Having seen the thread on the Profesional dring forum for UK and European drivers I thought maybe the guys over here. I can start the ball rolling by saying the dreaded company C & S located in Brattleboro VT, Newburgh NY, Windsor CT and various other loactions in the north east have to be the very worst I have ever been to, several rows had at these locations. Hours offloading and what amounts to extortionate lumper fee’s.
Home depot Regina …guy on goods in thinks he owns the company,his word is law. had a booking time 9am.his name on paperwork as phoned /booked…arrived and he told me no goods in till 6pm-----midnight… when i said he might be mistaken was escorted out of building!!!
even store manager couldnt make him take the skid.
was told HD saskatoon now the same.
Was told by everyone Directbuy in Calgary was tip from hell…nope well not for me anyway spoke to English guy on dock came to an agreement i would phone him day before and see how busy they were and sort out drop time ourselfs.
other cradles sat for a day …lol
jimmy
Home Depot are notorious for being ■■■■■■■■ when it comes to accepting deliveries, the trick is to just say ok then sign this document ‘refused load’ because I don’t deliver after 6.00pm.
ALL grocery warehouses ■■■■, i don’t have a good word to say about any of them.
Food Lion down in NC was one of the worst, i just cannot express what rotten no -good SOB’s they were 
Thank goodness them days are over for me 
Charles
Western Grocers (Loblaws) in Winnipeg is the worst I have been to in my time over here 
The moment I read the post name I thought “C&S Wholesale, Woodbridge, NJ” and low and behold, you mention that very same group of bar stewards! Only had the misfortune once. Arrived on my booking time of 7am, only to be turned away at the gate and told to go and park down on an industrial estate 2 miles away and they’d call me. They called me three hours later, I arrived back, parked in the yard and queued in line with 30 other truckers for almost two hours just to get to the goods in window, then had to go and pay some ridiculously high lumper fee (cant remember how much now) and then finally backed onto a door. Arrived there at 7am and left at about 6pm. All I had was 20 odd neatly packed pallets about waist high! By the time I got to my reload over near Allentown it was too late to load so had to sit there till the next day. One of many lost days in north america with no wages.
I’ve had to wait as long, or longer at other companies to get tipped, what got me was the standing in line for hours in a chilled warehouse just to hand your paperwork in to a bunch of ignorant desk jockeys. I did hear the site in Woodbridge was due to close down as it was costing too much to employ the Teamster employees who did nothing for their wages. I can only hope it has been closed, razed to the ground and had a retail park built on top of it! A Walmart and a McDonalds would be a much better use of the land.
newmercman:
Western Grocers (Loblaws) in Winnipeg is the worst I have been to in my time over here
I almost chocked on my fried egg sandwich when I read the word “Loblaws”! What a useless bunch of gentlemen and women they are. One of our guys sat last week in Ontario 31 hours getting loaded in one of their distrobution centres back for NB. He did get $50 for his trouble or $1.61 per hour which according to XE.com is £1.001 per hour. The joys of reefer work in a 2nd world country!
Any Home Depot.
We used to get a lot of skids for them shipped on our aircraft, now remember air-freight is ■■■■ expensive.
I tried to deliver to 2 different stores on the same day. 1 guy refused the load, even after he was told what it was, and said we had to make an appointment. The times they had for receiving were in our own closed times. So they ended up having to pick the skids up from the airport themselves.
For those that dont know, Edmonton airport is about 30km south of Edmonton. 
Another …
Perkins paper in Taunton MA, they never had lumpers for years, you could be in and out in less than an hour with a full load of SCA products loaded front to back and floor to roof on the deck with no pallets, then they started using a lumper group charging extortioante rates and taking all morning to off load.
I was delivering to Pacific paper in Wilmington MA one day and a Perkins driver was on the next dock, I told the lads there to charge him $400 to take his load off “Why would they do that ?” asked the driver.
“Because thats what you company charge me, thieving gits” 
Lumper fee’s…the biggest transport related scam I have ever seen.
I havge in the past been threatened with my life for complaining too much about them, quite a few seem to be ‘connected’ organisations, if you see what I mean ?
They charge us to take their goods off our trailers. I have even been told bt previous employers to pay the bill and shut up…
“We don’t want to fish your body out of the east river do we ?”
Pat Hasler:
I havge in the past been threatened with my life for complaining too much about them, quite a few seem to be ‘connected’ organisations, if you see what I mean ?
They charge us to take their goods off our trailers. I have even been told bt previous employers to pay the bill and shut up…
“We don’t want to fish your body out of the east river do we ?”
Exactly. Lumper fee’s are simply ill-concealed efforts of organised crime. Quite litterally in many cases!