Intermodal company drivers?

But usually I leave home around 3 am and make it back around 2pm....but it's not set in stone...

 

I highly doubt there's any slow periods with containers. http://d1hw6n3yxknhky.cloudfront.net/021048871_prevstill.jpeg

 

They strike at the ports all the time, even if the office folk go on strike, they'll shut it down. All those containers are there because those lazy scum bags are always on break not because they're so busy

 

Yes both rail and ports have slow times, a few months ago a bunch of ships were not offloading here in socal and that effected the rail

 

Yes there are slow periods (seemingly all this year!!!!)....China and the US are in the process of negotiating a trade treaty, so the Chinese slowed the departure permits for the container ships quite a bit....that affected us all, also there was a strike at the Long Beach ports so they stopped offloading for a few weeks, that slowed traffic to a near standstill.....

 

"Tube tires? I didn't think those things existed anymore, except in like, bicycles"

Most of the East coast chassis are 10:00 x 20 bias tires with tubes.

They use tires from China [of course] with names like 'Snow King' and 'Leopard' though the tire guys call them 'will pops'...

 

JB Hunt has a mix of chassis types. Some are good and some are the biggest pieces of garbage you will ever see in your life.

 

when I pulled cans I never worked under a 12hr day (if I wanted to gross a 1000 wk) Chicago intermodal was fun for like the first 6 mo but it lost its luster real quick. I tell you one thing have you a whole box of lights and wiring for them chassis, also an air hose to air up them chassis tires.

 

Hi Bd, yep, a RR chassis with all lights working was a rare treat indeed. You know, back in the 80's, when I did that, I was one of the 1st ones to make a "glad-hand" air hose for tires. Usually, I'd pick up my wagon at 3:00 am, (to beat traffic, and get north of the scale before they opened) and would routinely have a low tire (or 3) I thought, where the heck can I air up these tires at this hour (try and find a tire guy at 3:00am) Duh, there's an air compressor 3 feet in front of me, and at least I got out of Chicago, before one would blow.