"New Wave Dave" wrote in message
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"Steve B" wrote in message
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"New Wave Dave" wrote

Is it a Teamster thing?
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"New Wave" Dave In Houston

You got a problem with Teamsters?

Only that I'd like to know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. (KIDDING,
Steve!)

Having spent 25 years with the [now defunct] Suffering Pacific Railroad
as a dues paying member of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, Steamship
Clerks I am certainly aware that if it weren't for unions most people
today would not make the scale they do. And, I paid my dues all the years
I was a middle management officer. So, in a general sense. I am
pro-union.
Back to my original post, the liftgate charge just caught me off guard.
The order was FREIGHT PREPAID and that additional (and surprising) $57
came directly off the already slim bottom line for the job. I also know
how freight tariffs work having spent more than a couple of my railroad
years as a rate clerk.
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"New Wave" Dave In Houston


You know, it's funny how a $20 tip can get a driver NOT to charge a $57
liftgate charge and write: Unloaded by customer's forklift. But hey, that
would be bribery/extortion according to some people who don't understand
simple math.

Steve