I hate Peoplenet, where are you parked and recipes thread

only took the better part of an hour and a half...yeesh. Caught up though.

Could be one of those milfs out on the prowl for a younger guy.

Gotta get on a high perch to pounce on them before the other Cougars find him.

...yeesh. I got parked one night, guy in the truck came out of his sleeper curtain with nothing but his skivvies on, whipped it out, peed in a bottle and then proceeded to roll his window down to dump it out in the space I had just parked in.

I just looked at him, "go on. Do it. I'm sure nothing bad will happen to your truck or trailer..."

Dunno if he read my mind, but he at least had the decency to put a cap on the bottle and hid back behind the curtain.

If they ever get me back to running vampire full time I'll act as a sub in case you can't get duo... Can pm you my number later.

Right now im lugging around solar panels again...

Nice dog! She looks like she's real good at barking strangers off!

...I think it's funny you know that. Guess sugar from the ladies isn't all you'll take!

I had a close call a few weeks ago... Got routed down a skinny street. 4-wheeler decided to pull up past the stop line as I was making my turn.

I went ahead and made the turn... Stopped a couple feet from the nose of her vehicle coming into contact with the trailer skirt.

Took her a minute to clean her shorts, but the suv behind her knew the drill and left plenty of space for her to back up in.

Funny thing... Soon as she was behind that line, my tandems just slid on by her. I imagine she'll remember to stop behind the line in the future.

It sucks worse than Monica lewinsky... Bill can confirm. He's had both.

Grabbed a pair of universal keys at the place I got the belly lines fixed at... Figure I've come across enough stuff to need one.

Surprised you don't have a pair of them.

Couple of times this week I REALLY wanted paper... I'd be just as dangerous.

...maybe.

Truer words have never been spoken. You sure you're a trucker?

Beautiful!

I'll be home over the weekend, if you're in the forest park area (frankly, I live nestled between i75 and i85 on the southern side of atl. So anywhere is good.) let me know!

I high tailed it out of sc just now. Far enough to catch the last TS just before you hit the deadzone on i20.

(TA i20 xit 114 in ga.)

It had already begun to rain. Atlanta has been getting spurts of rain as well...

Glad someone said it... Not sure what I would've done if it was this late to reply and nobody had gone there.

...and since hurricanes are named after females... Maybe someone just hit the right spot?

I tend to agree with you. Lots of American food is tasteless... When it is flavoured, it's salt flavoured. I don't understand folks that don't have a full spice rack.

I've found I like many more foreign foods, much more actual taste and variety. So when I can get authentic food from another country, I absolutely go for it.

It hasn't been so bad, but I was further towards the GA border (Lexington, sc). It was spitting rain here and there, but I couldn't feel much wind until I was completely empty.

Good luck though. As I left my last drop, the nearby grocery store was packed full of cars. So I am pretty sure the worst is yet to come.

You have got the strangest taste...



Guess everybody likes a moustache ride every once in a while...

I'm not so sure it'd eat wood the right way though...

I had a similar experience.........

I'll admit it. I was in a rush. Thought I hung up the hose.

No. It came with me. Glad those things have a quick release. Took it back to the pilot and apologized profusely and even offered to help hook it back in.

They were humorous about it and made me feel a bit better... And I learned how to hook a fuel line back into the pump. Turns out the maintenance guy was down a staff member, so he let me help.

For answer. Please see above.

 

You're looking at a weed wacker....

 

Yes, I'm fine. Fever broke on Sunday and I sprung back into the job on Monday.

It was a stein mart week. And a fun one at that.

Tuesday delivery was at Columbia, sc. (Two store, both in Columbia.)
I left to get to the first stop with enough time to take my 10 there. Unfortunately Sni got the appointments wrong. So i showed at the wrong store. Got a funny feeling I was not in the right spot so I went inside to verify (I'd run these two stops before) and sure enough, Sni had sent me to the wrong stop.

Quickly made my way to the right stop and parked there for the night. Unfortunately, due to the error only my clock got a 10 hour break....

Hauled ### to get those two stops finished and ran back to the dc for my next load. Tallahassee, fl and Macon, ga.

Tallahassee went fine. Only pain was that a traffic accident delayed me just enough so that once again, only my clock took a 10.

Oh...I failed to mention. This run required using a 28ft pup trailer. I hate pup trailers. I had to explain it to my fiancée...

"Imagine your cat. She's had a long, wavy tail with a mind of its own that she can see, play with and follows her everywhere. Now, 3/4 of her tail is gone. Imagine how confused your cat would be...now, she can't seat at it and it follows her so closely that she can't get a good look at it."

Yeah...that's how I feel when pulling on a pup trailer. I don't like it. I'm not terrible at backing them, but I'm hardly good either; going forward just bugs me more. I can't see my own tail without wiggling some.

Macon, ga is one of those docks that doesn't really have a dock...

(@FatDaddy here's my backing story.)



That purple pin? Yep. That's their dock. Like most of you might see, it looks like there's enough space to approach it from the corner of the building. And you're right. But then the ramp for unloading doesn't fit into the dock. So you've gotta jackknife it in. And those lines should give you all some reference to size as those are parallel parking spots for 4-wheelers.

Got it docked and purposefully left about 5 feet between the dock and dot bumper... I found out later that I'd done #### good from a driver that held that route for 2 years. Apparently most folks either ding the dumpster, or bend the dot bumper all to hell or even rip their side fairings off.

Made my way back to the yard thinking I had an easy run up to Raleigh for Friday delivery and got called in to do an emergency run out to Snellville and Athens, ga. I did get a full 10 in, but just barely.

Athens, I think I posted up a picture before? Has a weird dock. It's uphill and on one side it's postal vehicles (and they don't know how to park worth a ####...) you've got to avoid, the other side is a drop off. But you've got to back up an incline that boosts your doors up about 10 feet. Always a blast doing that, especially with impatient and stupid 4-wheelers.

Got done with that drop and got my last assignment for the week...

Augusta, ga and Lexington, sc. Decided to make a run for it...

Stein mart decided they didn't want an early driver... So it took them a full hour to print out the bills. After being locked out of the computers by the previous shift of course. So the person from the previous shift had to come back from home.

After much to-do with the office personelle, getting sealed and signing the bills...I had just enough time to make it to Augusta. At 4:30pm. Across 285 and hitting i20eb. Nope. One stall just as you entered i20 and a stall/accident on the on-ramp to 20 held up traffic. Had to finagle my way around it, and was glad I did. I got parked at the same TA I'm at tonight and a half hour later another driver that got caught in the same mess I did pulled in next to me. We chatted for a bit and then I headed inside for salad.

So, here's the thing about stein mart...

Not all the trailers are pups. In fact, most of them are 53footers.



(See that spotless, shiny, new trailer? It's still spotless, shiny and new. Makes my spotless, shiny, new tractor look twice as good!)

And we fingerprint each box...



Some stores use rollers, some have hand trucks... And some are unlucky...



No. I didn't "unload" by hitting the brakes (but there was much discussion about doing just that.)

That's Augusta. My first stop. 749 boxes that all had to be hand unloaded off. They had hand trucks, but there were only two of them helping to unload. I knew I could get it done just as well without a hand truck, so they used all 3 and just barely kept up.

Anything from small, lightweight boxes to full-sized dressers came off that truck.

Despite what they use to unload with, every store is the same. Every box has to be handed off.

I think the funniest thing is that even though I took an extra day off (kinda...) my miles and unloads look about average. I'd have a hard time keeping the pace I set week after week though. So another 100 miles and my week will be done.

Could've made it back to the stein mart yard on my remaining time. But I wanted nothing to do with Friday night traffic in Atlanta. So here I sit in Madison, ga at their local TA.

Probably going to head off to sleep soon. This driver is tired.

Edit: Monday I saw this fool rolling through forest park...it amazes me what 4-wheelers get away with.



I think I counted a total of 5 love seats crammed into the back of that pretend truck... (Ford exploder with the back passenger seats lopped off and a bed added.)

 

Who is the account Manger at stein mart now. I was the DSR on account start up there

 

There's two. There's a Dbl and dsp.

Diane is Dbl and...oh... Andrea is dsp.

Is a dsr the "old term" for a Dbl?

For the record, I usually pull for jcpenney. I asked my Dbl to send me wherever though, so I get loaned out to stein mart quite often.

Does the name, "Ricky" ring any bells?

 

By the way... Sorry for the exceptionally long and many quoted posts folks.

Don't know about you, but seeing multiple repeat posts bugs me. So I try to combine as much as I can.

From G.Anthony's post though, he probably won't read it. Which is good because I said some terrible and nasty things about him in my quoted posts.

 

No. Tulsa.

But speaking of the Dallas OC you shoulda seen the driver who didn't swing wide enough coming into the yard on Tuesday and got his trailer hung up on the curb lurched to the right. Had the entrance blocked off a few hours.

 

DSR driver service rep.
I was the 3rd shift person at jcp for over a year. I ran forest park Statesville and Lakeland overnights. Also stienmart overnights.

 

Thank you Mr. TD... Those are fancy restaurants... La Brasa is Peruvian cuisine... although 90% of their dishes have some meat, they do have some stuff that I would eat... I would have to build my dish though, ordering side portions of this and that... bet my dish would be very expensive...

Cafe do Brasil seems to be a real fancy restaurant.... http://www.cafedobrazilokc.com/



It opened in OKC in 1998... I didn't know... Well... I don't go to restaurants in America....

Prices didn't seem too bad though... considering the restaurant is in America and not in Brasil...

Interesting, they have several rice dishes from various Brazilian regions... That shows you how popular rice is in Brasil and the soooo many ways one can cook it...
They also have 5 different Vegetarian dishes...
I liked to see the fried yucca on the front page picture... didn't see it in any of the dishes though... I love fried yucca...
Thanks for the link...

 

Carlisle. Got me a good spot. Unloaded in Jersey this morning, then eased over to Coatesville and grabbed some steel. 1 AM appt in Lansing Monday, these folks act like a grocery warehouse! Holla!