The Food Service Rant thread

Broken springs on my trailer.

 

Lol.

No, actually I walked in with half a spring leaf and the warehouse manager just hung his head.

They did a kick ### job on the reload. I was only 45 minutes late at my first stop.

I won't even go into pre- and post-trip inspections, or lack there of.

 

The whole spring was there when i left, musta broke when them warehouse boys hit the dock plate at 3mph less the speed of light..... yeah, yeah thats the ticket...

 

To be honest, a shuttle driver brought it all the way up through the entire state of Ohio that way. Must have thought the smoke was salt spray. The bottom of the trailer was sitting on the tires.

 

That's no joke ha-ha! I asked one of our drivers who was working loading trucks on a special assignment Sunday night how the yard hostlers did the trailers with the yard goat and the warehouse and he said "Man those guys were slamming and driving stuff around at 100 miles an hour."

 

When i was a dock monkey back in the day, O/O's would have us shag thier trucks while they talked to dispatch... yeah, all i had driving was the yard dog, a 12 year old petercar with about 3.8 million miles, no clutch brake left, short wheel base, 10 speed. A top dog type comes in, says my kennys outside, dock 4. Oh if my clutch feels different when i get it back.... its your ###. Bossman said park it for him. Go outside and BAM! Im looking at O/O special W9 long nose with a 88 sleeper, all shiny, clean and chromed.... you learn real quick what a "light touch" is....

 

Fairly light load today not to much to say 9000 pound route. I did have a back haul though which was no biggie either and my truck has about 5" of road salt cemented on to it. Oh well, it'll get washed off somehow can't win against this cold weather and ODOT dropping salt and liquid deicer 24/7 non stop ha-ha.

 

I've driven on dry roads on two different days since the snow started in northern Michigan. Never on the first day of my route, and it's almost always snowing when I leave the hotel on day two.

I have seven of ten stops this time. Again. I've had all of the stops on my Friday route once on this bid, and once I only had six. It has been weeks since I've seen them all on Tuesday, which sucks because the stop they've been pulling on Tuesday costs me almost ninety miles. Unless I drive around with the extra three hours I have on my hands . I've been known to take the long way.