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i got a story here, you all tell me if you think its true or just a tall tail:
an over the road trucker in the U.S delivers a load of lighting figures to a lowes and then heads off to a walmart distribution center a bit down the road (somewhere between 100 and 300 miles), after a few hours the trucker gets to the center and find out they absolutely will not let him bring in the empty dry goods trailer he is carrying but are fine with him taking out the empty refrigerated trailer his company told him to get for his next load of freight, so its off to find a solution, a little while later with the help of an empty lot nearby a "solution" is found and he goes in and starts hunting down the reefer, about an hour later he find the trailer and goes to hitch up and connect the lines and electrical cable and finds out the electrical connection is broken.
a quick call to the company later and he gets a second refrigerated trailer assigned and goes off to hunt that one down, half hour later finds and hitches up without a problem.
fast forward to the next morning and he calls the frozen goods warehouse he will be picking up from to ask what temp they want the trailer pre-cooled to, they say -20F and he goes and sets it, about noon he arrives at the warehouse but the trailer isn't cold enough yet so he parks the truck with trailer attached in a corner of the lot because this lot is barely big enough for the employee's vehicles and other over the road trucks, about 6 hours later he gets fed up with waiting and tries the good ol method of turning it off and back on again.
trailer's generator refuses to start and gives 3 critical error codes, so its back to the truck stop down the road to park for the night and call the company yet again.
some time the next morning probably around 10AM the trucker and his friend who is riding along get rudely awoken by an amber alert (child abduction alert delivered by an emergency system that will make your cell scream till you tap ok), after dealing with this he and his rider go back to sleep for a few more hours then get up and go a few miles down to the road to a service center to swap out the trailer again, after that the new trailer works perfectly and cools off in a hurry so the trucker goes back to park in the lot of the warehouse because he is ready to pickup the load but has to wait for the warehouse to call him up to a dock to get loaded, around sundown both the trucker and his passenger are starting to look out the windows with a bit of worry because they have received warning that a tornado is expected to drop down near them some time in the next few hours, a little while after sundown the rider points out some clouds about 75 to 100 feet off the ground that are starting to circle, at once a mad rush by both to the warehouse happens because the warehouse workers have to have a shelter or some other way of dealing with a tornado.
nothing happens and a few hours later after the rain stops they go back to the truck and keep waiting
about midnight the warehouse calls him up to a dock to get loaded and shortly thereafter the rider starts catching some ZZZzs in the upper bunk.
so a few more hours later its around 3AM and finely the trailer is loaded and the trucker pulls forward so he can shut the trailer doors, this of course also wakes up the rider because he is sleeping on a shelf about 8 feet above the ground that acts like its at the end of a giant lever.
trucker gets to the truckstop down the road and calls it a night and then the next morning he finds 2 other truckers have parked there trucks in the travel isle between the rows of spots doing who knows what with there trucks, they stay parked for a few hours and the trucker who has been having a bad few days is about ready to read someone the riot act but one of the other truckers gets back in his truck and gets out of the way (an observation that the driver who moved is wearing a turban or similar head covering prompts a "self removing kebab" comment from the rider). finely back on the road and on his way to the destination of this load all seems good again, at least till he starts getting into the deep south states and it turns out its so damn hot out the trailer is constantly screaming about being over temp by about 10F so its -10F instead of the setpoint of -20F.
either due to luck or divine intervention the scheduling department had worked an extra day into the routing and so the trailer was delivered on time despite the ridiculous delays in picking it up
alright, you all tell me if you think this is a tall tail or if its plausible
an over the road trucker in the U.S delivers a load of lighting figures to a lowes and then heads off to a walmart distribution center a bit down the road (somewhere between 100 and 300 miles), after a few hours the trucker gets to the center and find out they absolutely will not let him bring in the empty dry goods trailer he is carrying but are fine with him taking out the empty refrigerated trailer his company told him to get for his next load of freight, so its off to find a solution, a little while later with the help of an empty lot nearby a "solution" is found and he goes in and starts hunting down the reefer, about an hour later he find the trailer and goes to hitch up and connect the lines and electrical cable and finds out the electrical connection is broken.
a quick call to the company later and he gets a second refrigerated trailer assigned and goes off to hunt that one down, half hour later finds and hitches up without a problem.
fast forward to the next morning and he calls the frozen goods warehouse he will be picking up from to ask what temp they want the trailer pre-cooled to, they say -20F and he goes and sets it, about noon he arrives at the warehouse but the trailer isn't cold enough yet so he parks the truck with trailer attached in a corner of the lot because this lot is barely big enough for the employee's vehicles and other over the road trucks, about 6 hours later he gets fed up with waiting and tries the good ol method of turning it off and back on again.
trailer's generator refuses to start and gives 3 critical error codes, so its back to the truck stop down the road to park for the night and call the company yet again.
some time the next morning probably around 10AM the trucker and his friend who is riding along get rudely awoken by an amber alert (child abduction alert delivered by an emergency system that will make your cell scream till you tap ok), after dealing with this he and his rider go back to sleep for a few more hours then get up and go a few miles down to the road to a service center to swap out the trailer again, after that the new trailer works perfectly and cools off in a hurry so the trucker goes back to park in the lot of the warehouse because he is ready to pickup the load but has to wait for the warehouse to call him up to a dock to get loaded, around sundown both the trucker and his passenger are starting to look out the windows with a bit of worry because they have received warning that a tornado is expected to drop down near them some time in the next few hours, a little while after sundown the rider points out some clouds about 75 to 100 feet off the ground that are starting to circle, at once a mad rush by both to the warehouse happens because the warehouse workers have to have a shelter or some other way of dealing with a tornado.
nothing happens and a few hours later after the rain stops they go back to the truck and keep waiting
about midnight the warehouse calls him up to a dock to get loaded and shortly thereafter the rider starts catching some ZZZzs in the upper bunk.
so a few more hours later its around 3AM and finely the trailer is loaded and the trucker pulls forward so he can shut the trailer doors, this of course also wakes up the rider because he is sleeping on a shelf about 8 feet above the ground that acts like its at the end of a giant lever.
trucker gets to the truckstop down the road and calls it a night and then the next morning he finds 2 other truckers have parked there trucks in the travel isle between the rows of spots doing who knows what with there trucks, they stay parked for a few hours and the trucker who has been having a bad few days is about ready to read someone the riot act but one of the other truckers gets back in his truck and gets out of the way (an observation that the driver who moved is wearing a turban or similar head covering prompts a "self removing kebab" comment from the rider). finely back on the road and on his way to the destination of this load all seems good again, at least till he starts getting into the deep south states and it turns out its so damn hot out the trailer is constantly screaming about being over temp by about 10F so its -10F instead of the setpoint of -20F.
either due to luck or divine intervention the scheduling department had worked an extra day into the routing and so the trailer was delivered on time despite the ridiculous delays in picking it up
alright, you all tell me if you think this is a tall tail or if its plausible
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