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Paybacks, practical jokes and unintended acts can be a b**ch.
A lot of our drivers were married. Most of the guys were true blue to the little lady at home but others had a reputation for catting around. One of the drivers was a great guy and he would never cheat on his wife in a million years and every other driver knew it. He had a long nose Pete with a huge walk-in sleeper. One week end a bunch of drivers were at a terminal and this driver took another driver and his wife to the laundromat in his truck. A few days later the true blue driver goes home. His wife is cleaning out his truck when she finds a pair of Ladies Blue Jeans. She knows they do not belong to her. She accuses her husband of running around on her on the road. Luckily she knows the wife of the other driver and when her husband explained that they probably belonged to her his story checked out. He said that if he had ever thought of cheating on his wife he changed his mind about it after that. He didn't realize how mean his little woman could be. She scared him straight.
GL2
Another guy I knew dropped a piece of frozen shrimp down someone's heater vent as an act of revenge. It took the mechanics a long time to find the source of that awful smell.
Another guy I knew dropped a piece of frozen shrimp down someone's heater vent as an act of revenge. It took the mechanics a long time to find the source of that awful smell.
I got a fifty pound bag of Idaho potatoes from a packing shed in Idaho. I stuck it in the side compartment with the intention of making it to the house in a day or two. I did make it to the house but I forgot all about the potatoes in the side compartment. I was headed to the laundromat when I rediscovered the sack of spuds. Is there anything worse than rotten potatoes?
An old trick I learned about got the side compartment back to smelling good. Cinnamon powder mixed in with a can of Folgers coffee and spread all around and vacuumed up does the trick.
...An old trick I learned about got the side compartment back to smelling good. Cinnamon powder mixed in with a can of Folgers coffee and spread all around and vacuumed up does the trick. GL2
We got a lot of midwest reefers (Subler Transfer, etc) in for loading at the Domino Sugar refinery in the Locust Point area of Baltimore. Some were quite foul smelling. The shipping dept guys kept some of their used coffee grounds on hand for occasions like that. They'd sprinkle used damp coffee grounds all over the trailer, have the driver turn on the reefer unit, close up the trailer, let it sit and run for 10-15 minutes, then the smell would mostly be gone. We'd get some seafood trucks in from NC/SC and sometimes have to de-stink them too.
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We got a lot of midwest reefers (Subler Transfer, etc) in for loading at the Domino Sugar refinery in the Locust Point area of Baltimore. Some were quite foul smelling. The shipping dept guys kept some of their used coffee grounds on hand for occasions like that. They'd sprinkle used damp coffee grounds all over the trailer, have the driver turn on the reefer unit, close up the trailer, let it sit and run for 10-15 minutes, then the smell would mostly be gone. We'd get some seafood trucks in from NC/SC and sometimes have to de-stink them too.
Yeah, coffee works every time! I hauled a lot of rubber and rubber chemicals when I worked for a rubber company in Dallas and when we went for a produce or flour backhaul, they didn't like that smell. Coffee got rid of it, along with a good washout.
Yeah, coffee works every time! I hauled a lot of rubber and rubber chemicals when I worked for a rubber company in Dallas and when we went for a produce or flour backhaul, they didn't like that smell. Coffee got rid of it, along with a good washout.
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Ironically one of the best smelling loads I ever hauled taught me the cinnamon/coffee trick. I was pulling a reefer and I had picked up a load of chocolate from a place in Burlingame, CA going to Hershey chocolate in PA. It smelled great but I had instructions to washout the trailer and dropit off at a meat plant in PA. The dispatcher was an old hand who had pulled reefers for decades and he told me about the coffee/cinnamon trick. It works on just about everything.
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Ironically one of the best smelling loads I ever hauled taught me the cinnamon/coffee trick. I was pulling a reefer and I had picked up a load of chocolate from a place in Burlingame, CA going to Hershey chocolate in PA. It smelled great but I had instructions to washout the trailer and dropit off at a meat plant in PA. The dispatcher was an old hand who had pulled reefers for decades and he told me about the coffee/cinnamon trick. It works on just about everything.
GL2
Who doesn't like the smell of chocolate?
The best smelling load I ever pulled was a load of old whiskey barrels. They'd been used for ageing whiskey in Kentucky and they couldn't be re-used for that, so they cut them in half and sold them to Lowe's as giant flower pots.
Man, did it smell sweet! I stayed thirsty all the way to Texas!
The best smelling load I ever pulled was a load of old whiskey barrels. They'd been used for ageing whiskey in Kentucky and they couldn't be re-used for that, so they cut them in half and sold them to Lowe's as giant flower pots. Man, did it smell sweet! I stayed thirsty all the way to Texas!
If you think that smells good, you gotta take one of their distillery tours down there in Bourbon County, KY. We did it the other year, man, those warehouses where they age stuff smell like heaven from the whisky that evaporates through the oak barrels, and they refer to that as the Angel's Share. There is now a brewery down there that takes the once-used bourbon barrels and ages beer in them. Yummmm!
Cooking the mash.
Distillation.
Warehousing, for 7-15 years, looking almost straight up at the roof.
Bottling lines.
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If you think that smells good, you gotta take one of their distillery tours down there in Bourbon County, KY. We did it the other year, man, those warehouses where they age stuff smell like heaven from the whisky that evaporates through the oak barrels, and they refer to that as the Angel's Share. There is now a brewery down there that takes the once-used bourbon barrels and ages beer in them. Yummmm!
There's a Jim Beam distillery in Cincinnati just West of I-75 at Paddock Road. They're consolidating operations and this distillery will close next year. I'll sure miss the sweet smells as I pass it...
Hate to see this thread go stale so here's a pic of one of the trucks I drove many years ago. (see attachment)
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I stayed thirsty all the way to Texas!
