When I was first driving I had a situation much the same.
I would collect 50 000lbs industrial gear boxes from a large chemical plant about once a month.
They would be delivered to a factory where they were reconditioned.
I would then return with a reconditioned unit to the chemical plant.
They would load a crate full of the old bearings and bushes to be returned with the reconditioned gearbox.
AI the chemical plant they never wanted the old stuff , just refused to off load it.
I really resented this up till I found out the scrap value was about $500 back in the 80's.
What to do in a situation like this??
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Glimmer, Apr 13, 2012.
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Bad odors are more of a problem, I had a load of nursery stock floor loaded and they used grass or sorghum straw to hold moisture, I got rid of most of it at one of the receivers and the rest at a truck wash.
Those were fun loads, the odor of storing a dead animal waiting for lab results for a week wasn't so easy to get rid of. I tried washout, and ended up deadheading back for someone else to pick up a load of something that odor wouldn't bother, the trailer was reported as unreloadable a few weeks later by another driver, I still remember that trailer and still hate pulling it. We were lucky the loads sent out didn't get refused.
Only way coffee would have cured that was boil it and run the vapors through the unit, it just took lots of time, otherwise. Plant operations found another way to screw up trucking,
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