Roehl Driver Check In Continued

I'm assuming people swap out equipment thinking they'll keep the load, and end up relaying it to a terminal, so terminals are empty and drop yards have no space for supplies! Lol

 

I'm not sure what the deal is? I know I see a lot of empty trailors sitting in the yards with tarps strapped to the front. I'm not sure what started this trend, but I'm sure it doesn't help the situation.

 

in IL on I88 mile 70 WB since 06:30 when my air froze up for the fourth (5th?) time since I got this loaner less than 3 weeks ago (one week on hometime)

this will be the second tow in 3 days to thaw and drain system...presumably add airline antifreeze as well.

it would be cheaper if they would consider repairing the actual problem instead of treating the symptoms.

im sure by now the expenses incurred have well outstripped repairing/replacing the air dryer, seems to me that is the probable root cause of water in the air system.

getting very very very very old

:/

 

I've had to deal with a number of those and it's a royal pain. My guess (could be wrong, but I doubt it) is that the driver dropping off the trailer just didn't feel like moving the tarps from the trailer into the equipment shed.

What started the trend was that drivers can't fit their frozen, half-rolled-up tarps into their equipment box on the tractor during wintertime, so they store them on the front of the trailer instead. No problem with that, but when it comes time to drop the trailer, they leave the tarps on the dropped trailer rather than move them to their next trailer or into the equipment shed. They record the transaction as "equipment left at the yard," and while technically it's "at the yard" it's not in the shed where the next driver can easily get to it.

The lack of available securement equipment at terminals is becoming more and more of a problem. I talked with one of the trailer mechanics yesterday (who minds the equipment room on weekends) and he said that management is really starting to wonder where all the equipment is. At first they thought drivers might be hoarding it on their trucks (not returning it to equip room when they pick up a relay with equip already on it) but then they started doing spot-checks of trucks and weren't finding it that way either. So I'd be wondering too.

 

I've picked up trailors with snow chains and coil racks stored with the dunnage. I just don't understand it. Its not that difficult of a concept. I think a big part of it is just laziness. Whatever the cause? 6 hours later I'm still sitting here without a load.

 

OMG!!! I just saw the NBC nightly news. They were talking about the snow that's going to hit Georgia next couple days. The governor asked that truckers " not clog up the highways". How about clean the roads and there won't be trucks "clogging up the highways???' Sorry, that just irritated me. Had to rant.

 

The governor is just being a political animal like all politicians, saying what they think their constituents want to hear. After the Atlanta fiasco from a little awhile ago, people are probably panicky. And I agree it is irritating.

 

At Gary getting fuel.

 

at Gary not getting fuel.

 

Guess where I ended up today? Was sent to the wrong shipper, then to this place. The back around the building was easy compared to pulling 40K worth of scrap paper up the hills in Pittsburgh! Wow!