| Author | Message | ||
     Pwnzor |
...herding cats, all damn day... I tell you, I'm just about done with this week, which has dragged on forever. Everything red on this screen is late. And this only represents Atlanta, I won't even get into the late stuff going on across state lines.  | ||
| Tootal |
I'd work on Kennesaw first, those folks all have guns! Woodstock? Sounds like they'd be pretty laid back! | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
So long as they stay away from the brown acid. | ||
| Tootal |
 I can neither confirm nor deny that I know what that means! | ||
| Pwnzor |
I could have used some today.... | ||
| 86129squids |
Guns or acid?  | ||
| Pwnzor |
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| Zac4mac |
Wrong Woodstock... | ||
| Crusty |
If I were having a day like that, the last thing I'd want to take is some acid. Some Valium, maybe but no way in hell would I want to take a psychedelic when I'm that stressed out. | ||
| Brother_in_buells |
Why would you use that kind of shit anyways!? Before you know it you end up at the end of a rope! | ||
| Pwnzor |
Acid is one of those things that nobody should do. Having done it, I wouldn't go back and not do it. I have seen it completely wreck people with weaker minds than my own. That being said, if you haven't done it, you cannot possibly understand. No amount of reading Timothy Leary or Albert Hoffman's writing can make you understand. It is truly a very deep rabbit hole to go down, and there is no coming back. You cannot un-ring that bell. | ||
| Bartimus |
why would you want to un-ring the bell? I have no regrets... | ||
| Pwnzor |
I wouldn't. That was my point. Today's headache...  | ||
| Fast1075 |
Here yah go. Flashback time! But no synthetic chemicals, please. (Message edited by fast1075 on October 17, 2016) | ||
| Sifo |
Just be glad your cargo stays put once it's loaded! | ||
| Pwnzor |
Yeah... I wish it was always so... Famous last words, "I thought it would stay up", or even better, "I don't know what happened, it was like that when they loaded me."  | ||
| Pwnzor |
Here's a good one... "Fragile - Do not stack"  | ||
| Sifo |
We had some of our "cargo" hit by a car while loading last week. Luckily, limited to a broken arm and held overnight for observation. Damn lucky in a 55 mph zone. It's amazing how much of the story the local papers managed to get wrong too. Happily, I wasn't involved, but my wife was called to transport the rest of the "cargo" and heard what happened first hand from them. | ||
| Reepicheep |
It's fairly terrifying to actually have first hand knowledge of something, then see how badly the media reports it. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Plenty of political threads... this one is me bitching about work. Carry on... | ||
| Sifo |
I don't see any politics in what was said there. Media reports badly on many things, not just politics. | ||
| Pwnzor |
It never fails, when I have all my tractors booked, something happens... Somebody doesn't show up, sleeps through their alarm, car breaks down... or worse, the truck itself breaks down. At the guard booth on the inbound lane into the Nissan plant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I tell you, there is a huge advantage to being an asset-based carrier, but owning the actual trucks is so damn costly with all these new emissions systems... something breaks, then something else, etc... My old 1999 Kenworth box trucks all have 1.5mil miles or more on them, and I have less trouble with them than I do my 2010 and 2011 trucks. Diesel Particulate Filters and Diesel Exhaust Fluid are death for my trucks. I'd bet half our maintenance costs are related to the emissions systems. Thanks, California! Yeah, so when delivery juggernaut UPS is leaning on a small outfit like mine, and a truck breaks down on the customer's property and I have no units available to swap into the job at 250 miles distant from our base... the world literally comes apart. Salesman freaking out, my boss with his forms and shit he wants filled out explaining the service failure, and juggling the personal lives of 60 unreasonable man-children whose cell phone caller ID's all have their girlfriend/wife/babymomma's name on it and can't get a checking account and have to take time off to pay late child support like it's my fault.... OK I feel better, the whiskey is starting to work. | ||
| Pwnzor |
...and this morning, like a ray of sunlight, my fleet manager comes to me with the bright idea that he would like to phase out the trucks we own, and go to a leased fleet... Huzzahhhhh!!!!! | ||
| Reepicheep |
What does DEF actually do? I know I can google it, but it's more fun to talk about it here. | ||
| Pwnzor |
DEF is used to incinerate the particulate matter which is trapped in the DPF. Older systems manufactured 2007 to 2010 use diesel fuel to burn it up. Engines from 2010 and after use the DEF instead of the diesel. The idea is that at the exact time the vehicles are tested for particulate emissions, the numbers are low. But while the driver is out on the road, he is forced to periodically "regen" the exhaust system, which takes all that trapped soot and burns it off into the air... all at once... far away from any testing equipment. It's a scam of the highest order. Trucks pollute just as much as they ever did. It's just one more system to malfunction at intervals that are designed to cripple the small business owner. Yes, I said designed. This shit is planned and coordinated between CARB, DOT and FMCSA to destroy small carriers while the mega-trucking companies continue to drive rates down along with customer service. This shit does not bode well. Thankfully I have other skills. | ||
| Sifo |
The filter traps are VERY problematic on school buses that generally operate at lower speeds all their life. The regen can only happen while at fairly high temperatures. Running around suburban streets in the winter never allows the soot traps to get cleaned out properly. Eventually they get clogged and need to be replaced. I'm told the cost to replace them is up over $5,000. That's a big hit when you own a single vehicle. When you own a fleet of more than 100, and you get a bunch failing every year, it really adds up fast. I've always wondered how they "burn" the particulates in a way that is clean. | ||
| Tootal |
That's why we always used our soot blowers at night at the power house! | ||
| Sifo |
I've wondered how this works out for the new diesel cars. Do they have the soot traps and regen cycles? If they do, some owners are going to be really unhappy with the results, especially if they don't drive them for numerous hours per day. | ||
| Ourdee |
Side note: the cruise ships burn cleaner fuel entering and leaving ports. They switch fuel once out of port. They burned real nasty stuff late in the night. That's when I roamed the ship. | ||
| Etennuly |
The real joke about exhaust emissions over the last ten years is literally the tail pipe. In the '90s when "real" exhaust testing was done the vehicle was required to have a completely sealed, non leaking exhaust system. Even a small manifold gasket leak would fail a vehicle. On all of these newer systems, most noticeable on diesels small and large, are air inlets, actually air jets, at or on the tail pipe. These are inches from the exit of the pipe. They are factory installed so that makes it OK. But they cannot prove or disprove the exhaust contents because the air that they suck in can be un-pure. The whole thing is a joke, but in most cases since the advent of ECMs controlling injection, the air is cleaner than before that time. and go to a leased fleet... I know a guy who can handle that for ya!  |
