Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Anyone know anything about Core-Mark?

 

Up here they are a just like gfs and rinheairt.. i mostly see 2 man teams, and they are ALWAYS hiring. Beyond that.... dunno

 

Cool, thanks.

 

They are a C-Store supplier same type work as food service twin screw trucks 28' trailers everything is hand unloaded with a ramp and two wheeler, they pack a lot of stuff in those plastic totes, might make $1200-$1300 a week. They deliver your high impulse items, cigarettes, beef jerky, candy bars, motor oil all the stuff you see at C-stores.

 

Lake County and Ashtabula county Ohio right now is an absolute mess! 15 car pile up on one side 75 car pile up on the other I-90 in north eastern ohio is shut down.

 

http://fox8.com/2016/12/08/i-90eb-a...d-due-to-pileup-involving-dozens-of-vehicles/

 

What a bloody mess. Looks like there going to have to get the "tow plow" out there:

 

Sometimes in this business you see strange things and today I saw something that I didn't even know if it was real it was surreal if you will. I was getting ready to pull out of a stop and waiting for traffic to clear and coming towards me was a 1993-1994 model year Chevrolet Caprice 9C6.

I was looking at it going "No that can't be right maybe it's a movie prop." But no it wasn't a movie prop. It was painted NYC Taxi Cab Yellow the legit Yellow that they use in New York City, and looking at that more it wasn't a repaint either it was the real deal, true NYC Taxi Cab Yellow it also had the big bush bar on the front of it which was fairly common for cabs that worked NYC in the mid 1990s. Paint was a little scuffed up too, anyhow it wasn't a rework, you could tell where they pulled the NYC Taxi markings off the back door of the cab and it had two holes in the roof, which is where the roof top lamp would be and as it drove by it had the police help light on the back of the trunk it was the real deal, an honest to god ex-NYC Taxi cab that was 23 years old now being driven as someones personal car in Ohio.

When I saw it I said "No that's not real, and that's not what I think it is."
It was just that, it was the real deal never saw one before in real life, the fact that, that thing is even still running and made it all the way to Ohio is amazing in it's self, I would have though most if not all of those would have been beyond the junk yard now and recycled into something else.

The ex cab I saw had the same kind of bush beater or push bar on the front.



See that reflector thing on the lid of the trunk, that's a light the driver can flip a switch and that light comes on and it's like a signal to the police to pull that cab over because there maybe an unruly passenger, I think over the years those lights as far as function goes kind of went out of style I don't even know if the new cabs still have those, once they stopped with the Ford Crown Victoria in 2011 and NYC started to switched over to what ever cheap garbage disposable vehicle there using now for cabs I stopped paying attention.

It was better back in the days of the Caprice, Crown Victoria and Checker Cab those were real vehicles meant to do real heavy duty work!

 

^^^ from what I've heard, many, if not most of them, ended up in Mexico. Cool find, bro!

 

I was going to say isn't that like where all our used things go, how many ex Schneider and JB Hunt Cab overs are working in South America and over seas. Or the grocery chain from Chicago Jewel Osco, they had a huge fleet of Ford Aeromax 9000s and Freightliner FLDs all from the 1990s and I think 90% of all there old 1990s era trucks ended up in Mexico.