Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Tell Cargill you want to be a part of the hiring process WH & that you will handle the interviews.

 

coadman,did you get any rain over the weekend?

 

we finally got some,1.8 over the past 2 days. Hows the wheat coming along in your neck of the woods,Wheathauler?

 

Wheathauler,you must be telepathic

 

how goes it,RW?

 

Glad you are getting some grain to move, WH. The grain is still rather slow for us. I ran a load out to Ohio and another one back Monday and Tuesday with the dropdeck, had great luck, but it ran out today. The sawmill near here had me take a load of lumber over to Quincy, IL to a pallet factory. The boss came out and went over and over the load with a tape measure, apparently they use a robotic machine to build the pallets and the boards they sent had too much variance between sizes which would throw off the robot. Long story a little shorter, I sat for 2 1/2 hours while they called someone else in to look at it and make a determination, but they ended up rejecting it and I hauled it back to the sawmill. I wanted to tell the guy that when I have pulled a box trailer and had to mess with pallets, the main criteria for a pallet being good was it being in one piece, not being the boards off by a 1/8"-1/4". But I bit my tongue, may have to go back there again someday.

The Prez was also in Quincy today, I was lucky to be going to the north edge of town, the airport being over east of town. He also traveled to Macon, MO. Heard somewhere they had US 36 completely shut down for him.

Except for wasting most of the day, I can't complain....