Skilled Lumper Crews. Same-Day Service.

Unloading a trailer sounds simple. In practice, it's a coordinated operation — verify seal integrity, count pallets against the BOL, inspect for damage, and move product cleanly off the trailer without breaking pallets or dropping freight. Our lumpers do it every day.

For dry van trailers, that means efficient forklift work moving palletized product from trailer to floor or trailer to receiving. For reefer trailers, it means minimizing temperature exposure by keeping doors closed except during active unloading. Either way, the work is done fast and it's done right.

Not every trailer arrives at a receiver's dock in the pallet configuration the receiver needs. Some DCs require specific pallet heights, some require mixed pallets for store-level distribution, and some require product to be broken down and rebuilt against a pick list. Re-palletizing is skilled work, and it's a core lumper capability.

Our crews handle re-palletizing at our Rochester facility, working through pallets systematically to match the receiver's specification. When product needs to reach a DC in a specific format, we build that format before the trailer leaves our dock.

Ocean containers arrive tightly packed and require careful unloading to protect product and to work efficiently against the container's floor. Lakeville lumpers unload containers at our facility routinely, transferring product to pallets, staging for warehouse put-away, or reloading onto outbound trailers as the freight profile requires.

Because we can pair container unloading with immediate warehouse or cross-dock handling, importers get a one-stop hand-off between ocean freight and domestic distribution.

Load transfers happen for a lot of reasons — equipment failure, driver hours-of-service constraints, a change in destination, or a decision to consolidate freight from multiple trailers into fewer outbound units. Whatever the reason, the transfer needs to be clean, documented, and fast.

Our lumpers manage trailer-to-trailer transfers at our facility with the same discipline we apply to trailer unloading. Pallets move, counts are verified, and any damage is noted before product leaves the dock. That documentation trail matters when the freight reaches the next receiver.

Beyond our own facility, Lakeville lumpers support warehouse and distribution operations in the Rochester area when the work volume calls for it. Peak seasons, inbound waves, promotional pushes — anything that overloads a receiver's own dock crew can be supplemented by our team.

Same-day availability and experienced operators mean the extra hands are actually additive, not a training burden. When you need help now, our crews show up ready to work.