Category: Road Life

What Life on the road as a truck driver is really like!

I fucked around…..

by RoachKiller

And found out yesterday! Other than being super tired when I got home. I had another fun day!

Did the prison delivery! ( yes I’m the reason so many of your family members behind bars were fed yesterday! ) then that ended up being a super short day. So they had me do some local runs!

Dispatch told me the place I was going to was super tight even for a 28’ box! So I swapped trailers and grabbed a couple pallets off the dock and went.

I got there and that was beyond a super tight delivery. That was send a van type of tight! But since I was prewarned and found the proper way to get into this place the first time.

I decided to fuck around and find out! Lol! I’m still thinking like a sleeper cab and a 53’er! So I took the opportunity to see just how far I could take a double axle day cab with a 28’ box!

Welp it’s true! lol you can’t make that left turn even with a 28’ box! ROFLMAO! No I didn’t hit anything! I did however have to back out of that situation! ROFLMAO!

But for those who read this blog. Going down powell off of 205. Take the second entrance right. To the t in the drive. Go left and line up to back up to there dock! By doing that you set yourself up for an easy escape!

You can turn right and unload that way but the escape will be impossible if there is a car parked anywhere in that section!

Which then means you will have to back out of the alley…..

So yea, I literally fucked around and found out…..

What a day…..

by RoachKiller

I went to work in the dark! I came home in the dark! Everyone and I mean everyone wanted something from me today!

I’m like I’m new, I don’t know! 😉 take these back, put these over there! Hand trolly those in there…..

Had to break down 3 pallets and hand truck the shit out of like 5 pallets! The box trolly isn’t that big of deal! Yet breaking down pallets with multiple orders on them. Placed randomly through out is the time killer!

After all of that, the highlight of my day was. The broken cab antenna the truck I was driving. Finally broke off all the way and fell into the little hole in the side steps! A gazillion to one chance!

Yet it did and it was funny as fuck! Cus I didn’t catch it until about a mile from the dc…..

Atomic crisps rock!

So how was…..

by RoachKiller

My first solo run? ROFLMAO! Fine except they gave me the shittiest single axle in the fleet! A really nice trailer that the chain only falls off of the lift gate. Every other use! and a marker light that was pre ripped off the top….. ( I let that slide since there were amber marker lights on the reefer! )

Other than doing a run I was never trained on. So I didn’t know the secret handshake to unload. It went better than expected! No fountain of grape tomatoes rolling off the trailer! although I did have a couple squished boxes on the bottom of the pallet. Yet nothing abnormal!

Only lost 1 Roma tomato ( a really nice one too! ) and a few slices of shrooms!

Other than the fact I got super pissed off when I found out those in the county jail are getting dryers ice cream. ‘Twas a good day!

P.s. when throwing a heavy box on the box trolly. ( hand truck ) never put your face down by the box trolly! It so smacked me in the face, hard!

I almost screamed a curse word! 😉

First stop…..

by RoachKiller

Done on first solo run at the new company! Only 8 more stops to go! Woo hoo!

Asked the guy, “ so how did I do?” His exact words were! “ better than most!” 🙂

Not bad for 30 years OTR now doing local, with product I know nothing about. Huh? 😉

Omg so full…..

by RoachKiller

Everything except for the brussel sprout kit tuned out good!

Ham, smoked! potatoes, excellent! ( used white potatoes…. Better! Stuffing, killer! Next time I will have to chop up the shrooms, apples and pears into smaller bits! Really good!

Hope yall have just as good a meal!

This one is a….

by RoachKiller

Baerskin raincoat! Not as thick and nice as the $200 frogg togg but this one has a mesh liner!

The frogg is like a sweat box if you do a lot of physical activity! It’s really nice ta boot!

It’s the color I want so let’s see how it works over the next few workdays!

Fyi, this one is only $100….. I’m just worried about it ripping…..

Yes this is what I went to work in today…..

Last day of…..

by RoachKiller

Training! Can’t wait to tell everyone all about it! As I sit here outside a customer cus for the 5th time I have been refused entry into this place…..

Luckily I’m wearing my cold gear again huh? Yet another learning experience passed up!

It’s not all bad! I have learned a lot from what I have been able to watch and see!

I still can’t tell the difference between fresh cilantro and parsley…..

So do all you….

by RoachKiller

Un-dropped gonads have my money yall owe me?

Yall combined, owe me well into the millions? And yes, I’m expecting more from you gonads with the multi colored hair…..

Yes,

by RoachKiller

I created a personal instagram account! I’ll be waiting for my hackers to screen shot it to me…..

Cmon bitches, show me how good you are!

Hint, it only has 2 posts and 1 friend…

FYI, that’s why those Jackson wildcards are special! Gloss into flat neck paint…..

Oh the x?

by RoachKiller

Yea that’s her, very top photo! I wasn’t allowed to take her picture. Nor was I allowed to give her any compliment!

If I did severe punishment always followed! If I said you looked pretty. She would reply, “stop why are you lying to me?”

Yea eventually I just stopped saying anything!

That picture up top is the only one I have on any of my camera rolls of her! I had it printed to remind me of what I’m not missing…..

There is a reason…..

by RoachKiller

I have gone 30 years accident free! Any opportunity I get to learn, I do it! If I don’t understand it, I ask to understand it!

Most of all I work my ass off! So when any of that gets hindered! I get pissed!

I’m the guy you will hear about but never see! If I understand….. Comprende’?

I’m thinking…..

by RoachKiller

I might be the new guy on the prison block! But I guarantee I will definitely be making you my bitch real quick!

I promise that Crete shit ain’t flying any fucking more! Comprende’! Dumbass!

There ya go….

by RoachKiller

This is what a $200 rain jacket looks like! Better than I thought! Definitely tough and will obviously make any woman orgasm with just a simple look…..

Most fishing jackets do that right?

Added bonus it has that cool butt protector I like on my jackets….

I so could have used this jacket this morning! It was raining hard as fuck!

What have I learned…..

by RoachKiller

Like every company! You have good workers and you have not so good of workers!

You have ones that take out a hinge on a walk in cooler. Then you have ones that have to hear about it from the customer!

You have fellow employees who hustle, you have others that don’t!

What I’m finding is they all seam to coexist here! I’m not judging anyone. If they are judging me, don’t care!

The only thing that’s really confusing me is if this trailer I’ve been pulling all week is a 40’er. How come it could easily take 22 40×48 single stacked pallets?

I’m guessing 26 – 28 sideways or chimney blocked pallets?

Either way I have learned a fucking lot the last week! The driving part I already knew! The produce business I know nothing! Except Arcadia lettuce is a fancy name for spring mix salad! 😉

Oh and when the warehouse substitutes an item it’s almost always returned…..

We’ll have fun! It’s dinner time! See ya!