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Originally Posted by SteveBooth
I'm really confused about these loading docks. I hear this a lot and even about Walmart. Don't these places have a boss. Man, I would be all over the lazy bums and fire them. I pay you to work 8 hours and if not, I'll find someone else. At least that's the way it should work.
I would have left also!
A lot of the shippers and receivers a crazy. When I was doing reefer and general freight, you knew that you would be there all day if it was a union shop. The grocery receivers seemed to be the worst. You went to load the product at the shipper. You would sit there for hours. You go inside to inquire and they would tell you something like "The blueberry truck is not here yet, so we cannot finish making the muffins." So you sit there all day. They finally get you loaded. Your appointment time has not moved forward at all at the grocery receiver. You are supposed to deliver at 0500. Now it is at the point where you have to drive straight through the night to get there at 0500. You pull into the receiver 15 minutes late and you get a huge lecture from the receiver about how they should charge the drivers who cannot seem to deliver on time. Then they want to charge you to unload the freight onto their docks. Wal Mart does that. You have to pay to have their freight unloaded. It is total craziness, but such is the world. Reefer seems to be the worst for this type of behavior. I am glad I do not do that anymore. My hat's off to those who pull reefer. After all, we all have to eat.