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"It's decorative rock...it won't freeze up" they told me. Loaded in AL on Saturday...backhaul for a little extra $$$, but it wasn't supposed to deliver 'til today. I expressed my concern over it sitting in the box for 2 nights and it freezing up prior to getting to where it was going just outside St.L. I should've known better. How can you tell a dispatcher is lying to you? Their lips are moving.

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When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way!
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Use a little Redneck ingenuity & get the $#!t to come out. Got all but a little to break loose...then let it down to pry the last clump or two off the floor and away from the wall in the nose so it'd come out when I raised it up again. Wasn't as bad as it COULD have been...but still, more work than it SHOULD have been.

When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way!
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Outside of getting it indoors (heated shop) nearby,at least overnight (nobody gets that lucky),you got me stumped. ??????? Have the dispatcher help you shovel,when he's not playing computer games!

IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA

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Happens all the time to me

"Go get a load of pea gravel for a jobsite, you gotta shoot it to the roof with the little conveyor"

"It'll freeze"

"You're not going that far"

"ITS FRIGGEN -20!!!!!!"

Sure as chit, 30 min later and 8" all the way around is frozen solid!

Now I have a heated bay in the yard, they finally get what a huge waste it is to have me in the box with a roofing torch thawing the shit out as the use it. Load the bin, and leave it to cook for a few days at a good angle.....

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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part....

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had a guy come to my parents place to deliver a load of split fire wood. load was frozen in the body so i took a hunk of 4x4 and hit the bottom of the body and the vibration was enough to make the load slide out.

We the unwilling, Lead by the unqualified, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful.

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I remember when we used to put diesel fuel in a sprayer and spraying the inside of chip trailers so the chips wouldn't freeze to the sides and stick. Westvaco didn't approve of the practice though, and if they stuck i'd take them back to the woodyard. I wasn't going to get in there and dig with a shovel and grubbing hoe then get back in the back of the line, I got paid by the load anyway.

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A common winter practice in this area,is to spray liquid calcium chloride for sand & gravel products. Dirt haulers used to splash diesel fuel in the box to prevent sticking in the winter..Between the cost per gallon and the EPA crackdown,pretty much a thing of the past.

IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA

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Maybe you just weren't pulling hard enough of the dump lever, I cant bleeve a dispatcher would lie. Just pull harder, take off while its up and hit 7 or 9 big bumps. Dammit young'un, am I going have to come up there and show you how to dump? (and pull power lines down?) sheeit,,,randyp

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