Where are you

Sitting in Baltimore getting loaded so I can haul my donkey back west before Irene hits.

 

Backing into a door in some mills aint real bad if its a single dock door. But then there are the rail docks that load 4 or 5 trucks at a time. They aint bad if the driver that backed in before you helps out and is a spotter for the next driver backing in. There is one door in Middletown I hate backing in. Its about a 12 foot wide door but at times they load 2 trucks at a time, if your the second truck backing in you gotta get your trailer in the door then jack it to the left while missing the truck to the right and keeping the trailer out of the coil field AND keeping your truck from hitting the building, and on a bright sunny day your backing into a black hole.

Hey I'm 6'3" is that short enough?

 

That is somewhat of an advantage to aluminum over steel. It has the ability to flex more and not crack. Besides my MAC is rated for an 80k coil in 4'.

You haul donkey's???

Guess you can claim you're really hauling ###.....

Did I tell you about the cold mill being on fire the other day down there? That was interesting....

Women now have height requirements.......

 

Only 34700 on a spread? With out knowing what you are hauling at the moment I all ways try to load at least 36~37000 on my spread. Its easier to pull the weight than to pack it and theirs no need to worry about the weight on the drive axles.

 

No you didn't. Guess that shut things down for a few hours. LOL Did it do any major improvements?

Seems like all the good woman have requirements these days....................that I have a hard time meeting LMAO

 

Actually no. I got loaded within the hour. I was back at 667 right next to it. The guy come in and told me it would be a while, I asked why and told him everyone else was still loading trucks. So they came back in and loaded me....lol.
They did shut the scale down so I ended up having to wait to get out.....

Women and their dang requirements...

 

Most of the requirements aren't that difficult to meet

 

Them dumb ### guards will shut the scales down if a plant supervisor sneezes and bats his eyes 3 or 4 times. Never understood why shutting down the outbound scale helped while there is a problem in the plant, going in I can understand.

 

No one ever said they were the brightest bunch....

 

I would rather be with someone with standards a little higher than "You must be able to breathe on your own."

Backing....I remember the time I had to blindside jack-knife back around the end of a building off a busy street, into a garage with a portable dock and had to avoid the support posts on each side of the "dock" with no marks to use as a guide. The only guide was the posts themselves and there was about 2" of clearance on each side.

Yeah....they kicked me out of my truck, closed the garage door and made me wait outside. When they were done, the trailer was sealed and locked with one of their locks. I got a sealed envelope with the bills inside and was told under no circumstances was I to open that envelope. They didn't tell me the destination right away. I had a contact person meet me at each stop to tell me where my next stop would be. It took four days to follow their route and when I delivered, it was about 50 miles from the pickup as the crow flies. I got within a few blocks of the delivery point and they had someone ride in the truck with me. They blindfolded me and told me every move to make....turn here, straighten out...stop, hard left....It was creepy. I had to stay blindfolded throughout the entire delivery and even on the way out. They stopped me at a different place than on the way in, pointed and said go that way and you'll get to the interstate. Do not turn around.

I never did figure out what I was hauling, but I do believe I smelled a barnyard pretty close....and I had to wash the bovine droppings off my truck, too. Now I think I'll have to clean the same bovine waste from inside the truck as well.