View Poll Results: Who's gonna be the money-bags bedbugger this summer?
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Bedbugger revenue contest
#81
05-31-2006, 04:42 PM
Newbie? I've made it 3 winters so far without them so far. I've done the Rockies etc. without them, until they require and I'll shut down. Hell, I bobtailed to Denver once in the snow, and had to buy a new steering wheel when I arrived, lol :shock:
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#82
05-31-2006, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Bush Bunny
Originally Posted by BanditsCousin
Don't be scared to run down a mountain with me, I only cook in the kitchen, not my brakes 8) BTW- I've only been driving about a year and change, but I've been down grapevine, cabbage, and monteagle 2nd seat since I was 5, so I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly :wink:
Sorry I don't count second seat ..... doesn't count unless you the one manuevering it down. Next thing you'll be telling me is you don't know how to hang iron but you've watch everyone do it repeatedly so you're pretty sure you can do it. :shock: I do realize one thing though.....you're just a kid.  Do you bedbuggers hire labor for load in and load out?? I understand that these folks are trusting all of their worldly possessions to you... are you handholders, psychologists and mover all in one??
#83
05-31-2006, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Teal 95 KW
Newbie? I've made it 3 winters so far without them so far. I've done the Rockies etc. without them, until they require and I'll shut down. Hell, I bobtailed to Denver once in the snow, and had to buy a new steering wheel when I arrived, lol :shock:
#84
05-31-2006, 05:05 PM
It's okay...let's just not let this happen again. :lol:
Bandit's such a newb, I sat there for about 30 minutes one day while he tried to get his trailer to move...come to find out the brakes were still on  ops:
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#85
05-31-2006, 06:07 PM
Originally Posted by tfmotors
Do you bedbuggers hire labor for load in and load out??
I understand that these folks are trusting all of their worldly possessions to you... are you handholders, psychologists and mover all in one??
#86
06-01-2006, 09:53 AM
That's pretty cheap, for a 2-day load. I'm assuming 2 guys, and yourself...one full day, and then a 1/2 day?
Jeff-Rule # 1 to being a WINNER: NEVER start a contest you're going to lose!! :P
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#87
06-01-2006, 02:44 PM
Originally Posted by Teal 95 KW
That's pretty cheap, for a 2-day load. I'm assuming 2 guys, and yourself...one full day, and then a 1/2 day?
Day 2: 2 men from 8 am to 5 pm - $150 each Plus myself, of course. Labor in Denver is really hard to come by right now - they have so many jobs going on. The guy who they (finally) got to pick up the second part of the load wanted 4 men, but they said that they could only get him 2. I feel sorry for the shipper. The second driver was given 1 1/2 days to get the load done (part of Wed. and all of Thurs.), and he called on Wed. and said he wasn't coming until Thursday morning, because he had to fold pads. And even then, he said he wasn't having his labor come out until noon. Now how he expected to get 26,000 lbs done in 5 hours is beyond me..... But, with a few well placed phone calls, I nipped this disaster in the bud, and they said they would have a full crew out there first thing in the morning. Amazing how I have to do everyone else's job for them..... :roll:
#88
06-01-2006, 03:07 PM
That's the business these days. :roll:
The shipper I loaded yesterday, it was his first move ever (military job as well) and the TMO officer came out the day that they were packing, and told the shipper NOT to let the packers/movers out of his site and that he is to watch every move that we make. Now-this is just what he told me, like he even has anything that I would feel inclined to steal. :roll: Anyways, he didn't want to sign off on my inventories, b/c he didn't feel that his 7 month old recliner was worn, or soiled..I tried to explain it to him, and he still didn't agree with me, and he also wanted to dispute the "mcu" I put on all of his appliances, t.v. etc., b/c apparently "he can vouch for the fact that they work". I told him, "Sir, I'm not going to do a load of laundry, to verify that your washer and dryer do indeed work properly". TMO came back out and explained to him what I had been trying to tell him, and amazingly he believed them. I guess you when you get a 25 year old driver coming to pick your stuff up, you must remain leary of them. Tomorrow, I load 12k and the shipper who's name I am going to butcher all day long (15 letters and NO vowels, lol) wants me to load tomorrow and manage to make the 2,300 mile/35 hour (now that's wheel time) and unload on the 7th, b/c that's when they're going to be ready for me. Sorry, that's NOT how it works folks. There are other shipments on here that loaded before and come off before yours. I'm not goign to trek 1/2 way across Washington to get YOUR shipment off, then trek 1/2 way back to where I was to finish unloading, just b/c it's convenient for you. On a side note, I will say this about Graebel...they did provide me with some of the better lumpers I've had in awhile. I hired a kid at Planes today in Cincinnati to help me out, and this kid (18) ran everywhere he went, called me sir, and if I didn't know better I would have swore he was on speed or something, he worked so quickly.
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#89
06-01-2006, 03:58 PM
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Well got to stick with the KW man Mad Dog would have my hide otherwise, besides no one is driving a Westernstar. A real Westernstar not the new Westershakers. :shock:
Teal just let them all think you don't have a chance.....you know lead them down the dark alley and leave them. :lol:
#90
06-01-2006, 05:41 PM
Man, if I would have known the logo on my truck would make me THIS popular, I would have bought it a LONG time ago
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