Your most nightmareish PU/DO

I wonder sometimes if these guys get mad at us when we just take off on a tangent?
I've seen an honest thread completely spiral out of control at the drop of a hat.

 

here ya go @ProfessionalLunatic ...your vessel for all that coffee....lol

 

when done in fun, they must go along with it.

it's the bashing, insults and bickering that most likely turns it ugly.

 

Tiles.

40 foot box off a ship early in the morning at Seagirt in Baltimore. Drive to Terra Cotta downtown DC, pull up to this tiny strip mall office type thing and say these your tiles? While eyeballing the space they occupied. You could not fit the entire trailer in there.

Doors opened. Big tiles, little small tile. everything in between. Don't drop the #### things took 2 months to make and a month to cross the Atlantic. They viewed it as their jackpot to carry them until Winter time.

Then: "Ok unload this please driver"

Hum. 11,000 pound mack, 6000 pound chassis maybe a 5000 pound box adds up to 21,000 the gross was roughly 110,000.

To this day I will be ###### if I order even one little square of tile anything. I swore it out after that load was off the back of the trailer into their hands. Three of them stood around. It was almost 4 PM with the rush battle to fight. I took the whole thing home rather than the yard.

Ive lived in two homes so far in my life and the closest to tile would be the stone floor here and there. But not a speck of tile anywhere.

I have never seen such a group of spineless suits sweating in the 75 degree breeze hand carrying tile across that lot into their little office. I don't to this day understand how they managed to fit all that in there. (And don't give a &^%$.)

Ive had handled many difficult loads personally over the years. But any time I start hurting I think of one word "Tiles" and BOOM. energy to push on and complete the lumping. Maybe a touch of anger. (Which is not good sometimes.)

 

you didn't make a pun....





NO COFFEE FOR YOU..!!

 

Terra Cotta was a semi industrial area in central north of DC roughly. I forget exactly. But they took many bulk loads of material over my time going in there. Apparently they had quite the history of making pottery I guess. Tile would be the closest cousin to it.

 

since you say the had to cross the ocean, i am wondering if they were Italian made terra cotta.....if so, VERY expensive.

 

They sure acted like it and yes #### it was a Med Box. I forget the exact carrier right now but it's most certainly from the Med.

I heard I think years ago Trump bought a mountain there to get stone to the hotel in their NYC once. Yeesh.

You think the #### load was a pile of diamonds. (I wish....)

I hate to be cranky. If anything at all good, It's grapes out of the city dock in Philly. Reds and greens off the ship transload breakbulk into the trailer. Or... Even better. Crabs out of the Chesapeake Bay going out on a reefer container. Just have to load them chilly onery things quick before they heat up and being to fight each other wanting out.