Our Shipping Department

Tuesday December 4, 2007

Today is my anniversary. Shelly is an early riser and was up before the alarm this morning anxiously waiting for me to get up to give me an anniversary gift and card. We are quite opposites about the mornings. She gets up wide awake and animated and I need time before I talk to anyone. We both love the mornings but in different ways.

We get several trucks here at the plant each day. Some days we have only one or two but then others as many as ten or twelve. We don’t have a shipping department. The shipping person was good but she quit after a disagreement with the owners wife. Now the owner’s wife is in charge but she is seldom here. Their son (an arrogant 20 something year old) they couldn’t find anything he could do so they made him the plant manager. When trucks come in to be loaded he will let them sit for hours without loading them. It is his power thing. I have known of trucks sitting for 5 to 6 hours before being loaded. This practice has stopped now, I am sure they had complaints.

Yesterday I had spoken to a driver from Estes Express about his job. He really liked it. He had been driving for 2 ½ years doing local Pickup and Delivery. He said that the company OTR drivers make $60-$70 K a year. He said that he made less but didn’t work as much and was home every night. He did say that he was paid well for the hours that he worked. Of course what is good pay for him might not be for someone else.

I get very anxious to get the schooling behind me and get on the road.