I find it mildly annoying but not too terrible to have to unload a truck by myself. That is, until I have to find a way to move super heavy, bulky items (like lawn tractors in crates!) out by myself. Items that require at least two people to move out of the trailer.
I did that today and almost killed myself. The crates that the lawn tractors are on crates.that don't facilitate the use of a pallet jack, forklift, etc. without putting yourself in a precarious situation and leveraging a corner of it with a hand truck with one hand and sliding a pallet jack under it with the other, because they lack sufficient spacing to slide one under. Or, the distribution center loads the truck in a fashion that such items have to be rotated just to be able to forklift it out.
I almost fell on the blade of the hand truck just by trying to remove the tractor out of the truck by leveraging it. After about 20 minutes, I get it out unscathed. There were four more to go.
Anyways, hours have gone south and so that leaves a lack of coverage to safely complete the job. There is so much pressure to unload everything off of the truck by a certain time--usually about an hour--and it doesn't matter if there is help or not.
How many backroom associates are finding themselves alone to unload a truck?