To my truck driver friends

#26
#26
OP should protest all goods delivered by trucks. See how long he makes it.

I feel sorry for the O/O that haul to Walmart. You have to pay them 50 bucks to unload their crap.

And GPS gets you to the front door. Not your docks.
 
#28
#28
Obsessed said:
OP should protest all goods delivered by trucks. See how long he makes it.

I feel sorry for the O/O that haul to Walmart. You have to pay them 50 bucks to unload their crap.

And GPS gets you to the front door. Not your docks.
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Walamrt's a breeze to unload at, they unload their own trucks..

Try a Walgreens or a Wakefern DC,
Wakefern will charge up to $300 bucks to unload a truck with their lumpers
 
#30
#30
salutethehill said:
Easier? Maybe. More entertaining? Not at all.

Have YOU ever tried calling Yellow Freight and getting a hold of someone? By the way, I worked at YRT several years ago, while I was also working my current job, and I did mention these issues in a very non-imposing way. Nobody cared. It is what it is...unprofessional.

Something I learned at YRT...freight doesn't magically appear in trailers as they are driving down the road. The delivery guys actually had a list of stops for all of their deliveries before they even left the dock. Did you know there are other tools, like Mapquest and Google that can also give you directions, should you not have a GPS available. Heck, you can see a satellite photo AND street view photo of MOST of your stops if you wanted to. I know this is ridiculous. Who has the time for that, right? Almost as ridiculous as the GPS argument. I'm in regional sales...I drive a lot. My GPS will steer me wrong less than 10% of the time. Probably not even close to 10%.

Oh, and we get deliveries from plenty of companies, including Yellow. I wouldn't say we do a lot of business with Yellow, I just used them as an example.
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Ill be that guy and say that if you want to be somewhere on time you should not use MapQuest. It has gotten me lost even when going to something as simple as a well known concert venue.
 
#32
#32
I'm most familiar with WM Food DC's and the are pretty good, compared to other food customers, especially customers on the east coast.

when you mention Amazon, and I did tour a WM .com DC and it was really back-up, but it was brand new, with really new staff
 
#33
#33
Orange Blazer said:
Walmart is awful. Only place worse is Amazon DCs.
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I delivered a Kimberly Clarke load to a Toys R Us DC. That was a very un-enjoyable 5 hours out of my life.

The Food Lion DC in Salisbury, NC is a hellhole and I've heard that the Ingle's DC in Swannanoa, NC isn't much better.

Lumper services are legal extortion rackets. I've never understood why a driver has to pay someone else to unload product that the consignee has already paid for.
 
#35
#35
MG1968 said:
I delivered a Kimberly Clarke load to a Toys R Us DC. That was a very un-enjoyable 5 hours out of my life.

The Food Lion DC in Salisbury, NC is a hellhole and I've heard that the Ingle's DC in Swannanoa, NC isn't much better.

Lumper services are legal extortion rackets. I've never understood why a driver has to pay someone else to unload product that the consignee has already paid for.
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I agree with you on the lumper services....it is a crazy business
 
#38
#38
golfballs said:
OP when he leaves work tonight:
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Loved that movie!
 
#39
#39
MG1968 said:
I delivered a Kimberly Clarke load to a Toys R Us DC. That was a very un-enjoyable 5 hours out of my life.

The Food Lion DC in Salisbury, NC is a hellhole and I've heard that the Ingle's DC in Swannanoa, NC isn't much better.

Lumper services are legal extortion rackets. I've never understood why a driver has to pay someone else to unload product that the consignee has already paid for.
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Do you work for a LTL carrier?
 
#40
#40
Crew said:
Same. I know a few guys that work there.

..not the best of times in that camp.
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This isn't true. I currently work at YRC. I'm in sales. Things are going very well now. Weathered a very rough storm to get wherr we are.
 
#41
#41
vol_in_ar said:
I'm most familiar with WM Food DC's and the are pretty good, compared to other food customers, especially customers on the east coast.

when you mention Amazon, and I did tour a WM .com DC and it was really back-up, but it was brand new, with really new staff
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Amazon has so many requirements on drops and deliveries. It's just a pain for the driver and the local operation.
 
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