‘We’re gonna be in the Hudson’ – USATODAY.com

‘We’re gonna be in the Hudson’ – USATODAY.com.

Listen to the audio… spooky and unreal.. this guy is an American hero

Fiesta Time… then we Siesta! – 2030hrs

Was home all weekend getting the truck setup and spending some wonderful time with my sweetie.

Picked up a load out of Biddeford on the way out… thought it was going to be Maple products by the name of the company… NOPE  32 pallets of chunky salsa, medium!  Dragged that down (again through the snow!) to Dayton, NJ.  Really really neat driving down I95 on Long Island, NY at 3 in the morning!  Crossed over the George Washington Bridge into “Joursey” on the Turnpike… then suddenly could NOT for the life of me get the damn “Sopranos” theme song out of me head!  Kept waiting to see a Cadillac Escalade go by with a fat Italian guy smoking a stogey!!  ROFLMAO  Wait… that WAS every car going by!

Got unloaded there this morning, then took that MTY to Jersey City and the Tropicana plant there… had to Bobtail from there to Headen, NJ to pick up a damaged trailer going to the Pittston yard.

When I say “damaged”… I mean busted-ass broken down!!  The front trailer tandem had no wheels or tires… the axle was LITERALLY hanging by a chain from the frame and it had no mechanical or air brakes on it what-so-ever!

Don’t know what happened to it, but the tandems were FRIGGED UP

EDITORIAL NOTE:  I had posted this (and more last night), but for some reason the connection got screwed up and didn’t actually post, so I’m going to resume the saved draft this morning 0940hrs)

So I bunked down in our Pittston, PA terminal after dropping that shit trailer… of course because it had no brakes, I had to find a decent spot in the DIRT back lot for trailers… you know all the snow and ice we’ve had the last week or two?  Yeah, well the entire back lot was a sheet of ice… no sooner had I lowered the landing gear on the trailer, lifting it high enough so I could pull out from under it without pulling the free-wheeling trailer… I GOT STUCK!  All eight drive wheels just spinning their merry little way… FORWARD OR REVERSE!!  <sigh>

Raise the landing gear… drop the trailer back onto the fifth wheel to get enough weight on the drives so I can pull forward some… lower the landing gear / lift the trailer again… fortunately I was able to drive out from under it the second time!

Oh yeah… going back… that trailer full of Ortega Thick N Chunky salsa?  Yeah, the receiver rejected two cases… one jar in each of the cases had been broken (by the shipper I’d say as they were stuck to the dried out carboard “box” they sat it)… had to call our claims department.. yada yada yada.

Bottom line… claims said “dispose of them”… um… OK!!

So now I have one case (minus a jar, 11 jars) of Ortega Thick N Chunky medium salsa, and one case (minus a jar, 11 jars) of Ortega Thick N Chunky Garden Variety Medium salsa!!   Whooo Hoooo!!

Now… where did I put those damn Tostitos?!?!

I got to meet my Fleet Manager (FM) / Dispatcher this morning…real nice guy… he should be getting me a load sometime this morning to roll out!  It’s like a lottery… will I go south where it’s “warmer” (yeah… 40’s in Florida!) or go North?  Com’on Arizona!!!