An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Siemens....German stuff.

 

Looks like @supersnackbar is staying pretty busy.

After 9 days at home the boss told my lazy ### to get back to work. Bobtailed to Wichita and grabbed a stretch rgn, now back home for the night. I’ll head for East Moline, Illinois around lunchtime tomorrow. Loading a combine for a short 120 mile run to kill some time. I believe this is my first Wylie load.

Kick that off then load a show truck for Sunny Califorina.

 

There are 4 trailers, two of each. All of them haul wing skins. They actually haul the same wing skins just is different stages of the process.

This is a 64’ double drop with the axles at the rear. Longer but easier to back into a spot if needed. Runs from tx-ga-tx

These trailers are 60’ stepdecks but have a 15’ spread axle set up. Easier to get around but almost impossible to get into or out of a spot without taking someone’s hood off. Ks-ga-ks.

Both trailers, and anything long, you have to pick your spots carefully. These run a pretty regular route so you figure out where you can get into and out of. I tend to stay at rest areas or old truck stops with these trailers. If I’m parking early enough I’ll try to get a straight out spot at a truckstop.

 

I believe all of our trip numbers will be 1xxxxxx moving forward. I e had a few of those already. This load of from a customer not previously “available” to us.

 

Just curious, do u know the weight difference between a stretch rgn vs a regular rgn?

 

Did it finally stop raining there in SoCal?

 

On our 35 ton trailers the difference is about 4K pounds. I’m right about 44k empty with a stretch.