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

Dont you have to be abnormal to pull those big arse loads. Lol just joking flatbedders call me abnromal cause I like driving refrigerated freight at night

 

Abnormal lol

 

I've long done with driving at night and lousy rattling frigos too.

 

Speaking of stopping and helping a driver with his tarps, I got rerouted yesterday to do just that. I was almost to Kansas on us81 when I got the call to find a harbor freight, pick up some moving blankets, and head for Colby Kansas. I had just enough drive time to make it to Colby and help the driver get the two corners padded and redo the front tarp that was ripping. The load was already wrapped when they loaded it and the driver believed the customer when they said everything was padded well. Well the first tarp made it from Wa to colorado before it was completely shredded. The driver took a bunch of cardboard boxes and padded the corners but that was still starting to cut into the second tarp. I haven’t heard from him so I guess what we did worked.

moral of the story, always always always take and use padding for the corners of the loads. Especially when it’s an odd shaped piece of tooling going 3000 miles!


I’m trying to get like @supersnackbar but I just can’t quite get my 7 day total to over 4K. Odd thing is that 7 day total is more then the current day and previous 6 days but less then the current day and previous 7 days. For a computer this thing really sucks at math.

 

i don’t think i could ever go back to hauling a reefer. I have a genuine hatred of grocery warehouses. i pulled a reefer for a little over a year and decided that was enough for a lifetime. At my current company we thankfully rarely go to them. We deliver to a bunch of Walmart DC’s but 99.9% of our stuff that goes there is drop and hook

 

Last I heard we don’t have computers to hook to the trucks in the shop. Maybe they had the dealer come to the shop, I know they will do that with the kenworth trucks. I just ignore them for the most part. If it’s running, that all that matters to me, I don’t get breakdown pay.

In a rare win for the shop, they actually fixed a trailer with rotting deck boards. I had 3-4 boards come off on me a few weeks ago. I passed that load off to the driver that I helped retarp his od load. When he got to wa they replaced the missing boards and even put 4 new tires on the rear axle. I was “impressed”.