Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Oh wow,carnies! The worst!

 

All you gotta do is call OSHA. Have them inspect the rides and trucks. Gotta be some violations being it is carnies we are talking about!

 

One of there rides came apart this summer at the Ohio State Fair and killed an 18 year old man.

 

Alright guys so I am thinking about adding more unloading capacity. I have one Magliner Gemini Senior that I bought brand new pictured here:

This was when I pulled it out of the box I've added stair climbers and a 30" long tongue.
As seen here:

I also have a couple really heavy duty Wyse hand trucks in addition to my regular GFS issued hand truck which I rebuilt in April neither one are knock downs though.

This is my Wyse hand truck I have two of these with the drum break this hand truck weighs god probably 40lbs just it's self, it's a heavy unit. And here it is last summer at a Mexican joint loaded with heavy Mexican food.

Anyhow, I have a big elevator stop on Friday and it's not a bad stop, a little bit of a pain, but brand new 4500lbs capacity freight elevator, that I can get 2 fold down wheeler's into. Well 2 fold downs could be as much as 40-60 cases.
Now I'm only one person, but it's way worth it to take 40-60 cases at a shot up especially when there orders run 3500-9000lbs and they get a ton of dry like chips and stuff, chips are big and bulky but there light and load and unload fast, using a regular wheeler I can only get 5 cases of chips on using a knock down I can get 15-20 cases of chips on helps a lot.

So I'm thinking about buying a used Magliner Gemini and adding another knock down for unloading capacity sake. I found a used one that might be worth the buy. It's been a good tool.

As far as Pittsburgh goes, next week I'll be live from Pittsburgh as our warehouse is having a man power shortage and we had one guy there for 2 weeks, but he has 3 kids granted there older kids late middle school and high school age, but 2 weeks is along time to be gone from the family. It actually it should have been reversed but he wanted to go and make the money, but now he must be going home. Well the warehouse didn't like that he had to leave and they called up our bosses at my yard a state away and said "Who's coming next."

So they called me up I've been around the system before and it's time for me to make my rounds, so Sunday night I ship out because I have a 1am leave time going from Pittsburgh to Cleveland on this run here it's a volume truck load run 1 stop at a major hospital system:

It's a run that I've done before they've got me in the 50' class this week I hope doing volume truck. I don't really get excited to go do 28' sales service routes out of state, I can do blind routes here in town in fact anymore for a regular bid driver I spend an awful lot of time doing blind routes.

Now I am waiting for them to put me on some 2000 case 40,000lbs chain run but maybe not they only have like 12 chain routes and those only run 4 days a week, but the volume stuff goes everyday. Night time doubles with the 28' usually they don't call in support for that, but yeah we had a guy out for 2 weeks he had to go back home you can only stay away from your family for so long.

My self on the other hand, no family and no dependents so, it's like a no brainier for them haha! I do enjoy the change from broadline to volume truck it's a nice break.

 

This is a load of applesauce I think the cases weigh 25-30lbs each.



I think with knock downs the maximum weight is 1200lbs which is pretty heavy. I don't think I've ever had anything that heavy, but I've probably got 500-600lbs on.