How the beverage distribution business works (yawn)

More Convertibles:

 

You know Shaggy that's a good question. I think a trailer can hold as much as they want it to ha-ha!
On the lower end around 200. On the high end depending on the product and the way they do it I have had as much as 600 cases stuffed into a 14 bay. Those Convertible trailers can hold about 1,000 cases give or take. Usually I run somewhere between 300-500 a day. I've had 700 put into an 18 bay before (I don't do to much with the 18 bays thank goodness) usually I am in a 14 bay which I like. Sometimes a 16 which is okay. We only have 2 20 bays where I work in the entire fleet and those trailers usually run out east in the more open parts. If it was so heavy where I had to be in a 20 bay the company would either ad trucks or start shifting things around meaning adding stops on to guys who are lighter.

Usually like if I am not as heavy and someone is heavier I will get his stops. Then if he is lighter and I am heavy they might give him some of my stops. Usually that's what they do.

Around this Thanksgiving the company manipulated the trailer fleet somehow and rented some tractors and straight trucks and added a about 10 trucks on for Thanksgiving.

 

This truck here is a oh probably 1994 or older Triple-B 12 bay. This truck fully loaded and stuffed to the gills can do about 600 cases. This particular company runs a lot of older Ford Triple-B 12 bays and when they want to they cram about 600 cases into them.

 

Here is me at the zoo waiting for the fork lift man to come and take this pallet of champagne off my truck. This is the trailer I usually pull it's a Micky 14 bay. It's pretty good.