An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Which is scary when it's a rookie pulling an open deck and the load is held down by straps.

 

Went to the local Wally World near SPD's yard yesterday, and they don't have plastic bags. The lady at the self-checkout says they're out. But they'll sell you basic re-usable bags for $0.75 each, or fancy decorative re-usable bags for $0.90 each...yuppie eco-nazis, saving the environment one plastic bag at a time...sure you're out of bags... At least the Lowe's up here is helping the logging and paper mills stay in business, they have the old fashioned paper bags.

 

Truck got done in the shop. Apu is cooling and serviced, air drier canister replaced. Truck serviced, all my gear from the drop trailer swapped with the other driver. And, I have my next load. Pick up a load of airplane lavatories off the yard going down by Charleston SC.

 

The framework and walls, with door, ready to install

 

Conestoga, so not even tarping. But they are light enough to move by hand. I had to reposition them a little because the strap didn't line up evenly with the rub rail gaps, and pulling it off center would pull the strap into the product. One issue, these #### houses are 6' high banded to pallets, but you can only strap over the pallet, not the fiberglass/plastic unit...and some are closer to the edge of the pallet than others, so it makes it so the strap is half and half with the next pallet. Gonna be an interesting trip. Oh, and there is a little hazmat on each one, not a RQ amount, but the B/L shows hazmat on board, so Ops says I get bonus pay for this load.

Boeing also has a manufacturing facility in Ladson. That's where I picked up the trailer load of 737 intake inlets a couple trips ago.