Friday, January 6, 2012

Belle Chasse Ferry?

Drove to Koch-Glitsch in Wichita, Kansas to pick up crates and trays bound for Alliance, Louisiana. The load wasn't ready until after 4:00pm, but we didn't get out of there until 5:30 local time, and had to be in Louisiana by 11:00am the next day. Made for a push to get there in time.

We drove through the night and made Conoco-Phillips in Alliance by 8:00am. Had some issues with the GPS thinking we couldn't go where we needed to go, because it had intel that said there was low clearance on the side of the canal we needed to be on, but there wasn't. It kept trying to send us on a ferry over the canal. Really? A ferry?

Getting through the gate at Conoco-Phillips was a bit of a time sink. We had to watch a safety video, and show our TWIC cards, and we were told that Collin would have had to shave off his beard if we were going any further in than the warehouse, due to fire safety concerns.

Drove back into Belle Chasse proper, to Tube Spec, to pick up our biggest load ever, a single pipe, about 15 feet long, and 2 inches in diameter. We were taking this pipe all the way to Arroyo Grande, California, and it didn't have to deliver until the 9th. So we had an easy run ahead of us.

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