Fri... Oct 30.... Unloading P'nuts

First of all before I show you how our 46k pounds of p'nuts was unloaded, I must rant a little.

We are in the right lane of the interstate and there is a police car in the left lane (the fast lane, right?)... we are gaining on him and gaining... now remember, the posted speed limit is 70 mph and we are governed at 65 mph... we should not be gaining on him.

As we PASS him, the reason he's driving in the fast lane so slow is because he's TEXTING!!!! Imagine that!!! The trucking industry is being bombarded with bad press related to using onboard communications... we are in a state that BANS texting and here we have an officer (in the passing lane driving 50 mph) and TEXTING! I thought my head would blow off when I saw this.

Ok, back to the nuts of this story.
We arrived in Pleasanton, TX to unload our nuts at 7:00 a.m. They make you pull onto this lift and disconnect from the trailer. They start tilting the lift slowly and the p'nuts go into a holding bin in the ground.

Eventually our trailer looked like this as they neared having the whole trailer empty. The process took about 45 minutes to empty the trailer.

As we sat here we had a preplan on the Qualcomm that we were picking up a load (at this same place) and taking it to Laredo, TX.

So with realtive speed we were hooked up to a full trailer and on our way to Laredo!

We arrived in Laredo and went ahead and delivered our load of peanuts to the broker. This load will make it's way onto Mexico and who knows... we maybe carrying a load of peanut butter soon that comes back across the border...