Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

No kidding I've already stopped by the social security office to get my Ohio Direction Card.

 

So today, I get to a stop it's a school and there lunch delivery truck is parked down the drive way that we back down, so I can't really back down there, because I can't block him in. So I am forced to park in the street, over in the school bus parking area, which in it's self isn't a problem at 10:30am there's no school buses or anything like that.

Anyhow getting ready to get the stop wrapped up and all of a sudden a school bus pulls up and I went "Ahh crap now I have to move." The man who drives the lunch delivery truck is also a school bus driver for that school district and he's a nice guy and he looked and went "Go just take your load, in the man driving the bus is a professional he should know what to do and how to work around you."

I thought it's about time someone said it, I know bus drivers have to be able to unload and off load passengers, but some of them, could work a little harder, I have to maneuver around all kinds of stupidity all day long, yet buses seem to shy away from anything that takes even a bit of problem solving or anything.

I know generally buses are not supposed to back up and bus routes are designed so there is no backing involved, but I know for a fact that if your a bus driver you have to prove that you can parallel park that bus and do the exact same road test and all the other manuverability that any other CDL driver has to do.

The bus test has the same through pre-trip as a tractor trailer and the maneuvering and all that is the same and the road test is the same standard, meaning if you hit a curb in your road test when your driving the bus you fail the CDL test same as a big truck it's no different.

I remember a couple years ago I had the beer truck parked on one side of Professor Ave in Cleveland, and Budweiser was parked on the other and you could get vehicles through the middle. Well an RTA bus stopped and the driver got out and yelled at me to move so he could get the bus through.

The Budweiser truck parked on the other side of the street, it's driver Dan yelled back at me "Screw, that guy, he's got plenty of room, if he can't get the bus through there he shouldn't be driving!"

 

I have radiator heat at my house, I'm old school no computer boards there! Walked by the radiators today there emitting real nice, easy constant heat. I do not have central air at all, but I do have two window air units that are in the closet, it'll be fine.

Actually I like the radiator heat, because once the water is heated up it holds heat much better plus then all the pipes are heated as well so what happens is the water is heated, the pipes are heated the radiator units them selves are heated that's all hot so the boiler once it's all hot really doesn't have to work to to hard.

 

Aren't there business that specialize in hot tubs and swimming pools and aren't those the companies that should be coming out and installing the hot tub. I don't understand this whole notion of having an LTL truck deliver a hot tub to some bafoon. What are they going to do with it? They don't even know where to start as far as the instalation goes.

I would have thought the local, swimming pool, patio furniture, hot tub and out door living area supply store that also specializes in pool tables and expensive fuse-ball tables would have there crews handle all of that with there own install crew and trucks.

Oh well my mistake I must live in some crazy idealistic fantasy land.
What send the proper tools and people to the job? That's just craziness and crazy talk.

 

So if you have a skid that is 6 feet long how are you supposed to get that off with the lift gate being what, 4 feet or so? How much overhang until it starts to tip?

 

Most lift gates will handle that small of a skid. I don't usually start to get nervous until the skid is 7+ ft long and weighted to the outside. I always try to put the pallet jack parallel to the back of the trailer, so any over hang is on the side instead of the tail. Unless the skid is too long, then it goes straight out the back and hope for the best.