Auto parts of some sort. Looks to be big sheets of plastic that have been finished and has holes put in them. Might snap a pic tomorrow
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Electric Chicken
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Interestingly vague.
Electric Chicken
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I ran your same roads again today. Same as yesterday and Monday. I split off at the 78 though and dipped into Bethel before coming back.
It was kinda weird after your live feed. I had similar slow downs in Carlisle and some spotty rain too.
It was kinda weird after your live feed. I had similar slow downs in Carlisle and some spotty rain too.
Here are pics of the product that will make it even more vague
It’s steel.
It’s going to a place called shippers automotive for warehousing. Navistar is paying for it.
Tulsa does have a bus manufacturing plant, so maybe this crap goes on a bus somewhere.
Got the one up close Puc to show is has bazillions of holes made into it.
Anyway, I got four racks of this crap on the trailer til Monday morning.
I hope everyone is now as enlightened as I am about this.
Electric Chicken
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Electric Chicken
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I googled the cornbinder part number and nothing comes up.
Rigjockey
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Those are what goes around the Flux capacitor. They help conduct the 1.21 Gigawatts needed to power the Flux capacitor.
Hope that helps.
Electric Chicken
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It certainly doesn't. Thanks!
389 Hood
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Being up and bored, I did several searches with pictures and into Shipper's Automotive Group. Other than being a 3rd party logistics company, I couldn't find out much. @Mike when you do deliver, snoop around and ask questions about the product. The closest two things that I came up with was flow-through insulation panels and fuel tank bilge covers integrated into the flooring of Four Winns boats.
Long boring weekend coming up. I parked today in Iowa, about 285 miles from my MONDAY delivery in Nebraska. So yeah, I will be parked somehwere in Nebraska before noon tomorrow until Monday morning.
My week this week consisted of sitting home until Thursday, running a short load on Thursday from Springfield, MO to Morton, IL to delivery this morning, then picked this load up in Iowa today to take it to Nebraska. In two weeks time, I will be doing these two loads, and likely one more before having to be at home to start preparing for the middle child's graduation.
I think I would have been better off just doing Uber rides for a couple weeks.
My week this week consisted of sitting home until Thursday, running a short load on Thursday from Springfield, MO to Morton, IL to delivery this morning, then picked this load up in Iowa today to take it to Nebraska. In two weeks time, I will be doing these two loads, and likely one more before having to be at home to start preparing for the middle child's graduation.
I think I would have been better off just doing Uber rides for a couple weeks.
Electric Chicken
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So what was the plastic stuff?
389 Hood
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IIRC, he said it was steel sheeting.
Electric Chicken
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I forget what he said it was. But whatever it was, what was it?
Didn’t find out. Had some unpleasant words at that place due to laziness so further discussion of the product wasn’t going to happen.
Besides, looked like they were just receiving it to hold til the next company came to get it. Just a storage warehouse for all sorts of things.
Electric Chicken
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Your laziness or theirs?
389 Hood
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I don't understand these so-called warehouses. They hire these idiots that just want to stand around and collect a paycheck for doing just as little as possible. Why even apply for a job that you even think would suck. You went to them, they didn't come looking for you. If you work there, put forth the effort to do the job that you were assigned. If you don't like that job, leave and go somewhere more fitting to your abilities. Like, maybe, a place where you can ask, "Do you want fries with that?"
Rigjockey
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My experience working at the plant tells me they are very unmotivated.
They have a shift and what gets done, gets done and what doesn't, oh well.
They make sure they take all their breaks and never miss lunch.
They are completely oblivious to a drivers HOS and schedule and frankly they don't give a shit!
Why don't they just find another job? Because well paying jobs like that are hard to come by. Where you as a driver could walk out at 11 am and have another job by noon, it's not the same for these guys.
I used to laugh at the drivers that came in all wound up expecting to be put into a door and loaded and down the road in under an hour.
They were in the wrong place for that. Expect to be there for a few hours.
Is it right? No of course not. But, that is just the way it is and they all stick together.
They have no problem sending you away empty rather than hear you chirping.
Electric Chicken
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This is why I don't do lives anymore. STG/XPO has no financial incentives other than the hope to accrue detention after 2 hours. There's nothing covering that initial 2 hours, unless they have to add bonuses because NO ONE will do them.
Even then, without PC in case they take forever and no sleeper as a backup plan, I'm out.
Hillbilly Canuck
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One of the main reasons I'll never bump docks or do bricks and sticks OTR for a living again.
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It's understandable that experiences like that make you disillusioned with certain aspects of trucking. However, it's important to remember that not all warehouses and shippers are like that, and finding a good company with efficient processes can make a big difference in the quality of your experiences on the road. Additionally, as a professional driver, you have the power to communicate your concerns and needs assertively and respectfully to dispatchers and shippers alike.
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