Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

here, bobtail over here and pick up a 53 and bring it back.

You need this release code

ok, bobtail over there.

There turns out to be a railyard.
and the 53' turns out to be a container.
And I needed a whole lot more numbers than the release code.

and of course the chassis was a POS (not far to go though).

First container I've ever pulled.

 

Then they say bring an empty 53 over to a customer site. (so they fill it and someone picks it up every day).

why didn't the regular guy do it? don't know

Ok, where do I put it?

Ummm, go over there and by the time you get there i"ll have an answer.

i go over, it's one of those big warehouses that have multiple tenants, this customer is on one end. I call up. Ok, where do I put?
Ummm, isn't it obvious?

well, no, it's a big building with multiple tenants, there's 32 numbered doors, which door would like me to put it in?

Uhhhh, well we can't get a hold of the regular guy so just pick one. (really, we don't write this information down? keep it with the customer address?)

Ok, #29 it is. (mostly because that was an easy back, i could pull way up. always pick the easiest one)

I'm sure it's wrong, the odds are slim it could be right.

Whatever, I got paid and it was easy.

 

What a day blind route running out at the sub yard actually the route went better then I thought it would, wasn't all that awful.

Except I had a tractor with a bad electric cord and no rear turn signal on the tractor and no hand held,which wasn't that big of a deal, annoying, but what ever.

Kind of a busy day though, at any rate more fun blind route running tomorrow.

 

Has school not started up there yet?

 

It is coming back, and a few initial orders have came in our tonnage is up school is not full boar in session yet though but with in a week or two now, the problem right now is, this millennial driver work force at our warehouse is unreliable and always getting "hurt" and they have had to pull help from the yards, so what has happened now is, my 1,000 case route today was run by a manager, because they needed me to work in Lorain at our sub yard or "dark" yard i.e. not a main branch yard just literally a drop yard in a dirt lot with a shed GFS has a bunch of small dark lots no bosses no anything like that scattered everywhere anyhow I've been out in Lorain County all week, because one of our drivers out there is at the warehouse running routes so we had to internally pull resources and I've been put out there. Today I was on a commercial route, 15 stops 889 cases mostly commercial restaurants and one old folks home other then that it was all restaurants. Tomorrow I'm out in Lorain again on more of a non-commercial route with 900 cases, who knows for Thursday, but schools are trickling in slowly with there initial orders.

 

My chain routes have been surprisingly large lately. Good money, but I'm kinda jealous of the other chain guys leaving out with 8-900 cases.

 

so running a millions short locals last night and one of them get sent to this sorting facility (small packages for the post office). Of course the tail pup trailer is still in a door, between 2 53's, both of which have their O/O tractors attached.

hmmm, back the dolly in

go get the lead, roll up, blind side, whip it around and back right in right to the dolly, straight as an arrow, no pull ups.

couldn't do that again on a dare.

I'm sure the O/O's were watching "don't take my hood off ya bastid"

 

I had 923 today and 800 something yesterday. Another driver at the sub yard yesterday was telling me he had 23,000lbs which is huge for us. Usually 1000 cases is where our line is pretty much drawn.

 

Did some doubles pulling around the outlying sub yard today my self and built two sets I was feeling like you.