Big_Dave
November 5th, 2005, 03:02
Note: My truck and reefer were fueled up before I took off from the yard.
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Last Friday:
Load eggs in Harris IA (334,800 of them! :yikes: ). They took the pallets outta the front of my trailer, so I was loaded heavy in the nose. 1,200 lbs. over in fact. :wtf: Dipstick shipper sent the loaders home before finding out if my weight was ok. :angry: I played the 'dump 50 gallons in the tanks' here and there all the way to Cali. :angry:
Monday:
Deliver in Alhambra CA. Only 1 guy unloading and he's like 60 years old. :wtf: Since he was the only guy there and the shipper loaded 5 skids of eggs on the floor (to fill in between the pallets and the trailer walls), I helped him stack them on pallets. No big deal, in and out in 90 minutes once I got a door. Was there for 4 hours total. He wrote "Driver assist unload" on the B/L and I wrote him out a receipt that he signed also. :cool:
Monday afternoon:
Start reloading in Bakersfield CA. Supposed to get 6 pallets of carrots. Turned out to be 8. :wtf: Took them idiots 5 hours to load 8 skids. Of course lunch time came when they had 7 skids on. Think they'd throw the 8th one on before the shift lunch break? I'll give ya 2 guesses and the first one don't count. :wtf: Left there after loading and went 5 miles down to Lamont CA. At check-in, I asked how long it'd be before I got a door (I was pushing 13 hours by this time). The girl told me "6-7 hours" :wtf: I told her that I was gonna take a nap. She told me to turn my CB to Ch. 3. I says, "My CB don't work". :D She says, "Gimme your cell phone number and I'll call you." I says, "I'll never hear it, come out and knock on the truck." :D :p
Tuesday morning:
13 hours after checking in, I hear a knock on my truck. :wow: :wtf: They loaded 7 pallets quick! I was in and outta the place within 20 minutes once I got in the dock. :cool: Sure doesn't compensate for taking 13 hours to get my azz outta there though. :vmad: I did get a good night sleep though. ;)
Tuesday afternoon:
Got 1 pallet to grab up near Madera CA. After talking to the shipper (a Chinese guy that spoke no decipherable english :wtf: ), I concluded that his name was 'Sum Ting Wong'. :p :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I finally got to talk to a Mexican girl that spoke limited english with a very heavy spanish accent. My name for her is 'Wrong Way', because she don't know her right from left. Yeah, she got me lost. :wtf: I finally found the place and got that 1 pallet on. My next partial of 3 skids cancelled because it wouldn't be ready until the 3rd (this was Nov. 1st). Spent the night in Bakersfield.
Wednesday morning:
Had breakfast with ATCO at the Crooked Hook, then headed for Payson UT for my last pick-up. 655 miles later (I stopped 1 time to pee and that's it!), I get there 1 hour after they closed for the day. Dispatch and the broker weren't banking on the fact that I'd make it there before they closed because 1/3 of the distance was in CA, so no big deal.
Thursday morning:
Grabbed the 1 pallet, fueled truck and reefer and was down the road within an hour of starting my day. Made Rapid City SD right at 11 hours of road time. :cool:
Friday morning:
Left Rapid City SD and made it to Minneapolis at 3:30 pm. All 19 pallets are going to the same place. :cool: Normally the place closes for receiving at 2 pm, but they wanted the stuff, so they took me when I got there. In and out in an hour. :cool:
That was my week draggin' a reefer. How was yours?
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Last Friday:
Load eggs in Harris IA (334,800 of them! :yikes: ). They took the pallets outta the front of my trailer, so I was loaded heavy in the nose. 1,200 lbs. over in fact. :wtf: Dipstick shipper sent the loaders home before finding out if my weight was ok. :angry: I played the 'dump 50 gallons in the tanks' here and there all the way to Cali. :angry:
Monday:
Deliver in Alhambra CA. Only 1 guy unloading and he's like 60 years old. :wtf: Since he was the only guy there and the shipper loaded 5 skids of eggs on the floor (to fill in between the pallets and the trailer walls), I helped him stack them on pallets. No big deal, in and out in 90 minutes once I got a door. Was there for 4 hours total. He wrote "Driver assist unload" on the B/L and I wrote him out a receipt that he signed also. :cool:
Monday afternoon:
Start reloading in Bakersfield CA. Supposed to get 6 pallets of carrots. Turned out to be 8. :wtf: Took them idiots 5 hours to load 8 skids. Of course lunch time came when they had 7 skids on. Think they'd throw the 8th one on before the shift lunch break? I'll give ya 2 guesses and the first one don't count. :wtf: Left there after loading and went 5 miles down to Lamont CA. At check-in, I asked how long it'd be before I got a door (I was pushing 13 hours by this time). The girl told me "6-7 hours" :wtf: I told her that I was gonna take a nap. She told me to turn my CB to Ch. 3. I says, "My CB don't work". :D She says, "Gimme your cell phone number and I'll call you." I says, "I'll never hear it, come out and knock on the truck." :D :p
Tuesday morning:
13 hours after checking in, I hear a knock on my truck. :wow: :wtf: They loaded 7 pallets quick! I was in and outta the place within 20 minutes once I got in the dock. :cool: Sure doesn't compensate for taking 13 hours to get my azz outta there though. :vmad: I did get a good night sleep though. ;)
Tuesday afternoon:
Got 1 pallet to grab up near Madera CA. After talking to the shipper (a Chinese guy that spoke no decipherable english :wtf: ), I concluded that his name was 'Sum Ting Wong'. :p :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I finally got to talk to a Mexican girl that spoke limited english with a very heavy spanish accent. My name for her is 'Wrong Way', because she don't know her right from left. Yeah, she got me lost. :wtf: I finally found the place and got that 1 pallet on. My next partial of 3 skids cancelled because it wouldn't be ready until the 3rd (this was Nov. 1st). Spent the night in Bakersfield.
Wednesday morning:
Had breakfast with ATCO at the Crooked Hook, then headed for Payson UT for my last pick-up. 655 miles later (I stopped 1 time to pee and that's it!), I get there 1 hour after they closed for the day. Dispatch and the broker weren't banking on the fact that I'd make it there before they closed because 1/3 of the distance was in CA, so no big deal.
Thursday morning:
Grabbed the 1 pallet, fueled truck and reefer and was down the road within an hour of starting my day. Made Rapid City SD right at 11 hours of road time. :cool:
Friday morning:
Left Rapid City SD and made it to Minneapolis at 3:30 pm. All 19 pallets are going to the same place. :cool: Normally the place closes for receiving at 2 pm, but they wanted the stuff, so they took me when I got there. In and out in an hour. :cool:
That was my week draggin' a reefer. How was yours?