Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Dropped in Porterville, and they had 1 empty. But to my surprise, it was spotless inside, that's right, and empty trailer at a Walmart DC that doesn't have 2 Walmart bags of crushed pallet pieces. Grabbed it and rolled down to the T/A just north of the Grapevine. This trailer has a bad outside tire, kinda a flatspot, by going diagonal, and the one on the inside is fine. Will get it taken care of around dawn, then roll 20 miles north to pick up produce going to Woodburn, OR for Friday morning.

I am so glad I don't own a truck. I stopped at the Love's in Boron, CA for a shower and to top off the reefer since I was dropping it. Diesel was $6.65/gal cash pump price.

 

Coulda been worse. They could've done that to a drop trailer, with the doors shut, then every driver passed on taking it for a week or two...then it ends up being the only empty left. I had that happen to a trailer left at a Carrier dealer and a dozen damaged containers of greek yogurt got left in it for a couple weeks, that then exploded all over the inside. Took the Blue Beacon forever to clean it out good enough to get loaded.

 

The one thing I find surprising is...no pallet scraps, only 'tater salad

 

This is a first. Having that bad tire changed at a T/A shop in Cali. I had my tandems set forward of the 40' CA tag, the tire guy requested I slide my tandems to the California legal position before they work on it. Weird...maybe he thought I was loaded and heavy.

 

Has anyone ever gotten a legitimate reason for the stupid wellness message we sometimes get? I mean, do we really have that many drivers kicking off or getting so sick out here while parked that they need the corporate nanny system to call for help?