My Experience with Lone Star Transportation

Main Street Pub & Steakhouse had a pretty good chicken fried steak...finally got around to checking them out on my last stay in town.

 

Ill have to check them out. But I do have one question... you went to a restaurant that has steakhouse in the title and decided on CFS? WTH? Haha.

 

Why not? It also has "Pub" in the name, and I had the sweet tea.

 

be careful going into the yard under a load also, if they find a problem your load is not going to be their priority, you'll stay there till its fixed but the load making it on time is still on you. Just an fyi.

 

This truck I have just loves to give me problems in 4-6 week intervals. This time my airbags aren't inflating on the truck. Not even the cab airbags. Hopefully I can get in and out of a shop tomorrow rather quickly. I don't want to get off this project yet.

 

I appreciate the lookout. Luckily its just minor things. One of my bumper sticks fell off in the early morning, so I want to see if the have a replacement and maybe have them take a look at the bunkheater, it likes to work whenever it feels like it.

 

Dj.. careful.. that cushy dedicated is gonna make you soft at the midline

I too lost a bumper stick thing-a-mabob. Bracket shifted off so I only have one on while the other is in my sidebox until I can get another bracket.

Glad you guys finally got some long loads. Alot of people have been getting short stuff it seems.. and hanging out in Texas. I wonder why that is.

I pulled that pipe load with 7 other drivers, 5 company out of Morgan City, LA and 2 OO's picking up from Lubbock, up to Nisku last week and that was a cluster to say the least. Shell didn't contract straight with lonestar as usual but rather through a pipe supplier and, somehow, they didn't tell lonestar it was a shell load. so only the owner ops were shell certified. The road safety guy did a quick crash course on shell safety procedures and expectations... but then we had to wait until the next day for the pipe racks and dunnage to come into houston on an 8th truck since they wouldn't accept the use of our pipe stakes.. and this 8th truck was sent despite ALL of us having come from Houston.

Anyways, once we could load we fought the pipe company to use the 6x6's but they wanted to use only 4x4's under the premise "We load shell loads all the time.. we know what we're doing." After fighting that 2 hours and being veto'ed by the shift supervisor woman... 3 of us who could get legal rolled... 2 others had to go back to the yard as one was overweight to get rebalanced.

Well, my group of 3 get to Tyler and we're told to take pics of the load.. the pipe can't touch the metal on the racks... which is why we needed the darn 6x6's we fought to use. After some decisions we were to go to gainesville to have the pipe lifted and put 6x6's under.well, none of us had them so we had to use the tallest 4x4's we could find since the local places didn't sell hardwood 6x6's. Took about an hour and we rolled.

The next problem came at the border... the pars info was sent and received at the border but the customs broker didn't clear us.. apparently there was a discrepancy in numbers on the BOL's for all 5 trucks so they did nothing. They knew 4 days before and NOTHING was done. So on Easter they were scrambling to get us cleared. 4 hours later and an hours worth of international roaming fees and we were rolling. We got the pipe off only 2 hours late.. not bad for constant delays that weren't our fault!

Then, Me and another guy did a restart in Nisku while the others rolled back to the states.. I only had 10 hours and with the international crossing I wasn't sure how a pickup of hours was gonna happen so I just opted to restart. Anyways, we deadheaded 1600 miles to Milwaukee to pick up mining parts bound for Houston, which is where I now sit.. at the houston yard. I'm kinda worried now because theres about 12 trucks in the yard and lord only knows how many others in the vicinity.. thats alot of trucks to plan! I can only pray I don't get into the trap of short loads as you guys have!

 

Grandpa used to call those "idiot sticks"...

 

I do make the claim that i'm generally a few tacos short of a combo platter, after all... but most of us tend to hang the oversize flags from them. Not sure if thats why LS put them there or not.. but why notmake use of it.

 

Yup, that's the only reason why I'm asking for a replacement. Plus it was there when they gave me the truck and I'm not gonna get dinged for it missing.

Sounds like you had quite the adventure getting up to the great white north. Glad you made it there and back.