Front Row Produce — Local services in Overland

Dispatch sent me to another facility on 9th on a sunday...they said you're at wrong place and need to go to this facility...They are closed sundays. So I really don't know when I should've been there. Set my alarm for 4am, I was only truck there. Get up at 4 with 5 more trucks waiting. They had 1 open dock and 1 trucker in sleeper that made it very hard to get into.Didn't put 1st truck in dock till 430, he had a hell of a time getting in. I'm dreading this. He moves out and second guy trying to get in.... they decided to wake the other driver up. They were slow getting started, but I was very impressed. I was the 4th truck in the dock, and everyone had full trailers- They brought my paperwork out at 620 and I was empty. Only took 20 min after I hit the dock. Super fast and polite. Docking isn't to tight if nobody is parked where they shouldn't be. The one truck that was could've been pulled up 30' and wouldn't have been in the way....he had plenty of room; think b4...

I have known the founder/owner of Front Row, Tony Puppillo, for over 30 years personally as I started doing business with Tony when I was a broker and dispatcher and Tony was buying and selling onions and potatoes at the Market. Since I started driving again, which has been for several years, I have been delivering different types of produce from the Northwest and now from The Rio Grande Valley, and I watched him grow Front Row from their small building, which they added on to a few times, just up the street from the Market, to the location they are in now. I like hauling for Front Row and working with the people that work there. They are a fixture in St Louis and will continue to for a long...

Good place to deliver I would say. Got here tonight before and lined up on a dock. The next day was the Saturday of Labor Day weekend so I didn't know what to expect on when they would be there, but I figured if a produce place was open it would be fairly early even with the holiday. Around 6:00 a guy came out to see what I had, took my paperwork and said the floor was full and he would get back to me when they were ready to unload. I think it took them about an hour and a half or so before he had me open up and bump dock. Then it was a quick unload and he brought my paperwork out, place to park and quick unload, doesn't get much better...