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

You might want to review this thread. Prior to the announcement of our impending doom (a.k.a. our so called partnership with Wylie) I was generally positive. Yes, I had my bad days like anyone else, but up until that announcement, I was more positive than negative. And since then, I have tried to have hope that we aren't going to go down the same path as when I was at Moore when Wylie basically bent us over, jamed it up our wazoo dry, and never gave us a pat on the butt, a kiss on the cheek or a reach around when it was over...now I see so many similarities as then with this partnership. Then, on top of that, I get a $3500+ drop in pay...please tell me how I am supposed to see any positive there...I mean other than having to pay a little less to the IRS.

@kylefitzy, about the engine load. I was just apprehensive about pulling one. Especially when I saw the ones you posted, I really didn't look forward to trying to tarp something that awkward shaped that I couldn't get on top of to roll and adjust my tarp. Mine ended up being much smaller than either of the ones you showed.

As far as securing, they sent instructions as to how they wanted it done, but the examples were for a totally different cradle. They want one end cross chained, but I have no securement points on either end to cross. I only have 4 sets of D-rings on the sides that are very close to the deck and very close to the edge so I can't get much downward pull on the load. I ended up doing a 4 way direct tied down on the D-rings then running a set of chains thru the fork tubes and putting as tight of a reverse and downward angle thru the rub rail and back up to keep it within the rails and just pulled them in opposite directions. The tarp looks like crap, but it covered the load. Still not sure why they want these tarped. The engine itself is enclosed in a custom made poly/vinyl bag that is thicker than my tarp, so it is more weather tight and protected in that than under my tarp. But hey, they wanted it tarped..so it is

 

Oh great, as if I wasn't apprehensive enough pulling this load...now I'll be more nervous.

 

As long as Wylie is involved with SPD, there is no future for me here. SPD itself is a good place, but when Fargo is involved it's like putting sour cream on your holiday pumpkin pie instead of whipped cream, and sprinkling it with black pepper instead of cinnamon. And with all the changes Daseke is making, the silent belief many of us had that they will eventually combine all their various small companies into a few large segmented groups looks to more and more likely, so the advantage of working for a small company will eventually be gone. In the beginning, when Don Daseke was running his private holdings company, it wasn't bad, but when they went public and he retired (or was retired by the board of directors) it went from a decent company to a "profit over people" company. So my next move will be to a company that, 1) isn't associated in any way with Daseke so 2) there is no risk of ever being assimilated by Wylie.