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

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  1. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    I believe it’s a lease. I’ve heard Daseke doesn’t really want to own any property, except the main yards. That’s just speculation though.
     
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  3. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    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. :biggrin_25513:
     
  4. kylefitzy

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    My understanding is Wylie has the account to store them, not haul them. But who really knows.
     
  5. Winnyf1

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    Hey @supersnackbar, the other day I saw one of your new Wylie step decks and decided to go over and take a look. For a company going on the cheap the trailer was decent, I mean you guys really do cheap out on the wenches, we have like 4 on the top deck and 12 on the lower (two were fixed but are now being removed because to many of our steering wheel holders are knocking them offl).

    I was impressed to see that you hav decedent ratings on your rub rails and spools so chaining shouldn’t be difficult, and a Right Weigh, wow! I have to make do with the air pressure gage, an actual scale would be nice, but I’d trade that for wenches lol.
     
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  6. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    11 winches on each side Isn’t enough? We all also carry, or should be carrying, 2 and 4” hand ratchets.
     
  7. supersnackbar

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    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.
     
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  8. Winnyf1

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    Yeah I have no idea why they’d spec the wrenches that way, crazy…
     
  9. gentleroger

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    It's a liability shield and a hedge against changing business conditions.

    If Daeske gets sued and loses, the plaintiff can't get the local sheriff to just seize everything on the yard.

    If business needs change, it's relatively easy to break a lease compared to having to sell the property. It took 8 years to sell our old yard in Green Bay. That's a long time to be paying for insurance and property taxes for an asset that produces no income.
     
  10. supersnackbar

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    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.
     
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  11. kylefitzy

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    Just when I finally get a peoplenet unit that’s not a complete paperweight!
     
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