Furniture Row Express

Delivered in grand island today. They gave me a Lincoln to olney, il picking up tomorrow at 1800 delivers Monday at 0500. Finally had time to stop by petro in York to get this trailer aligned. It dog legs to the right really bad. After 2 hours mechanic tells me they can't do the alignment because the adjusting nut won't break loose. Says the bushings are probably shot. I'll let mark know about it. I really wish we could get these trailers in shape. Basic maintenance now would save so much time and money in the long run.

 

as far as drivers grabbing bad trlrs,the new albany yard has locks on the good trlrs and no one can take one unless kooter unlocks it.so drivers are taking the ones that need work.seems to me that the bad trlrs should be locked and the good one shuold be available for a driver to grab.not in new albany...par for the course for the brain trust at that shop

 

If Cooter n Scooter were doing their jobs in the shop there wouldnt be trsiler issues. I go there and I never see them working on trailers. they only end up fixing tractors but take 3 times as long.

 

Speaking of trailer issues. At my company it's the hubs that seem to be neglected. You almost need a hammer and chisel to scrape the dried/gummed up oil/grease off the sight glass. Most instances, the only way to get a read on the hub oil is to open it up and look inside. Of course, on a really cold day, this isn't always a good option. The glass (plastic) gets so brittle that on more than one occasion, I've broken them just by trying to pull the cap off.

 

i have this trlr that is one of the newer ones and just had an inspection from kooter and the air hoses were laying on the axles.i had to pull them off the axles with tie straps.just a visual and i could see they were on the axles.that alone will put u out of service and a ticket.i am just so happy to have kooter in our shop looking out for the company...NOT

 

Looks like I might get a reset this weekend as well.
Just talked to Shipping Supervisor at Fremont Beef Co. They can't load this now until Mon.

I called and sent a msg, don't know what they want me to do now.

 

I'm taking the 34 in OKC.

 

I just received an email from Don with my flight info, hotel info and orientation plan. So I will be in Denver tomorrow afternoon. He said it had snowed pretty good today already but
was supposed to be 65 on Wednesday when I should be done and leaving.

Kathi and I are really hoping this is going to be "The One". I spent 25 years at the same place before retiring from my first career. I have enjoyed my work with Navistar but we needed benefits
and they didnt offer them to contracted drivers.

Thanks to all of you for telling the truth here, I know FRE isn't perfect, but I am hoping they will at least listen to what is going on from our point of view.

I look forward to meeting all of you and the first round is always on me!

 

Yep, stuck in Fremont until Monday for a 270ml run to Emporia.