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You should just take a boat to the shores of Florida just like every other Cuban and claim wet foot dry foot.

Going to need to dump that sexy accent and start likin a Cuban caffee
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I thought Obumer put a stop to that policy.

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I hate Exxon Mobil’s due to one huge facility.
Been to quite few of them but one really sucks.
Chester, WV, way over on the Ohio River, pretty much straight across from Pittsburgh on the map.

Anywho, Get a 0700 Appointment, only place to park nearby is an hour out, a Loves that might hold 20 trucks, full of locals.
So, I somehow found a spot to blindside into with a spreadaxle isotanker and chassis.
Learned the trick years ago about dropping the sun visor on RHS and can use that mirror when in a tight turn to see the rear of the trailer, but I make it the next day at 0630.
I sat there for 24 hours, the reason, the product code shipped from overseas didn’t match their product code.

I told them that was bs, the name of the product matched, and so did every piece of paper I had, matched what had been faxed to them.
But since that business didn’t match their product code, they wouldn’t touch it.
So I sat outside the gate all day, truck idling to keep from freezing, didn’t have espar bunk heater at this time.
Ended up delivering the next day at 0730, when someone made the decision that the in-house product code didn’t have to match.

Then they got 5 mph speed zone where a guy walks beside you as “escort” and he takes you to tank.
You have to be buckled in, and the guard even tells you the yard personnel messes with you trying to get you to move the truck with no seatbelt on to ban you and the ban carries to all Exxon Mobile sites.
If they think you looked at your phone while driving, your banned, I turned mine off just incase they tried that trick, so I could prove it was off, but I don’t think that would’ve even carried much weight there.

So after I stop under the rack, set brakes, turn engine off then off comes the lap strap, and I step down in my PPE, I walk back to the end of the trailer, the guy says, “I need you to pull up about 5 ft, not under the rack good.”
I didn’t say anything, he took my paperwork, I got in truck, hooked the belt, started it and released brakes and the guy yelled, “That’s Good!”

I’m like wtf, I didn’t even put it in gear.
So I secure truck out I go again, and he said “You gotta climb up there and hook the nitrogen line to the top of the tank.”
I told him I wasn’t going up there, I was scared of heights and claustrophobic.
He told me I’d be there all day if I didn’t do it.
I told him I’d already wasted one day of my life there, what would 2 hurt?
He hooked everything up.
3 hours later I was free.
Load paid exclusive rates to take the tank back to Houston, could’ve went back but I said “No way.”

Sent in layover paperwork I never got anything for that day wasted, at least the load paid exclusive rate.
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At least they didnt dock you for missing the appointment time of their error.

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Cattleman84 said: ↑

Well not quite warm enough to have the shirt in buttoned... But close. Lol

Last winter I got a good laugh... Was at a rest area in eastern WY, 20° and just a very slight breeze. The Swift driver that was parked beside me climbs out of his truck looking like the Michelin Man!! Like full Arctic gear from the snow boot, to the fur lined hood of his supper poofy insulated coat. Even had snow pants and gloves to match the coat.

He gets out walks once around his truck, then heads into the rest area building. Nearly an hour later he comes back to his truck... Seemed like an awful lot of work getting suited up like that to walk 150 feet to un suit so one can use the can, then suit up again to walk that same 150 back to the truck and un suit.... SMH
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You'll shoot your eye out!

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Judge said: ↑

I hate Exxon Mobil’s due to one huge facility.
Been to quite few of them but one really sucks.
Chester, WV, way over on the Ohio River, pretty much straight across from Pittsburgh on the map.

Anywho, Get a 0700 Appointment, only place to park nearby is an hour out, a Loves that might hold 20 trucks, full of locals.
So, I somehow found a spot to blindside into with a spreadaxle isotanker and chassis.
Learned the trick years ago about dropping the sun visor on RHS and can use that mirror when in a tight turn to see the rear of the trailer, but I make it the next day at 0630.
I sat there for 24 hours, the reason, the product code shipped from overseas didn’t match their product code.

I told them that was bs, the name of the product matched, and so did every piece of paper I had, matched what had been faxed to them.
But since that business didn’t match their product code, they wouldn’t touch it.
So I sat outside the gate all day, truck idling to keep from freezing, didn’t have espar bunk heater at this time.
Ended up delivering the next day at 0730, when someone made the decision that the in-house product code didn’t have to match.

Then they got 5 mph speed zone where a guy walks beside you as “escort” and he takes you to tank.
You have to be buckled in, and the guard even tells you the yard personnel messes with you trying to get you to move the truck with no seatbelt on to ban you and the ban carries to all Exxon Mobile sites.
If they think you looked at your phone while driving, your banned, I turned mine off just incase they tried that trick, so I could prove it was off, but I don’t think that would’ve even carried much weight there.

So after I stop under the rack, set brakes, turn engine off then off comes the lap strap, and I step down in my PPE, I walk back to the end of the trailer, the guy says, “I need you to pull up about 5 ft, not under the rack good.”
I didn’t say anything, he took my paperwork, I got in truck, hooked the belt, started it and released brakes and the guy yelled, “That’s Good!”

I’m like wtf, I didn’t even put it in gear.
So I secure truck out I go again, and he said “You gotta climb up there and hook the nitrogen line to the top of the tank.”
I told him I wasn’t going up there, I was scared of heights and claustrophobic.
He told me I’d be there all day if I didn’t do it.
I told him I’d already wasted one day of my life there, what would 2 hurt?
He hooked everything up.
3 hours later I was free.
Load paid exclusive rates to take the tank back to Houston, could’ve went back but I said “No way.”

Sent in layover paperwork I never got anything for that day wasted, at least the load paid exclusive rate.
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I'm surprised they let you keep your phone. At Baytown, they always asked my phone had a camera and if I would have said yes, they would have wanted to lock it up until I came back out. And I was usually loaded with an hour of my appointment, then had to sit out by the scales for 5 hours waiting for the lab to ok the load before I could go.

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I'm surprised they let you keep your phone. At Baytown, they always asked my phone had a camera and if I would have said yes, they would have wanted to lock it up until I came back out. And I was usually loaded with an hour of my appointment, then had to sit out by the scales for 5 hours waiting for the lab to ok the load before I could go.
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They put security tape over them now.

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No its not. But thank you ever so much for thinking of me.
It's a Detroit. Yours is / was a Cummins
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You need to think about the children. My God man, the children.

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kemosabi49 said: ↑

I'm surprised they let you keep your phone. At Baytown, they always asked my phone had a camera and if I would have said yes, they would have wanted to lock it up until I came back out. And I was usually loaded with an hour of my appointment, then had to sit out by the scales for 5 hours waiting for the lab to ok the load before I could go.
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Oh Exxon Baytown.... Many Many years ago. I was 18. I rode a ship into Exxon Baytown. I worked Marine Electronics.
I grew up not far from there. In Clear Lake City....next to NASA.
That place is huge. They had(have still?) Two ships that run back and forth out to the Gulf. There is a supertanker anchored there. Ships from overseas unload to the Supertanker. These two ships load at the Supertanker. Then unload in Exxon Baytown. .... They say it saves on costs and bother to enter the country.

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Judge said: ↑

I hate Exxon Mobil’s due to one huge facility.
Been to quite few of them but one really sucks.
Chester, WV, way over on the Ohio River, pretty much straight across from Pittsburgh on the map.

Anywho, Get a 0700 Appointment, only place to park nearby is an hour out, a Loves that might hold 20 trucks, full of locals.
So, I somehow found a spot to blindside into with a spreadaxle isotanker and chassis.
Learned the trick years ago about dropping the sun visor on RHS and can use that mirror when in a tight turn to see the rear of the trailer, but I make it the next day at 0630.
I sat there for 24 hours, the reason, the product code shipped from overseas didn’t match their product code.

I told them that was bs, the name of the product matched, and so did every piece of paper I had, matched what had been faxed to them.
But since that business didn’t match their product code, they wouldn’t touch it.
So I sat outside the gate all day, truck idling to keep from freezing, didn’t have espar bunk heater at this time.
Ended up delivering the next day at 0730, when someone made the decision that the in-house product code didn’t have to match.

Then they got 5 mph speed zone where a guy walks beside you as “escort” and he takes you to tank.
You have to be buckled in, and the guard even tells you the yard personnel messes with you trying to get you to move the truck with no seatbelt on to ban you and the ban carries to all Exxon Mobile sites.
If they think you looked at your phone while driving, your banned, I turned mine off just incase they tried that trick, so I could prove it was off, but I don’t think that would’ve even carried much weight there.

So after I stop under the rack, set brakes, turn engine off then off comes the lap strap, and I step down in my PPE, I walk back to the end of the trailer, the guy says, “I need you to pull up about 5 ft, not under the rack good.”
I didn’t say anything, he took my paperwork, I got in truck, hooked the belt, started it and released brakes and the guy yelled, “That’s Good!”

I’m like wtf, I didn’t even put it in gear.
So I secure truck out I go again, and he said “You gotta climb up there and hook the nitrogen line to the top of the tank.”
I told him I wasn’t going up there, I was scared of heights and claustrophobic.
He told me I’d be there all day if I didn’t do it.
I told him I’d already wasted one day of my life there, what would 2 hurt?
He hooked everything up.
3 hours later I was free.
Load paid exclusive rates to take the tank back to Houston, could’ve went back but I said “No way.”

Sent in layover paperwork I never got anything for that day wasted, at least the load paid exclusive rate.
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Cementing and frac'ing for them is just as big a PITA. Only did 1 job, and was glad to never work with them again.

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tommymonza said: ↑

I backread about your elk huntin as a boy. Never been a hunter other than with a speargun underwater.

Chicken #### compared to what you do.

Occasionally a shark wants to give me grief but nothing compared to packing in and out
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Hell no... I dont care what ya say that speargun fishing is straight up crazy... I hate big water, and I hate big thing in big water. I'll keep my feet on solid, mostly dry ground.

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He'll no... I dont care what ya say that speargun fishing is straight up crazy... I hate big water, and I hate big thing in big water. I'll keep my keep on solid, mostly dry ground.
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Now there’s a wise man. Stays away from things that can swim up and swallow him whole.

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