Combination - Picking up a C.H.Robinson load at Morton Salt Hutchinson, KS

Great bit of advise RedForeman. The part of your post I quoted reminds me of a shipment of shopping bags I imported from Indonesia in a 20' container. It got to the customer and when they broke the seal and opened the trailer they immediately closed the doors in horror and sent the container to a place to fumigate the entire container for a day or so.

It seems there's these HUGE ####roaches that live in Indonesia that like to lay eggs inside corrugation on the boxes used to ship the shopping bags. It takes about 30-40 days for that container to leave the factory, get across the ocean, clear customs, and get delivered to my customer. In that time the eggs have hatched in that hot container and you have millions and millions of hungry ####roaches with nothing to eat but each other.

The customer said they poured out the back of that trailer like a waterfall. Had to have several employees run around with bug spray to get them all before they could find access to the building or leave the yard. Must have been a sight to see (and one that cannot be unseen).

 

Is this Hutchinson, KS facility actually in Lyons, KS? Picking up a load there later today. NOT for Cheap Freight Robinson however.

 

What was the problem at Rock-Tenn in Stevenson? Been there tons of times with no problems.

 

I average $2.38 a loaded mile with "Cheap Freight Robinson" Dry van. I think that works.

 

I had a paper load years ago that was pre loaded on a trailer that had a hairline crack right at the joint between the front of the trailer and the upper fifth wheel plate. (One of those piece of #### old burgundy Millis trailers), and there was water damage to the bottom of the paper rolls eve halfway to the back of the trailer. Luckily I got out of being nailed for that since it was a sealed pre-load. If any moisture gets into a trailer with a paper or salt load, IT WILL do some damage.