typical meat plant

Saw a dairy loading a couple on a trailer on my way home. About a 5 hr drive to you.

 

ottumwa, ia cargill is a pork plant; just sayin

 

I remember going there once. Spent the night at wally world and they have a shower you can use at the tlr washout place. Nobody I talked to, seemed to know anything about that being Radars home town. Am I the only one that old??

 

I remember the first time I went to Ottumwa (I was driving for US Xpress then) I was wondering where Radar was...LOL

 

Dang youngster! Keep that up, 'n I'll shake my cane atcha!!!

...don't even say anything ORD!

 

Cargill in Ottumwa is miserable. I was talking to our weekend/holiday dispatcher a little while ago and about two weeks ago we had a load that we waited for for 7 days. We'd get a truck there Monday morning & they'd do the normal we'll call you when it's ready routine. 0300 Tuesday morning the driver calls and it's still not done so he gets pulled off of that, sent to another shipper and another truck is dispatched on the load and the vicious cycle continues on to Friday morning. From what I heard they were waiting on ONE pallet of trimmings and they said to hell with it and shipped it out 1 comb short to the Cargill VAM plant in ALbert Lea, MN. Now for the longest time I had avoided Cargill in Beardstown, IL like the plague for the past few years and was pretty much prepared to have all of my mail forwarded there I would be sitting there so long. Turns out it was done when I showed up that time and the following three times I have pulled out of there. They switched up how the process works to check in an empty trailer which is no biggie but that trailer lot is a #### disaster. I hate it when the shipper has the driver spot the empty trailer in the lot becasue for the most part nobody can seem to park straight or leave less than 5 feet between trailers. I live about 60 miles from Schuyler and their routine is ideal. Check in at the gate, drop your empty in the wash rack & then go find your loaded trailer then the yard dog handles the empties from their. Now the guys at National in Dodge City take their spacing a little too seriously. If you can slide a business card between two trailers you're doing pretty good but then you need to chase down a yard jockey to pull it out just enough to get the landing gears cranked up.

 

lmao transam pete

 

While in the Army I was stationed for a time with a short guy from.Ottumwa... Anyone care to guess his nickname?

If he onlg would have been a company clerk, but he was another drivee.