Finally, blogging again...Some Awesome pics!

Well, we started out in Sacramento, California, heading to Vernon, California which is down in the Los Angeles area. What a day! This customer is called Unicold and it is in one of the worst places I've ever been as a truck driver... Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't say that Vernon was a bad place...what I did say is that it is not a very truck friendly customer. Check it out for yourself! The following pics are a few that I sent to my driver manager, begging him to get us out of there!

I sent him this one first, telling him that there is no truck parking on the street and that there were too many trucks trying to get in and out of the docks at the same time. See for yourself:


After that pic was taken, the day was getting to be busier and busier... Now mind you that I had already checked in with the gate guard and the guard told me that I would have to be on "standby" because there hadn't been an appointment made for this load I had on my truck, and that I was 5th in line for the standby loads... No parking on the street but I told the guard I wasn't moving from this spot... Another hour goes by and look... The partial side of a truck you see in this picture is our truck... I was taking pictures out of the cab with my camera phone.



By this time, I was starting to get a headache from all the chaos and still I wasn't going to move, determined to get in FIRST whenever my number was called... Yeah right!

This was a view from the other direction--the front of our truck. I had sent all these pictures to our Driver Manager and told him to get us the "hell" out of there before we got so blocked in we couldn't move.

He finally called us to say that he had gotten a local driver to come in and deliver the load for us. Yippee, or so I'd thought. Finally, the gate guard had to ask me to move my truck so I decided to pull it around the next corner to wait for the driver who was to swap loads with us.... That was the easy part. Once the driver got there, he started cussing and yelling and calling Mike alot of names, which pissed him off and so I went over to the driver's door, knocked and asked, "why are you yelling at us, we aren't doing anything?" He started shaking and fumbling and mumbled, "oh, never mind, and don't forget to get your f.....g lock off the trailer." Needless to say, I was dumbfounded by this jerk's attitude and because it rubbed off on Mike, then he was yelling at me until I cried. I called up our driver manager and told him (while still in tears), that this was unnaceptable behavior from the other driver and I wouldn't tolerate this kind of attitude, especially from one of our own drivers...Hell, I was ready to quit. Something needed to be done to that guy. I'm not sure if the guy was talked to or not because of the two different versions of what transpired from Mike's phone call and mine, but all in all, our DM apologized alot and got us a load going up to Oregon, came back down to Sacramento with it and got our next load to Virginia.