Trans Am as seen by Broke Down 69

Sorry two year old got the phone

 

Hell, it's just getting broke in! Must be driver error!

At least you still have your good attitude! This will stand you in good stead, if you can just maintain it!

It's trucking, if it can go wrong, you can bet it will.

Whoa that, cowboy! Don't diss on Arizona after just one trip across the desert! Two things here, first off, there IS significant beauty in the desert, but it can take some getting used to! Second, there is such a variety in Arizona, that it takes many years to see it all. How about the Grand Canyon?

I guess some things never change...

Can't argue with any of these statements!

Priorities!

 

Sounds like things are going well...
Glad to see you posting!!

 

Glad to hear from you Broke Down. Sound like things arent going too bad. It's a real eye opener out there -

 

As far as Walmart is concerned, I never had to deal with them, with refrigerated. And for the dry vans, it was a simple drop and hook. Then they could unload them at their leisure without interfering with my time.
The stores, on the other hand, were always a real PITA for me. The only time I ever delivered to their stores was local LTL. We might have one or two pallets for them, but by golly, you DID play by their rules. And different stores had different rules.
I'm talking about such BS as parking and going to the man door, ringing the bell and waiting for them to get around answering the bell. And you'd better not ring it more than once....Anyway, once they deign to answer the door, they tell you which door to back into, (what the hell difference does it make, they all work the same.) Once I had a jerk tell me I was going to have to wait until they had unloaded a truck that had an appointment. That truck wasn't even there yet. Needless to say, I took the single pallet back to the dock, but had to work around it doing drops and picks. Then this same jerk has the balls to call and complain that I would cooperate with their policies...
FWIW, that one did not last very long at that store.
Another store it was just fine to back into any open door, go in, pull your pallet off, secure the door and go pull your truck out so somebody else could get in, in the unlikely event they had another truck come in while you were there...then and only then take the bills to the receiver and wait as they unstacked the pallet and checked for damaged cases.
I hated delivery to their stores. Only had three possibilities from our dock, but it was three too many.
Oh yeah, I forgot the one that had receiving hours, 0400 to 1000. Seriously.

 

What's a good story without a little drama?

My 1st truck had like 550k on it. It would run 64 on the cruise and the high side of 65 on the floor. I broke down alot. But you gotta realize that if you were the one handing out trucks, would your totally new guys get the low miles trucks just so they can flip them in someones corn field on week #1 solo?

They'll take that one out back and shoot it soon.