I think I'm having the best two weeks ever!

Yea,,,we were on a dedicated account and not 3M employees,,,guess he thought he could bully us into running the load. They also had to reheat the load since it had cooled off below minimums, our trucks dint have on board heat loops.

 

Yeah, I was just 30 min late to a delivery because they didn't put hoses on the preloaded trailer. Had to go to the nearest terminal and search for a clean hose. Sometimes there's a stack of clean hoses, sometimes you gotta steal one off another trailer and hope it's clean. I don't mind the hours though because the job is easy.

-Oh, and the customer had their own hoses, so I was late for nothing.

 

I've got all the fittings, but we have to keep the hoses out of sight on the trailers. Sometimes the loading plant seals the hose storage, so I can't be sure if there's even the right hoses in there.

Lucky. The plants make me do everything most of the time, & I always seem to have to back into the smallest spaces. It's good exercise, I guess.

 

They refused to put hose racks on the trucks, so the only thing we had was trailer tubes. My last run There was the water treatment plant in Golden, Co. Just looking at the oogle map of and not seeing tanks and the very limited space(which was backing up to a builing through an angled parking lot.)told me that it's an indoor tank with a fitting in the out side of the building.

The customer deliver sheet says 20' of hose.
Problem being the trailer they gave me was a bottom unload, not a rear, so add another 20' of hose. But wait! The sheet also says it's a air off AND a pump off. ?! Which one is it? It 4am and I can't call the customer, so add another 40' to run from the tank to the truck pump.

I go pretrial the trailer and not one hose in it, and every hose, in every othertrailer in the yardhas been used and still have product in them. Go over to the wash rack and no fewer than 24 dirty hoses lying on the ground with an operator playing on his phone, sitting in a chair 20 feet away. I wash 4, and take them. Took an hour for just that. Multilply that by every single run I left the terminal with.


There was a funny story about another driver leaving the terminal and parking by the office to run in and use the potty real quick. Trucks running with lights and flashers on. He comes out and somebody stole all of his hoses.

 

It's a pump off with air assist.
I've done quite a few when I was at QC.
Been to man water treatment plants and that product
Polymer is very thick

 

I thought about getting locks for the trailer tubes so they'll be safe at truck stops, but I guess I'll need them for the terminals.