Hands on loads
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I've gone months and months without touching a single piece of freight, and then have 7 loads in a row that are all hand load or hand unload. Sometimes it's a single box or an envelope, sometimes it's 1600 pounds of 25 pound boxes. Usually the appropriate additional pay comes with it, but not always. The industry is more or less 95% no-touch freight, and that's pretty much what I've found.
The ones that require me to load/unload myself, they will almost always come with the appropriate pay. If they require it, then I require they pay me for it. But most of the time it's not required, it's more a case of helping out whoever is loading or unloading me, or it's the most expeditious, friendly and polite way to Git R Dun.
The ones that require me to load/unload myself, they will almost always come with the appropriate pay. If they require it, then I require they pay me for it. But most of the time it's not required, it's more a case of helping out whoever is loading or unloading me, or it's the most expeditious, friendly and polite way to Git R Dun.
cableguymn
Seasoned Expediter
99% of what I do is touch freight. Not unusual for me to unload up to 1900 lbs on to a plane that I just loaded 30 minutes earlier. I do this 3 times a night.
I did cancel my gym membership
My pay checks reflects all the labor I put in to the loads. Mama got a new stove, new microwave, half her new kitchen cabinets, the ceilings painted, and the walls with my last 1 week paycheck. I still have enough to safely get through the week gas wise as well.
Oh.. and all I got out of the deal was the aching back from hauling it all in and installing it.
I did cancel my gym membership
My pay checks reflects all the labor I put in to the loads. Mama got a new stove, new microwave, half her new kitchen cabinets, the ceilings painted, and the walls with my last 1 week paycheck. I still have enough to safely get through the week gas wise as well.
Oh.. and all I got out of the deal was the aching back from hauling it all in and installing it.
There is "touch freight" and "no-touch freight". Common industry terms for such freight that must be touched is "hand load" and "hand unload". Whoever came up with "finger prints" or "fingerprint" to describe "touch freight" is someone who reeks of inexperience and ignorance. It's cute-sounding, but doesn't really describe what you're doing. For one, most touch freight is loaded or unloaded while wearing gloves (if you're smart). And two, there actually are fingerprint loads where they take your fingerprints (usually just the thumbprint, but sometimes more) at the shipper or the consignee or both. I know 'cause I've done them. Those are fingerprint loads.
Noooo, everyone doesn't refer to everything differently. If they did, people would not be able to communicate. A banana is a banana, and if you call it a glogstick, no one will know what you're talking about. If people want to communicate clearly and effectively, where other people will understand them, they will use the appropriate language and vocabulary. Every industry has its own jargon and technical terms.
It's like the one guy who came up with, all on his own, a new name for the Highway Patrol in Louisiana - "In Louisiana we call 'em gators".
Well, no they don't. Not in Louisiana, not anywhere. The trucking industry knows gators to be one thing - parts of tires on the road - and he clearly didn't even know that much about the industry. If you want to call them "gators", and you're not talking about tire bits, no one is gonna know what the heck you're talking about.
Very recently someone here mentioned having to do fingerprint loads, and I and others naturally assumed they were talking about fingerprint loads, because the term fingerprint loads means something very specific in the industry. Anyone who uses the term to mean something else, especially something for which there is already an existing industry-specific term, is ignorant of the industry. Sorry.
It's like the one guy who came up with, all on his own, a new name for the Highway Patrol in Louisiana - "In Louisiana we call 'em gators".
Well, no they don't. Not in Louisiana, not anywhere. The trucking industry knows gators to be one thing - parts of tires on the road - and he clearly didn't even know that much about the industry. If you want to call them "gators", and you're not talking about tire bits, no one is gonna know what the heck you're talking about.
Very recently someone here mentioned having to do fingerprint loads, and I and others naturally assumed they were talking about fingerprint loads, because the term fingerprint loads means something very specific in the industry. Anyone who uses the term to mean something else, especially something for which there is already an existing industry-specific term, is ignorant of the industry. Sorry.
stonewolf
Seasoned Expediter
my dispatcher called them finger prints and my 30 year driver uncle has always called them finger print loads the digiprint scanner is much newer then the term ... i have heard them called print loads for my whole life just cuz you have a diffrent idea of the deffinition is oppionitive ... and thumb scanner was dispatched as a fingerprint signiture load ... so sounds like panther and cc use diffrent gargon (cc is a generlisation have no idea who u drive for)
stonewolf
Seasoned Expediter
finger print loading even eo says it lol no offence turtle
http://www.expeditersonline.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/3228/title/fingerprint-load/cat/534
http://www.expeditersonline.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/3228/title/fingerprint-load/cat/534
When we went through orientation at FDCC 3 years ago the instructor referred to them as fingerprint loads.
And where we live in North Florida a gator is either a large lizard looking thing with a good tastin tail or a fan of the University of Florida athletic programs.
And where we live in North Florida a gator is either a large lizard looking thing with a good tastin tail or a fan of the University of Florida athletic programs.
stonewolf
Seasoned Expediter
When we went through orientation at FDCC 3 years ago the instructor referred to them as fingerprint loads.
And where we live in North Florida a gator is either a large lizard looking thing with a good tastin tail or a fan of the University of Florida athletic programs.
lol i agree with turtle on gators i have always hread it reffering to shreded tires ... i miss gator tail on a stick used to me my fav fair food
lilriverfan
Seasoned Expediter
was with panther 4yrs and only with load1 4days, goofy owner-operator didn't want to pay so i left immediately but would say load1 is much different in a very positive way
stonewolf
Seasoned Expediter
thanks guys i was runnin with panther before i got sat up by foc till court processing is done and i didnt like the way it was working out and have been looking for a new company to sign with when i get back at it ... im looking for next month *fingers crossed* thanks agin ... sry for high jacking the thread lol