Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
After taking two weeks of vacation time for the Christmas holidays I really wasn't ready to go back to work! I got used to just laying around all day! But, Cole Nelson called and gave me a list of loads to pick from.
I chose two preloads to do. But the day before Cole let me know that the first one had cancelled and I just was left with the Exxon preload at two in the afternoon. No problem because I could sleep in one last time for a while.
I got to the yard and it was kind of strange after two weeks. I saw KW Dreier and we joked about it. I got my truck and trailer together and took off to Exxon in Baytown, Texas. It was a gray drizzling day out!
I got to Exxon thirty minutes early. Which meant that I had to wait for fifteen minutes in the staging area. I got in and got in the rack right away, rack twenty-two. I put the placards on the trailer and go up top.
To my left was a Miller Transaction truck loading up a flammable. I was to the right and I was loading up a combustible. The Miller driver was sitting by the dome watching videos on his phone.
I was smelling a lot of fumes and I walked over and asked the guy to turn his phone off. He was a dumb looking African-American guy in his twenties. He knodded and put up his phone.
As I was standing there, he gets up and walks to the far corner and turns his back to me and looks down, probably at his phone! So, I walk down the stairs, even though I am required to be on the rack!
I walk down and the loader says that I need to be upstairs. I tell him that there are a lot of fumes and the other driver is watching videos on his phone and I don't want to blow up! He tells me that his loading is venting controlled. I tell him that mine is not and I don't want to blow up!
He looks up and just walked away! The driver was African-American and all of the loaders and minorities, blacks and Hispanics! If that driver was white I'm sure he would have been banned from the plant!
Have you ever been in a similar situation before? Can you tell me about it in the comments section?
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After taking two weeks of vacation time for the Christmas holidays I really wasn't ready to go back to work! I got used to just laying around all day! But, Cole Nelson called and gave me a list of loads to pick from.
I chose two preloads to do. But the day before Cole let me know that the first one had cancelled and I just was left with the Exxon preload at two in the afternoon. No problem because I could sleep in one last time for a while.
I got to the yard and it was kind of strange after two weeks. I saw KW Dreier and we joked about it. I got my truck and trailer together and took off to Exxon in Baytown, Texas. It was a gray drizzling day out!
I got to Exxon thirty minutes early. Which meant that I had to wait for fifteen minutes in the staging area. I got in and got in the rack right away, rack twenty-two. I put the placards on the trailer and go up top.
To my left was a Miller Transaction truck loading up a flammable. I was to the right and I was loading up a combustible. The Miller driver was sitting by the dome watching videos on his phone.
I was smelling a lot of fumes and I walked over and asked the guy to turn his phone off. He was a dumb looking African-American guy in his twenties. He knodded and put up his phone.
As I was standing there, he gets up and walks to the far corner and turns his back to me and looks down, probably at his phone! So, I walk down the stairs, even though I am required to be on the rack!
I walk down and the loader says that I need to be upstairs. I tell him that there are a lot of fumes and the other driver is watching videos on his phone and I don't want to blow up! He tells me that his loading is venting controlled. I tell him that mine is not and I don't want to blow up!
He looks up and just walked away! The driver was African-American and all of the loaders and minorities, blacks and Hispanics! If that driver was white I'm sure he would have been banned from the plant!
Have you ever been in a similar situation before? Can you tell me about it in the comments section?
If you enjoyed this story you can click on the link to follow this blog.
Brother Roop
My website:
www.billroopministries.com
My Hospice blog:
www.hospiceministryvolunteer.blogspot.com
My other blog:
www.biblicalhermeneuticsposts.blogspot.com
Apostolic Theological Seminary
www.atseminary.com
My YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUg79RZ7cPQiCnc8dytW8AQ?view_as=subscriber
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