Climate Express

Just pallets of packaged, shelf ready sugar from Western Sugar. Only 17 pallets and they're all uniform, of course, so should be a quick in and out in the morning. I looked up the address and it pulled up a news article from October talking about the construction starting, so it must be brand, brand new

 

That's some dedication right there lol. I guess it would depend on if the leak in the roof happened a day ago or a month ago for rather that's commendable/funny or shameful. When I drove for a company that did ice cream/meat loads, it was crazy the disasters people would bring in or the people that would try to load a negative temp load in Bakersfield on a 100 degree day and hadn't even began pre-cooling, 5 minutes before their appointment.

A tube of silicone or caulk and a small piece of sheet metal isn't that expensive to patch a leak or hole for a few days lol.

That Sam's DC was as good as hoped. Got unloaded with a spotless trailer in 25 minutes. Unloaded so quick that I got nervous when the buzzer went off thinking they were rejecting the whole load or something crazy. The drivers there were in a crazy hurry for some reason though. almost wrecks from people trying to dart around people actively backing and people doing 30mph through the facility. Was a little bizarre considering the arrival time is marked by the security shack and anything after is irrelevant.

 

Is that the new place that was being built across from where ya go into midwest dc.

 

Sorta. It's on the same road as Unilever if you've been there before. You just take that first right off the main drive and follow it all the way down. Doesn't look like a typical Walmart/Sam's facility

 

I wonder what happened to Rob, the safety manager. Not going to speculate too much since its not my business, but it seemed rather unplanned lol. He was always super friendly and seemed very knowledgeable about everything, so will be a little sad to see him gone along with Travis.

All I know is having to call Mr. Keene or Mr. Laske for an after hours safety issue would be rather intimidating and will be avoiding that at all costs. They're very nice, but that's pretty far up the chain of command to be calling at 1am saying something went wrong

Seems like the dispatchers are covering all drivers equally now or I got swapped 'fleets'. Not sure which, but my loads have been coming from Rich and Justin this week.

Changes all around for Climate over the last few months -- I guess we'll see if it's a positive or negative overall once things settle back down.

 

Wtf Rob left? ####. He was cool.

 

Yep. It came across our Qualcomm first thing Friday morning. They said he "decided to resign" and to delete his number right away. I certainly enjoyed shooting the bull with him. Sucks to see him go. I only talked to Travis a couple of times, but he seemed like a cool guy too.