PRIME drivers...What's your 20?

Just did grapevine. Sitting at petro on I-5

 

sitting at detroit with Grumpy1 getting my apu and bunk Heater fixed

 

Petsmart in Springfield with TruckinDawg who is about to git stuck.

 

Headed toward Belvidere, Ill , get load go to Ky then home to the beach

 

So I get a choice... OK, MS or IL. OK is snow, MS is rain 'n tornadoes... so IL seems like a reasonable choice, yes? Driver's lineup says slyly... "Oh you might want to check if there's any issues with that trailer before you hook on." Kinda might be a good idea, so I bite on the load...

Turns out some moron nailed the trailer, sheared off a bunch of bolts and broke a frame rail. OOS trailer.

Waiting for them to get authorization to transfer the load...

 

On highway 85 in AZ going to the zootario east TA to sit on the load and drop it off in a couple of days

 

Currently headed back to SoCal with another Chobani load from Twin Falls. After half a week of back n forth produce loads to Colton, I was preplanned on a very light load of medical supplies to SLC with 2 days off in Vegas.

This time at Chobani there was 6 more Prime empties. I saw only two being used for drop and hook the 9 hours I was there. Almost zero consolation to the dozen of us other Primates that had to live load.

Yes, 9 hours. 3 hours to load me overweight on tandems for CA. 4 hours to totally unload me, shift change and reload me with someone else's load.

Yes, someone else's load.

I would have been miles down the road if I hadnt noticed that I was 6k lbs gross lighter at their gate scale, and my piece and weight count were still the same on the bills.

Another 2 hours to get it straight before rolling south last night.

I cant understand why Macro 27 had me routed down I-15 thru UT when last week it was US93-NV318-US93 thru Nevada . Exact same fueling stop in Vegas. Only difference is the extra 110 some miles to use the I-15 route. I chose US93.

I dont think that I mentioned that last week's Chobani load was nearly rejected and reloaded because they gave me bills with their internal product ID numbers and quantities. The reciever was not going to hand count and figure out what was what. So I was 5 minutes from being reloaded and kicked off the property until I had a "better set of bills" and a new appointment.

I guess after being open for less than two months, the plant is still working out the kinks.

 

At My 01 in Cherry Hill NJ. On my way to Memphis

 

If Prime was a shipper, they'd be on our "hate to go there" list. That load sat around all day before the trailer shop got around to reloading it on a different trailer... even after getting my FM to email half the company about it. Got to the 90 right at appointment time, case count was off. At the PEElot in Channahon IL.

Looked at the original trailer again last night when I hooked on the new one. That driver managed to put a foot long crack through the right side rail.

 

Springfield, getting a 34 after bringing in a student who is no longer a student. Enough said.