Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Needs to start his own thread where he can post how everyone else is screwing up because they don't do it like he does. As far as I'm concerned, from this point, he's invisible (at least to me)....with a wave of the forum's magic wand...poof, he's gone.

 

I was joking. At my age, there is no open deck in my future.

 

They'd have a hissy fit if they had to do what I did yesterday (by choice). I live unloaded at a grocery warehouse yesterday morning, live loaded at a water warehouse before noon, delivered the water load (drop/hook) and made it most the way to Omaha before shutting down. A 500+ mile day and 2 of the 3 customers I visited were full load, live load/unload. The only reason I am not sitting at Hunts Omaha yard is because I got done with my drop/hook at N. Platte in under 30 min, but didn't realize I didn't take long enough to complete a 30, and by the time I realized I screwed up, my 30 clock and my 14 clock were only 35 min apart, so taking another 30 wouldn't gain me enough time to make Omaha yesterday.

 

The one nice thing about pulling a reefer is that cold storage facilities are a lot more expensive to build, so they tend to be less plentiful, so the distance between them is further. Dry, general freight warehouses are getting like Dollar General stores, they're popping up everywhere so dry freight tends to have shorter trips. I mean, if you're in the midwest, and you want strawberries in January, they have to come from Cali or from a ship along one of the coasts, so the trip from source to store is a longer one than just general dry freight which has probably hopped from one warehouse to another across the country. When I was at Crete way back when, their length of haul per load was already a lot shorter than what reefer freight was.