THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Dfo, I was looking at the news the other day.. They are thinking about putting an Walmart DC between Burlington and Graham. That would help out a lot , for inbound freight for getting home. I live in greensboro, even though Kmart and P&G is there, not much freight choices of getting home.

 

There are a lot of loads going to lowe's in garysburg. If you can make your way to OH, to whirlpool. You can grab a load there. Sometimes I can grab a load out of Carlisle, PA to garysburg. I hate getting an empty at Kmart, it takes forever to check in.

 

alright, since you are running the SE primarily, where can a driver get a good cheeseburger?

 

Not a Schneider driver but I love this thread. DFO, you could be a writer. Now excuse me.
, I'm in NC tonight and I found this old deuce and a half someone left out.....

 

I'm pretty sure that lowes is a "drop by" customer. Home Depot, on the other hand, are nazis about delivery windows. Lowes tend to have much larger facilities and space is less of an issue. Kind of like the target dcs. Every time I go to a target they have maybe 20% of the total spots filled lol

one thing I miss about the old dispatch system is the assignment specified "ON" or "BY" along the delivery date. By could drop at anytime before a specific time it had to deliver by, on deliveries had to deliver in the time window. I have no clue why they did not include this in workflow, makes absolutely no sense really. They also specified "at", which represented specific appointment times

 

I have dropped their earlier, call your dbl and check. Im pretty sure you can.

 

a couple of things.......

the "line" thing happened to me once at a Kroger......Herr Oberfuher Fife wanted to make dang sure I didn't block the crossway while bob tail....literally backed up 3 feet,,,,'yeah, bro, whatever.'
as far as pickup and delivery times go, my thought has always been, "hey, got to wait somewhere, might as well be here." I go when I get there. If they take it (99.9% of the time), fine. If they don't, also fine. The only time it gets dicey is live pickups and deliveries.....but even then, I'd say I was 90% of the time unloaded when I got there. As far as 'checking with SNI' goes, look, they couldn't care less. As long as the stuff gets picked up and / or delivered, they really don't care when you get there.

rcok on DFO.......

cheezeburger.......can't beat steak and shake or 5 guys......jus' sayin'

 

Normally Lowes are a 24 hour drop from 0001 to 2359 on a specific date. I have been turned away for arriving a day earlier at the Mt Vernon facility.