Ah the fun that is FL..

[67Monaco]

Watching the Semi's turn around on the interstate is a bit humorous. Just down the road from here about 3 miles.

Hazmat investigation closes I-75 in Charlotte County

 

[65Fury440]

Poor dudes have a GPS baby sitter running the daily clock down, just another kick in the dick for the trucker trying to turn a profit.

 

[commando1]

Poor dudes have a GPS baby sitter running the daily clock down, just another kick in the dick for the trucker trying to turn a profit.

When this crap happens, I was always in the office the next morning.
Them: "Why did you take an extra 15 min break in Fairhaven, yesterday?"
Me: "I wasn't taking a break. I was delayed waiting for the drawbridge to go up"
Them: "And that 15 minute delay 1/2 an hour later???"
Me: "That was my 15 min. break"
Another day in paradise.

Can you now understand why I do not suffer fools easily? Because I worked for them all my life.

 

[Davea Lux]

When this crap happens, I was always in the office the next morning.
Them: "Why did you take an extra 15 min break in Fairhaven, yesterday?"
Me: "I wasn't taking a break. I was delayed waiting for the drawbridge to go up"
Them: "And that 15 minute delay 1/2 an hour later???"
Me: "That was my 15 min. break"
Another day in paradise.

Can you now understand why I do not suffer fools easily? Because I worked for them all my life.

We had a genius that decided to put Sat-Nav into our over the road trucks so dispatch could keep track of them. One day, I was listening to radio chatter:

Dispatcher: Hey Charlie, how is the fishing out there?
Charlie: What the hell are you talking about, I'm in the middle of Iowa corn country.
Dispatcher: Well Sat-Nav says you are 250 miles out in the Pacific Ocean.

The early units were more than a little unreliable.

Dave

 

[CBODY67]

A while back, I was at a mechanic shop and a telephone repair guy was in there. They had their list of where to contact customers. But the actual problem to repair could be miles away. Dispatchers watching the gps routes they took wanted to know why they went to the dispatched location, then spent hours at another location. People looking at things they knew little about the dynamics of.

Look at the Fleetmatics website. Sounds like that just having their service will make things more efficient and profitable. Should anybody have enough time to watch that! A novelty item for some that is probably driven by insurance companies?

CBODY67

 

[65Fury440]

When this crap happens, I was always in the office the next morning.
Them: "Why did you take an extra 15 min break in Fairhaven, yesterday?"
Me: "I wasn't taking a break. I was delayed waiting for the drawbridge to go up"
Them: "And that 15 minute delay 1/2 an hour later???"
Me: "That was my 15 min. break"
Another day in paradise.

Can you now understand why I do not suffer fools easily? Because I worked for them all my life.

I get bukkaked with stupid on a daily basis.
Just yesterday I was sent to pick a car up at a Ford dealership. Spoke to everyone from the lease manager to the general manager and a few people in between, walking the back lot, looking for said unit.

Called client, told them unit is not there. The case manager is a 20 something young lady, who said her client (leinholder) assured her it was there.
Long story short, it was at the Ford dealer the next city up. The unit was supposedly left with keys, those people had no idea where they were at.
I yanked it with no keys and drug it home.

And people wonder why you get cynical as you get older.

 

[commando1]

And people wonder why you get cynical as you get older.

Hear, here.

 

[Rapidtrans777]

Look at the Fleetmatics website. Sounds like that just having their service will make things more efficient and profitable. Should anybody have enough time to watch that! A novelty item for some that is probably driven by insurance companies?

I went with Fleetmatics to comply with the ELD mandate. GPS is the backbone of their system so I installed in our ELD exempt trucks also. The GPS tracking is nice for when a customer calls at 2PM raising cain wanting to know where their material is. I can pull up the truck and instruct them to check their yard, my guy was there at 7AM.

 

[rapidtrans]

Hear, here.

No app for STUPID!

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Watching the Semi's turn around on the interstate is a bit humorous. Just down the road from here about 3 miles.

You should give a warning that the vid is 4 hours long, I FF through it, what was the big deal? Walmart truck coming apart?

Also hows the red tide going over your way? I'm getting sick of hearing 'bout it on the local Orlando news, boo hoo, always knew the Gulf was a cesspool, Siesta Key Sarasota 1970's, I wouldn't go more than ankle deep in that water because by then I couldn't even see my toes!
HA! Now they are bragging that it's one of the top ten beaches in the nation... BS. We use to drive all the way up to Hernando County or around Ocala to swim in the crystal clear water of the test pits & springs. f'the Gulf... Can you say Corexit?

 

[67Monaco]

No it was a live feed of a box truck leaking resin. Stopped both sides of the highway. And they fun of it was the weigh station was just a half mile up the highway so all the trucks were heading there. and they all had to turn around in the swamp.

the new Walmart driver that thought he was upgrading from Swift was fun to watch.