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Posted by WHODUNNITT303@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 31 comments
My favorite part of the day is guessing how much capstone is going to extort me for
Posted by WHODUNNITT303@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 31 comments
My favorite part of the day is guessing how much capstone is going to extort me for
luddite86@reddit
What is Capstone? If it’s the place you’re delivering to it’s outrageous that they’d charge to unload their freight??
I’d tell them to leave it on the truck
nekaiser@reddit
Capstone are lumpers. They are a third party service that will unload your truck and rape you with the lumper fee. The worst part is, they don’t even have the common courtesy to give you a reach around!
Naborsx21@reddit
lol, my favorite part of the day is when brokers will try and do cheeky shit with lumper fees. Ill straight up say "I don't have any money"
"We can front you the money for $50 off the rate"
"nah imma take a nap"
there's actually a law and supreme court ruling i think that truck drivers cannot be forced to pay a lumper fee. It must be paid for by the broker or shipper whatever.
Theyll fuck with you but you can fuck with them right back.
nekaiser@reddit
I’d have too much fun being a dick to them if was dry van. We don’t get lumpers in flatbed, if you don’t unload me yourself, you just don’t get your shit lmao
TacoRedneck@reddit
One of my favorite things doing flatbed is rolling up to a small place with their shit and them going "where's your forklift?"
nekaiser@reddit
It doesn’t get much better than backing into an Amish barn and Jedediah climbs up on an overhead crane that runs off a Predator engine and the forks are on a wire, so Eli has to guide them under the lumber by hand.
Best load I’ve ever taken, it was hilarious to watch.
SkribbyCakes33@reddit
Say what you want but Amish get shit done. I deliver to a lot of Amish farms and 99% of them are up in my truck helping me the moment the engine is cut.
ImShamallamadingdong@reddit
Had a handful of Amish deliveries and they have been some of my favorite.
Got lucky one time and happened to be pulling up to a mill in Ohio as they were setting up a communal lunch and they insisted on me having a plate and joining since I’d just be waiting in my truck otherwise. Another driver pulled up towards the end and they made him take a plate too lol.
The food was fantastic and getting a chance to just talk with them was fascinating. They were one of the more modern groups in that they had modern forklifts and front-end loaders along with electric bicycles, and there was also a community phone that they could use.
TacoRedneck@reddit
I saw a horse drawn forklift one time. It was wild
nekaiser@reddit
Saw a picture online of a regular forklift that had leads for all the controls so they wouldn’t be sitting on it. God, their rule bending ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.
TacoRedneck@reddit
My parents had their house built by the amish. They had a telehandeler that wss gas powered but it had metal wheels like an old tractor because rubber tires were too far for them.
Naborsx21@reddit
My favorite is "well reimburse you"
Okay I'll reimburse you for the 20 pallets of strawberries, let's just write out a little iou here...."I naborsx21 promise to give you 20 pallets of strawberries"
Lmao, IDC if people get pissed or don't wanna do business with me anymore. Whenever money changes hands there's someone waiting to nab a piece of it for themselves and hope you're too stupid to notice.
I had one guy tell me a lumper fee was $200 and they'll give me a receipt for a different amount and cash on top. I just said I was going to sleep and wake me up when they were done unloading. They told me to call the company I was like lol nah I'm good.
They just unloaded me and sent me on my way after like 20 minutes.
nekaiser@reddit
As much as I hate flatbedding sometimes, it seems like I got the easier job in the long run. There always seems to be some bullshit going on in the van world.
I mean, y’all want the load. I want it off my truck. Seems pretty easy to me. Fight the broker or the company for lumper fees, I just work here.
CoWood0331@reddit
It’s about risk mitigation. Sure hate on lumpers all you want but they are necessary from a shipper receiver standpoint. It’s not like someone woke up and said yeah let’s fuck these guys. If some drivers weren’t shit…. There wouldn’t be a need for them.
luddite86@reddit
Are they necessary? They don’t exist in Australia. I had to google it to find out what they even are?
They’re just a third party that you have to pay to unload the truck???
Why not just do it yourself? And if you’re at a place that doesn’t allow you to unload the truck, have them unload it or have them pay this weird third party
ohjaimiea@reddit
Bro this cash and carry in jersey got me for $890 the way I was like put it all back on the truck I ain’t paying that
Auquaholic@reddit
Yeah, and no sleeping for you. Text this, check that, confirm text, unload later, get off the dock, 3 hours later wonder where the fuck your bills are, finally bills, get out now. Find parking at 2am. Get woke up by 8am for your next job info. 2 or 3 hours later, they want to know your eta. Another hour time to go. Fuck reefer and double fuck Capstone.
CryptoguyV2@reddit
$300 and it's gonna take 6 hours
Auquaholic@reddit
Only 6 hours? Must've been a good night.
echo78@reddit
Had one cost like $400 (my company paid it) before and it did take them 6 hours lmao. From midnight to 6am with no warning it would take that long.
truckeredditor@reddit
The rate confirmation says the lumper is paid by the broker who charges their customer. Their customer owns the franchise of capstone that does the unloading. They're paying for themselves to unload. So if anything happens, you can only sue capstone who has no money and virtually no assets. Instead of the giant warehouse. Also, americold, c&s, lineage/milard, us cold storage, etc are just third parties so you can't sue the giant corporations.
Of course your company paid it. And the price doesn't matter.
Redsoxdragon@reddit
Bro, give me $250 and I'll have you out in 30 minutes
Dangerous_Ad4451@reddit
That lumper fee crap is a scam. They offload and tell you the price. No pricing/haggling before. What if you can't afford the service?
truckeredditor@reddit
The broker pays. It's part of the freight agreement.
WHODUNNITT303@reddit (OP)
Yep, it’s a racket
ratchetman0869@reddit
Racketeering
groovyinutah@reddit
These things are useless...it's not like you had some other option.
PomeloResponsible122@reddit
Lemme guess, Kroger based company? They all use capstone and they all suck.
Exciting-Car-3516@reddit
I took a load once that pad really well from salt lake to Portland and yes it was Kroger. 6 hours to pick up. They only paid 2 hours detention another 5 hours unloading and capstone $446 lumpers fee. Pretty obvious these loads pay well because they know they will fuck you over some other way and I will absolutely never get one of their loads again.
Appropriate-Tough228@reddit
I dealt with crapstone last week at a Piggly Wiggly DC. 5 hours, 4 rejections and $650. I mean, I don't pay for it personally, but damn. I did get 2 flats of some fire ass small batch Wisconsin Dill Pickles. Also got a flat of tomato sauce and a 6 pack of family size salad dressing. Gave it all away except a few jars of pickles. Everybtime I know I'm going to a Grocery DC that I'll be able to take a good nap. I'm dry van, so it's not an everyday thing like Reefer, but I deal with lumpers at least monthly.
Socketz11@reddit
The last anonymous survey I accused them of molesting chickens