"The truck is here on time? Good. Take 13 hours to unload it."

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ElectronicYou1125@reddit

Not in my house, I had a CDL for a while and my father's was over the road growing up, i respect the time. Let me tell you I don't fk around. These carriers are in and out, no wait...unless I'm off that day, then sorry guys. Lol

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Ill_Court_7467@reddit

Damn union docks

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Ok_Inside4922@reddit

One time I had a load to McLanes in Texas. Appointment was for 7pm I showed up at 6:50pm but of course there was line. By the time I got to the gate it was 7:01pm the guard literally told me "It's now 7:01pm, your appointment was at 7pm. You're late and will be a work in." I just looked at him like he was stupid. Didn't get called for a door until nearly 3am and I had to wait on the street 🤦

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ratzm@reddit

But yet a smaller mom and pop type receiver can have you unloaded in 20 min!

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Hot_Talk_8380@reddit

Classic warehouse logic right there - they'll have you scheduled down to teh minute for delivery but then act like time doesn't exist once you're at the dock.

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outrageously_accused@reddit

God forbid you come early

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FantasticPainting232@reddit

Cannot deliver early. You have been dispatched on a load that cannot deliver early. They will still take you but we get heavily fined for early delivery. Driver SF for early delivery.

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PhoenixSmasher@reddit (OP)

God help you if you're late because the line is out the gate.

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functional_moron@reddit

15 minutes late warrants a $200 late fee but when im 30 minutes early it still takes 6 hours to get called ti the dock.

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1morepl8@reddit

Fuckin reefer man. A warehouse I ended up refusing to deal with later. 0600 appointment for a milk load. They'd then take all produce before the milk. Routinely there 6-9 hours, if I showed up after 0600 I was late. Anyways I told them to shove that up their ass.

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truckeredditor@reddit

There's so much inefficiency in the Trucking world and 90% of it is the receivers.

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Intelligent-Site7686@reddit

Capstone... $600 lumper fee, one rejected pallet, green light but have to wait another few hours for paperwork

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P3tr0@reddit

Broker will take 13 hours to finally get back to you just to let you know to dispose of the product, all 2500 pounds of it somehow.

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copper_wing@reddit

Open your doors wide and cruise on the highway, should be gone by the next exit

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functional_moron@reddit

I've dumped entire pallets in front of the loading dock where it was refused. Fuck them for making it my problem.

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IKnowItCanSeeMe@reddit

This is like the only thing I miss about being on a Walmart contract. No matter what, they had to take it and find a claim of it was damaged. But either way, it came off the truck.

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BeenThruIt@reddit

And, dispatch will be lick, next load picks up in 2 hrs, it's a 2 hr 15 min drive.

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codekb@reddit

One reason I liked my company was detainment pay. I always made sure to keep quiet about it until the time limit hit(I think it was 2 hours once unloading started). They would usually start to finish me next in the few minutes after I submitted the form to the company and they contacted the receiver.

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EveryBlackberri@reddit

What are the odds I just got done watching this fucking movie 10 minutes ago and I see this dudes face haha

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Chariotgirl3@reddit

Got to a live load like half an hour before the appointment time and was stuck waiting for a dock to be ready about 20 hours. Haven’t gotten detention pay yet but I hope it comes through this next paycheck

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yak_danielz@reddit

im surprised they didnt cancel. wouldn't that be cheaper?

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Chariotgirl3@reddit

Probably, hoping my company doesn’t fuck me over to keep the customer lol

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MR_6OUIJA6BOARD6@reddit

Chuckle chuckle

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Jamo3306@reddit

Oh yeah, but act as though it's the end of the works if the truck is late.

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Matlovestruck@reddit

the best part is when they hit you with "we don't control the dock schedule" like bro you ARE the dock schedule

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LordRaven74@reddit

When you tell them that, you get the glassy-eyed stare with drool running down to their chin.

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smellyjerk@reddit

Usually telling them guarantees you'll be slid down it though. Sometimes I cant tell if a lot of ya'll ever worked inside given how you approach them tbh

Seeing it both ways, drivers will complain over it taking too long over things that wouldn't be worth explaining given the reaction it'll get or that they'll get asked by every single time by every single driver if they do entertain it. Which is super time consuming, which would become self-defeating

This is the answer^

Does it makes you feel better? Probably not, but that is why they stare at you until you walk away or put snely notes about how to behave in the cage..lets not pretend we didn't collectively behave poorly to get that treatment..

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DoctorZebra@reddit

Yeah, because nothing smooths over a situation where a driver is being kept for what seems to be an unreasonably long time like refusing to explain what the hold up is.

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smellyjerk@reddit

Neither does the driver being crabby when he walked in the first time, showing he's incapable of being reasonable about something that won't change. .

Im not going to pretend that the driver doing this is really doing it for anything other than to look for a punching bag. Theres nothing to smooth. The dock guy who hears you screaming like a fruitcake from the cage already knows that.

its not share our feelings time, go see a shrink for that. Forklift guy you stopped loading to bitch at isn't unloading anymore, is he?..

Name even one instance where hearing the warehouse tea would make you feel better and worth the added time? I'll wait.

If you have this attitude, they won't look out for you if they even can....or keep pissing them off to encourage them to take an early lunch. Up to you 🤷‍♂️

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LordRaven74@reddit

That's why I'm in household now. Regardless of whose fault it is, when I'm given an appointment time, I expect to be unloaded in a timely fashion. This is coming from someone who worked 12 years in a warehouse before getting 20 years on the road.

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Robjla@reddit

I read every Google review before I go. Many times I expect a nightmare. But 1 out of 60 plus I get a bad outcome. Do you think the broker, plays a part? I know ch Robinson has issues, but my dispatcher claims we have better outcomes when it’s their freight.

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Mustang_man_351@reddit

This is why the lumber yard i work for we literally start unloading as soon as the brakes set, my foreman used to be a driver and he never wants drivirs having to sit around to be unloaded.

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Scotts-@reddit

“Have the mexicans go fuck with him”

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robexib@reddit

Attempt to take a nap in the sleeper. You'll be unloaded in 15 minutes.

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wtf_1s_happening_rn@reddit

It always seems to be one extreme or the other. Theyll be like this or I'll show up a day early and they'll have me loaded and on my way in an hour

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TheGoatsDad@reddit

I just send in my detention and then get paid to nap and play video games. Doesn't make me even a little bit mad

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Any_Key_5547@reddit

Aqui no meu país (Brasil) é comum esperas de até 12h pra alguns trabalhos. Mas camaradas que trabalham com refers ou dryvans que podem passar 3 ou 4 dias aguardando e não acontece nada com as empresas porque a transportadora tem medo de perder o trabalho. Quando se é transportador autônomo você pode entrar na justiça mas provavelmente sera prejudicado posteriormente. As leis aqui realmente não nos ajudam.

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PhoenixSmasher@reddit (OP)

3-4 days?!?

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