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
Maverick .... from a wife's perspective
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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.The Challenger Thanks this. -
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