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Highballin · **^ Top** #21 07.01.2008

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Originally Posted by Muleskinner

LOL...Been there,done that except you were meaner about it than me,you dumped the whole load......I'd pop my gate ,get a little run backwards and shag off a bit and re weigh.....I ran coal down to a factory that had it's own steam generator for awhile and this place was...how would you say this nicely,VERY affirmative action oriented I think would put it best.....Anyway,the drill was you would pull in there,the loader hand was supposed to be on stand by and out of the way and you stopped after you dumped at the office for a lady to sign your ticket..not supposed to be a big deal and in and out in 5 minutes(which is how they then dispatched you.A quick turn around)..The loader hand was to lazy to park away from the chute because he would have had to walk another 50 feet to get inside and jive around with his buddies, so I would end up walking 40 acres of steel looking for his worthless butt to get him to move the loader before I could dump....I did this three times a day everyday for awhile(I was the only driver taking care of this contract at the time) and 50% of the time he had me blocked....I pulled in there with a case of red ### about something else and there sat that bums loader right in the way.....I backed right up to it,dropped my bags and popped my gate and just completely covered the left wheels,tires and steps,pulled out,got my ticket signed and left.I figured to get a call any second to bring the truck in,but I went and got my second load and took it back.When I pulled in,loader dummy had a couple of dorks standing there watching him move that coal with a skid steer trying to dig his loader out and one was his boss(who I'd never seen).I started backing in and he shut me down and I figured here was where they would tell me my services were no longer needed....He said "Are you the one that buried my loader?" ...I said"Sure did and I'm fixin' to do it again,I've been telling that lazy butthole for a long time that it was his job to keep my way clear and I've walked my last step looking for him and that includes if you want me back here or not,either way I'm done looking for his shiftless ###"....He laughed real hard and said if I'd hang out for a few more minutes they would get the loader clear and I wouldn't have to worry about that dude anymore because he was going back on the line and the next guy would do better.And he did.I was shocked to say the least,that a company took a lowly drivers side against there company man.

I know a guy that unloaded a load of pipe in Joe D.Hughes yard He asked when they would unload him Smartmouth told him if he could do it better go ahead.Last time they told him that.

AfterShock · **^ Top** #22 07.01.2008

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Originally Posted by KapiPL

Hi,
I have a question. Are you often using this.. hmm i don't know how you say on that.. 10-4 etc. on CB? Because in Poland we have something like this, but no one use this. And some words.. when I'm reading you "stories from the road", sometimes i can't understand words.
Maybe these word's are not form "truckers" language, but I can't to find their translate from my dictionary:

Lumpers, hammer down, speedo, decked..

Maybe nex time more :P

You are doing a very good job, KapiPL.

Here are a few other words you might encounter ---------

Donkey or Wagon ---- the semi-trailer.
Pickle Park --- rest area/scales
Chicken coup --- Scale House (where they weigh Big trucks and issue citations for overweight)
Ground pressure --- How much the truck and load weigh.
Rocking chair --- When several Big trucks run as a convoy -- the driver in or near the middle of the pack is in the "rocking chair".
Toothpicks or Sticks --- A load of logs or lumber.
Parking lot -- either a Big truck hauling automobiles, or a main highway with heavy traffic.
Covered wagon -- a trailer with canvas, roll-up sides.
Refer trailer/unit --- trailers with the ability to stay cold or warm.
Long nose --- Big trucks with long hoods.
COE --- Cab Over Engine.
Wiggle wagons, pups, doubles/triples --- combinations of two or more semi-trailers of various length combinations.

I'm sure others will come up with more trucker slang for you.
Shux Howdy!
We'll have you speaking truckerknees in NO time.

Muleskinner · **^ Top** #23 07.01.2008

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Originally Posted by Highballin

I know a guy that unloaded a load of pipe in Joe D.Hughes yard He asked when they would unload him Smartmouth told him if he could do it better go ahead.Last time they told him that.

LOL...That's the way to do it.I've always been real quick to "school" a smartazz and have a low tolerance for somebody trying to lord over me when I'm in a bind of any kind.I was looking for work when I hooked on here is the way I look at it.No big deal to find another outfit hiring a GQ model like me.

JolliRoger · **^ Top** #24 07.04.2008

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Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

Heh, that's like when I used to run dumps and the foremen would overload the bed. I'd say something about the load being a little heavy and they would tell me that it was my problem. I would say "Oh, see this button here? It's my pto switch, and do you see this lever, that's the hoist."

They would say "Well, what's that got to do with anything?" I'd say "watch" and boom, the load was back on the ground. They didn't over load me again

Nothing like having easy saleable load or one they really need to cool the temper of the union dock boss. Two phrases:
You want it, grab it and growl .
It pays me the same going back as coming here.

Drop down off dock and start unhooking the trailer door hold backs or snapping a binder back on. (Lets you get the cheater pipe in your hand).
Music changes tone and action picks up. People who wanted me gone always seemed to workl faster.

JolliRoger · **^ Top** #25 07.04.2008

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Originally Posted by AfterShock

Decking: When a trailer is divided (decked) with a lower and upper floor --- usually constructed with cross bars and plywood sheets.

It can be broken down to reconfigure the different load requirements.
I used to load motorcycles that way.
About 20 --- 25 bikes on the floor and 20 or so more on the top "deck".

And,....................
WELCOME to The Truckers' Report, KapiPL!

After Shock;
Note the different deck material used in a livestock trailer. 2"thick by 10"-12" wide, trailer width length, sawmill run green oak boards. Haul cattle north with the decking stacked in the nose and a cut gate to head up the front end. Drop the cattle in an IL feedlot and cut across to E. St.Louis to load hogs. Wade up to the front, carry all the boards to the back. One side of the deck rail is slotted on top at the rear. Stick a board in the channel right side. drop in in the slot and push it 34 feet up to front. Repeat as needed to floor it or you give out. In a Buffalo, NY stockyard in 1957, at 28 degrees, it took two of us and a 5th of JD to deck out a trailer. Set the bottle on the 1st board in as incentive to bring on the rest. Move the bottle down within reach each board added.

"Bullhaulers are really gentle people, their passengers require it."

Muleskinner · **^ Top** #26 07.04.2008

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Originally Posted by JolliRoger

"Bullhaulers are really gentle people, their passengers require it."

AMEN to that brutha'.....All the greenhorns always see the 85 mph runs and think bullhaulers are ruffians and don't even think about how long we took to get up to that speed to keep from putting stress on the cows or how far we are away from an off ramp when we start slowing down etc... etc.

Lurchgs · **^ Top** #27 07.05.2008

DOT does seem to hire from.. um.. not the pick of the crop, shall we say? Coming into CA from OR the other day, running to Oakland to pick up a load, I had to hit the station on I-5.

Guy who should know better looks up at me and asks "northbound or southbound, and whatcher carrying?"

Can you get to that scale from the northbound side?

And when I told him "southbound, empty" he had me repeat it three times.

Finally, I said "We're coming FROM Oregon, TO California with NOTHING in the trailer"

For half a second, I thought he was gonna ask me again.

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KapiPL - just in case they weren't clear - Lizzard, Lot Lizzard, et al, refer to prostitutes - and generally not the most.. um.. appealing women, either. At least, the ones I've seen are the kind I'd leave town to avoid.

AfterShock · **^ Top** #28 07.05.2008

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Originally Posted by Lurchgs

DOT does seem to hire from.. um.. not the pick of the crop, shall we say? Coming into CA from OR the other day, running to Oakland to pick up a load, I had to hit the station on I-5.

Guy who should know better looks up at me and asks "northbound or southbound, and whatcher carrying?"

Can you get to that scale from the northbound side?

And when I told him "southbound, empty" he had me repeat it three times.

Finally, I said "We're coming FROM Oregon, TO California with NOTHING in the trailer"

For half a second, I thought he was gonna ask me again.

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KapiPL - just in case they weren't clear - Lizzard, Lot Lizzard, et al, refer to prostitutes - and generally not the most.. um.. appealing women, either. At least, the ones I've seen are the kind I'd leave town to avoid.

I had a scalemaster in K-Falls, Oregon ask me if I could
"levitate" ---- and he sounded serious.

He wanted to know why my log book showed me enter the "sleeper berth" in Ripon, California, and how, if so, could I now be on "his" scale in K-Falls.

How is that possible, driver?
Can you levitate?

I explained that the trip from Ripon to "his" scale in K-Falls was driven by my co-driver, who was now sleeping in the bunk --- after changing drivers about 30 minutes ago, as indicated in my log book, farther down the line.

I don't know if he was more disappointed that his questions made him look the fool,
or that I couldn't levitate.
Heaven knows I tried.

------ as a farmer with a straight truck and a water tank chained to the flatbed entered "his" scale from the wrong direction for a re-weigh, as another Big truck came uphill entering the scale from the correct direction.

They almost met.

I wonder if he asked them if they could levitate?
I know "his" buttox did --- right outta that reclining office chair --- yellin'
STOP!
STOP!

It's twue!
It's twue!

Lurchgs · **^ Top** #29 07.05.2008

y'know - you just reminded me of a little exercise I tried the other day..

Was sitting waiting to be unloaded in Medford, Or.. had the super duper trucker atlas out, plotting my demise... er route to Oakland pickup.. and it struck me.. there's a LOT of red dots on the Oregon map.

I was bored.

I counted them.

Then I counted the red dots in Kalifornia.

Kalifornia has 42 or so weigh stations

Oregon - a much smaller state, in all respects - has 72

I'm not entirely sure what this says about Oregon.. but it's not good

AfterShock · **^ Top** #30 07.05.2008

Back in the day, when I wore the clothes of a younger newBee, a scale in Colorado asked me how much my empty weight was/is.

HuH!
I didn't know, ..... so my co-driver yelled the first number that came to his head, and it was waayyy off.

The scalemaster barked back over the PA,
WhAT?!
More like ____________ and he was right I learned later.
But I couldn't help but wonder why he even asked if he already knew?

Along those same lines, ----- after being detained for almost 20 hours by a shipper, --- when I finally got a door, they announced that I, Shakey AfterShock, would be required to physically count each piece of product loaded in my trailer.
And they figured the loading wouldn't take more than 5 hours --- 6 hours tops.

I informed them I wasn't about to do their counting for them, and retired to my Big truck.

When the loading was complete, and I was in the office for the paperwork, I was asked what count I got.
Hmmmmmmmmm

I didn't have ANY idea, so I blurted out the first number that came to my head.

Oh --- No driver.
That count is waayyy off.
The computer says __________
We'll just go with that number.

SaY WHaT?!
If they arent' gonna believe the driver,
why require them to count in the FIRST place?

Although, after they had talked to my irate dispatcher, I can well understand WHY that place was anxious to be shed of me.

BTW --- for the most part I liked Oregon scales.
Especially the ones that you could use after hours by peeking through the window and
reading the scale.
I thought that was pretty cool.

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