You'll never please everyone, I personally enjoy the talking segments. These are great videos thanks for the uploads, I watch them all the way through.
One of my first loads when I started driving was a load of unpalletized potato chips. The trailer was loaded from floor to ceiling. I was totally green to driving. The shipping and receiving office wanted to know if I needed Lumpers. I said "What is a lumper?". I was basically screwed by the dispatcher. I spent 2 hours unloading, palletizing and shrink wrapping a loaded 53'. I was exhausted. Screw me once, shame on them. Screw me twice, shame on me. I never gave them the 2nd opportunity. I quit that day.
yeah...I did a lumper load which they said it was going to be 4 hours before they would get to us and cost $350.00. I said yeah ok i can do it...i did it in 45 min and paid myself the $350...
You all just keep on talking, I enjoy it...Jason you are looking slimmer, great job...love seeing the babies, you all be safe, god bless..love Peggy 💗 ♥ 💓
Truly enjoy the scenery and the conversation! Keep up the good work on Keto, it works I lost 108 lbs it’s a life style. Safe travels and good health to y’all 😉
Hi Jason & Heather! Good to see you guys again, glad to see you had a good weekend and are keeping busy. Thank you for the video. Peace, Love, & Expediting!
I subscribe to to a lot of trucking channels and yours is my favorite by far. I enjoy the combination of talking and awesome Scenic editing. I even enjoy it more than my own channel 😊😊😊👍👍
Don't even get me started with lumpers, years a go it was a free market, people would freelance as lumpers they would hang around the warehouses and you would hire them or not hire them if they were not busy you would get them dirt cheap, then all the sudden the warehouses started their own lumping companies and that is when it got bad you had to hire their lumpers and you could not touch the freight and Jason is right it got to be the BIGGEST scam EVER!!!
Im a former OTR driver that sat at the entrance to the industrial park with a CB. In 1979, I could get around $45 a trailer. Two trailers on a day off would earn me almost the equivalent of a day's pay driving....and I would often be home before 2 pm.
If the lumper "service" was not there, confusion and further inefficiency would occur. Similar to your liftgate analogy, it's a service. There is an insurance liability dock issue too IF the service was not there. Insurance governs so much today. I quit a job in the late '80s while at a grocery warehouse, their expectation offloading a floor loaded cubed trailer by myself. That was a time when lumpers were not a "thing." Lumpers have a purpose and drivers don't "pay" for that service. If they are, they're getting shafted
You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time..one of my favorite sayings that has stuck with me for years. You both do a great job posting videos. We find them enjoyable. Thanks!
@@TheCraftyTrucker You are welcome. I got to tell you something really funny. I fell asleep listening to some jazz and had a dream of watching sheep eating and all of a sudden a sheep pooped out a bail of hay, Boy I got to quit watching so many sheep farm videos on RUclips. lol
My apologies, when you guys started going towards your truck, I presumed the video is over, and left my comment, then I saw the video is not over and I continued watching. Little bit later in the video you mentioned lumpers as the biggest ripoff scam, and I agree with you. Being an ex semi truck driver with over 2 million safely driven miles behind me, I had the bad luck pulling a reefer for few years, and when you pull a reefer, you know the lumper's game, you are right: lumpers is one of the biggest ripoff scam in trucking
88° last Thursday. 39° on Tuesday 😳 That’s Texas weather! We moving from North Texas (DFW) to Tip of Hill Country, Glen Rose, just north of Bosque County, which is getting us closer to Waco & Central Texas. 🌧 slowing down construction this week ☹️
My last load was setup for driver unload or lumper, I would have received 50.00 for unload, 40,000 pounds, I used the lumper service and got a com check for the lumper, 234.00 for lumper service. 6 1/2 hours to unload 20 pallets. It’s always been a ripoff, always will be. Another great video y’all. Be safe. Dan.
Boy, you were so close to us here in Spring. I had to look up the Waco Airport and see that RV park there. Looks really nice. Maybe I can get Randy to take me there someday to go look for Bigfoot. I understand there are some sightings in that area. I've been binging Finding Bigfoot documentaries, LOL. Too much time on my hands for sure. We actually talked about going to Livingston last weekend to check it out. Yup......we talked about it. LOL. Take good care, until next video!
My first week was great expediting. Unfortunately in Temple, Texas today they had accidents that had stopped traffic. Guy ran right into me. Had to go to hospital. Truck will be fixed in about 45 days.
It is the cutest thing watching Abby and Tyson trying to get into the video and they look like trying to have a conversation with you guys and people watching. They are obsolutely beautiful.
Wow...haven’t heard the term “lumpers” for along time. Used to get vans loading at our place who just delivered at a huge grocery warehouse. The drivers were not happy at all having to pay to some contract labor to unload his truck. Its a real racket. Customer gets free labor to unload the truck and stage the material and the trucker pays for it all.
If I had a load that had to be unloaded by hand the guy I was running with and I done it we never hired a lumper. Made some of them mad that unloaded some of our trucks everytime them loads come in, but I was out there trying to make a living for my family not their's. The company didn't pay for lumpers if we hired one we had to pay for it. That took money out of my pocket and my wife didn't like that. Besides that gives you some exercise that you don't get setting behind that wheel or laying in the sleeper. Stay safe and God bless.
Our rates are the same, if the tailgate was or wasn't used for a delivery, that being said there have been times when we did deliveries for another logistics company that stated on the weigh bill "tailgate service" and we were paid by the logistics company for the tailgate, but that doesn't happen all that often. You also look at things another way, how many good loads are you able to get because you have a tailgate? So while you may not be compensated for buying a tailgate perhaps you are able to get loads that you otherwise would have had to pass on.
That’s exactly right about having more load opportunities by having it verses not. There have been loads the customer requests a lift gate truck and we didn’t even have to use it but if we didn’t have it we wouldn’t have gotten that load.
There is a grocery place in Fort Worth Texas too that is an absolute nightmare. We’ve heard the grocery places are the worst because they require that tie and high
Do your carb diet til u plateau. When u plateau look into carb cycling . U will eat some carbs one day less next and so on til u r down to almost zero and stay there for 10 days 2 weeks and then do over , but research it . Good luck . Love u guys Dude u r wasting away the little dogs r starting to look bigger next to u
When I was driving lumpers would jump on the tractor and ride in to the docks with you . I was like they were stuck on !!!! At that time they were paid $50 to unload. I didn't like the lumpers ....... get off my damn truck !!!!!!!!
Waco Willy Meyers. You were in town during the drag races at Ennis, TX. Or were they in Houston? Oh well. Most of us don't care about a little bg noise.... I missed this one so catching up.... Does Landstar "Express America" still have vans? In a 1-ton van, I took Styrofoam meal containers to a grocery warehouse. I was supposed to pay, union lumpers to unload. Oh and wait two hrs. The foreman took mercy on me and allowed me and also taught me how to "correctly" load the 2 pallets. YIKES
Great video's guys. Stay safe. God bless you.
Jason, we can see the inches coming off. I never thought you looked puffy but I definitely see you looking leaner. Congratulations! Keep it up.
Thank you Julie! He is doing so good. We were noticing today how his hands are even looking thinner 😉
@@TheCraftyTrucker Yes, and his arms, neck, face, EVERYWHERE! So exciting!
You'll never please everyone, I personally enjoy the talking segments. These are great videos thanks for the uploads, I watch them all the way through.
Thank you so much
I love the long videos.. so hey do whatever you guys want they can watching something else
Thanks a bunch!!
PHILOSOPHY 101
Ya get whatcha get,
Ya don’t throw a fit....
And ya better not ask for SHI-IT!
True about the lumper service. My husband and I were able to unload our freight a few times to save money. You two stay safe.
That’s good you all were able to unload yourselves & not forced to pay to have it done. Safe travels y’all!
I freakin love you guys!!! I hope things are still going well! Cheers Y’all ‼️ 🤙🏾🫡
One of my first loads when I started driving was a load of unpalletized potato chips. The trailer was loaded from floor to ceiling. I was totally green to driving. The shipping and receiving office wanted to know if I needed Lumpers. I said "What is a lumper?". I was basically screwed by the dispatcher. I spent 2 hours unloading, palletizing and shrink wrapping a loaded 53'. I was exhausted. Screw me once, shame on them. Screw me twice, shame on me. I never gave them the 2nd opportunity. I quit that day.
yeah...I did a lumper load which they said it was going to be 4 hours before they would get to us and cost $350.00. I said yeah ok i can do it...i did it in 45 min and paid myself the $350...
You all just keep on talking, I enjoy it...Jason you are looking slimmer, great job...love seeing the babies, you all be safe, god bless..love Peggy 💗 ♥ 💓
Love you Peggy 💗 Thank you!
My wife does some absolutely beautiful pictures in those adult coloring books!
I’m pleased! I thought it was a good conversation! Just had 3 inches snow in Sioux Falls...but going back to 50s end of week.....thank goodness.
Thanks! Stay warm
Truly enjoy the scenery and the conversation! Keep up the good work on Keto, it works I lost 108 lbs it’s a life style. Safe travels and good health to y’all 😉
Congrats on losing 108 lbs that’s awesome!! Thanks so much :)
Hi Jason & Heather! Good to see you guys again, glad to see you had a good weekend and are keeping busy. Thank you for the video. Peace, Love, & Expediting!
Thank you David!!! Gosh we sure do miss you, got to get together again soon!
I subscribe to to a lot of trucking channels and yours is my favorite by far. I enjoy the combination of talking and awesome Scenic editing. I even enjoy it more than my own channel 😊😊😊👍👍
You’re awesome JJ! Thanks & safe travels 😊
@@TheCraftyTrucker just a heads up... I'm going to be tagging you two in my scariest moments in trucking Video. It will be coming out in a day or two.
Sneaky way to promote your channel but your one of the good guys ha.
Don't even get me started with lumpers, years a go it was a free market, people would freelance as lumpers they would hang around the warehouses and you would hire them or not hire them if they were not busy you would get them dirt cheap, then all the sudden the warehouses started their own lumping companies and that is when it got bad you had to hire their lumpers and you could not touch the freight and Jason is right it got to be the BIGGEST scam EVER!!!
Im a former OTR driver that sat at the entrance to the industrial park with a CB. In 1979, I could get around $45 a trailer. Two trailers on a day off would earn me almost the equivalent of a day's pay driving....and I would often be home before 2 pm.
Love you guys. Like listening to whatever you're talking about.
Yes, in Texas we get some freezing temps...lol...19 here in Amarillo all day today with icing...lol
It takes two baby it takes two me and you! Love ❤️ watching you help
one another!
Good to see ya'll doing good! I haven't seen a plane coming over heard in ages and I live here in the biggest city in New Zealand!!
Thank you Peter!
If the lumper "service" was not there, confusion and further inefficiency would occur. Similar to your liftgate analogy, it's a service. There is an insurance liability dock issue too IF the service was not there. Insurance governs so much today. I quit a job in the late '80s while at a grocery warehouse, their expectation offloading a floor loaded cubed trailer by myself. That was a time when lumpers were not a "thing." Lumpers have a purpose and drivers don't "pay" for that service. If they are, they're getting shafted
You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time..one of my favorite sayings that has stuck with me for years. You both do a great job posting videos. We find them enjoyable. Thanks!
Could not agree more,I like that saying. Thanks for sharing it with us it was sick with us for years now too.
Happppppy Monday to y'all.
Hope y'all had a great weekend.
Miss watching y'all.
Have a Very Blessed Week.
Stay Safe out there.🤙😎
Happy Monday!!!! Have a fabulous week 😃
Happy birthday momma Crafty. Love that Sexy Super duty. I have never seen snow. Keep the ramblings coming. Stay safe. ✌🧡🚚
I will tell Mamma Crafty you wished her a happy bday Wayne! Thanks so much friend 💗 Maybe you will get to experience some snow one day ❄️
I love you guys and enjoy your talking about your experiences as truck drivers on the roads. Be safe, be happy.
Thank you Cheryl!
@@TheCraftyTrucker You are welcome. I got to tell you something really funny. I fell asleep listening to some jazz and had a dream of watching sheep eating and all of a sudden a sheep pooped out a bail of hay, Boy I got to quit watching so many sheep farm videos on RUclips. lol
Ha ha!!!
Great video yall. I've always enjoyed watching keep up the great work
Once again guys another great video. Love those fur babies. Safe travels. 🙏🙏💕💕🇱🇷🇱🇷
Thank you Larry! 🐶❤️
You two are awesome!!! Love your show, which is extremely educational concerning the subject of expediting. Keep teaching. Thanks
Thanks so much!!
Thank you for the video. Have a blessed day.
Thank you very much Gail
Hey kiddos good to see you. It’s cold in Texas now 41° in Cedar Park miserable and raining
Burr stay warm!!
Thanks for info on the cauliflower wrap things. Going to have to check into those as we are trying to eat healthier. Be safe
Thank you Dave! I can always find them at Natural Grocers in the freezer section. Safe travels :)
Do you never bake on the truck? If you guys did a hour video I would watch the whole thing ✌️🐶🚛
Thank you Tommy! Yep I use the convection oven in the truck all the time.
My apologies, when you guys started going towards your truck, I presumed the video is over, and left my comment, then I saw the video is not over and I continued watching. Little bit later in the video you mentioned lumpers as the biggest ripoff scam, and I agree with you. Being an ex semi truck driver with over 2 million safely driven miles behind me, I had the bad luck pulling a reefer for few years, and when you pull a reefer, you know the lumper's game, you are right: lumpers is one of the biggest ripoff scam in trucking
Thank you Larry!
88° last Thursday. 39° on Tuesday 😳 That’s Texas weather! We moving from North Texas (DFW) to Tip of Hill Country, Glen Rose, just north of Bosque County, which is getting us closer to Waco & Central Texas. 🌧 slowing down construction this week ☹️
Wow u 2 r doin gr8 with the keto 🙏🏾 keep it up 👍
Love the shots in this video! Mad videography skills!
Thanks very much Ryan!
You guy's are awesome... Great video's
Love your little pups.
That's why they call them "Lumpers". You take your lumps and they take your money.
Oh where- oh where have you gone? Miss your video’s. Miss your company! Pray your both well.
have safe trip and always enjoy your adventures and great scenery along the road as u drive.
Dude! You’re looking good. I noticed before you talked about it. Keep it up buddy!!
Thank you Jeff!
Run your channel YOUR WAY, I personally enjpy it all. !!!
Thank you Rene! 😊
Retired driver here keep it up.
My last load was setup for driver unload or lumper, I would have received 50.00 for unload, 40,000 pounds, I used the lumper service and got a com check for the lumper, 234.00 for lumper service. 6 1/2 hours to unload 20 pallets. It’s always been a ripoff, always will be. Another great video y’all. Be safe. Dan.
That’s crazy Dan!!!
Happy Halloween guys 💜💜
Dang! You guys came through my backyard. I live on US 259, just north of Nacogdoches, TX. Lol
Just a suggestion, look at Zero-G water hook up hoses on Amazon, much much easier than the old white ones and potable. From an RV'r.
Thanks we’ll check those out
Boy, you were so close to us here in Spring. I had to look up the Waco Airport and see that RV park there. Looks really nice. Maybe I can get Randy to take me there someday to go look for Bigfoot. I understand there are some sightings in that area. I've been binging Finding Bigfoot documentaries, LOL. Too much time on my hands for sure. We actually talked about going to Livingston last weekend to check it out. Yup......we talked about it. LOL. Take good care, until next video!
You have to let us know if you do talk him into it and maybe we can work out being there too. Sure would love to see you both! 💗
@@TheCraftyTrucker Absolutely, wouldn't that be great!! That lake up there looks great. We would love to be near the airport.
Happy Tuesday from Australia!
My first week was great expediting. Unfortunately in Temple, Texas today they had accidents that had stopped traffic. Guy ran right into me. Had to go to hospital. Truck will be fixed in about 45 days.
Sorry may God Be with you
@@rae1957tn thanks
Oh no so sorry to hear this Adrian! Hope you are feeling ok 💗
@@TheCraftyTrucker I'm good. Right now.
Glad you are doing OK! Trucks can be repaired & replaced you can not.
Happy Birthday momma Crafty 🤘🏼🤠🤘🏼🤠
Thank you Mike I will tell her you sent her bday wishes 💗
Lubbock TX, has snow lol. Today was the first time in 3 days it's been over freezing.
Stay warm Ruth!
Love your videos. keep up the good work.
It is the cutest thing watching Abby and Tyson trying to get into the video and they look like trying to have a conversation with you guys and people watching. They are obsolutely beautiful.
Thank you Tony 🐶
Hey guys , I enjoyed the vlog. Thanks.
Thanks a bunch Jorge!!
Happy Birthday to Mama Crafty🎈🥂
I will pass this on to her. Thank you Nicholas!! 😊
My calming would be cruising down the highway in my super duty
We love you for who you are 😂
Always look forward to see you every Time you guys put a videos
Thank you Tony!
Sometime lumpers are affiliated with mobb docks.
Wow...haven’t heard the term “lumpers” for along time. Used to get vans loading at our place who just delivered at a huge grocery warehouse. The drivers were not happy at all having to pay to some contract labor to unload his truck. Its a real racket. Customer gets free labor to unload the truck and stage the material and the trucker pays for it all.
It's rolled into the rate or reimbursed by the shipper. Figure it out before you put the load on the truck.
It sounds like the biggest scam. We have friends that do that type of trucking. We are flatbed so we enjoy the work 🤪💪🏻
Hey the truck looked so cool at the start of this video... do you have a tint on the windscreen it looked yellow/orange
Thanks! Nope no tint
i think yall are great dont stop
Thanks so much Mike!
Always watching you both. Hope to see y’all out here somewhere. You mentioned US 59 at Livingston. I live in Lufkin. Lol! Y’all be safe!
Thanks Brenda! We hope so too 😊
If I had a load that had to be unloaded by hand the guy I was running with and I done it we never hired a lumper. Made some of them mad that unloaded some of our trucks everytime them loads come in, but I was out there trying to make a living for my family not their's. The company didn't pay for lumpers if we hired one we had to pay for it. That took money out of my pocket and my wife didn't like that. Besides that gives you some exercise that you don't get setting behind that wheel or laying in the sleeper.
Stay safe and God bless.
Our rates are the same, if the tailgate was or wasn't used for a delivery, that being said there have been times when we did deliveries for another logistics company that stated on the weigh bill "tailgate service" and we were paid by the logistics company for the tailgate, but that doesn't happen all that often. You also look at things another way, how many good loads are you able to get because you have a tailgate? So while you may not be compensated for buying a tailgate perhaps you are able to get loads that you otherwise would have had to pass on.
That’s exactly right about having more load opportunities by having it verses not. There have been loads the customer requests a lift gate truck and we didn’t even have to use it but if we didn’t have it we wouldn’t have gotten that load.
You should have possibly waited for the Rivian van coming out. They will be supplying Amazon fleets. Electric. Best investment ever
My OTR trucker brother agrees with the "Lumpers" being an expensive way to unload your delivery.
Temperatures are in the 40's today here in central Tx including Waco!
Burrrrrrr
Happy people 👍
I Agree lumper is a rip off
If you Like Lumper Nightmares try the Safeway Distribution Center in Denver.
There is a grocery place in Fort Worth Texas too that is an absolute nightmare. We’ve heard the grocery places are the worst because they require that tie and high
Hey hi
I was just thinking
I hadn't seen a video from you guys in forever
I do not wish to get started about lumpers. (I gave a lumped custom preprinted receipts to help him with companies. )
heather and jason could you show how you get your haircut and beard done..
Do your carb diet til u plateau. When u plateau look into carb cycling . U will eat some carbs one day less next and so on til u r down to almost zero and stay there for 10 days 2 weeks and then do over , but research it . Good luck . Love u guys Dude u r wasting away the little dogs r starting to look bigger next to u
Thank you Mark :) We’ll check that out.
I Löve the Craftys! Keep it Up You Guys
😊
I love your videos you guys are the best ❤❤
We love you Bonnie!! Thank you 😘❤️🥰
Just wait till you run into snow if you complain now try driving an 18 wheeler in snow
I’m sure it’s not fun! What’s funny is there are always those drivers flying by us in the bad weather 😳
Hope the two of you are doing well!
Thank you Tom! Hope you and your family are too ❤️
That a boy my man not about how fast you run finish is what’s important
Keto is different for everyone. Some need more protein, some can eat more carbs than others. Keep it up. Its worth it in the end
In order to keep your subscribers you all really need to talk more 🤣🤣🤣. Don't change for anyone. Do it the Crafty Truckers way . God Bless
😆 Thank you Roy!! 😊
@@TheCraftyTrucker You're welcome. Thank you
When I was driving lumpers would jump on the tractor and ride in to the docks with you . I was like they were stuck on !!!! At that time they were paid $50 to unload. I didn't like the lumpers ....... get off my damn truck !!!!!!!!
Oh yea no jumping on the truck!
I love all your content, no matter what it is.
💗 Thanks Teresa 💗 love ya!
Happy Birthday to Mother Crafty!🇺🇸
Thank you James! I’ll pass that along to her 😊
Happy birthday to Mama Crafty and how's the rescue kitty doing?
Thank you Allan! Mr Skully is doing great 🐈
No lumpers for flatbed. We don’t play that.
Someone thumbed down y'all's vid?? WTF they have 0 idea what we're doing!! With y'all!!!!😋👍
😜
Right! I take it personally when I get a thumbs down on my channel. Just unsubscribe lol.
Maybe he’s a lumper. 😂
You guys are turning into full time campers and part time truckers. Need to reverse that trend
Ha ha!! TheCraftyCampers 😉
@@TheCraftyTrucker Yeap you nailed it
Both of you love your dogs
Thank you Robert 😊🐶
You must be doing something right, you have a lot of followers. Keep up the good work
Thank you Tony!!
Waco Willy Meyers. You were in town during the drag races at Ennis, TX. Or were they in Houston? Oh well. Most of us don't care about a little bg noise.... I missed this one so catching up.... Does Landstar "Express America" still have vans? In a 1-ton van, I took Styrofoam meal containers to a grocery warehouse. I was supposed to pay, union lumpers to unload. Oh and wait two hrs. The foreman took mercy on me and allowed me and also taught me how to "correctly" load the 2 pallets. YIKES
Thanks Dean! They do still have vans
Y’all must be at Airport Park! We live 30 miles away. We have spent many weekends there.
We love Airport & speegleville parks 😃
Hey Heather and Jason. Heather I haven’t seen all the video but just wanted to say you look great! Congratulations on the weight loss.
Thank you 🥰
Welcome back.
Waco is getting a 800K sq. ft. Fulfillment Amazon Center. Basically at Bagby and Hiway 6.
Why can't truck drivers un-load their own trucks? Suppose someone un-loading gets hurt on their truck? Can they sue the owner/operator?
Not sure what all the stipulations are
@@TheCraftyTrucker Do you really want someone on your truck? And what if they damage the product while un-loading?
We’ve never had to deal with lumpers it’s mostly the tractor trailer folks who do.