March 2010 Location

**usafk9** · 03-01-2010, 12:01 PM

Not sure I'd call it a shakedown,Guido, but that's our Field Safety Liaison, Terry O'Connell. He regularly performs inspections of vehicles in the FECC fleet. He did one on ours at that same location. Not sure if he's aware that Turtle's on the payroll, though.

**blizzard** · 03-01-2010, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by guido4475

Why plate your vehicle in Mi if you live in Ohio? Just wondering.

My primary address is in California. My secondary address is in Michigan. I hang at both addresses from time to time. I don't live in Ohio anymore. I gotta get my plates in Michigan so I can drive the van back east. The current plates are expired and I am not paying Calibankruptfornia 800 dollars to register my truck when I can do it in michigan for under 200.

**chefdennis** · 03-01-2010, 12:24 PM

Sittin at the "J" in Peru Ill waitin for the phone to ring...Can't complain about Feb, had a pretty good month with both milrs and income....Oh the weather is cold, but no snow or ring..roads including I-80 are just fine...

**guido4475** · 03-01-2010, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by blizzard

My primary address is in California. My secondary address is in Michigan. I hang at both addresses from time to time. I don't live in Ohio anymore. I gotta get my plates in Michigan so I can drive the van back east. The current plates are expired and I am not paying Calibankruptfornia 800 dollars to register my truck when I can do it in michigan for under 200.

CALIBANKRUPTFORNIA----now that's funny, I dont care who you are.Thanks for the early am laugh.I'd say what happened while I was laughing, but the Modsquad is watching..LOL.

**guido4475** · 03-01-2010, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by usafk9

Not sure I'd call it a shakedown,Guido, but that's our Field Safety Liaison, Terry O'Connell. He regularly performs inspections of vehicles in the FECC fleet. He did one on ours at that same location. Not sure if he's aware that Turtle's on the payroll, though.

Wow.Imagine that. I can see where it would be a good thing, though. I have seen some trucks from some other cos that look like they wouldnt get into Mexico, they were so negleted.I have to admit, I have never seen a unkept Fed-Ex truck that I can remember.

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-01-2010, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by guido4475

You know, I was at the J in Pontoon Beach,Ill the other day and I witnessed from looked like a shakedown of a Fed driver by an co. inspector, from what I can tell.A gray-haired guy in a nice Sprinter with a rv-type awning on the roof pulls up to a Fed guy in another sprinter and performs, what I can tell, an inspection of the van, inside and out.It appeared to be a heated conversation outside with something to do about the driver having magnetics on the doors.He then moved on to another Fed vehicle in the truck lot.

The question is this: Was what I saw for real,a Fed employee inspector of some kind, on the road, or am I just mis-interpreting what I saw to begin with? Just curious, that's all.

Looks like you might have seen Terry our respected X moderator....
I don't happen to agree with the above comments...it is just another example of Fedex babysitting...I would not allow him near my truck unless it is spelled out in the contract...

**moose** · 03-01-2010, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by guido4475

with something to do about the driver having magnetics on the doors..

if you don't have a large refrigerator in your truck ... where else will you putt them ,,,

**copdsux** · 03-01-2010, 01:08 PM

Moose, my wife is still upset that the new refrigerator she got last August won't hold a magnet; it's stainless steel, so, they won't stick.

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-01-2010, 01:12 PM

just another lost place to put grandkids pictures...

**chefdennis** · 03-01-2010, 01:15 PM

Phone just rang, Galesburg Ill (yea i dropped their Fri night and left there for Peru, ain't it how goes) to Lincoln Neb...Yeap another BNSF Run.....seeya

**Falligator** · 03-01-2010, 01:16 PM

I'm still in Laredo soaking in the sun....while it lasts. I will be picking up my load in Laredo this evening at 1700 and taking it to Atkins, Va. for 1,435 miles. driving my van through the rain this evening. Should be fun!

**Jack_Berry** · 03-01-2010, 01:17 PM

home. having maint done today. expect to be outta here tonite.

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-01-2010, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by Falligator

I'm still in Laredo soaking in the sun....while it lasts. I will be picking up my load in Laredo this evening at 1700 and taking it to Atkins, Va. for 1,435 miles. driving my van through the rain this evening. Should be fun!

Why would driving in the rain be fun? Unless you have a convertible...

Darn 1400 miles in 1 run..you'll be able to DH home now..*LOL*

**gsmacker** · 03-01-2010, 01:55 PM

Sittin in Charlotte, its nice right now but I hear there's a nasty lil storm comin at me. I think Falligator is stalking me.......I show up in Laredo he shows up, I go to Atkins,Va and he's headed there. Who do talk to about witness protection for expeditors???

**guido4475** · 03-01-2010, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by OntarioVanMan

Looks like you might have seen Terry our respected X moderator....
I don't happen to agree with the above comments...it is just another example of Fedex babysitting...I would not allow him near my truck unless it is spelled out in the contract...

You dont agree with what I posted or what I witnessed?