Lumpers: Highest You Had To Pay

What is the most you were ever charged by lumpers to unload your trailer? I had a delivery a few weeks back that was tops: $300 for 11 pallets, PLUS it took nearly four hours!!! This was at a grocer warehouse in Norfolk, VA.

I believe it was best 300 dollars as well. Somewhere in the east coast

$525!!! i picked up from a major cereal company and they loaded me with 81,000. i knew i was overweight just by looking at my trailer tires that looked flat lol. the load was supposed to be 40k...my truck and trailer is 35k empty....so..my total should have been nowhere near that weight. I CAT scaled and got reworked and they still had me at 79k. i complained to every department that i had way too much product for my BOL. No one cared, but when that $525 lumper bill came in for an additional 6,000 cases, my response was "I put in the QC four times that I had too much product. Im a company driver, its not my fault." lol

Grocery warehouses are the worst. I once got hit a 500.00 late fee. According to my plan I was an hour early. They showed 24 hrs late. They required 500.00 late fee before they would talk to me. I contated DM and 3 hrs later the 500 late fee was approved. I paid it and 2 hrs later they worked me in and hit me for another 500 lumper fee.

Great Morning,

What is a lumper? And when you say "I paid it" how does that work?

Thank you

Great Morning,

What is a lumper? And when you say "I paid it" how does that work?

Thank you

lumpers are an unloading service used at some receivers. we write checks but the trucking company pays the bill. Technically ours is a pay advance, then we send in the receipt and are reimbursed. as long as you send in the receipt that pay week, you never see the effecrs. however dont send in the receipt and you wont get reimbursed until next week. it is a tax savings for the carrier which sucks and my card has a $1 transaction fee which is tax deductible i have been seeing more and more loads that have lumpers prepaid, so im skipping the whole process more and more.

I paid over $300 quite a few times. I definitely do no miss all the grocery warehouses lol!

lumpers are an unloading service used at some receivers. we write checks but the trucking company pays the bill. Technically ours is a pay advance, then we send in the receipt and are reimbursed. as long as you send in the receipt that pay week, you never see the effecrs. however dont send in the receipt and you wont get reimbursed until next week. it is a tax savings for the carrier which sucks and my card has a $1 transaction fee which is tax deductible i have been seeing more and more loads that have lumpers prepaid, so im skipping the whole process more and more.

Thank you Rainy for the response.

we write checks but the trucking company pays the bill. Technically ours is a pay advance, then we send in the receipt and are reimbursed. as long as you send in the receipt that pay week, you never see the effecrs.

Thank you, Rainy. Do you mean you're writing a company check, or a personal one?

$455 for 11 pallets. Straight roll-off, no restacking. Literally less than 15 minutes to unload. If I didn't know better, I'd swear these companies were owned by the mafia.