Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Last Thursday afternoon, at around five o'clock, lightning struck the scale at VLS Recovery Services, here in Hockley, Texas! Madison, the receptionist, was driving out of the parking lot in her car, she said her whole car shook! Roy, the plant manager, was just outside talking to his boss on the phone, it about scared of living daylights out of him!
The scale where the Freon is loaded at, is about a few hundred yards away from the office. Lightning headed dead center, and blew it out and made it inoperable. They didn't know what the scale was hit at the time. They didn't find out until the next morning.
Dirk, who loads the containers on the scale, notice the scale is not working. But the scale doesn't work Freon does not get loaded. If Freon doesn't get loaded, and delivered, Goodman manufacturing will shut down!
So they called Houston Scales to come out and do an emergency repair. They pay them five-thousand dollars extra just to come out on Saturday to do the repairs. They didn't show up on Saturday! When they called Monday morning to see what happened, They said that UPS had not delivered the parts.
The total may be out on late Monday morning to conduct the repairs. So that's where I was after delivering my first load. I found out the scale people have not yet arrived for a pair of scales. Worse yet all the load of containers have been delivered. There was no love in containers to take for my second load of the day.
They told me to go to the truck stop and wait for them to call. It would take a couple hours to fix the scale, at least, and a couple hours to load the container. I needed to pick up fuel anyway, so I drove to the Love's truck stop in Waller, Texas.
When the lightning hit it fried all the electronics, and destroyed five of the eight loading cells under the scale! The repairs cost ten-thousand dollars to fix, And also cost them five-thousand dollars for a priority repair! So, Roy, the plant manager said that the total cost will be fifteen-thousand dollars to repair the scale!
Madison call me about two-thirty in the afternoon, saying I can come back and that the container will be done around four-thirty.. I told her I'd be too late for me, and I'd have to come back in the morning. After some discussion with Arkema, that's what the agreed upon. He wanted me to come back a little early, at six o'clock, to pick up the first container for the tomorrow.
It's amazing how one strike of lightning can screw everything up for a lot of people! Arkema was given BLS a hard time, and Goodman was given Arkema a hard time. I get paid by the hour, so I just sat around and made money!
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