“LEAVE ME WAITING” | Our Trucking Life Ep. 469
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Truck Wash Mention (not shown due to time constraints of video):
We spent 1.5 hours there in total. At first they wanted to spray Meguiars spray wax on the parts missed to clean them which I declined since I had just paid to get it all polished and didnt feel them spraying wax on dirt and road grine and then wiping with a microfiber was the best choice. So we waited in line nearly an hour for a 2nd “partial” wash (that is when the tank cover washed off) and the tanks/ect were washed but they came out very streaky despite my wiping it all down so I gave up and left to get my Taco Time.
Part of me feels they used brighter on that 2nd wash (I always decline brightner on my wash) because my polish job now reflects that something acidic was used. All in all, waste of time and money.
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"Hurry up and wait" seems to be the motto for some shippers
One word of advice. I never open the doors until I’m ready to bump the dock. Product temperature can give them another excuse for load refusal.
Costco delivery wasn’t a refrigerated load so didn’t matter
Ahh. I see. No problem.
🙌
Baked Beans. I forgot.
Do they want the loads to get out or do they just look for excuses not to load you.
It’s sad the Streaking Beacons have really gone down hill. I realize they aren’t a detail shop but they use to do a better job but I feel your pain on them missing everything. Hard to find good help these days.
Drivers have been fighting for detention since trucking was established in the 1930s.... We fight not only the shipper or receiver but also the broker who sometimes gets detention paid to tgem but never passes it on to the carrier, driver.. Safe travels guys
NEVER leave your trailer at a shipper, they don't care about it, they will trash your trailer...😮😅
Ohhh the joys of pulling a reefer 🤨.
Well your absolutely right Alice. The reefer industry is a mess. If a truck has an appointment for 11:00 then get the truck loaded. If not start paying by the hour. Oh if the company is short staffed that day then that company fixes that problem or pays for the waiting unit. The driver or O/O always pays the price for all the screw ups of the company’s they load and unload at. One of the reasons why reefer is not always the best freight to run. If it was a perfect world yup reefer could be attractive but not the way it is set up. Waiting 24 hrs with a reefer is not uncommon. Glad to see your handling it well. Love the drone shots, especially from above, let’s the viewers really get an idea of what the facility looks like where you are loading or unloading. The more info or the more you show the viewers what’s going the better your videos become. Trucking Together videos are right up there . Thanks for posting guys. Have a great and a safe day. Happy trails to you, D..
They wanted U to drop trailer so they could use it for cold storage. They thought they were slick😅🤣😂😬🙄🤯
Them days are why I don't have any reefers anymore. And I know every kind of trucking is about the same anymore. Hope tomorrow will be a better day. Stay safe.
40 years ago, I started trucking hauling produce from Salinas, California to Huntspoint, New York. It’s sad that things have not changed in 40 years. Seems like the truckers always get screwed.😢
Truckers like being screwed over. That’s why nothing has change or will change
I would of asked for another truck wash. Nobody wants to work anymore.I dont miss Hurry up an Wait.Be safe out there.
I did. It’s mentioned in the description. Spent 1.5 hours there and still looked like 💩
If you send a comment card to blue beacon they usually respond and sometimes give you a free wash ticket. They at corporate really do try to give a good value wash wise.
Better days ahead! Stay positive
It’s good you bring these issue to everyone with all the social media platforms now days and different content creators you all are educating people in and out of the industry about the real issues that drivers face on a daily basis
Every trip is interesting. Enjoyed the video. Have a safe trip .
Ah man I know that Costco all too well. Was my load coming g from home in Phoenix when I started with knight. They can either be really quick or super slow. And it becomes a mad house
Safe travels trucking Alice
Alice, Martin... Take a picture of your license plates, registrations, insurance, cdl, medical, stuff to have on the handy dandy cellular device that you never leave in the truck.... JS'N
This really holds true for every commercial driver out there... RV'rs,Boaters, also... We put our paperwork away but WE NEVER leave our whizzbang devices behind
Photo copy your reg book also. stash it somewhere in the truck where it cannot be found and stolen
Alice that’s trucking. Some days are like that. I hope you next day was better.👍👍👍
No, that's REEFER trucking, not freight trucking. Been there, did that.
@@garyw8481 Gary, I wasn’t addressing you. Why do you have to come on here and make some kind of comment like that? You can’t tell me in freight trucking everything goes peachy keen every day it doesn’t happen.
Great video Alice
Hang in their Alice it got to get better love the video be safe thank you
Took me about 6 years coming and going in the trucking industry until I just sad forget it and got into real estate. Now I’m making wayy more
There goes the good rate
I use to deliver grocery loads in Texas at HEB. It has taken 24 hours to get unloaded. Farm produce loads rarely on the scheduled time. The only part of trucking that I miss is the truck. Safe travels. 😊
Good mornin. From nor cal.love you guys.
When you open your trailer doors and drive around it is hard on the rear doorframe
and also the door hinges. Keep your chin up
I just unloaded at Costco Sumner Washington. A load of shell eggs. In and out in 39 minutes. 26 pallets.
Amazing!
I just delivered there on sat at 4.30 am was out of there in a hour and a half
Wow that trucking. Next bring yourself some food & whatever you drink- water - soda while you have a long wait time to get unloaded or loaded. Be safe 😊😊
“Something wrong with the pager”. 😂😂. Now that’s funny shit…. Welcome back to reefer in 2024!!!!
Well it can only get better❤🎉😂😊
Glad to see you and Martin back in the groove of trucking be safe out there there is a lot nut jobs out there driving and not driving ,# the truck looks good
I love the drone footage!!! Sorry you had to wait so long for your load Alice.
This is why I don’t pull reefer no more hurry up and wait.Good show guys.
@@SherrieAskew yup it’s up and down but good it all works out
@@SherrieAskew Missouri
@@SherrieAskew you on Facebook?
@@SherrieAskew sure
Pretty Much in ALL forms of TRUCKIN @ sum point!!!!! Part of the bizz
That's why I don't do reefers. Did it for two weeks.
It's good to see you & Martin moving product. The shippers/ receivers don't give a hoot. The shipper in the Potato state should charge COSTCO because that's where the dominoe effect started & you arrived on at receiver. The streaken becon,yeah that's bull pucky about no one doing their job & not saying anything about the fuel tank end cover.
I'm so glad that I don't pull a reefer anymore, same excuses and by some miracle I bet the cooler was working the next day, I've been there and all it was is the workers probably wanted off early on a Saturday or the product still wasn't picked. Good luck to you all
Truckers need a good union to stop this nonsense another great video safe travels
Little tip on your AC unit. Vent the hot air out the window like you are doing. Leave the intake in the cab of the truck by the floor. The AC unit will work more efficiently pulling in cooler dryer air from in the cab compared to the hot humid air outside. It might even get better battery life.
Good to see you guys back in the saddle again , but the industry has not changed for the better.
Waiting hours to load or unload after breaking your but to get to an appointment on time is why I quit…so much wasted time, and like you said..shippers don’t think your time and equipment is worth squat.
Hang in there, be of good cheer..we’re pulling for you!
Good one miss Alice y'all take care be safe 🙏. Howdy Mr Martin
Love your hair!
I went through that bullshit with watermelons on a flatbed. They were picking them out of the field. Sit there a very long time. In southern California by Arizona line.
Good morning from Green Bay Wisconsin.
Morning I have a friend I've known since 6th grade that lives in Twin Falls
What you said about the trucking industry applies to the towing industry as well I did that for over 20 plus years once you get in you don't get out it becomes your lifestyle not a job Because of the money that you make doing it in this situation with the cooler breaking down and them making you sit there and wait I don't know how the trucking industry works or what the rates are but it almost seems like sitting there all that time idling because of the heat and not getting any detention You're losing money more than you are making it on a load like that I don't know how that works I don't know how I would have handled it I probably would have started looking for another load and told them look you can find someone else to haul your stuff I got another load but I don't know how that works anyway
Stay safe out there
God Bless
lol when I seen that setup I figured it was a Costco I just went to one in Dallas same thing packed but they didn’t take long to unload though
Good hot morning y'all thinking summer is here
it certainly was in this video! Good Morning to you!
@@TruckingTogethernot hot here on Cape Cod! 72F now…was cold enough Friday night that I wore my winter jacket to outdoor band concert!
62 currently at home with a high today of 72! much nicer than those California temps we are used to!
@@JohnHallgren yea I'm from Visalia CA retired moved to TN back in Nov of 2011 best move I've ever done but is way more humid then ca here
To have a weight at both ends and spending $114.00 and getting screwed over at the beacon it was a bad time all the way around. But at least you got your Taco Time. Hopefully it was really good. And I hope things get better. Truck safe Alice. Hi Martin.
Looks like a chit show!
Somedays your the pin . Sometimes your the cushion.
Hopefully sum DECENT DETENTION comes along 4 Everyone Delayed @ Costco
Hi Driver , Diesel APU Needed no matter cost, I was listening to your explanation of the fake Driver shortage Lol So sorry for the shabby treatment I've been there done that bought the T shirt and I'm NEVER GOING BACK ! Best Wishes Peace from Canada near Buffalo Ny.
Joe from New Jersey!!..i feel bad for you Alice i did all that crap to for 43 yrs.wow still the same bull shit!! Be safe!!
114 $ you expect a job well done ! i would go back and show them ! i get mad when that happens. glad you got your covers back ! good thing you weren t just taking off in a hurry and find out 200 miles away ! Drive safe ! See ya next trip ! 🤠
I mentioned it in the description but seems many don’t read that 😂 (I cut a lot of the scenes) but I did go back and spent an hour and half there, pretty sure they washed it with brighter when I went back through even though I told them no brighter on original wash.
@@TruckingTogether Ok ! sorry i didn t see that ! and yes i understand no brighter !
Gr8 Vid
Ridiculous that they want a $400 fee if you are late, but won't pay detention if they can't get you loaded within 2 hours of your appointment time.
It’s a sad situation when you have to accept all the stresses just to keep your lifestyle.
I love driving truck I just I’m not prepared to wait.
I retired. I still want to drive Truck. I don’t wanna wait.
The sad reality to the higher rates the produce pays is that because they pay you more they feel they can jerk you around more.
The time that you spend waiting actually comes out of your yearly income
If you get a cheaper load, but you load right away
Because when you get produce, you’re on a limit load now deliver in two hours
The wet gloves could have come from condensate when the portable air conditioner was running.
nope, turned out to be a water jug I had in the back
I sat more pulling a reefer than i did pulling over-sized freight
They don't call it the streaking Beacon for nothing. I got out of reefers years ago for many of the reasons you are experiencing. There is a fix for all the waiting time we experience in this industry. Time clocks! Punch in when you check in punch out when you leave. Minus negotiated load and off load time.
Man this brings back my produce hauling days, I can't count how many times I showed up, pulled into the dock,
and was told they were picking the product. Do they still put thermometers to monitor temps. The first time I pulled into T&A in Salinas, CA another driver showed me how to "calibrate" it! They reminded me of a mini lie detector slowly marking temp. Let's just say the bulkhead method never failed me!
Is that near the back of the
refrigerated trailer where the thermo king unit is. When I was young, I worked for a company called Coleway Food Express. they hauled a lot of swinging beef. I worked in their yard in Cleveland, Ohio,doing miscellaneous jobs. A lot of steam cleaning trailers that was back in the cab over days..
@@markhope4993 No, it was a non digital device that recorded temp on a small, cash register type paper. It was the size of a big cell phone, but much thicker. They gave it to me at the beginning of the load and about half way through they would put it somewhere in the trailer! But if the temp wasn't in the required zone they could reject the load! So since this device was super sensitive it had to be "calibrated!" Now this was back in the early '90s! Now I am sure it is all digital and such! I have been driving since 1989 so it was more analog back then! Drove a 1987 Charcoal Pete 379 with that beautiful long hood! First time I drove a truck with a hood too! In the history of my driving career it is my favorite truck, oh and it also hauled ass too! Got it up to 105, the owner said it would do 115 but didn't try that! I was pretty young and dumb at the time!
On some loads now. They put a “ tattle tale “ recorder taped to a pallet or on the side wall of the trailer. If specs go out of range, it’ll indicate with led lights. It’s about the size of 2 packs of cigarettes.
@scherertech Thanks for replying back a 1987 charcoal pete three seventy nine with the longhood that was an awesome looking truck.. Charcoal is a nice color on a pete.
Always make sure your chute is straight and has no air leaks or missing screws so that the air flows straiggt back to the rear of the trailer . You dont want air to be leaking to the side of the chute because that will create problems of temperature on the product. Air flow from front of trailer to the rear should always be good. And yeah its usually a waiting game for produce. I also dont really wash my trk & trl at blue beacon , long time ago they put acid on my trailer to get the dirt and snow and ofcouse they didnt tell me so my trailer got discolor mainly the reason I dont reallybuse blue becon
Our heart goes out to you Alice. Nobody should have to put up with that crap.Id be blowing my.stack by now.
That blue becon does a terrible job. Also the garden of Eden is a nice place that one is a new one. They just need to work on the parking lot. 👍🏽
Lots of B.S. with Brokers,Shippers,Receivers can DEFINITELY gett 2 U sumtimes. DEFINITELY need SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS on RATES bcos TRUCKERS TIME is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT as any other persons time
have you called brokers lately? most won’t negotiate on retention or layover, too many trucks out there that don’t care. It’s hard enough to squeeze an extra $300 on loads these days
Costco's can be crazy between 5-8am, but they r good, no lumpers, and yes the "steak house pagers " can go bad sometimes. But Costco is one of the best receivers out their on reefers. Bad luck their I see, but they r good!!. Ron(W900L)
its not the steakin beacon for nothing
Martin you beat Beth company in the ground. How dare you
Idaho is Mountain Time Zone.😉
That Flying J in Twin Falls is a nightmare for parking unless it’s the middle of the day. I prefer the Garden of Eden where you were at. They actually just finished that new building not too long ago. Tore the old one down and rebuilt it
yes, when we had our flatbed Martin actually brought them siding or something for the new building when they first started on it. It came out so nice! We’ve been going there for years
the lifestyle was easy adjustment, i don’t deal with brokers but my “team leaders” now they are…happy little glass lickers. i am all set to just camp, fish and lounge around my country next month, will never hurry up and wait again soon. stay safe
Refer loads has always been a wait and wait and wait. Don't know why you get an appointment when they don't unload you. Refer loads should get more money for loads because of the waiting periods. It cost money waiting to be unloaded. Refer is running and truck too for many and you can't book another load until your empty. Thats why they need to pay more money for detention that way they have a motive to get trucks unloaded.
Isn’t it great no one can take initiative to do anything, with out their bosses input.
Yep, the sucky side of trucking, no compensation for tying up our equipment for hours while waiting for shippers or receivers to take care of their products. I run a reefer and a flatbed, really prefer flatbed but reefer freight in my area pays a little better right now, but haaaate the bs with door swinging!
Alice your too nice you should have made them rewash the whole truck again
read the description, I did have them do a re-wash. I cut the footage for time constraints on the video
Those are only a few reasons I stopped using streaking beacon after only getting a few washes there. They suck!!!!
But, yes Alice, that's the produce game, hurry up and wait. And the drivers or hauling companies should dictate the rates. I agree. But not enough drivers or companies have the guts to set a rate and stick to it
Alice, sorry you had day, but on a more positive note enjoy your taco-time.
Beacon is only concerned with one thing,speed and making money, there isn’t any competition that’s 24 hours, so they don’t care
Lol o man you had to say taco's I'm out in the middle of no were now wanting tacos lol
Yes ma'am there seems to be a lot of that language barrier thing these days were ever ya go and don't push number one 😂
Hurry up and wait.
Oh, CHUTE!! You got the wrong title this time.😂 Wait times like that really are stupid!! You could have fit in a whole extra load in the time you just say around.
I never had that obsession of washing my truck constantly if it got wash three times a year it was lucky but i tried not to get it dirty and sometimes a guy would wash it at the yard when ever it was there... blue beacon sucks i couldn't see myself forking over that kind of money
Loading produce product straight hot from the fields will Usually be minimal 3-8 hrs due to shipper having 2 Cool Produce prior to Loading on the wagon. But DEFINITELY check Produce for Hotness to C.Y.A. from claims
they use some quick cool pressure cooler thing for the produce, I figured if wasn’t picked yet it take forever but they said they use that to flash cool it (and that’s what was broke)
Oh shoot not the chute! Shit, chute is loose ,shoot!
I tried never to pull out of the wash bay until I inspected the job they just did not saying it was the answer every time but sometimes if I said something they would wash the spot they missed.
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It appears you may have found the worst Blue Beacon in the United States, which is quite an accomplishment. So frustrating.
I don't use the Streakin Beacon anymore. So many mom and pop places charge less and do better
Wow , its been 20 yrs since I pulled a reefer and its still a shitshow !
You forgot to mention that they make you pay lumpers to unload their shit.
I might have misunderstood but it was my understanding that ever since the mandatory e-logs the shippers/receivers are obliged to pay detention after 2 hours past appointment time ? greetings from Canada. (oh, and I also noticed in the past that often the facility actually DOES pay detention but it is not paid forward to the driver/carrier).
Make them rewash bcos U paid Gr8 💵 for an Trk/ Trl wash
see description, I did go through a 2nd time. Had to cut out a lot of it due to time constraints on the video.
Wow, sorry for the manasury of shippers BS. Personally, I wouldn't have excepted that load at all. Mileage and time would have got to a as good or better load. And I agree, truckers need more say in the way.
A hair net & vest to put load locks in ? How ‘bout put your food in packaging ?
Carry spare reusable rivets for the chutes. When I pulled reefer during Covid, forklift drivers were notorious for ripping the chutes down. Then I would get to the reload, & have to pin the chutes back up. 🤬
52K pounds 😳. No effing way ! 45K sure.
Heck, you can barely get 48K on a flatbed.
They are short staff all the time especially on weekends the new work force I quess
How long waiting is too long to the point you start loosing money waiting.
It they dont do a good job washing your truck dont leave until they do!
see what was written in the description ;) long story short they washed it twice, was still a 💩 job, I spent a hour and half I was done with it
Correct. It's unfair ,but it has been this way forever. Especially with produce.
Not one of your better truck wash experiences. Sorry that happened.