Is that it for reefer?

Thanks, I'll keep those fixes in mind. Actually, I better write them down... The mind isn't all that it used to be, at my midlife age.

But in this case, the tech said it was a failed ECU.

Which could mean, he pulled out some plastic from the fan, then charged us to put in a new ECU (since we woke him up at 2 am) and kept the old for a spare... Hehehehee

Mikeeee

 

Because if you look at all his posts he has asked the same questions over and over and they have been answered quite well!

 

As a reefer trl , they weigh more too, so that something too think about too, so you have to figure out the produce and then the pallet, then you have too figure if dry produce or wet produce ,all add up the weight, almost have too be a rocket sciencest too figure it all out, in all my years pulling reefer's, i only had too dump pallets once, 32 pallettes back on the truck, and ask dispacth what too do witrh em, he told me go have a nice lunch, so i did, but make sure it was noted on q-quil com as i was suppse to dispose of pallets, so i spotted a pallet place coming in , $1.00 for a white pallet, $2.00 for blue chip pallets, i had a very nice bounus that day, so just work with your dispacth, mine was very good too me,, i myself like pulling reefer , so if swift has that divison that be the route i go

 

What is DRY produce???

 

stuff like corn on the cob sweet corn were it dosnt need a reffer down to 34 degrees

 

Really--might want to look into that a little closer--run a load of corn w/out top ice and above about 35degrees and see how well you do when you try to unload
Only way corn is run dry--is from the field to the cooler--b4 it is shipped!

 

I've run potatoes, onions and melons in vented dry vans.

 

The company driver is using the company's money to pay the lumper anyway. You're using a T Chek, Comcheck, or pulling cash from your fuel card. Then the company withholds it from your check, and reimburses you (often on the same paycheck). Why? Because if you can't produce a receipt for the lumper, that "lumper" you paid was probably just your own wallet.

In principle, it's irritating to pay lumpers when, as Injun says, it's basically the only option to get the freight off. But when you realize that you never actually pay for it, and that you, the driver, are just a pipe through which the money flows. Meh.

However, the O/Os and contractors that don't or can't bill back to the shipper for reimbursement get hosed. That sucks. CRE does that. Unless they've changed it, they've got something like 30 different codes for approved unload at customers. Pay a lumper as a contractor there, and the code in your dispatch is "SR" or whatever the heck else the random two letter codes are, and England says, "You eat it, sorry."

These are some of the reasons I breathe easy now on the company side.

 

Work comp has a lot to do with why recievers use lumpers also. It costs a lot to insure the guys where most of the injuries occur. Back problems and such. That's why they (or us actually) hire independent contract unloading services. You may find unloading (lumping) some of the easier loads your self can put quite a bit of extra cash in your pocket and help prevent dick doo disease.
Back in "the day" when the driver was required to unload thier own truck, they would sometimes bring thier own help to do it (lumpers). They were hired off the street or usually standing at the entrance. The recievers didn't want the riff raff in there facilities so they started bringing in there own unloaders for the drivers to hire. and it's really not that far fetched. The truck driver used to be hired to haul and deliver the load. Deliver meaning "deliver". Not just hook a trailer drive and then drop. Trucking's evolved quite a bit and quite frankly it's a cake walk today compaired to the past. So simple even a cave man could it. GPS, cell phones, Qual somethin or others, air conditioning, Automatic trannies.
Boy. That last one oughta get somebody riled.

 

When i started out and it wasnt that long ago,i started with crst in a eagle bus cabover, 9 speed with that famous gutless red engine,that drink more oil then i care too rember, no cruise, air cond worked , when pounded on dash, got too wy, and i was shifting, the gear handel came off the transmission , so i just stuck back in and off too california i went ya that was hard on the foot and setting over the axel; my back ach all the time,it was a nightmare, yes the truckdriver has life of luxury these days, i even unload my own freight if they let me, a few times i was forced too use there lumpers, but i understand why too,all about ins and libality issues, so if there whinning stick em in a 1955 peterbuilt , or in that line up, i love looking at old trucks and back then the dash was pretty bare and metal,i cant even imagine going across country in a rig like that,