| Working on
the city, or local, board consists of hauling loads that originate and
final in the Atlanta metro area. This is in contrast to the Over the
Road board for loads that go to or come from a port city. BTT's local
loads fall into one of two categories, those involving a rail road and
those that don't.
The loads that don't
involve a rail road consist of either starting or completing a run for a
road driver. Such as "Take an empty Maersk container from the BTT
terminal to a customer in Birmingham AL for loading. Bring the load back
to the BTT Atlanta terminal for a road driver to deliver to the Wando
terminal in Mt. Pleasant SC.
The loads that involve
the rail road are similar in that our portion of the run originates and
finals in the Metro area. This time however, the train acts as the road
driver carrying the export or import to or from the various port cities.
Lately I've been taking
advantage of the Tanker endorsement on my CDL. BTT has a new contract to
move containers of liquid from the metro area to a port city. So far I
have enjoyed the challenge of learning the safest and most efficient
ways to haul up to 43,000 pounds of liquid in a 20 foot tank. The
biggest difference as a driver is being aware of the momentum surges as
all that liquid sloshes forward, then backwards, then forwards etc. My
third grader says "Slow and steady wins the race". I haul the
empty tanks to the customer for loading then bring them back to BTT
Atlanta for a road driver.
|
