I've always woundered about New England Motor freight regarding Wegmans warehouses in Rochester NY.
I don't know if anyone on this truckingboad is from my area,but this question of mine could apply to all of the sort.,&segergating your company does through out your system.
I'm a city driver for UPS Freight we have a standing appoinment once a week at one of these grocery warehouses.
Wegmans requires everything to be broke down ,and sorted no higher then waist high on their four way skids.
I see one of your drivers that comes in with a 53 foot trailer up to 3 times a week.
We usual come with a 45 footer.
I've touched up to 700 cases in the time I'm stuck there doing what they want.
OK heres my question,UPS Freight charges around $.45 per case for us to handle this freight.
We aren't going to do all this work,and tie up a driver all day for nothing.
I ask your driver if NEMF is charging for him to touch all of the cases he has to?
He says he doesn't know?
When we break down an order we write the number of boxes we touched along with sort,& Seg,then circle it with our name,on all the copys of our DR's.
He says he's never been told to do any of that on your DR's.
I know we don't get as much for this company as Fedex National,ABF,Yellow,and your company probally because we charge a lot to handle it.
I also don't know if any of the other LTL's are charging for handling these warehouse accounts?
Its a lot of time consumming work for us city drivers,and if your company doesn't charge much,or doesn't charge at all of course your going to haul a lot of this stuff.
If this is the case I can only say may God have mercy on the poor drivers that are getting stuck with these accounts.
I don't know if anyone on this truckingboad is from my area,but this question of mine could apply to all of the sort.,&segergating your company does through out your system.
I'm a city driver for UPS Freight we have a standing appoinment once a week at one of these grocery warehouses.
Wegmans requires everything to be broke down ,and sorted no higher then waist high on their four way skids.
I see one of your drivers that comes in with a 53 foot trailer up to 3 times a week.
We usual come with a 45 footer.
I've touched up to 700 cases in the time I'm stuck there doing what they want.
OK heres my question,UPS Freight charges around $.45 per case for us to handle this freight.
We aren't going to do all this work,and tie up a driver all day for nothing.
I ask your driver if NEMF is charging for him to touch all of the cases he has to?
He says he doesn't know?
When we break down an order we write the number of boxes we touched along with sort,& Seg,then circle it with our name,on all the copys of our DR's.
He says he's never been told to do any of that on your DR's.
I know we don't get as much for this company as Fedex National,ABF,Yellow,and your company probally because we charge a lot to handle it.
I also don't know if any of the other LTL's are charging for handling these warehouse accounts?
Its a lot of time consumming work for us city drivers,and if your company doesn't charge much,or doesn't charge at all of course your going to haul a lot of this stuff.
If this is the case I can only say may God have mercy on the poor drivers that are getting stuck with these accounts.