Okay this is the end of my third week with Keen Transportation (http://www.keentransport.com/). Orientation was information overload, I ended up with a drivers hand book as thick an family Bible. The trials began when I was assigned my tractor and headed off from Carlisle PA with a partial load going to Savannah GA. Then I… [Read more…]
November 11, 2011
Many times I get asked as an over the road truck driver “Where did you go?” So I decided to use technology and show where I went the past eleven days. October 31 I left our home base in Byron Center MI and took the load of steel I had loaded prior to Muskegon MI.… [Read more…]
October 29, 2011
Yep I’m referring to Yosemite Sam and his expletives. Well, what would you say if you were unloading a truck and the bundle of steel slid off your forks and ended up all over the ground. So the guy on the Bobcat might sound like this:
May 23, 2011
There have been times in the past that I’d watch those middle-age movies, and romanticize about being a knight or warrior in some great epic, and at times would voice that I was born in the wrong century. Truth be told life was really hard compared to our creature comforts of today, of course they… [Read more…]
December 11, 2010
As I posted on my Facebook profile :http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/JatimLex that is was the results of the speedy work of Home Depot in Vallejo CA that made it so I couldn’t reload on Friday and now have to stay in a truck stop in Ripon CA near the place I have to load at in Modesto. So… [Read more…]
December 1, 2010
The town of Folsom PA has several plants owned by Boeing, for reasons unbeknownst to me, some of the buildings are being torn down. Pictured below is approximately the area that this is being done. The destruction is taking place behind where the circled area is. What I was getting was some 79′ long beams… [Read more…]
May 22, 2010
I’ve seen some creative ways to load a truck but the following takes the cake. When I got backed into the dock my bumper was 18″ to high even with the airbags deflated. The riggers weren’t sure of how to load my truck until they came up with the idea of putting the machinery on… [Read more…]
May 10, 2010
One of our usual shippers had a load going to California, however their loads are usually less than a full trailer. They have an understanding with us (the transportation company) that we will move the load that distance once the trailer is fully loaded, so dispatch went to work. Oh crap did they ever give… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
I was just reading another trucking blog site the author was having a bad day, I got to thinking about my worst day so far in trucking. The Toyota plant in Buffalo WV was expanding it’s facility they were ready for the roof trusses. The roof trusses were built in Grand Rapids MI. The trusses… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
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