I came in a little early this morning because I was off from work the last five days. I dropped the trailer Tuesday afternoon because someone else would work for me Wednesday. I found out it was Daniel the dummy!
I jumped the counter and looked around the office, but could not find the fittings anywhere! So I went to the cabinet, and inside is a gray plastic container, and got my spare fittings out. They are a little old and worn but still usable.
So I got my coffee and I hit the road to Waller, Texas, to make my delivery for the day. I got the plant, drove to the tank, and hooked up my lines. Then the fitting for the product line started leaking really bad!
I try to tighten as tight as I could but it kept leaking. Onyx, the shift lead man, a young plump Hispanic man, took it to retighten it with two pipe wrenches. Onyx brought it back I hooked up and still leaked. By that time Bob had showed up. Bob is a sixty-five year old immigrant from British Guyana, South America.
Bob says, "Hey Bill let me take them to the shop inside where they can re-thread the part that's leaking. Well he took both of them to the shop inside, in the mean time Onyx had made new fittings. I put on the plant's new fittings a they didn't leak!
So we started offloading. "Daniel the dummy" who forgot to turn in my fittings is making my morning a little difficult. Hopefully he'll turn in my fittings today sometime. Bob came by after I finish offloading and said that they haven't got to my fittings, and said I can pick it up tomorrow.
You can read more stories about Daniel the dummy in the post titled "Daniel the dummy." Daniel is my relief driver but he continues to drop loaded trailers on asphalt. Next summer they may have to get a crane to lift a trailer off the asphalt.
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