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Dockworker said:
You two crack me up.:hysterical:
I bought some dunnage gag bags (Made of kevlar) to jack up my car for an oil change and tire rotation. When I'm done, I deflate it and it sounds like a whoopie cushion.
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DW, I'm reporting you. You must have been the suspicious individual searching through our dumpsters for air-bags. Now I know what he is talking about. Those are Conway air-bags. ICP man.. ICP.. I need that 100% ICP..
 
jakebrake12 said:
DW, I'm reporting you. You must have been the suspicious individual searching through our dumpsters for air-bags. Now I know what he is talking about. Those are Conway air-bags. ICP man.. ICP.. I need that 100% ICP..
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You caught me! I'm the one stabbing holes in them. Trying to get the one up on you guys. (Call me Captain Stabbin, Please don't do a google search to find me either):hide:
 
Dockworker said:
You caught me! I'm the one stabbing holes in them. Trying to get the one up on you guys. (Call me Captain Stabbin, Please don't do a google search to find me either):hide:
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K.. I took the bait. I think they are now keeping records on our dunnage bags. Just so no one walking by our dumpster at random, steals them or pokes holes in them Captain Stabber.
 
I was hoping for once you'd resist. But that was too much to hope for. :funky:

Scenario (stay with me here): I drove my husband to work the night before and then came to pick him up. At his terminal the dumpster is next to the ramp/steps to the door into the driver's section. Still with me here?

I drive up, dumpster is full and on top is a puffed out bag, right in full view of everyone. As I get out to walk up to the steps to the terminal I see a hole in the bag. And realized that was why it was in the trash. :1036316054:

See? Simple. Wife of driver that is employed at this terminal picks her husband up to drive him home while he can relax and enjoy being driven to home after long hours on the road! bag is on top of the stuff in the dumpster within 3 feet of the steps. Never seen one before and wondered why it would be thrown away and that when I see the hole in the bag :smilie_132: I'm glad simple things like this are fascinating to you.


primadona said:
OK, I can't resist. You just happened to be near a dumpster at a Con-way facility that I believe you are not employed at, and you just happened to look inside this dumpster for some reason, and you just happened to see a dunnage bag, and you were curious enough to look closely enough at this bag to determine that there was a hole in it? Fascinating.:shrug:
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HoosierWarParty said:
Were you looking to use it for a dress for the ball?
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Glad you asked :1036316054: I dumpster dive for my clothes because Conway doesn't pay my husband enough. I make my jewelry from the cute little metal thingies you put on the doors of the trailers :hysterical:

Read my answer to the Underwear Man for the real reason why I saw one :smilie_132:
 
I wish I would have thought of Captain Stabbin when I was in college.. That would have been a great alias.. I had a stabbin cabin, but I was 25 by that point... Problem was, I had a serious chick, it was my buddies stabbin cabin.. BASTARDS... I need to re-live my late teens/early twenties. That chick was not the one. She robbed me.. At least I can still do whatever I want, whenever I want, at all times.. Yes married men.... I only have a girlfriend.. The best part................. She would want the pre-nup.. Gotta love those DC girls......:1036316054:
 
Hey, i Know you are all well experience truck driver,truck owners and frieght company,but i am yet to get one,i will love to know maybe you can help me out getting one.But it is obvious that professional driver are very scarce...help me out with one and i will be happy.
 
I know a guy, makes more than I do, just goes around digging in dumpsters for old pallets, sells them at recycling yards, or UPS freight, anywhere he can....does really well.................So, I have an idea for a new sideline, dumpster diving for used air bags.........patch up any holes, a little duct tape and a large black marker (wipe out all of the old identifiers), good as new....I will make a fortune....retire early and buy an island in the Carribbean......might even invite Cap'n Stabbin down for a little visit....heard he has a way with the ladies.........
 
My mom doesn't dumpster dive but she does do yard sales. A picture she bought for $5 went for over $100. A rare Carnival glass bowl she paid $8 for she received $280. She had to do something to support herself and my young brother when my dad left us years ago. Mom has done pretty well over the years doing this.

I saw a show where a man went to show the audience what he could come up with just through dumpster diving. So at the beginning of the show he went out and came back with stuff. At the end of the show he gave the approximate value of what he found and it came out around a couple of hundred. You never know.
 
I like the ideas of using the bags, personally I have wondered for years why we didnt use them more, when I ran the XAU fac loading long boxes to the west I used them regularly, just makes sense if we use everything possible to secure the loads properly.
one thing I dont understand, and maybe boxboss can help in this area, when we send load bars to be repaired they also need a squirt of oil, I see them comming in new all the time and they dont work, but a shot of oil and presto, they work great, the oxidation from the welding process makes them stick, oil eliminates this problem, I have brought this up to several in "upper" managment, but I just get the brush off, I have went so far as keeping a spray can with me to use at reship.
cant we get this simple task accomplished on the end of the vendor who repairs them? its such a simple thing really, yet it has such incredible reults when the load bar actually ratchets and releases as intended, if we cant get it done on that end, then why not make some oil available on the docks, would be handy to have on hand for oiling forklift blades also, so they could actually be positioned and used properly, just my 2 cents worth....
 
Excellent point..!!! I will be asking those in charge of this little project....I have to say, however, that it has been forever since we have seen a return pallet of new bars in our service center...most go to SoCAL and then are distributed throughout the west...So I haven't given it much thought up til now...thanks for the suggestion..
 
We were told this morning that we would be testing the new dunnage bags with NBM. They will send them to us(the yellow re-usable bags) and then we send them back and so on...well tonight they were using the paper dunnage bags on the NBM proper trailers. Fos says that's what they were told to do....this is being very poorly communicated to everybody. I happen to know what is going on because I read it here on truckingboards.

NBM is supposed to send the bags and we send them back. simple as that ....no nobody knows what is going on. I'm telling you these things will get lost after they get to Dallas.:chairshot::nutkick:

When you want to know what's going on...DON'T ASK AN FOS.
 
The bags are going to get lost, OR the clean-up guys simply throw them away since they figure it's just trash. The directive needs to be passed on to EVERYONE on dock, not just the DSRs on those affected lanes.
 
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