Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

That's one thing I can't deal with either. A dirty truck can be cleaned. A truck with body damage can be fixed. But once it has a smoker in it, it is very tough to get rid of the stench of cigarette smoke because it permiates every part in the interior. They need to designate smoking and non-smoking trucks, and have a loaner of each when available. That 2022 I recovered for that injured drive was a smoker's truck...and that was the final no-no to not taking it. It was bad enough that it had all that nanny crap, but to stink on top of that...not just no, hell no!!

 

But if you kill it on our trucks, it also kills the cruise, which drops our governed speed. All our trucks, for the most part, have the updated firmware on the ECM especially the ones with the windshield blocking lane sensors, which disables all cruise functions without the crash sensor operation.

 

My unload took a while, but it wasn't because of the place. When you deliver fresh from the field produce to this place, they weigh you in and out to get the product weight. After weighing in, they assign you a door. My door already had an occupant, so I parked and waited, and waited, and waited. After 90 minutes, I went in to check to see if I could unload at another door. The guy said no, certain products have specific doors. They will call me when it's time to open up and back in. I told him that backing in to my assigned door is impossible because there has been someone in it since I came in. He looked puzzled. When they called me to unseal my door and back in, I said to what door, the dock assigned is still occupied...he then realized that the driver that was unloaded at that door, never left. So he walked out and told the guy to move. Appearantly the guy was out of hours and didn't want to move until the offer of a tow truck was presented. An hour after I finally got backed in I was weighing out and heading out the gate. Then, the customer for next load, 20ish miles away, insisted that we get washed out, and have a receipt. So, there is a washout down the street from a regular cold storage customer right in the same town that I delivered to. Washed out, then routed down some roads that didn't look like truck routes (in Joisey no less), but you were indeed allowed to pull 53's down them. Got to my next shipper, then down to Carney's Point before my 14 was up. Plus, the 1st customer left some overflowed butternut squash in the trailer after they unloaded me, undamaged. So, my wife will have a half dozen squash to eat, if they survive a week in my top bunk.