Where is everyone #5

I chipped mine getting a little to aggressive with it and don't think I had it on good and square. They are pretty dangerous with the amount of force they exert. Glad the piece didn't wind up in me. I stand back using the flame wrench. When they pop you hope it's the cap and not the tool.

 

I carried one in a wrecker for years. Never failed, never had one not come out with it. However had a lot of spice lifeliner slip shaft not slip. Lubed for life is about 750k guys.

 

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I’m taking one crate. ONE. 200 odd some pounds....

From Los Angeles to Laredo Texas.........okay.



This tarping stuff has me WHOOPED I tell ya

Back to yanking an open deck. This time it’s a 48’ fixed spread step deck. Me likey

 

Made it home and as I was grabbing my bags to head to the house for the weekend the phone rings. Bobtail all the way back to Savannah because the customer forgot he has a local super-load to move on Monday. I guess the up side, my load to Canada scheduled for Monday has been pushed back a week so at least I'll be busy till Friday morning when I get back home.

On another note, I haven't lived in an apartment in 22 years and 22 years ago there was no "Amazon". So I wanted a 65" TV for my living room and found the one I wanted on Amazon. I had a crap load of cash back bonus on my card so I used that to buy the TV. Waited to order it till it showed Saturday delivery, hit the buy it now and blissfully imagined 65" of OLED 4k. Guess what, UPS tried to deliver it today 35 minutes before I got home. They'll try again Monday and obviously I'll be in GA not TX. FML with this apartment living stuff and trying to order online.

Anyway, here's tonight's food porn, fresh bay scallops wrapped in bacon and of course my favorite staple, fresh cauliflower mash.

 

Just have them deliver it to the office. They should hold it for you?

 

Did you get your tarps back?

 

It’s a three piece set. May not be the exact set from before but they’ll work

After mucking around with that Quikdraw for three(?) weeks I’m pretty happy to have some basic rags back to be honest.

I feel like the flatbed QuickDraw can be pretty seemless but that step deck one is a total pita if it’s out of alignment... Nevermind if someone accidentally breaks a safety latch

 

Ron,

.....you fight for some sort of detention in these cases, correct?

I don’t even know a fraction of what your operation involves but you have a permit to move while EMPTY so something tells me the delays for you sitting at a shipper must cost you far more than simply delaying a legal load?

 

I love the spicer life series drivelines, they are pretty robust and I've never seen a life series ujoint actually fail (not saying they havent, I just never personally seen one) but I do wish the slip was greasable.

 

Yes normally I would receive detention to cover the time and if I need to replace permits the customer would pay for those - and they can be very expensive.

In this case, the machine has a ship window of the 19th-21s. That being said everybody said the machine should have been ready today. So I take it on the chin, although the broker is going to pay for the no go for the pilot car today.

I am just agitated because I have been sitting for so many days. As of Monday it will be 9 days of cold snow and annoyance.