Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

What's even more fun is when you're dropping and picking up at the same location. You drop in the dock, but the next load isn't ready so you hang out in the bobtail area for 30 minutes, then get told to grab the same trailer you just dropped. Used to be a common occurrence at PG Neelys Landing. I'd bring down a load from GB, then bring it back up to Edwardsville or over to Vandalia.

 

Lol my favorite memory is from the mid 90's, picking up a load of pet food in Charlotte NC. Drove it to Terminal Island Los Angeles. They backed me in a door at the dock, took each pallet off, put a sticker on each one and put them right back on the trailer, pulled out and went right back to Charlotte.

Got to Charlotte, they backed me in the dock, pulled off the pallets, applied another set of stickers, reloaded them and sent me off the port in Elizabeth NJ.

Never did find out what that whole fiasco was about but it paid darned good...lol

 

I love winter

 

They give you. PP,then when it’s dispatched adds another 100 miles for the fuel solution?Which isn’t added to the original miles.

 

I tend to go my way that I plan..a lot of times my way is shorter and quicker too..usually around 2-3% difference from paid miles

 

the way I went on that load. The last time was I went over to Grand Island jumped on 30 over to 81 and I went 81 straight up

 

I show back up at the shipper this afternoon in Merrillville Indiana. Come to find out. Lincoln was emailed all of the information Friday afternoon on which trailers were scheduled to pick up over the weekend and the pick up numbers attached to them…

I emailed the ops manager, Minick after finding this information from the shipper themselves with the name of the lady in the office who sent the emails, and the response in the email is laughable to say the least…

He basically sends a screenshot of his computer screen, showing the instructions on what we’re supposed to follow about picking up a certain trailer in the yard at the shipper, problem is we don’t have trailer numbers or the pick up numbers…

I was one of three Shaffer trucks in the last 24 hours that this happened to there… When I talk to him tomorrow, my question to him is are we supposed to just roam the lot to pick up a trailer that we think is ours even though there might be multiple trailers going to the same customer?

smh