Mike's Book Club: The Legend of Werner Enterprises 1956-2002

I backed into one dock and the truck hitch was stuck in the wrong position, so I had to back into another dock. Shaking my head:

Took me driving in a couple figure 8s to get the right set up.haha.

 

I think after Werner were going to do a short on Intermodal Equipment. Here look at this video from the late 1990s.

 

Pretty popular in you're neighborhood. I guess a couple years ago NS really scaled Triple Crown back. They don't run like they used to.

 

So here was yesterday I know I need to update this thread real soon.
Ahhh pfffftttt..... So yesterday the warehouse lost one of my juices so that's a 23 code against me. Then today the warehouse screwed up the shipping labels confused them selves. Missed a bag of pizza dough making flour for my first stop and printed off a duplicate sticker for some other case at another stop. I'm not totally sure what exactly they did, because in there confusion they also confused me. So that's another 23 code against me because of them, glad I could be there scapegoat and whipping boy.

It's a shame too, because last week and the week before that and event he week before that I was posting pretty good numbers went 3 weeks without a 23 code and besides (2) 11 codes which is "Sales Person Ordered Wrong" I had no credits on any invoices especially last week, I was doing really good for like 3 weeks no errors, miss picks, breakers anything. But those good times I guess can't last and now were back to these silly ignorant games that places like to play that ultimately do nothing, waste everybody's time and patience and do nothing, but give some data puncher a job to do. But that's how we like it, more fun to taunt each other at the yard over our stupid artificially manufactured numbers that we have no control over then get the stuff done right. So that's been this week. My numbers were going up and they said can't have that and put the breaks on that.

Load quality today was pretty awful, I must say. It was humid today and the freezer was loaded kind of bad, of course Wednesday and bad freezer load go together like peanut-butter and jelly. The new trailers in the freezer get really icy in the humid weather and the load bars don't want to hold good. I get to my second last stop I only had 22 cases left in the freezer. 22 cases of frozen heavy red skin garlic mash-potatoes some ribs and scalloped cheese potatoes going to a popular steak house.

Well ha-ha the load bar didn't hold of course the heavy mashed-potatoes busted the load bar down and then the secondary load bar didn't hold either so the entire stack fell forward and busted down the bulk head, so that was a good step in the right direction .

So now I have to get the freezer back into right shape, so after cleaning up the ruble of the mashed potatoes and getting those delivered the day was about over.

So that was the long 15 stop day get to my 10th stop this morning some one hitter quitter or at least looks that way, 350lbs stop register says 8am-2pm is the window. I get there at 9:15am nobody there not a soul in sight. So after an hour of waiting someone shows up it was very quiet and peaceful standing behind that place in the light rain this morning, to bad I had a truck full of stops that I had to get unloaded.

So that was my work day glad that it's over.

Came home made some food to eat that was good.

Doing some research and going to go down to the lab here and start assembly on one of the 28' trailers.

There's been some new developments in Mikeopolis. Killing Time Tank Lines has been moved to a spot of land next to the Ethanol Plant because the property the tank line was originally on was bought out by Bertoni Dairy Products which is a large scale manufacturer of Cheese and requires rail and road access. There is a refrigerated truck line known and National Refrigerated Transport that is located out of Northern Ohio Group and Killing Time Tank Lines. Killing Time Tank Lines services the ethanol plant, Bertoni Dairy and does fuel deliveries for Northern Ohio Group.

Now Bertoni Dairy originates a train out of it daily as it supplies Pepsi Food Service KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell operations. Which is why there's refrigerated trucking company parking equipment all over .

Anyhow that's about all for today.

 

Yes they did long ago out in you're neighborhood. I think they long since retired there fleet of roadraiers.