Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

I am clearing out a bunch while I am home. The wife is going in for minor surgery Monday, once she is done with any follow-up visits, then I get busy getting out of here..if I ever find someplace that pays decent, on W2 and has health insurance that won't bankrupt me.

 

I am fixin to stir up a hornets nest with safety. Several times a week we get ''here is how you drivers are f'g up" messages, and a lot of them are about not certifying our elogs...I started taking pictures of my certified logs that I certified the following morning. Today (2/7) I checked, and my 2/5 log showed not certified..but on 2/6 I have a picture of it properly certified. I messaged the safety supervisor about the problem a week or so ago, but today I emailed him proof of it and let them know that I have no issue throwing Wylie under the bus if I get a ticket for uncertified logs (that I have proof that they were certified properly) and I am keeping a copy of the email informing them that their equipment is defective.......let the games begin!!!!!

 

I would hate to have to certify twice, or certify once and request logs every day (so that my dash unit has updated logs), all because some halfwitt software geek can't program worth a crap. I think the D.O.T. should ban this system until it's fully operational. Either that or companies need to file a class action lawsuit because every driver that get's a citation for an erronious non-certified log has a direct effect on not only the drivers PSP but the company's CSA.

 

I had heard that some places add extra, especially on the really thin glass, just because they expect a certain amount of breakage. That 1.5 or 2 mm is really a PITA to haul.

As far as end packing, all the loads that were preloaded on Wylie trailers lately out of Laurinburg and Geneva have been end packed, even the 1/4 and 1/2 in glass...anything over 6mm(1/4 in) doesn't need it, but Wylie seems to think it does. They even put the cardboard corner board on the ends on their conestoga loads for some reason... haven't figured out why just yet...but, it's their money (AGC doesn't supply the cardboard corner board, only the padding between the glass)

 

Ahhh Florida. It's in the low 80's today. When I looked at the Weather Channel today, my boss' in Fargo are enjoying sub-0 temps tonite and under a blizzard warning.