Gremmie's Gotta Long One..??????

So what has the old fart been upto this week i hear you ask,,,
Well monday was a holiday and what i did with a girl friend is none of your biz

Tuesday started well,!!!!
got out of bed and stubbed my toe....and that hurt,it bloody hurt,so being a macho type, i cried, after crying, and rubbing my poor toe i went to work with a limp...shit its cold out minus 35c,,That explains why i'm limp,, and windy... Jumped into Spirit 34 and started her...vroom she went for all of 30 secs and died. The boss had told me the diesel in Fargo was good for Canada....well it aint,,,Got the boss out of bed ,,,Trucks froze you fix her.....please. And being a good boss he did...i drank coffee..in the warm,, This all took some time,,, and once fixed the winds were blowing so hard he said forget going to Winnipeg as visibility was down to zero any way...
The next day started better,,,,turned the light on before getting out of bed to save my poor tootsie's Spirit#34 was waiting for her lord and master and sprang into life,reving freely, and doing all the things she should do.. Whatch out Winnipeg here we come..Woo Hoo Did my 2 drops in the Peg and recieved loading instructions for a part load for Edmonton to go with the crane i had loaded in Kansas City,9 small skids of steele and a transmision for Cummins in Lloydminster.
Slept that nite in Regina,,, it smells how it sounds,, up early to try and unload as much as poss in one day. Was in and out of Cummins place in Lloydminster in 10mins sped across to Edmonton and found Mammoet cranes yard dead easy,they whisked off the crane in 25mins...Bloody hell this is going well,,,
Phoned dispatch and let him know of my progress...BIG MISTAKE...never let dispatch know what ya doin they tend then to make plans for you,,, Sped right across Edmonton to Saint Albert and youve guessed it off loaded touts suit ??? Got in the cab to complete paperwork and the phone rang,, Could you reload today ??? Looked on the map..and yeh should be possible. Back across the city to load steele...quite easy in princable..that is if your dispatcher and the customer would,, SPEAK THE SAME FRIGGIN LANGAUGE ,,
The farce begins,,,
arrived at steele mill and weigh in,obtain loading instructions from scale chapy who was very helpfull with his instructions and tips of loading the steele.
Loaded said steele, weighed out,chained and strapped steele,went to get my BOL's.
Per chance i asked what my gross weight was,, 97000lbs or their abouts,,did some quick math and WTF How much ???? whats that in Kilo's ???? 43000kg he say's no probleme their with your weights pal..
It was at this point i regreted calling dispatch at all today.. 43000kg i can only have 39500 are you mad???? ive only 5 axels not 6 i say's..No you havent say's scale chap you got 6..Bloody nora my traillers groing axels i say's,,,lets wait an hour or two and ill have 7 ,,,Scale chap stands up to view my trailler...he doesnt belive me,, Scale chap leaves office,descends the stairs ,walks across the yard upto my trailler, comes running back and say's shit you cant load here we dont accept tandem traillers.. NOW HE BELIVES ME.. we aint shipping you he say's its against company policy...We could offload 1 bundle i say's..he shows me a memo that states no tandems.. It was now 6.30pm on a thursday evening, and i was facing the fact that my reload home was going down the pan...Think gremmie think,,, Well i say's if your Co has this policy,why did YOU (meaning scale chap) allow me in to load,and why did the load master load me,and why did the load inspecter pass the load,and why did you scale me out....Check mate ,to Gremmie,, Ooops say's scale chap,thats very true,shit i'm going to get a bollocking by my boss.,, His problem not mine
We offloaded one bundle of steele,re-did the BOLs re stapped the load and headed off to the eFing J and supper.
Called Kim in the office,told her the story,,she thought it was funny,,, and asked nicely if she would arrange for an overlength permit,,, this she didnt find so funny,,,gave her all my dimensions + my shoe size ,,,the Canadians want to know every thing ,,and trundled knackerd into the J for a shit shower and shave + some grub.





Went to bed drained,woke at 5am and headed for Regina to offload,called the customer to say i'd be there between 2.30 and 3 pm,,woohoo they would still be open. Job done ran home empty from there... 6foot 6inch over hang 2foot overhang at front chained down my loadbunks for extra safety