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sarge26044 · **^ Top** #**111** 09.19.2009

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Originally Posted by Redcoat wife

No pics of the motor. There isn't much to see anyway. I have a 2007 Winnebago Tour motor home. There is a pic of it in my photo album. It is a 40-foot diesel pusher. When you open the engine compartment in the back, you don't see much. Just the place to check and fill the oil, coolant, and a little indicator for the air filter. You can see the air filter canister on the left side but you have to get to it from underneath. RC says it's easy to get to. As I understand it, if major engine work needs to be done, the mechanics remove the bedroom mattress and the board it sits on to get to the engine from that direction. Otherwise you work from the bottom.

Latest update.

Redcoat spent the night at the consignee. Oh yeah, I found out that he picked up the load of channel in Cayce, SC. When he arrived, he went ahead and removed all the chains and then tossed the tarps back over the load and held them in place with just a few bungees. It looked a mess but it gave him a head start for the morning.

pre untarping....COOL!!

He is learning as he goes. He knows there is a certain way to fold the canvas tarps but he kind of rushed through it last night and they weren't exactly right. The consequences of this is that if they aren't folded just so, it's difficult to put them into the storage box. He managed to get them in and the door closed but now he knows that next time he needs to make sure the job is done neatly to make it easier to get them into the box.

canvas tarps-- unfold to flat. left edge to center right edge to center left edge to center right edge to center then one flap over the other and roll and stow

Redcoat is always very self-critical of his backing skills so he was proud of himself this morning that he got a perfect 45-degree angle to the shed on the first try. Then they opened the doors and he had to back straight into the shed so that took away the enjoyment of his great backing job as now he had to back the rest of the way into the shed and that took him a couple of tries.

Backing is all in the set up. If your not set up properly you have to try to correct your line to get into a proper set up for the backing. If you have the time to do it "walk the course". get out of the truck and actually look at what kind of line you are going to have to take to get into the dock or bay checking for wheelchocks left in a darkened bay that could tear your mudflap off if you run over it. 10 pullups with 5 get out and looks is better than one accident macro which is what he'd have to send in should he damage the tractor or trailer

There were a couple other Mav drivers there. One had been with the company 17 years and the other 14 years. They told RC that he would probably get shingles and that it would be an all-day affair and good luck on getting home this weekend.

combined total of 31 years of experience and RC folded his canvas tarps alone?!? SHOCKING!! Did they stand there talking with each other or tell RC about the ol' days when everyone helped each other? Then try to put a negative spin on RCs next load and getting home?!? Bravo guys, Bravo.

They were right. RC got his dispatch to pick up a load of shingles in Frederick, MD and take them to Hickory Hills, IL for delivery on Monday. The good news is he can drop off the tire with the nail in it at the yard in Gary. The other drivers told him to make sure the shipper doesn't load him full up because of the extra weight of the tire. He also thinks that maybe this load won't have to be tarped so that will be nice.

Ok, they got the shingle part right. lol Out of Frederick, he will probably leave out with about 50K of shingles. I was there Thursday, 50246 lbs of shingles for me. Work assignment said no tarp. BOL said tarp. Quick shrinkwrap tarp job and off to Wayne, Mi with em

Stay tuned.

pre untarping....COOL!!
canvas tarps-- unfold to flat. left edge to center right edge to center left edge to center right edge to center then one flap over the other and roll and stow
Backing is all in the set up. If your not set up properly you have to try to correct your line to get into a proper set up for the backing. If you have the time to do it "walk the course". get out of the truck and actually look at what kind of line you are going to have to take to get into the dock or bay checking for wheelchocks left in a darkened bay that could tear your mudflap off if you run over it. 10 pullups with 5 get out and looks is better than one accident macro which is what he'd have to send in should he damage the tractor or trailer
combined total of 31 years of experience and RC folded his canvas tarps alone?!? SHOCKING!! Did they stand there talking with each other or tell RC about the ol' days when everyone helped each other? Then try to put a negative spin on RCs next load and getting home?!? Bravo guys, Bravo

Ok, they got the shingle part right. lol Out of Frederick, he will probably leave out with about 50K of shingles. I was there Thursday, 50246 lbs of shingles for me. Work assignment said no tarp. BOL said tarp. Quick shrinkwrap tarp job and off to Wayne, Mi with em

sarge26044 · **^ Top** #**112** 09.19.2009

RC Wife. i apologize but my comments suggestions are mixed in with your quote. For others reading this post. I copy and pasted my comments/suggestions at the bottom.

sarge26044 · **^ Top** #**113** 09.19.2009

My wife's $.02 worth-- She says i have to be careful on what i say about other drivers out there and she's correct, to a point. I was not trying to offend anyone with my comments about the drivers 31 years of combined experience and good ol'days comment but whom else out there is tired of hearing about them? All I'm trying to say is why not bring the good ol' days back? Help each other out there during the week even if the person didn't help you. Help them even if their truck or skin is a different color. TEAMWURK. . .Are U a part of it?

I commend any and all drivers out there that have so many years of experience in this profession and thank them for their service. I enjoy hearing their stories of how things used to be. What irks me is how set in their ways some drivers are. Refusal to change for the better or not helping someone because they werent helped.

As i've said before, i try to keep my glass half full and for the most part succeed at maintaining a positive attitude. Sometimes though my water evaporates from my glass from being surrounded by so much negativity

Redcoat wife · **^ Top** #**114** 09.20.2009

Sarge thanks for the comments. Actually I got the experience years wrong. The one had 14 and the other had 7 not 17. But still 21 years experience nonetheless.

Redcoat knows he has a ways to go to get proficient working with the tarps. He knew how to fold the canvas tarp and told me how it was done exactly just as you described. He had just done a sloppy job with it and didn't bother to go back and do it right. Now he knows not to do that again and to make sure he gets it right the first time.

He told me that in the time it took him to get weighed, find out that he was over weight (because of the tire he was carrying), fix the problem with the tire, get re-weighed, and then tarp, one of the other drivers had gotten there, got loaded, weighed, tarped, and left by the time he was halfway done tarping.

It was kind of funny about the tire. His dispatcher asked him if anybody else was there who could take the tire and RC said a couple other drivers were there. So his dispatcher told him to go see if either of them would take it and they said no. I kind of don't blame them. I wouldn't want to screw with it either but they each were under their max and RC needed to shed a couple hundred pounds. So his dispatcher told him to hang on for a minute and about ten minutes later here comes the forklift to get the tire from RC's trailer and put it on one of the other guys' trailer. That put him just under his max so he could get busy tarping and get going.

Problem solved.

Today Redcoat is at the yard in Gary because he doesn't have to deliver until Monday morning in Hickory Hills, IL. His dispatcher called him and told him he tried to get a swap for him so he could get home. Said he felt bad he couldn't get it done. RC told him not to lose sleep over it. Figures he contributed to the problem by not getting to one of the consignee's on time earlier in the week. I forget which one it was (whoever he was supposed to go to when he got stuck with the nail in the tire) but it had something to do with RC giving an ETA of around 1500 and the QC came back with a new delivery time of 0830 the next morning. So RC took his time getting there to make the new delivery time. In hindsight, he found out that if he'd have kept going he would have been able to deliver the load the afternoon before and he wouldn't have lost a day. True...maybe. I pointed out that if he HAD made that afternoon delivery, then it would have put him out of synch with the a.m. delivery/deadhead/p.m. load kind of schedule Maverick likes to run.

So today RC is toodling around Gary with a couple other guys doing Walmart/Radio Shack runs. I pointed out to him that isn't it so nice that Maverick has a company car that the drivers can use to run errands, get supplies and what-have-you. It's the little things like that that make life easier for these guys to take care of things while on the road. When he was with Covenant, if you ended up in the yard at Hutchins or French Camp, or Pomona, you were pretty much stuck there with no way to go anywhere until you could get out. Typical of Covenant's "sucks to be you" attitude toward their drivers.

Rocks · **^ Top** #**115** 09.20.2009

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Originally Posted by Redcoat wife

When he was with Covenant, if you ended up in the yard at Hutchins or French Camp, or Pomona, you were pretty much stuck there with no way to go anywhere until you could get out. Typical of Covenant's "sucks to be you" attitude toward their drivers.

Don't know about Pomona or French Camp but at Hutchins, TX and Chattanooga, TN, if a Covenant driver needs to go somewhere, he/she can ask shuttle van drivers to give them a ride.

sarge26044 · **^ Top** #**116** 09.20.2009

Between bottles, burping and diaper changes i said wrapping of the bundles of unblocked channel iron was to prevent side-to-side movement of the bundles whereas it is to prevent the forward movement of the bundles since you cannot wrap the bundles together. Thanks to sewerman for his call on this.

sarge26044 · **^ Top** #**117** 09.20.2009

yeah hauling around a tire until you get to a yard to drop it off can be bothersome. I once had a nail in one of the supersingle drive tires when i was getting loaded with a load of lumber that overhung both the front and rear of the trailer. I contacted Maverick and they said they could send someone for the tire& Maverick had the tire repair truck take it with them. As with any purchase of a tire i'm sure they have road hazard insurance on them when they purchase them and thats why we have to take them with us.

Allow Me. · **^ Top** #**118** 09.20.2009

RC Wife, I hate to harp on this, but, if hubby would verify delivery times with the consignee directly, he would be much better off. He could have delivered the load that afternoon, gotten a meal/shower/good nights sleep and been ready for the new day.

notarps4me · **^ Top** #**119** 09.20.2009

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Originally Posted by Allow Me.

RC Wife, I hate to harp on this, but, if hubby would verify delivery times with the consignee directly, he would be much better off. He could have delivered the load that afternoon, gotten a meal/shower/good nights sleep and been ready for the new day.

A lot of the accounts mav does not want you to contact the cons. A lot of the cons get a lot of calls from drivers and they like to give the csr the details rather than the driver.

bamanation · **^ Top** #**120** 09.20.2009

I side with AllowMe on this one. I always call and see if I can unload early. Helps out with that eleven hour driving thing, if you can.

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