you need how many batteries?

[LDB]

Got a job for in the morning to take 2 "enviro-tainers" to the airport to be jetted away. Directions said go buy 32 D cell batteries. Turns out these containers are self contained environmental units that maintain a fixed environment for the duration of the shipment using 16 D cell batteries per container. I've never handled these so it will be a new experience.

 

[Dakota]

Got a job for in the morning to take 2 "enviro-tainers" to the airport to be jetted away. Directions said go buy 32 D cell batteries. Turns out these containers are self contained environmental units that maintain a fixed environment for the duration of the shipment using 16 D cell batteries per container. I've never handled these so it will be a new experience.

That has to be expensive, hope they pay for them

 

[LDB]

$36.48 plus tax and they'll reimburse me. Not sure how I go about it but will find out tomorrow.

 

[redytrk]

$36.48 plus tax and they'll reimburse me. Not sure how I go about it but will find out tomorrow.

Don`t put the receipt in TRIP-PAK. Send it to Green. Try to include the dispatchers name or initials and PRO number. Then Watch and pray.

On a request for reimbursement once, they made it a deduction from pay, instead of a addition (OUCH)

 

[greg334]

Leo,
I went through this a couple times with FedEx, I never got the $80 for the supplies the second time. When I got other containers to haul I told them to tack the amount onto the revenue right from the start and include the dead head to find the supplies. They did every time. They don't need a receipt from what I found out, they charged the customer the extra as miscellaneous.

I know that a couple of the new units I hauled since had one of two things, either sealed battery pack or rechargeable battery in which you had to get the same battery.

Wow surface hauling WG/Reefer work, the death of the Reefer C unit is on the horizon for FedEx.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Good for surface...not so good for WG...

Change you can believe in.....*LOL*

 

[jackdixon_2000]

How funny, years after leaving fedex and still predicting the demise. Who said anything about those envirotainers going surface? They are handled by airexpedite temp assure. They prefer to use White Glove reefer trucks when available, but for short distance can use dry boxs. I do 12 to 18 envirotainers every year out here on the west coast. The batteries are front loaded onto the pay, so no receipt necessary. I buy the batteries by the case 72 for $60.00.

 

[greg334]

Jack, you confirmed my point, thanks - being part of the up front cost and there is no problem instead of messing around all those receipts and so on.

I am messing around about the WG/C unit reefer thing because it seems everyone is still saying that is the best way to make those big bucks while FedEx is using better technology to get the customers goods moved without the need for fancy trucks?

Demise?

Maybe

By the way do you know how many of these things go on non-FedEx trucks?

 

[layoutshooter]

We have carried them a couple of times. No problems getting paid for the batteries AND the 40-lbs of dry ice. We also ran the reefer at -20c on those loads. We once had two of them one full with product and the other "READY" just in case the first one failed. It has been awhile since we handled one. Last time I forgot I had on a short sleeve shirt and got a small, but nasty, dry ice burn on my forearm.

 

[LDB]

Well, got to the pickup and the guy installed the batteries and showed me that both fans were working. Then turned them off and slid them on the truck. Made the arduous 4.6 mile trip to Express and turned them over to them. Then got a load from Garland back to Houston so sitting at the house now waiting on the next offer.

 

[jackdixon_2000]

Thats interesting, Leo. Maybe those envirotainers were comming out here to Calif and had to be tested first. Sometimes I get them with the batteries allready in the cargo hold. I did get a run offer to do an envirotainer run from Oakland to Los Angeles tomorrow, pickin up the containers at Fedex in Oakland. Only problem was I was allready dispatched on a run to Reno tomorrow.
Greg, I have no idea how many envirotainers we move around the country.

 

[LDB]

I don't know where they were going. They didn't give me a BOL or anything other than one custody form of some sort. I tried to get an airbill number and couldn't even get that.

 

[aileron]

I did one of those a while ago in Boston area. Good old days, paid a fortune for a 40 mile run. I bought the batteries, told them what they cost and immediately they added that amount to my run pay. Then the instructions said to put the batteries in, turn it on, see if it runs, then take the batteries out and place them inside the envirotainer. Then dropped it off at a FedEx something.

 

[jj214]

FDCC once asked me to purchase a "hand truck" for an inside del. As a "b" I did not carry one. I had some problems with "roberts express" on equipment reimbursement being part of my 1099 so I insisted the hand truck be purchased with a FEDEX credit card. Went to a Home Depot and made the purchase, and went to customer service desk where the transaction was carried out. Punch line: Home Depot told FDCC the cart could not be returned even after only one use- FDCC told me to keep the cart - 80.00 value. I have never had occasion to use it again.

 

[Steady Eddie]

I ask my wife that very question. "How many Batteries do you need?" she said "two".

 

[Deville]

I've done these loads a few times myself, I have never had a prolbem getting reimburshed for the Batteries or Dry Ice, I have always required that dispatch load the Money on my T-check card & it's never been an issue. If Dispatch won't do it than I won't do the load.

 

[comet_4298]

LDB did they tell you up front about the load or did you find out when you picked the load up. I've never heard or see one of those.........is it something new thats started.

 

[LDB]

The load came over the automated system like most of them do. When the load information came to me it included the instructions to bring the batteries to the pickup. As far as I know this is something they've been doing for some time but it was the first time I ever heard of these units. I'm not sure why it isn't a van load unless there just weren't any vans available. Both ends of the run had a good ramp for a van to back onto.

 

[Turtle]

I've had two loads like that, both times it fit easily into the Sprinter, and would have fit into any cargo van. Once was to Newark Airport in Jersey, the other was to LAX. Both times, tho, these were "batteries included" where they had rechargeable battery packs mounted on the front of the containers.

 

[aileron]

I'm not sure why it isn't a van load unless there just weren't any vans available. Both ends of the run had a good ramp for a van to back onto.

Probably there weren't any vans available since I did mine in my van a few years ago.