I worked in the container business for 20 years. They are the most childish and entitled group I’ve ever dealt with. West coast will most likely do work “slowdowns” to show solidarity with the east coast. These guys will actually tell us that they are doing it. I had a driver get mouthy with one of the teamsters while putting a container on a chassis so the teamster put the container on backwards and told him to go to the back of the 2 hour line to get it fixed. He told the driver that they run the show and will make life miserable for him if he opens his mouth one more time. It was kinda funny but at the same time they don’t care about the businesses. Just how much they’re gonna get paid and how little they have to work.
We had to pick up 20 containers on an off day. Our customer had to pay for a full crew for the whole day to let them to come in. Took about 45 minutes. Shows that they can work when it suits them.
