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

navypoppop · May 24, 2024

supersnackbar said: ↑

And no matter how much of an ####### I want to be, I would never be this kind...there are 2 trucks parked here waiting to load in the staging area. Me and another dry van, then this "RICHARD" just pulls up and blocks the gate

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When I got to my unload yesterday there were 2 other coil drivers and 1 plate driver waiting to deliver. The plate driver was just untarping his load, the other coil drivers still had their cab curtains closed. I walked over to the plate driver and asked if he had checked in yet (they spent the night there and I didn't know if they checked in before going to bed), he said "no, but thanks for asking. Most drivers would have just tried to beat everyone sitting there in the gate". I basically told him that I piss enough people off by accident, I try not to do it on purpose. So, I politely waited until all of the other drivers who were there before me were checked in and moving to their unload door before I checked in. I was still empty and out of there in under an hour.
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There is always 1 jackrod that will try to be 1st even though other drivers are staged and waiting. I commend your courtesy and professionalism in your handling the situation of checking in. I am sure the other drivers did to. I don't have to deal with that anymore since I have been retired since 2011.

supersnackbar · May 24, 2024

navypoppop said: ↑

There is always 1 jackrod that will try to be 1st even though other drivers are staged and waiting. I commend your courtesy and professionalism in your handling the situation of checking in. I am sure the other drivers did to. I don't have to deal with that anymore since I have been retired since 2011.
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I think I might retire early and give the trucking industry as a whole the double #1. I got an email from the safety director this morning reminding me that I have yet to complete the online Samsara video modules. I told him that I have done them twice...and I quote "once before the POS was installed and once after"...if he thinks I am gonna do them again, he is very mistaken. I had to fight with the #### thing this morning because it refused to find my location when I was at the Petro in Weatherford TX...it almost got a 5 finger reboot to the screen.

kylefitzy · May 24, 2024

supersnackbar said: ↑

I think I might retire early and give the trucking industry as a whole the double #1. I got an email from the safety director this morning reminding me that I have yet to complete the online Samsara video modules. I told him that I have done them twice...and I quote "once before the POS was installed and once after"...if he thinks I am gonna do them again, he is very mistaken. I had to fight with the #### thing this morning because it refused to find my location when I was at the Petro in Weatherford TX...it almost got a 5 finger reboot to the screen.
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I think everyone got that email, don’t take it personally.

My group is as busy as a one legged man in an ### kicking contest. On my way back from Canada I helped a one of our drivers untarp and roll up the two sets of tarps he had on his od load. Finished up the trip back to texas and now I’m heading to GA with an oversize trailer for the holiday weekend. I’ll mosey along and get they Sunday afternoon for a Tuesday unload/reload. Looking forward to my first reset in over a month.

Thursday I’ll move some trailers in texas and head to Canada on Friday. Should end up with 13500 to 14000 miles this month. I’m beat but looking forward to the paycheck, and two weeks off next month.

Winnyf1 · May 24, 2024

Well as I sit here on the couch recuperating I received our company newsletter and received some discomforting news, I guess some of our wonderful new hires have been damaging equipment and now Safety issue requiring 4 photos of the load to be uploaded after securing the load.

Like you @supersnackbar I need to start working towards bringing this chapter of my career to an end...

Knucklehead · May 24, 2024

I took an unexpected retirement last year, when the VA approved me for disability. I just talked to my wife about buying a truck and get back in. She gave me the "Not on your life!" speech. I guess mama wants me home.

I give it to you skateboarders. I just couldn't see myself doing that. I'm a reefer kinda guy.

keebler13579 · May 24, 2024

Knucklehead said: ↑

I took an unexpected retirement last year, when the VA approved me for disability. I just talked to my wife about buying a truck and get back in. She gave me the "Not on your life!" speech. I guess mama wants me home.

I give it to you skateboarders. I just couldn't see myself doing that. I'm a reefer kinda guy.
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My wife would ask why I wasnt gone already

azheavyduty · May 24, 2024

I quit driving years ago. Loved driving a truck, just hated being a truck driver.

supersnackbar · May 24, 2024

The Sam-crappa has gone totally insane. 1st it lost location in Weatherford, TX. Just rebooted it after my post trip because it had the last 5 entries in Weatherford...now it pulls up 4 trip numbers...the current one and the 3 previous ones... Oh, it's this hot in Pecos, TX

And the mother ####ing ####### piece of #### truck won't idle over 60 seconds....I hope the office's a/c blows up and they can't get a new one until September...I hope whom ever is responsible for the idle cut back and the Samsara purchase has to spend their eternity in the hottest depths of hell listening to that nagging voice from the camera endlessly #####ing at them.

motocross25 · May 24, 2024

supersnackbar said: ↑

And the mother ####ing ####### piece of #### truck won't idle over 60 seconds.
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Jesus! What do they have the temperature threshold at?! 150?

supersnackbar · May 24, 2024

kylefitzy said: ↑

I think everyone got that email, don’t take it personally.

My group is as busy as a one legged man in an ### kicking contest. On my way back from Canada I helped a one of our drivers untarp and roll up the two sets of tarps he had on his od load. Finished up the trip back to texas and now I’m heading to GA with an oversize trailer for the holiday weekend. I’ll mosey along and get they Sunday afternoon for a Tuesday unload/reload. Looking forward to my first reset in over a month.

Thursday I’ll move some trailers in texas and head to Canada on Friday. Should end up with 13500 to 14000 miles this month. I’m beat but looking forward to the paycheck, and two weeks off next month.
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That's why I am so aggravated. I am, or was, turning pretty much the same miles as last year. It's the loss of the $.05/mile performance bonus and the drop in tarp pay that is screwing me the hardest. Now they turned down the truck so I am even less productive. I don't know Troy, but I wonder how he would react to an "I told you so" email about how unbelievably wrong his estimate on the drop in pay from the daily rate to cpm is/was.

And I got an email back from Safety. He said I got that email because the "How to scan" part of the module still shows "in progress"...so even the training videos for the Sam-crappa can't keep track of the right stuff. Un-be-####ing-lieveable

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