The Lumper “experience” from my perspective, what's yours?

You should have walked back in there and told lumpers YOU now need an EFS check for $300 for wasting my time.

 

You can’t fix an hourly lazy person. And you can’t make a corrupt service like lumpers lose a contract when they are giving the largest kickbacks to the receiver for the contract, and the receiver is delighted.

 

From what I’ve been told the people pulling the pallets off aren’t the ones who verify the count. They pull it off and know how it needs to be broken down. That’s when you get your bill a lot of the time. Then once they break it down there’s a person or a couple people that check and sign off on the count. At least that’s what I was told at one notoriously slow place we go to. But I don’t mind going there. It’s easy money for me and I usually get an 8 hour break in. The last time I was there in November I got into a door 45 minutes before my 1:30am appointment. The truck didn’t start shaking until about 6:30am. It was 9:30 when I was leaving, so an extra $600 on top of the rate going down there.

 

Usually the brother in law of the shipping supervisor operating the swindle service running the shake down scheme.
I remember when slip sheets first came out and nobody had the clamp machines to pull them back , instant floor load.
Don't get me started , small wood at Sysco gimme a break.

 

I have seen this situation many times. I assume they are short-handed, like most employers. It's probably a matter of the people in charge of checking your paperwork are being used to unload freight. Or the person unloading the trailer stacks freight in one area and the checker will check it eventually. I look forward to unloaders/loaders being replaced by robots. I have already once picked up a load that was loaded at a robot warehouse. It was Niagra Water in Brigham City, UT. The call box at the front gate connected you to some remote call center. I believe the only human on the property, beside truck drivers, was one yard truck driver. It was fast and easy. Robot forklift robots is a thousand times easier than robot truck trucks.

 

Well that is true I guess. But what happened to pay the lumper fee or unload it yourself? Sometimes, case in point the OP post, he could have unloaded and broken down the pallets probably a hell of a lot faster than 3 or more hours. I get they will say "oh you can't use our equipment", but with 3 pallets they could have at least set them on the dock and offered the OP to do it himself and save himself some time, if he wanted to do that at least.

 

Not many places will let you on the dock since Covid. The few places that I go to it’s not even an option to pull it off yourself and break it down.

There was a place last year, I can’t remember where, but they would let you do it yourself but you got a set amount of time per pallet and if you fell behind they would take over and finish it. But I don’t remember it taking too long. I want to say it was Martin Bros in Cedar Falls IA but I’m not for sure on that.

 

A whole trailer I wouldn't wanna do that, maybe not even 3 pallets if they had a lot of small boxes on them. But it is nice to have the option when it would suit you to get in and out quicker. But I suppose I understand the point about covid.