How do you get snow and ice off your trailer, other than driving down the road and letting it blow off? I have seen big sheets of ice come off a trailer on the interstate and wondered if any have hit cars and caused an accident.
I heard there are big fines for that stuff as well. Good question, how do you get it all cleared off?
As for the question about clearing roofs off trailers....there really isn't.anything you can do...but however at some breweries up north..like Baldwinsville, NY. for example. We pickup at Anheuser-Busch and they have a new device that has a scraper attatched overhead so you just pull up to it and drive underneath it and the scraper knocks all the snow off as you pass under...other than these I have not seen anyone do anything special... So maybe someone can inlighten me!!
Emptied out in Lehigh Valley, PA. Friday morning and recieved load info to pickup at Associated Wholesalers in Robesonia, PA. and deliver to Syracuse, NY. to RockTenn....arrive in Robesonia, Pa. and check-in...dropped empty trailer and bobtail to back of building to check-in and pickup bills for load...lady gives me my bills and tells me the trailer I'm picking up...I go out to truck and ride around looking.for the loaded trailer.... Find it and its EMPTY!!!! So returned to her and informed her and she was shocked....long story short....I was sent on a wild goose Chase looking for trailers that didn't exist...turns out my load had left 6 hours earlier and they forgot to outbound the load in the system... Told dispatch and he got with customer service and the customer had no other loads to go out...so I grabbed my empty wagon and deaded headed to Bloomsburg, PA. to pickup pet food at Del-Monte...arrive the next day because I was out of hours...sat at shipper for entire day waiting to get loaded...finally loaded at 10 pm...left and drove about 5 hours and parked for the night...I'm now at destination in Douglas, GA. at Walmart Distribution Center...drop and hook to empty trailer...found an empty trailer and first thing I saw was last service date was 06/15/10...for everyone that does not know...Millis trailers are scheduled for service every 120 days....needless to say....trailer is LONG overdue for service...and DC left trailer doors wide open after unloading it...trailer was full of water....so here I sit waiting for another load. Maybe ill get something good before I start hometime on Thursday!! Besafe everyone!!
Anyone have anything negative to say about Millis? I've just started to consider them over going to a independent CDL school and paying a nice amount. Would be going to the Trenton, Oh school.
will be starting school the 19th of September, everything i have read about the company has been positive. was a major reason i choose them. read the different threads and u will see eveyone on here is very happy with the company. also u have guys like Sully, Baritone, Bear and others that have put alot of info on here an if u got a question these guys will try an answer them for u.
Just seems strange that you can get a ticket for something you can't correct. Maybe I should huss, because they may put ladders on the trailers and we will have to climb up and shovel...lol
The reason some states are writing tickets for snow and ice on the roof is a few years ago there were a couple of incidents where ice came off the top of a trailer and went through the windshields of cars behind them and killed the people inside.
