Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

I'm on a shag from hell, Breinigsville to CT. A whole 233 miles, even though I had 17 hours left on my 70 for today

 

I had changed the cord already and the fan is running, just not cooling anything. I got almost a year out of this one but seems like there should be a better way.

 

Is the fuse blown? If not, and it's the new type with the separate fans instead of the one motor, 2 impellers and a shaft thru to the inside, a computer cpu fan is the same voltage...best buy sells fans from 2" to 8" (only they show sizes in mm). I have replaced both of my fans on my coleman with extra cpu fans I had at home from parted out computers. Sometimes it's the end of the plug melting, which means either buy a new end and splice it in or do what I use to do, buy the male and female spade connectors and make a 'y' connector (the bottom of the 'y' male and the 2 top parts of the 'y' female) then unplug the wire off the back of the trucks 12v plug, plug the male into that wire connector, then 1 of the female to the back of the 12v outlet and the other hard wired into your cooler cord where the coolers melted plug use to be. Just have to make sure you get the positive and negative right or else anything else you plug into the 12v plug will fry or pop the fuse. Most of the new coolers I've seen don't have the reversible plug for heat or cool, they're hard wired into the cooler's wiring harness and only cool.

 

How dirty was the thermal plate, those don't usually go bad unless they get too dirty and overheat.

 

0530 unload appointment at Salt Lake City Costco DC this morning. Pulled in at 04:30 and was directed to staging area. They had us start lining up at 0500, was handed a pager with my door number. Was backed in at 0530, red light goes on at 0537 and 23 pallets are off at 0547. Pager goes off, pull back to the gate and am handed my bills and out of there before 0600.
I'm starting to wonder if it really happened or was all a dry (freight) dream.

 

With the the confusing time zones out there, you were really there for 4 hours.

Me, I roll in to my consignee 2 hours late, and 1 hour, 45 minutes later, I'm empty.

 

All Costco DC's are like that. It's rare to be there longer than 20 minutes. Regardless of appointment time, arrive the night before and check in, they'll start calling trucks in from the staging area about 04:30. At my previous job I used to end my week at the Dallas Costo DC on Friday mornings. Usually out of there by 0500 and home by 0700, great way to start the weekend.

 

At the Red Roof Inn up from the Marietta Terminal. Heading all the way down to the Deland Terminal again via rental car to get my truck. It's a 35 something truck.

 

I saw the first Peterbilt Crete truck I ever saw today in Indy.
It was 38077.
Of course they went cheapo.. it was a midroof with tons of black plastic on the exterior but I'd be mighty glad if they switch the fleet over to those

 

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