What if it Snows?

Worst load... ever.
I’m glad I didn’t have to get it out.
Potash that looked like it been in a barge that’d sunk.
Basically red wet dirt.
Took 3 guys, one in the hopper with a stick, two others one on each side, hammering my hoppers, which I didn’t like, but had to get it out.
The industrial shaker box wouldn’t budge that stuff.
I’m going to DH home, I noticed some popping from the front end, sounds like the old FLD series, only heard it when loaded, I figure spring bushings, cause everything else is good and snug.

 

Now are we supposed to rate someone we’ve never worked or hauled a load for? Those guys trying to get that stuff out were not happy.

 

Judge; how did they load it, off a spout or with a front end loader.
Was it just damp and settled hard as you traveled? I often wonder why
hopper bottoms don't get jammed more often, what with tarped dampness and the road conditions.

 

I like it.

Could be a heavy metal band name.

 

All good, I just dropped that one as heading out the door. Taking lunch at home so got the chance to respond.

 

Only when he gets done stroking 1 out to new Cascadia pictures. Anyone who spends that much time "hating" on the same topic is hiding something.

 

I feel there must be a story behind this comment... My curiosity is peaked.

 

Not many times at Landstar. I don’t keep track.


Of course my time at Western Express taught me that my time isn’t worth anything to shippers and receivers when they aren’t going to have to pay detention.

 

Ditto.

 

You should try unloading hopper rail cars loaded with fluid grade potash (about the consistency of table salt when dry)... We finally quit ordering it by rail. It would take a crew of 6 to 8 guys with large sledge hammers, a huge railcar vibrator, multiple bars and sticks, and occasionally a guy had to be harnessed up to a boom lift and lowered into the hopper to beat the crap out from the inside... It sucked even worse when the railcars had gone through a major TAIN storm.