Lumpers/food distribution places

I eat beef, but probably once in a blue moon.
The double-six dollar burger from Carls Jr is definitely a spot hitter.

But since the nearest one is 120 miles away, I don't taste it that often.

 

Same exact reason why I'm sticking to tankers and daycabs.
Yeah, you load most of it yourself, but the only headache that exists here is a dairyman and cheap pumps that take 50min-hour to pump the milk.

 

Wincos foods distribution center 400 S Woodland Ave, Woodburn, OR 97071
Ok i pulled up checked in, then waited for call to my door. After i backed to my door i again checked in at the loading office. So im a young guy with a couple pallets to unload myself with a lumper cost worth $56 wow piece of cake not a big deal just a few eating dollars for myself. So He asked me will i need lumper service or be unloading myself, i said myself. omg and wtf did he really just tell me that i need proof of liability insurance on myself to go on the dock. Lol, im like "huh", insurance yeah i got proof of truck insurance lol". Then the lumper guy in the corner eating up a bag of chips said " show him a paper of what it looks like". The other guy goes to a wall full of thumb tact papers hanging everywhere, grabs the insurance paper from the wall and brings to me to show me what it looks like. Im thinking like this a joke rite" me joking i said okay, let me call allstate insurance rite quick to get that for you". Im Smh like really what sort of b.s is this . So now im curious if this is a scam?

 

That's it? 10 hours? HA.

It's you who are in the wrong freight. We solved our grocery BS by running Medicine for McKesson. Once we discovered Memphis based shipping and reloading right back there that was pretty much all we did.

And join employers who have drop hook priveldges. So you can be in and out of a DC in say Waco Texas in 20 minutes. Load thump. Empty CLICK! gone.

Any place with a lumper service goes into a small book and those loads are refused in the future. Sometimes company fires me. But as I got older and it gets challenging to do lumping, I learned to go into other things besides food reefer.

Three forklifts running a 100 dock warehouse? It will be a while before they get to you.

Back in the 60's and before everything was breakbulk. Hardly no containers or pallets etc. Teenagers would come in and work for good money part time. Eventually they got old enough to go learn how to do trucking and lumping was part of it.

If you ever see a restaurant distribution center with a acre wide transfer dock piled man high with product for a whole city.... all of which has to be sorted and loaded according to your trailer papers etc. It's really interesting. Be accurate. Miss a case of lobster, it comes out of your pay at market rate retail.

You got used to it or you got out of food distribution entirely.

 

Probably a little bit of both. Probably some truck driver injured one of the lumper workers’ ankle or foot, so they decided to use the opportunity as a new excuse to make it more difficult to unload your own freight.


I want know part of being on the dock unloading crap. My company doesn’t either. One pallet or forty makes no difference IMO. Usually if there is a delay, it’s waiting for the receiving clerks count and signature

 

is there a way to find out the lumper fee prior to taking the load - to negotiate or renegotiate the load price factoring in this #### lumper fee+fuel, etc...?