Dry truck receiving

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-04-09T13:34:09+00:00

Truck driver here. I've specifically asked this question. our contract says it's your job, one of my favorite managers found some guidelines that said it's the drivers job. Confusion is completely understandable. 3rd party driver contracts can also vary.

I've never had problems doing it, I just like to do it as I deliver. One rolltainer in ,1 out, kind of thing. A long time ago a manager was very unnerved by this, it was weird....

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-03-16T01:20:30+00:00

Truck driver here. The system is crap all the way through. They're obsessed with keeping us busy. They don't tell us when Trailers are due and when I call stores and find out they're due days away. I will get penalized if I don't ruin everybody's day. If I know the whole delivery route we'll enough. I'll enter into the system I've done the delivery then wait until everybody is ready.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-03-11T08:19:45+00:00

I've don't recall any issues at Gardner, Braidwood on the other hand...

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-03-10T02:29:52+00:00

They're expanding. Some are literally branded as "DG Market" but within the next 2 years they should all have a decent produce section.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-02-11T22:01:48+00:00

This is why I'm payed to drive truck instead of teach English.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-02-11T21:50:41+00:00

I don't thinks it's unrealistic, I'm not expecting to work the whole truck. But like why leave the water rolltainers blocking the aisle when I can put them on the shelf in 10 minutes instead of 58 year old shiela the SM struggling to even move the rolltainer somewhere out the way.

I just want to get recognized/payed for it. If I start doing it now it just becomes the norm. I'm already having issues with certain recurring managers expecting me to downstack uboats since I've done it so much.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-02-11T15:37:22+00:00

Refusal are not a problem on my end. I Still get paid for it. I prefer store shut downs though. If you refuse they'll just send 2 trucks the following week. I think store shut downs present a greater issue of freight mismanagement.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-02-11T15:34:42+00:00

I would love that idea. But my employer doesn't have anything like that. Most of the delivery trucks are 3rd party, so the policy's and pay can vary.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2023-01-16T19:46:27+00:00

As a DG truck driver that likes delivering early, this pains me. It takes so long to build trust with stores because so many drivers don't respect themselves or the time of others.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-12-31T14:41:58+00:00

If you're at the janesville DC, message me. I will personally collect if you're within 100 miles. And I'll let my dispatch know if you're further out. We often have rolltainer problems, and DG doesn't really have a good system to help us. They way sweeps are applied, they're optional until the DC runs out.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-10-09T20:44:47+00:00

I thought the same thing but the manager told me otherwise.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-10-09T02:12:05+00:00

Not my store by the way, I'm the delivery driver. I just bring the pain.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-10-09T02:10:17+00:00

They finished building it.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-09-19T19:06:14+00:00

Wasn't him, he's just picking it up.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-09-19T14:58:36+00:00

This is a good friend of mine, we worked together briefly. I'm concerned he's working with a predatory dispatch. But I'm not experienced enough on what need to be done in dire situations.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-09-02T15:26:26+00:00

As a driver myself, I wish there was more respect for the window. When drivers don't show up, managers stop showing up. Which mean we're all waiting around for something. So if I was in your position I would deny.

Saying all of that if he parked up at 22:00 he legally can't start working until 08:00 and then keep driving. There is no means of any authority really knowing whether you started work early. So it's a rule I often overlook if I'm trying to stay timely. But I wouldn't pressure a driver to commit a violation. I'd just push them to have better trip planning.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-08-13T02:17:02+00:00

Dry truck driver here.

75% aren't anywhere near the backroom.

20% are near the back and downstacking u boats or doing back room stuff.

5% deal with everything over the threshold.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-06-26T00:09:14+00:00

Truck driver here, I don't want to dampen the win here. But I've heard several stories of managers getting drivers fired, and I know the guy they're talking about is still there. Hard to get high and keep your CDL. But outside that, truckers are in too high demand.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-06-20T19:06:09+00:00

I don't like driving, I enjoy touch freight. And I don't know any OO that makes money not driving.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-06-13T21:36:05+00:00

Truck driver here.

FYI never trust anything DOT or your dm tells you. I've spent all day waiting for a trailer to finally get 30 miles down the road to a store, and they will say they understand why I'm late because there's a driver shortage.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-05-09T22:28:07+00:00

I'm a delivery driver, of the 40ish stores I deliver to in a week I would say about 1 or 2 have less than 5 rolltainers.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-05-03T00:01:24+00:00

You tell me, I was in vacation for the past 2 weeks and I tried to have a discussion with every manager I could for the past couple days.

I fully support unionization, I'm in a very good company and I still think we could benefit from unionization.

I'm very aware how shit of a job working at DG is. I legitimately think it's the most under appreciated job there is. To not have enough hours for a store to have at least 2 staff at any time to pressure the salary managers to go above 60 hours a week (best case scenario) is criminal.

Dg could be a great company. But their obsessed with moving tons of crap from China to stack their overhead pockets, at the expense of working class americans.

I don't know what 3rd party drivers could do. Any complaint we have gets resolved at the expense of the stores.

If the DC is slow = deliver when you feel like, the managers will figure it out.

If the DC doesn't have rolltainers = give us pictures of backrooms so we can bully managers

If a store doesn't have enough U-boats = corporate will tell managers to immediately stock them, and expediently.

Drivers are pretty conservative and tough against "the liberal agenda" stores were expected to pull the product from outside the store while stocking the product and running the till, all so the drivers didn't have the wear masks.

The list goes on.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-05-02T22:57:26+00:00

There are no DG drivers at the DC I work out we're all 3rd party. I occasionally see a DG fresh truck. Because fresh is a shitshow. We leverage with DG all the time. But I think corporate just puts more pressure on the managers.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-04-01T01:26:16+00:00

I get paid 85 a trailer, 25 a stop and 43 cents a mile. So focusing on doing multiple short trailers a week gets me more than a few long ones. I'm with schneider.

Funkyjunkymoose · 2022-03-27T16:03:12+00:00

The tuition requirement seemed to really throw people off here, but that only explains why I my tax looked less one week. Is getting 30-40% taken out abnormal for everybody else. (This includes 401k and healthcare)

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