We’re only forking trailers this week to keep the freight cool.
They can always glue the boxes where the forks went in.
Fill the bottle with caulking then....
Wow 89 a driver was 13.80
I have seen dockworkers with 30 years experience, destroying freight for 30 years. Too lazy to get off forklift, use dunnage, blocking,deck bars properly, or air bags. Many of them started with no pride in their work, and still don’t have any after 30 years.
The minimum wage was somewhere around $3.35 in "89. I was makin' $600 plus a week. Thought I was in "high cotton"....... Just bought a new car for around $4000, mortgage was $225... Gas was less than a buck a gallon.... At Overnite we were $12.40 an hour... Still not bad at the time.....
Spent 1 year with a Mayflower guy named Chief Logan out of Detroit & Indy. A simple chauffeur license is all you needed. Hard work. But. I learned to tier a 'bed buggy' aka Kentucky low boy trailer. Learned how to drive. Ran all 48 in the household division. Now days, I would run the electronics show circuit. Bed buggy being to hard on the back. Learning how to tier a trailer helped me years later when I worked the dock @ ABF. Met a lot of interesting people & did Military moves that placed you on bases you had no idea existed. Once moved a retired guy to Idaho. Could not get the Steinway Grand thru any door. Man paid to have a whole cut in his roof & they lowered the piano in to the living room. Made the Aerogram magazine with pictures showing the hole in the roof & the piano hanging from a crane. von.
Probably a Yugo.
Actually bought it in late 88, it was 1987 Chevy Chevette with a diesel engine. I think it was $4200, no A/C, no radio, darn thing was $11 option for a glove box door. Ran the crap out of it till I got hit by a Suburban in 2001, didn't fair too well.....
Yes, the C-201 Isuzu, the same engine was in a Thermo-King reefer unit. Only thing ever went wrong was a glow plug. It was a unique car to merge into traffic with. 70 was about the top, but everything was 55 mph then, it had a 5 speed, with a little time it would hit 75....
I had one of those. But like my new tandem, it would only do 46mph...
But it had a mirror
