Blog Violation
I guess I knew that my blog would be read by others and that I had set myself up for on-line scrutiny when I posted it. I created this as an on-line journal, and a way that friends and family could read about our adventures on the road. After I posted my last piece about GPS, I got up early the next day to update some other thoughts. Upon returning to the site, I noticed that it had been violated. Some very troubling and hateful comments had been posted throughout the entire blog. So now I had to add some security to the site and try to clear my head from the hate and discontent that was directed in my general direction.
180,000 Miles
We drove the wheels off truck number one and have been issued a brand new, 2006 Columbia series Freightliner. The new car smell was a little overwhelming. It took almost 2 days to get the new truck back in order. We just took it in to have a 58,000 mile service done. That is just a bit over 2 months of driving.
Stories From The Way Side
We haul all kinds of stuff. Some of it is absolutely bizarre in its relevance to the load before it. We picked up a load of Starbucks Coffee, and the next load was coffee makers for Wal-Mart. We took toilet paper to the east coast and brought back to the west coast porta potties. Of course, some of it can just be silly. Like the 4 loads a day of toilet paper that GTI hauls to Los Angeles, must be for all the B.S. that goes on down there. The Maraschinos Cherries is just a bizarre load, an entire semi trailer filled with them, how many cherries is that and who really needs that many cherries. It might have made more sense if the cherries went to Las Vegas. More toilet paper, this time it went out to the mid-west, and we brought back fertilizer. I guess we haul allot of crap.
This is a short blog. I just wanted to get some of the creative juices running though my veins again. I will leave you with one last load.
Hot Load of Cherries
Joy and I have a reputation in dispatch as a team that will get the load there on time without much crying. Yes crying, boo hoo. So we were on our way back up I-5 (boo hoo), again, and we got a message on the Qualcomm “call dispatch ASAP!” Our driver manager wanted to know if we had any experience with hauling refrigerated good’s. Joy said that Brett does. Ok, great like that was 7 months ago when I was just a baby trucker (boo hoo). So why the reefer load. Well it seems that in Yakima, Washington, the rare and succulent plum size cherry is grown. This special little luscious morsel is loved and coveted by the Japanese. The load was relayed to us in Portland, we drove the little tasty snacks non-stop to San Francisco international airport to catch there flights. The air cargo area is not refrigerated, so we waited until the jet’s were ready to fly, (8 hours later...boo hoo)so the cherries went from the cold trailer to the cargo handlers at 3 different terminals, and loaded to fly non-stop to Japan. I can only speculate that those sweet little cherries could pay for 4 new cherry semi trucks and refrigerated trailers. $$$ Nice Load.
180,000 Miles
We drove the wheels off truck number one and have been issued a brand new, 2006 Columbia series Freightliner. The new car smell was a little overwhelming. It took almost 2 days to get the new truck back in order. We just took it in to have a 58,000 mile service done. That is just a bit over 2 months of driving.
Stories From The Way Side
We haul all kinds of stuff. Some of it is absolutely bizarre in its relevance to the load before it. We picked up a load of Starbucks Coffee, and the next load was coffee makers for Wal-Mart. We took toilet paper to the east coast and brought back to the west coast porta potties. Of course, some of it can just be silly. Like the 4 loads a day of toilet paper that GTI hauls to Los Angeles, must be for all the B.S. that goes on down there. The Maraschinos Cherries is just a bizarre load, an entire semi trailer filled with them, how many cherries is that and who really needs that many cherries. It might have made more sense if the cherries went to Las Vegas. More toilet paper, this time it went out to the mid-west, and we brought back fertilizer. I guess we haul allot of crap.
This is a short blog. I just wanted to get some of the creative juices running though my veins again. I will leave you with one last load.
Hot Load of Cherries
Joy and I have a reputation in dispatch as a team that will get the load there on time without much crying. Yes crying, boo hoo. So we were on our way back up I-5 (boo hoo), again, and we got a message on the Qualcomm “call dispatch ASAP!” Our driver manager wanted to know if we had any experience with hauling refrigerated good’s. Joy said that Brett does. Ok, great like that was 7 months ago when I was just a baby trucker (boo hoo). So why the reefer load. Well it seems that in Yakima, Washington, the rare and succulent plum size cherry is grown. This special little luscious morsel is loved and coveted by the Japanese. The load was relayed to us in Portland, we drove the little tasty snacks non-stop to San Francisco international airport to catch there flights. The air cargo area is not refrigerated, so we waited until the jet’s were ready to fly, (8 hours later...boo hoo)so the cherries went from the cold trailer to the cargo handlers at 3 different terminals, and loaded to fly non-stop to Japan. I can only speculate that those sweet little cherries could pay for 4 new cherry semi trucks and refrigerated trailers. $$$ Nice Load.
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