Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

Some of our customers consider being early a service failure just like being late. That warehouse in St. Augustin is an AGC distribution warehouse run by the Robert trucking company. They have been known to be a bit temperamental about appointments from time to time.

yeah, I had an 0800 delivery in Concord and a 1700 pickup in Carleton(live load). The ambassador was backed up to the duty free exit, so it took 40 min to clear customs, then it was pretty heavy traffic going thru Detroit so I made it with about 20 min to spare. It was close to 1830 before they started dropping glass and I was loaded, secured, tarped and pulling out of the bay by 2030.

yessir I sure do. Filled up there the other day before crossing over, and I am spending the night there tonight.

 

I have a hypothetical question...on your DOT physical, if you get a 2 year card on 10/30, does it expire 2 years later at 2359 on 10/29, or does it expire at 2359 on 10/30 and you technically have 2 years and 1 day

 

I usually go out at Sarnia, but reports from other drivers heading for Toronto said it was way backed up just getting to the toll booth as well. Things must be moving in Canada now that their election is over.

Aww man, just saw your message when I woke up at 630...

 

Woke up this morning to my next load beeping in. Geneva, NY to Woodbury ON for Monday. At 1st glance, if appeared to be another live load, but after discussing it with my DM, it turns out to be a drop/hook on a Wylie trailer. Later in the day I got a call from my DM, just after clearing the scales east of Toronto. In a somber tone he said "Is there any possible way you could make it to the customer by 5 a.m.?" My reply "absolutely, I was gonna call you in a little while and tell you, I made much better time than expected coming thru Toronto, I will be at the customer tonite, ready to unload 1st thing tomorrow, I will have to figure out how I am gonna get across the border legally on the US regs since I am only gonna be able to put in a Canadian 8 hr break, but I will worry about that after I am empty"...it improved his mood considerably. Almost 700 miles in a 65 mph truck, pulling 45k lbs, 1 border crossing, and driving thru Toronto and Montreal during daylight hours...and I still had a little over an hour of drive time left...gotta love Canadian HOS rules.

 

Hooked to my....ugh....Wylie double drop...and for the record, I hate their double drops compared to Moore's. They're longer, and seem wider compared to ours. Either that or their glass area is smaller because I can walk down the middle of the A-frames on a raised frame...then it's a step and a half down to where the glass sits. They are supposedly ezroll conestoga trailers, but have some sort of wedge reinforcement front and back. In the back, it has a roll up tarp like a normal conestoga, but it is split down the middle with velcro where it goes under the reinforcement. And it feels like it flexes bad every time you hit a bump. I can tell, I am NOT gonna like it here, and it's only been 3.5 weeks...plus I almost hooked up to the wrong trailer. They have GD and GSD designations...GD is double drop, GSD is single drop. The had 2 loaded trailers side by side...same number, 1 GD and 1 GSD...mine was the GD, but it was tucked in behind the GSD...so all I saw was the GSD trailer. I went in the back and checked the load on the GSD trailer and none of the ID tags on the glass matched...after driving around the whole plant, I finally saw my trailer.