Survey finds drivers shortchanged by slow dock waiting game

PORTLAND, OR — Drivers have long been shortchanged and frustrated by shippers with slow dock operations, but a new U.S. survey has taken a closer look at the problem by detailing just how long drivers hurry up and wait.

In the survey by DAT Solutions, both brokers and carriers defined detention as holding a driver and truck at the dock for more than two hours while loading or unloading. The survey found that nearly 63% of commercial truck drivers spend more than three hours at a shipper’s dock waiting for their vehicle to be loaded and unloaded.

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