The Food Service Rant thread

We have a guy that comes in on his off days and services our carts, and a bunch of other stuff. All we do is park it in the specified place and leave a note. Glad to have two. Wyse carts still rock.

I took 'my' truck to Penske two weeks ago tomorrow for new steer tires. It came back late last week PM'd, with six new drives on it.

I hate new drive tires. Very loose, and I lost five miles on the first day of my route. Probably lose 9-10 total, and my peoplenet MPGs went into the toilet. I normally get to my hotel at 6.7-6.9, and back to the yard at 7.4-7.6. She was at 6.0 when I parked it this afternoon. Good news is that the steers match and it doesn't pull to the right anymore.

I choose to drive one of the oldest trucks in our fleet, mostly because it has a ten speed, and also a steel bumper that is still straight. I had a new Volvo last year, but after some jackwagon tore half the plastic front bumper off I worked my way back to an old one. And it's not that old, a '13 that just turned 209k.

 

Is McLane good about body work? I know they had some Freightliner Columbia day cabs servicing Taco Bell back 2008-2009 (I'm sure there all retired in the junk yard by now) that had some rusty bumpers? Although that could have been because of a bad batch of paint or whatever. You hear about how railroads over years have had some locomotives paint hold up well and others not so much and more of that has to do with just bad batches of paint.

My truck at work needs a bumper mine is smiling. I don't actually want a new bumper I'll take a part from a junk truck (not to many junk trucks GFS doesn't lease equipment they own all there stuff out right so they want to sell the stuff off however now and then a truck might end up in the junk line as a parts truck. What I would like is one of two things either the shop to pull the bumper off a junk truck and put it on "my" truck or pull the bumper off my truck take it to a body shop or some place and have them put it in a press and bend it back straight.

I don't want new, I don't even need perfect just straightened out a little. Technically I need a new hood too, the fiber glass on my truck is and has been on the passenger side all broke or whatever, but that I can live with. I mean what can I say stuff happens I feel bad for the guy who was driving my truck, he's okay and all, it was just a fender bender and it can happen to anyone at anytime, so it's just oh well what are you going to do? Nothing...stuff's going to happen no matter what you do clean it up best you can and move on all you can do.

 

Not really. If it's from some kind of crash, deer, etc it gets fixed. If it's from a parking lot snow pile, not so much. If it's legal to go down the road, it's not a priority. And those plastic VNL 'bumpers' aren't made to push snow. They are a little better than the Cascadias, since they are actually three pieces. The entire Cascadia bumper just falls off.

 

Aren't you basically, paying your own sign-on bonus with the "step-pay" at MBM?

 

Well this ridiculous humidity can stop anytime tired of being a "dish rag" out side. Hopefully it cools down soon it's been raining and storming a lot.

 

I hear you. I'm sweating like a member of Congress out here! Plenty of water, for sure.

 

Gosh today weather wise is awful hot humid I have a headache refer trailer is like a smoke box. Thank God its all off now cut through 16,000lbs at an alright pace.

 

I don't know what is the "Step Pay" and how does it work?

 

So okay here's what was cooking. I got up this morning at 2:45am checked my voice mail heard my trailer would be in at 4:00am got dressed walked out side into the 90 degree heat with 400% humidity and hopped in the car and drove to work. By the way it was very dark this morning and took quite a while before it became light out.

Anyhow trailer got to the yard at 4:00am and I hooked up did all that good stuff and by 4:14am I was pulling out of the yard. My third stop is not a hard back in per-say, but it is a hard back in because of the traffic situation so I really have to rush as fast and as hard as I can to get there. Of course first two stops of the day both very heavy one almost 5,000lbs the other 2200lbs.

Anyhow In 2 hours I managed to push 6,000lbs off the truck and I looked like I just walked out of the shower. I also had a headache forming in the upper right hand corner of my head. I think I dehydrated my self.

Have any of you guys ever been dehydrated?

 

It suuuuuuuuucks!