Broke Down 69...The Adventure Continues

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  1. Scooter Jones

    Scooter Jones Road Train Member

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    Hard to believe that was 5-1/2 years ago. Man, how time flies!
     
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  3. Panhandle flash

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    Had carrots loaded in a similar manner. What a mess it made of the floor. Cost extra to get it washed out. lol
     
  4. daf105paccar

    daf105paccar Road Train Member

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    Scooter,how are they on weightdistribution?
     
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  5. whoopNride

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    At least when you finally get those doors closed, the windows are clean and you are ready to Ride....
     
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  6. Scooter Jones

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    Fairly good. They had onsite scale as well.
     
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  7. spyder7723

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    I always hated bulk potatoes. Was such a pain to clean the trailer after. Then i got the bright idea to take a 5 ft piece of rebar and bend the end into an L shape for a handle. That made getting the crushed taters out of the floor groves a 5 minute job.

    Bd, now that you are pulling a reefer you should get a 75 ft 3/8ths air hose with quick unions on each end. Then get a glad hand and blow tip with the make unions. Run the hose up through the front drain plug on the trailer and jump up in there to blow it out. Buy a pack of cheap dust masks. 1 10$ pack will last you all year. It really shaves down the time vs using a broom to clean the trailer.
     
  8. Panhandle flash

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    My company will actually pay me 10 bucks if I have to do a sweep out. Truth is tho, I'm a really lazy person, and would rather do a wash out if needed. Lol
     
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  9. Lepton1

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    I did a load of pine chips a few years ago, pulling dry van for Swift. They used a conveyer belt like in the pictures posted earlier with potatoes, then delivery was opening the doors, backing up and unhooking the trailer and securing it to to the ramp that lifts it up to dump the contents out the back.

    I swept that trailer best I could. Smelled real nice inside, but the pine resin 4' up the sidewalls might have made issues for the next driver after I dropped it at a Kmart to hook to a loaded trailer.
     
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  10. Broke Down 69

    Broke Down 69 Road Train Member

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    Well, I got 43,000 pounds of potatoes. I'm considering boosting this load and going into the vodka business...lol.

    Back in Montana at the Billings Pilot doing a 30 and eating a little. Spent all morning dodging deer and elk, the dam things were all over. Topped a hill and two cow elk were just hanging out in the middle of the road. By this point though, I was creeping up on hills and blind turns. Slowed progress quite a bit, but I'm rolling hard now. Unfortunately, I'm not going to make it there by tomorrow. Probably going to come up about 150 miles short. Oh well, I've run recap before, I can do it again. May go on an 8.5 hour a day schedule for a couple of days to build up a reserve of hours.

    More later...
     
  11. Lepton1

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    BD, perhaps you should ask the moderators to change the name of your thread to Reefer Madness...
     
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