Slacker! If it rolls it goes!
Dammit boy. Shoulda scaled it before ya left...
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My very favorite incident.
Wife and I were team with FFE prior to 9-11 that year. We just finished a spell running blood plasma and was out of Lancaster with a very hot JIT load to Iowa someplace. It was so hot and needs to be there they called on us to drop, hook and get going we're late already. It has to be there.
By the time we reached fort worth the poor tractor threw the transmission. This was one of the first autos with the Rockwell Paddle shifter. The whole transmission simply bricked. We found a parking lot and sat.
The VP of operations came out from Lancaster on a late afternoon to eyeball the darn thing and yep. Its bricked. He was supposed to be somewhere at home at 6 PM for a birthday party or something and there we are waiting on captian hook to tow us trailer and all back to Lancaster.
They dug up a couple of staff with CDL's out of the office and threw them into the load and gone. It took three days to drain the software from the transmission and reinstall everything fresh.
Why? We never shut the truck off. In the owners manual for that transmission it is required to shut the truck off a minimum of 1 hour every 8th day so it can drain the buffer correctly. That does not happen in team operation.
Dispatch was given orders to run us 6 and half days and give us 12 hours off with engine off if the weather permits. It was one of the most positive changes. Why? The Veep saw a bag of laundry that has been there on the pax seat for 10 days. We had no time to sit and do laundry either.
In due time we left FFE for high dollar pharmacy because FFE's payrolls could not keep up with us averaging 6000 miles every week. On the second 0.00 paycheck for no paperwork processing, we left the company. We eventually got paid. But it was not acceptable to not be paid for that kind of trucking. All that computer technology and they lose the paperworks. What a waste.
Part Two.
My very favorite incident.
Wife and I were team with FFE prior to 9-11 that year. We just finished a spell running blood plasma and was out of Lancaster with a very hot JIT load to Iowa someplace. It was so hot and needs to be there they called on us to drop, hook and get going we're late already. It has to be there.
By the time we reached fort worth the poor tractor threw the transmission. This was one of the first autos with the Rockwell Paddle shifter. The whole transmission simply bricked. We found a parking lot and sat.
The VP of operations came out from Lancaster on a late afternoon to eyeball the darn thing and yep. Its bricked. He was supposed to be somewhere at home at 6 PM for a birthday party or something and there we are waiting on captian hook to tow us trailer and all back to Lancaster.
They dug up a couple of staff with CDL's out of the office and threw them into the load and gone. It took three days to drain the software from the transmission and reinstall everything fresh.
Why? We never shut the truck off. In the owners manual for that transmission it is required to shut the truck off a minimum of 1 hour every 8th day so it can drain the buffer correctly. That does not happen in team operation.
Dispatch was given orders to run us 6 and half days and give us 12 hours off with engine off if the weather permits. It was one of the most positive changes. Why? The Veep saw a bag of laundry that has been there on the pax seat for 10 days. We had no time to sit and do laundry either.
In due time we left FFE for high dollar pharmacy because FFE's payrolls could not keep up with us averaging 6000 miles every week. On the second 0.00 paycheck for no paperwork processing, we left the company. We eventually got paid. But it was not acceptable to not be paid for that kind of trucking. All that computer technology and they lose the paperworks. What a waste.
That character is killed off. I am the one and same. The other forum admins showed too much inclination to keep everyone politically correct and so on. I was eventually thrown out years ago. By then I could not be bothered to give a damn.I like this story, you remind me of a guy over on the other forum who used to go by the handle x1heavy and he ran really hard for FFE too, said he pulled a lot of loads for MBM and delivered to a few Red Lobster Restaurants in the late 1990s and early 2000s.