An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

I thought they were a Wylie account since they're a Case product and Wylie has an account pulling Case equipment out of their Carolina terminal. Kinda thought they were linked.


And they're advertising for a fleet manager to replace mine, and the application is a link to Wylie, not SPD.

 

Yeah, the newest of the new trailers have the scale. But since it's a "Wylie approved" unit, I wonder if it has been correctly calibrated. When I was at WyMoore, we got some new double drop Wylie conestogas with those. But, they had to be calibrated by the drivers, but nobody in management ever told us this...or how to do it. When I called the glass Ops manager about it, he acted like we were stupid for not knowing the procedure to do it. Turns out, you get an empty weight, call a specific phone number(that wasn't on any data plate or owners manual), get a magic code to unlock the scale, then go thru some set up to manually enter the axle weight from your scale ticket. I told him, screw it, it's easier to get a CAT scale weight on the app every time and charge it to the company fuel card.

Kinda interesting how they have 2 different stake pocket ratings listed.


Our new step decks have 4 winches under the top deck that move about an inch or two. Pretty useless if you have smaller items. I have 4 crates on my upper deck now,.2 smaller onces and 2 bigger ones, plus a spare tire. The front crates are small, but only one winch will line up to strap them down and I had to have him slide the second row forward so 2 winches would work, but then there is a foot or so gap between the freight on the upper deck and the freight on the lower deck, but had to stretch a tarp across the gap. And the one winch on the passenger side is a ##### to tighten because your winch bar hits the tire with the handle down, and you can't get in the winch hole with it up in the knuckle buster position. About the only way to tighten it is to put the angle of the winch bar to the side and hope it doesn't slip. I see workers comp claims in our future with these gawd awful POS trailers.

 

Saw on today's driver forum that we're finally getting new all in one communication units for our trucks, and unless I am hearing things, they said it WON'T be a Peoplenet...I thought they scrapped plans to ditch Peoplenet because of the "partnership" with Wylie. Do we know what system they're going with? Back when they were testing different units, Motive was the leading contender.