Why I hate the local yard AND Karma.....
Little story..... I always haul my cars about 25 miles away, yard there pays me better and much cleaner yard, much more professional people, much faster service, altogether three times better experience than at the local yard. However when I have a small load of random stuff to take, I often will just run it into the local yard as it isn't as big of a payout and don't want to spend half the load in fuel....
Anyway, I was at the dump piece of crap yard, they have about 3 magnets and 2 grapples on 5 or so different cranes. I went back, and was backing my trailer up to the pile and some lady nearby decides to come over and spot me like I can't drive. She was flipping out guess she thought I was gonna run over her S10 (from 15' to the side of it?) anyway, she was gettin on my nerves. Not to toot my horn but personally I think I can backup a trailer better than a lot of morons can drive going forward without a trailer. I've pulled trailers darn near everyday of my life for the last 9 years or so...
Its 42 degrees and pouring rain. This lady and her son? have this S10 PILED with appliances and random pieces of metal from whatever they found. In my trailer I have an 8' truck bed loaded with a door, leaf spring pack from a 1 ton truck (heavy), bumper, and a piece of a flatbed that was cut off to shorten the bed to fit the truck it went on... Leftovers from a buddy's project to revamp his plow truck. I decide I'm gonna wait on a crane rather than get a hernia. Crane at the shearing pile is loading the shredder machine, the crane at the sheet pile where I am is empty no operator to be found. Another crane is loading a truck across the yard, etc. you get the idea.... The guy in the scales knew I was there and would need unloaded.... I guess since I didn't bring in a semi truck load I am last priority at best. So i feel sorry for the people in the S10 and lend them a hand unloading. They ask if I wanted help unloading I said na, i'm waitin on a crane. I ask if they ever come across junk cars and they said yea here and there, so I gave them some cards and told them I'd give them a finders fee if they line me up with cars. They left. I sat n sat. Finally i grabbed my phone and called the scale house and asked what it took to get a crane out here. He said well they are loading trucks. I said well I'm trying to sell you some metal and i'm standing in 42 degree weather in the **** rain where's a crane? He said well I'll see if one can get to you... Well several more minutes go by, a rollback pulls in with two cars, two guys get out and unhook the one on the stinger then unload the one on the bed. They come over and ask if I want help. I'm hungry and haven't ate all day so I said sure. I'd already gotten bored and unloaded everything out of the bed, but couldn't flip the bed over by myself (it kinda wedged in between the sides on my trailer and still had small parts in it too). They helped me flip it over the side and I thanked them and went and scaled out, got paid 10 minutes later and left.....
So moral of the story, what comes around goes around, I was surprised how quickly it paid off today. I just hope the yard gets whats coming to them. And by the way there are plenty of employees there at the yard, they were probably out back smoking dope. I don't know f' em. I hate that place the yard is a filthy swamp never know how many nails/screws/etc your tires will pick up, and they are lazy as hell and slow as molasses in january. The price is always decent. It just seems like everytime I go there the experience gets worse and worse. Sadly about every town around me has at least one yard there as well (all fair priced and MUCH cleaner!), and there's guys that drive right past them to come from an hour away to go the yard here in my town. I just wish I didn't have to drive 1/2 hr to get to a yard I like when theres one ten minutes away here that's HUGE, they are bigger than 3 or 4 of the other yards in the surrounding towns!! They ought to be able to afford to conduct business in a much better and competitive and professional manner. I've been to small time yards in the boondocks that had 3 employees, an excavator and a skid loader, and a set of scales you had to weigh the truck seperate from the trailer because they were small scales, and got better service there than almost anywhere! The big yard has no appreciation of your business!
Wish I could start my own yard...... I'd make sure everyone left HAPPY! Free McFlurries on the house on Fridays! LOL
Sorry for the long rant...... I feel better now :o
