Glass Unit Training

I love loading at Mt Zion (sarcasm indicated!!!). They make you show up an hour before your appt. So today I show 1:45 early and reported in. They say "OK". I call again at 1100 appt time. They say "we're loading you in door 7 and as soon as he is done we'll get you in." 45 minutes later I see truck leave from door 7 and ask him on cb, "You were out of door 7, right?" PPG comes back and says "we changed you to the north dock, come on in." I get to to north dock and position to back in, open the door and, WHOA, there's a truck there. I feel like I'm back in the Marine Corps - Hurry up and wait.

 

it is serviceable you just need to have a drill ..lol

 

Welcome to my world see Wheeler and I thought it was my sole job to fix trailers. LOL am very glad to see others take the time to get things done right. I agree with you 200% on the $25. Would love to see that. If everybody else would be a professional and do their job we would not have to pick up all the slack.
The best quote I ever got from a driver when doing a swap was those lights were working last week.

 

Seawheeler and/or anybody else that drives for Maverick, what's the trips to Canada like if you have any? I have seen some people on here really bash those runs and then others that love them. I am thinking about talking to Maverick and just want to be as informed as I can be when I make a decision about who I want to drive for. I live about an hour south of Ft. Wayne, IN. and 30 minutes away from I-69, is this a decent location, as far as freight goes, for hometime? I did see a Maverick truck a few weeks ago going West on US 24 by Huntington,IN so at least I know you guys and gals get to my neck of the woods. Any info from anyone would be great. The wife and I are planning to go to Louisville in a couple of weeks for the Mid-America Trucking Show We will probably be grins from ear to ear looking at all the trucking candy. We plan on spending 2 days down there. I just hope that it's enough time to soak everything up and get a lot of questions answered. I just wish that Maverick was going to be there. Maybe I will see some of you Maverick drivers down there and talk to you for a bit if you don't mind to much.

 

Well you live in a great area for maverick. Heck there's a Mac steel in Huntington that we haul into and out of.
If you come into the flatbed division you don't have to do in Canada. Personally myself if you need a passport I'm not going.
I don't care for the Canadian trucks in the US and I'm not taken mine up to their country. Same thing for the Mexicans. I like it the way it used to be meet you at the border and you can take it from there. Everybody stayed in her own country and hauled their own freight.
Every time I see a Canadian truck I see another US job gone.

 

I am pretty sure that I want to go the flatbed route, just not sure if I want to go glass division or regular flatbed. I always find myself looking at a flatbed going by and wondering what is under the tarps. I've seen firsthand how important securement is. There was a flatbed several years ago that I seen on an off-ramp going around the curve and all of a sudden the coil that they were hauling broke loose and went rolling across 3 lanes of traffic!!!! Thank god that there was nobody else around his rig when that happened so nobody got hurt. I thought that his rig was going to flip over when that coil came off, never seen a semi rock that much before.