Can you guess what I was delivering today? Lots and lots of bananas to Meijer distribution centers. Open those doors and my GOD it smelled so good! Now something that just tickled my funny bone was in the last one they sent me back to this guy half way back through the warehouse to let him know I was docked. What does this guy do? His sole purpose is to inspect the quality of the bananas being received. Holy cow! Obviously he is a banana connoisseur.
Now at this same facility you have to park out in their "bullpen" to wait your turn to go in and be unloaded. They actually had a bathroom available for the drivers (which some places do not). It's a unisex bathroom which really doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that it was absolutely NASTY! I'd rather use a port-a-potty. There was rust everywhere, a nasty little bar of soap to wash your hands, no paper towels to dry them (the towel holder was broken) and the toilet looked like it got a cursory scrub in the bowl every once in a while. I felt nasty just going in there. Isn't it wonderful the kind of facilities that many shippers/receivers provide their truck drivers?
Anyway...gonna lay back down for a just a bit. Been relaxing all afternoon due a shortage of hours. I can't leave until 10pm tonight to head for Detroit to do a drop & hook which I then take down to Fairborn, OH...then Springfield, OH...then Piketon, OH. We'll see how the hours play out. I know I can get the first and second load in by playing with the sleeper berth split but not sure about the third drop. We shall just have to wait and see.
So later tater! Hope you are sleeping well while I'm driving all night. :-(
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