Good morning, the low is 23 and going up to 28°F. Wind W 7 mph. Flurries.
We got about an inch of snow yesterday, not enough to plow. Supposed to snow tonight and get warmer into the 40s. I'll plow tomorrow. Try to scrape this place right down to the gravel.
Plans for today = nothing.
Belated Happy Birthday Mrs. PopG!
mostly, these spring startup meetings for the tanker drivers are where the deadbeats in the office who have never done our job try and tell us how to do it.
An example for you: It has ALWAYS been standard operating procedure to open the upper hatch BEFORE hooking up the pump off hose and starting the 6" pump sucking on a 3" hose. This prevents a vacuum which will suck in the tank.
The deadbeats changed it to flip an air switch and go ahead and pump. There is no guarantee that the tank is vented. When you open the hatch then you are guaranteed the tank is vented.
That was last year.
The year before it was a sleeve in the hatch so a person couldn't fall into the tank through the 22" top hatch. All of our product is top loaded and you NEED to be able to see the black liquid flowing into the black tank to see the level indicators so that (a) you do not overload and (b) you do not over fill the tank. (None of our product is metered on) There is a 6" pipe that we load with, that goes into the hole, now you are left with a 16" hole to look through. With the sleeve in there It makes the hole 10". I told the mechanics that if they put one of those things in my tanks I would cut it out. Aluminum tanks so I wasn't worried about sparks. They didn't put it in thankfully.
Just another classic example of deadbeats that have never done our job trying to tell us how to do it.
Stupidity at its' finest.
I am wondering what BS they will come up with this year.
There is also computer work E-log learning, how to send in our time and a whole bunch of crap that we don't really need in order to get paid. When I first started with this company 38 years ago, there were tack cards that you had to fill out, (no big deal) and a time sheet. For us out of town IF we got back to the yard on the weekends then we turned in our time then. If we didn't in my case, I went out for 4 months at a time, I either couriered the time in once a week or IF I spotted one of our drivers I would put the time together and hand it to him. ALL the other drivers were trustworthy enough to deliver the time in the condition you sent it. (No monkeying around with your time.) Although most of them really liked the money I was making they didn't like being away from home for 4 months at a trip.
Now they want it EVERY day, sometimes impossible for me (Zero cell service for days at a time) Their answer, just do it on the tablet and it will send it automatically when you get into a service area. Then they pester and browbeat you when you do get service "where is you time?" why haven't we got your time?" You would have to put the paper copies into a courier bag and send it anyway. A little Filipino girl does the time so you/I really cannot tell her what I think in words that she would understand.
Well that is enough of that for now.
Have a safe day all
