that load.