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fifaref2

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Turtle said:
Ever try to pickup a 40 pound box at the FedEx Supply Chain facility in Memphis using a pickup number that has no meaning, and without having a shipment number, or an order number, and the person at the customer who set this up through the 3pl that called you for the shipment is gone for the day? And you're still sitting here waiting after 3 hours because the 3pl is adamant that the meaningless pickup number is really and truly meaningful and is all you need?
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Lol, Bolt one time kept on faxing the pu# to a customer as I stood there. They never did get it faxed to the right office. After 75 minutes of trying to get Bolt to fax it to the office that I was standing in I gave up and fell off the load and went and did Halloween w/ my kids. The load was Chicago to MI, exact route I was going anyways. I can't compete with complete stupidness.
 
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OntarioVanMan

OntarioVanMan

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fifaref2 said:
Lol, Bolt one time kept on faxing the pu# to a customer as I stood there. They never did get it faxed to the right office. After 75 minutes of trying to get Bolt to fax it to the office that I was standing in I gave up and fell off the load and went and did Halloween w/ my kids. The load was Chicago to MI, exact route I was going anyways. I can't compete with complete stupidnesswin or lose? Lol.
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If you did compete against stupid.....would you want to win or lose? Lol
 
Murraycroexp

Murraycroexp

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Turtle said:
Ever try to pickup a 40 pound box at the FedEx Supply Chain facility in Memphis using a pickup number that has no meaning, and without having a shipment number, or an order number, and the person at the customer who set this up through the 3pl that called you for the shipment is gone for the day? And you're still sitting here waiting after 3 hours because the 3pl is adamant that the meaningless pickup number is really and truly meaningful and is all you need?
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Fed is a BIG machine. But if the FIRST gear in the chain has a bad tooth or two the whole string of gears is lost in the mix.
 
Turtle

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Murraycroexp said:
Fed is a BIG machine. But if the FIRST gear in the chain has a bad tooth or two the whole string of gears is lost in the mix.
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Picking up at the big hub or at Supply Chain is a snap, as long as you have the shipment order number. But if you don't have that, you're just there to pick up one of the 9 million pieces they've got in the building.

4 pm pickup. I'm still here. Waiting to be called right back.
 
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Soooo, detention stopped after 5 hours, Layover situation. .We'll sort it out in the morning.
 
akkshole

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Well my delivery to Pleasanton, CA turned into a they were supposed to ship that to Piscataway, NJ...tried to stay with that load and do the run. Contact guy was fine with that...our ops offered to have me doing it at cost to help them and get me off the west coast without paying empty moves. 3pl had other ideas and I had to deliver it to Old Dominion in Oakland, along with 2 hours detention (which I would have not pursued if I kept the load) and another stop....2900 more loaded would have been stellar...no dice...now in Los Banos, CA waiting for a load or an empty move tomorrow.
 
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OntarioVanMan

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Soooo, detention stopped after 5 hours, Layover situation. .We'll sort it out in the morning.
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so is that detention minus the 2 hr giveaway for 3 hrs?...PLUS layover......or is it layover only, detention is included, aka you get screwd for the 5 hours?
 
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