What kind of materal takes the longest to load and unload?

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  1. amscontr

    amscontr Light Load Member

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    I'd have to say Trees loading and unloading are time consuming in addition to everything else.
     
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  3. MinniesB

    MinniesB Light Load Member

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    Last time I loaded for menards it took 13.5 hours... Always a jumbled mess of junk and usually half tarp and never fun to secure.
     
  4. skateboardman

    skateboardman Road Train Member

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    swinging shrimp has to be the worst, takes a while to hang them little buggers in the trailer and just as long to take em off, you can get a lot of shrimp in a trailer
     
  5. Cbake84

    Cbake84 Light Load Member

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    the grain bin shipper in assumption illinois seems to always take all day, but then they wanna rush you when your tarping
     
  6. Cbake84

    Cbake84 Light Load Member

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    its really magical unloading and reloading at the same menards DC, gotta love a partial tarp in a torrential downpour, what good did it really do, i spent 13 or 14 hours there, ran out of time only to be told i had to leave the property and couldnt park on street out front, the security gaurd directed to one of the worst little truck stops, a home style bathtub in shower and that was clogged up, Eau Claire WI, anyone else had that pleasure?
     
  7. flatbedder

    flatbedder Medium Load Member

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    Menards is a joke, and if you say you're getting a good rate, you're lying. Why do grain bins need tarped?
     
  8. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    use personal conveyance. and hit exit 45 on interstate 94. not that far from eau claire. 2 truckstops. the north one has a really decent priced good restaurant. both have showers. the south one looks like it may have been just recently built. last time i was there. a cat scale was in the works.

    mydat is an app that will give you all truckstops witnin a 100 mile radius.
     
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  9. DieselDog81

    DieselDog81 Medium Load Member

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    Well, I think ive got you all beat on longest wait... Ive been here since the 26th, and will finally get under my load on the 2nd... Some sort of I beam.. Ill be #### glad to get the hell outta here.
     
  10. MJ1657

    MJ1657 Road Train Member

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    I think I would have beat my head against that beam if I was you!
     
  11. 58Skylane

    58Skylane Medium Load Member

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    Took over an hour to load 16 pallets of Barite on my trailer about two months ago at NOV in Osino, NV. The kid was new and loading on an uneven surface. So I didn't give him too much of a hard time. But my big boss came in behind me to load and said he kicked that kid off the forklift and somebody else came out to load him. :biggrin_25519:
     
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