your not alone happening to everyone but they also wont pay waiting time when sitting for hours and nothing done. seems to be all one sided with Walmart
Walmart is terrible
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Just say no. If we all say no guess what. Wally changes his tune or they leave Canada as no one will truck too them. Either way it is a win. Been at least 10 years since we have been to SCM Walmart whatever they call the warehouse and never had to come home empty because of it. Want to treat truckers as scum then FO I do not need your freight. Low Blows is right up there on the list as well.
I agree, we have made the decision to not haul for Walmart and Loblaws as well. I love it when the broker books the load with us but doesn't tell us its Walmart. After getting the confirmation we cancel the load because of Walmart.
For Loblaws we ended up with a $1000 fine passed through a broker for not wearing a high-vis vest. When challenged the broker sent the video of the driver who had it on the whole time but after he drove out, after having the guard shack check the empty trailer, pulled forward, closed the doors, walked back to the cab, took the vest off and then climbed into the truck and left the property. They claim the fine was because he took off his vest while still on the property, even though it was outside of the guard shack. If these companies are so intent on making money off the carriers instead of making money selling their goods, then we will avoid them. Believe it or not, carriers do not make enough money in this industry to take $1000.00 hits.
The same problem happened to Zellers back in the day in the 2000's. They detained trucks for full days even though they made appointments on time. Day cab drivers slept in their cabs through the night with some getting unloaded at 5am the next morning. Manufacturers were expected to pay for the detention and had no recourse. Eventually everyone refused to go there.
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Had a receiver complain that a driver I sent in was unfriendly. I asked him for details but it turned out to be nothing really.. hopefully no fine coming, sheesh..
Igor Galanter
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The best part about Loblaws? Unless something has changed in the past 5 years
If you haul direct through them... they don't fine you at all, for anything.
Worked with them for 4 years as a broker, the amount of late deliveries/pick ups I had, easily in the hundreds. Not a single fine was ever threatened let alone charged to me.
But we hauled in there for a supplier, we got hit with multiple fines, almost what felt like weekly.
The double standard was real.
this is so unfair. just another big time corporation taking advantage of the little guy
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oh look dnu before they hit the link. Perfect.
They've been hinting at this for a while. Trying to be like Amazon and cut out the middle man.
EarthFresh was doing it for a bit. Posting potato loads out of MB directly to the link to cut out the brokers. I believe it was fairly successful.