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highirish · **^ Top** #61 07.27.2007

Gotta say Tamko in Fredrick, MD. Place is notorius for an all day sit and wait...

2mega · **^ Top** #62 07.27.2007

....I drove for "A Leader in Specialized Hauling" (Haz Waste....different than Haz-Mat.)

I waited four days for a Radio-Active load to cool down...safe enough to transport....Connecticut Yankee....North Connecticut.

Wife riding with me at the time....put up in a nice Motel....had to be at the site in case I had to go inside to move trailer....0800/1700 hrs....then on our own 'til next morn.

Visited a nearby 'Old Opera House'....and totally rested for the next grind....the wife rode with me at various times over the 17 yrs. I spent over the road....Connecticut was one of her most pleasant experiences.....Bourbon St in New Orleans one of our worst !!

Fozzy in Oklahoma · **^ Top** #63 07.30.2007

Eh.. About the longest unload I ever had was in Sterling IL. The guy got my tank opened up, hooked up and cracked the valves and then checked the levels... I sat there from early in the AM, all day and then all night getting paid, getting paid to sleep is really great!

Mr_Dude · **^ Top** #64 10.01.2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burky

It's faster to forklift a load on a van that it is to pump it off with a blower. Though, I know of two dogfood plants that allow unlimited pressure for offloads, and in those places, I can kick 50,000 pounds of flour off in 30 minutes. that means that I am pushing about 1650 pound of flour through a 4 inch diameter pipe every minute. That's almost a full pallet worth, and you have to make darn sure there aren;t any leaks!!!

The World's biggest Flour PWOOF!!!!!!!!

Mr_Dude · **^ Top** #65 10.01.2007

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Originally Posted by chrisp

3 Days for a drop n hook at National beef in Liberal, KS

Really?

My Stepfather was a Reefer Mechanic for National Carriers and he lived in Liberal and worked at Nasty Beef.

Mr_Dude · **^ Top** #66 10.01.2007

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Originally Posted by 9ball

my longest live load ever was a 9 hour one at some place in the chicago area over off of 47-- some grocery place.
at least they let me park there because my hours ran out setting there.

I'm thinkin that's Jewel's off of 47th street.

didntitellu · **^ Top** #67 10.01.2007

I am still new, but I have already had one of those long loads. Lumberton NC, Graphics International. They package chicken for Kraft foods. Appt was 6 PM I arrived and checked in at 5 PM. Got the knock on the door at 8:15 AM the next day. To top it off the load was only going to Dover DE. We were given 26 hours to get there, and it dropped on the day my home time began. So I was to get from Lumberton NC to Dover DE to Akron OH that day. Now after sitting in Baltimore traffic for hours the load was actually late. 26 hours scheduled to go 400ish miles and it was late?? From there I had to grab a relay load in PA so I could finally make it home.....the next day.

Thanks Kraft!

cc194217 · **^ Top** #68 10.08.2007

Never, never, never go by the appt time. you will get there, drop your empty... so far so good.. then you will park with the other bobtailers... and sit and sit and sit.... the paperwork is not brought out till 7-8pm each day to the guard shack. then it is a mess watching 23+ trucks racing to their trailers that were across from them all day. usually the load you get has to be in PA or Ohio the next day by 7am... of course it is a hot load.. but nobody has done anything about the office bringing the paperwork out all at one time at night..

TruckingBum · **^ Top** #69 10.08.2007

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Originally Posted by notarps4me

Pepsi can be pretty ate up too. Everytime I got one of their loads they always took forever to load. Would put to many pallets on, or put the wrong load on the trailer. I know some of their local drivers and they say thay are always messing something up.

My longest wait ever was a load of mty bottles going to one
years and years ago
got there for a FRI afternoon apt were working on it theyr getting the line switched over all kinds of exucses pulled the trailer out of the dock with the warm bottles monday at 1 am Their delay only shut the line down at pepsi for a few hours.
The delay wouldnt of been so bad if they had just been honest and said hey were not gunna have this #### ready for 2 days but when its ready its hot.

coastie · **^ Top** #70 10.10.2007

Well for now if I am at a long time getting unloaded it my own fault. I unload my self. Normally takes me 15 to 45 minutes pending how many pieces. Takes as much time to get my crane turned around as it does to get the pieces off.

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