The word “detention” may remind you of your years in school. If I say “detention” does it remind you of the movie “The Breakfast Club” where a group of crazy teens were sentenced to detention together?
When it comes to truck drivers, detention is something completely different. And truck drivers hate detention as much if not more than students do. In the transportation industry, detention is the time that a truck driver spends waiting around for the trailer to be loaded or unloaded.
Grocer Food Lion offered truckers a solution to detention issues that were being experienced at its yard adjacent to the Food Lion’s Distribution Center. For $30.00 per trailer, Food Lion allowed suppliers to drop their trailers in its yard. Food Lion agreed to move the trailer up to the dock when that trailer’s turn arrived. That freed up the drivers to continue down the road.
Trucking company Bonded Carriers took Food Lion up on its offer and dropped a trailer at the Distribution Center two days early. When Food Lion got around to unloading the Bonded Carrier trailer, the cargo was gone.
