Fontana is closing

Was there yesterday or the day before. Mira Loma yard. The new building is basically just south of the swift maintenance shop. It didn't move location just made that yard bigger

 

I'll tell you, you will HATE Central's West Valley Terminal.
you HAVE to run through the inspection bays and you can count on a minimum of an hour+ just to get through to where you can park.... This is real common, not the exception.
I got stuck there for over 4 hours once just to get a tire changed on a trailer.

 

Not any more... It was closed.
Worst part about it is, the only two Central Mechanics I'd let work on my truck was there... I have not seen them at the Swift Denver Terminal either....

 

Wait until you have to pull into our PHX or Laredo yard. PHX, unless you are bt, you have no choice but to go through the inspection lanes. Laredo, if you are t-calling a load there, or dropping a trailer at a forwarder, you will go through the inspection bays, and at times, I have seen at least 10-12 trucks waiting in line.

 

lol.... Salt Lake..... Got two for you....
1st. Two loose fuel tanks (back when we were still Company drivers) shop kept telling us it was ok to run to Reno and back with them that way. I had all ready stuffed the isolator strap back under the tank strap on one and the other was coming out. The mechanics kept saying it was ok to run that way and the day mechanics can fix it when we get back. After about 10 minutes of arguing with them, my wife tell them to "Give us it in writing then that it is ok to run like that" or fix it!
Well that pissed off the mechanic, and they fixed it.

2nd when they installed the inverter, he left the connection in the side box bare and uncovered... So they could short out and start fire.... I had to wrap them myself, he wouldn't.... "They don't need it" he said...

 

Lol... That's funny, I do a lot of the work on the truck myself. I'm not going to pay a shop to do stuff that I can do myself.

 

Unless your trailer is GOING TO MEXICO you DO NOT need to go through the inspection lanes in Laredo. I have gone into the yard with a trailer just for fuel then departed and have dropped an MT there to pickup a loaded trailer. Neither time did I go near the inspection lanes.

 

Are you talking about the Central Yard in West Valley?
if so, a lot of those bob tails are l/o that have bailed and left because of the problems with the switch over to Swift, other are most likely the trainers waiting for trainees.

 

Cant say anything about Swift's Mechanics.... But with Central's, keep in mind you get what you pay for.

 

Steve, I believe that is what I said, t-calling a trailer to taking to a forwarder, which is dropping there and they will be taking to Mexico. Now once I was dropping a MT there, and was told by the guard when checking in that I DID have to go through the lanes because it was due for an inspection.