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I have worked with a lot of freight drivers. They have to do some seriously stressful tasks: - unloading pallets, some over 1.5k lbs in weight. When they’re st
by bag_boy 5y ago
I have worked with a lot of freight drivers. They have to do some seriously stressful tasks:
- unloading pallets, some over 1.5k lbs in weight. When they’re stuck, the truck driver is responsible for getting them out, and that’s that. Not every small biz has a forklift lol.
- you drop off your load in a warehouse and nobody is there to receive it/unclear directions/your pickup directions suck. You spend the next hour walking around a warehouse searching for someone to sign for you.
- backing up to a dock and interrupting traffic = outraged commuters who get ridiculously upset
- unloading broken pallet loads by hand.
I couldn’t and wouldn’t do it.
- quartesixte 4y ago>When they’re stuck, the truck driver is responsible for getting them out, and that’s that Not to say that it doesn’t suck being a truck driver, but most of my experience has been that if the load cannot be unloaded by the receiver, the shipment is taken back and the driver is still paid for the attempt.
- edrxty 4y agoI think it depends on the type of delivery/carrier. I've had full size lift gate trucks deliver pallets to my house and they were responsible for getting 1000lb oversized pallets out and down from the truck in one piece. They weren't always successful.
- pc86 4y agoI'm genuinely curious what you're having delivered by the half-ton to your home? The only things I can think of would be a safe, or maybe gym equipment.
- Spooky23 4y agoMy father in law had a massive smoker delivered by LTL truck with “inside delivery”. It took 6 of us to roll that thing up his driveway.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 4y agoAg supplies are heavy and can come on pallets.... mulch, animal feed, fertilizer, etc.
- bag_boy 4y agoTiles and hardwood
- edrxty 4y agoI'm building an airplane. Also have a small machine shop in the garage so stock and occasionally tooling.
- pc86 4y agoOh nice, the only thing keeping me from building an RV or something is space.
- edrxty 4y agoDoesn't take too much space, people have done them in apartments, otoh the machine shop (unrelated to the rv build) definitely does :) Go find a builder class, you'll learn a lot and have a good time, even if you decide not to go forward with it.
- engineer_22 4y agoThe trucker has to sign to say that the company loaded the truck correctly before departing. So if the load cannot be unloaded it's the truck drivers fault!!!
- colejohnson66 4y agoNot always. When I worked at Target as a receiver, C&S drivers got to choose their routes, but they didn't get to refuse bad loads; we (the driver and the store) just had to deal with pallets falling over.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI think this would very much be a contractual thing.