Trial By Fire - 45,4000lbs Of Anheuser Busch - Prime TNT

My first official full day of driving..... 79,420lbs through the hills of NY/PA. I think my heart rate is back to normal finally.

Downgrades........ Why God? Why would you create 45,000lbs and downgrade. Why not be merciful and just pick one

Hats off to guys like Daniel B. who use to drive for LW Tractors with 49,000lb loads for Prime. You sir are a Titan.

45,000 is a usual beer load, Carl. You can bet Busch is getting every ounce out of your truck's weight limit on their shipments. I move Coors going from Golden CO to Georgia distributors all the time. Once I see Coors on the shipper , I know it's going to be a full load.

Downgrades........ Why God? Why would you create 45,000lbs and downgrade. Why not be merciful and just pick one

That's a fair question!

Did you happen to pick that up in Baldwinsville, NY outside of Syracuse? I used to go to that plant quite a bit.

Downgrades........ Why God? Why would you create 45,000lbs and downgrade. Why not be merciful and just pick one

That's a fair question!

Did you happen to pick that up in Baldwinsville, NY outside of Syracuse? I used to go to that plant quite a bit.

That's the place Brett. The funny part is that once we weighed at the guard shack they sent us back to the dock for another 5 kegs.

That's the place Brett. The funny part is that once we weighed at the guard shack they sent us back to the dock for another 5 kegs.

Oh yeah. They don't mess around at any of the beer companies. They load you to the max.

I don't know if you had the chance to look around inside that place but all of the Budweiser plants are immaculately clean and you'll rarely see more than one or two workers wandering around the place. Most of their entire operation is automated. They even have computerized pallet movers which are nothing more than small platforms on wheels which read sensors built into the floor. They'll go pick up a pallet of beer off the assembly line and the system tells it which dock to take it to. It just follows the sensors in the floor. Pretty amazing operation they have.

That's the place Brett. The funny part is that once we weighed at the guard shack they sent us back to the dock for another 5 kegs.

Oh yeah. They don't mess around at any of the beer companies. They load you to the max.

I don't know if you had the chance to look around inside that place but all of the Budweiser plants are immaculately clean and you'll rarely see more than one or two workers wandering around the place. Most of their entire operation is automated. They even have computerized pallet movers which are nothing more than small platforms on wheels which read sensors built into the floor. They'll go pick up a pallet of beer off the assembly line and the system tells it which dock to take it to. It just follows the sensors in the floor. Pretty amazing operation they have.

Brett, I seen a thing they had on the Discovery Channel about the automation. The efficiency is out of this world. My Trainer said that's how Skynet and the machines take over......... with automated beer movers.

But with all that said its a heavy load but a nice haul. Delivering in Jacksonville Flordia. It shouldn't take me anytime to get to 40k miles.

I serviced the big forklifts Bud uses to offload rolls of metal for the cans. tops etc in RIverside calif. spotless place not as automated then, who knows now. But yeah not too many people on the lines. Amazing how they make their own can tops and tabs. Pepsi ordered theirs back in the day (90's)lol

I don't know if you had the chance to look around inside that place but all of the Budweiser plants are immaculately clean and you'll rarely see more than one or two workers wandering around the place. Most of their entire operation is automated. They even have computerized pallet movers which are nothing more than small platforms on wheels which read sensors built into the floor. They'll go pick up a pallet of beer off the assembly line and the system tells it which dock to take it to. It just follows the sensors in the floor. Pretty amazing operation they have.

Sounds a lot like the amazon warehouse I worked at last year. Amazon used to have "pickers" who would get the order, then take a cart to the aisle / shelf the product was on and then take it back to computer scan it and then take it to the belts that took it to the packers. Now they have little robots about 1' tall and about 2x2' square shaped that have the new "pickers" tell them what to get, it drives on over reading qr codes on the floor to know which direction to go and for how far, goes under the shelf and picks it up, then brings said shelf to picker, who gets the item, scans it and puts it in cart to take to belt that goes to packers, picker then sends robot for next shelf and rinse and repeat till their cart is full. it's pretty neat. pickers have gone from doing about 12-15 miles of fast paced walking to about 1 mile... per day and half of that mile is just between break room and work station or time clocks. freakin warehouses are huge. when I went to do my interview (if you want to call it that, more like this is the job, what schedule do you want, do this drug test, pending said test comes back good you're hired) I made the mistake of parking near the main entrance, got up to the doors to find a sign saying interviews are being done in hr office at end of the building... I rode my motorcycle so I didn't feel like putting all that gear back on and riding over so I walked it... took me about 10 min to walk over. when i started working it took about 5 min to get from lockers at main entrance to other side of building for my work area. mostly cause it's not a straight shot.

Carl , s you need to go to miller/coors in irwindale. I never got a load of coors lt heading to Fresno that was less that 53 K. But usually closer to 54k. They don't care how you do it. If they can lay 4 twelve packs on the back, they do it.

When I drove for Navajo, I would go up to Fort Collins (I think) and pick up a load for the Budweiser plant.

If you showed up with a quarter tank of fuel, that was your own damn fault. They would still try and max you out.

Fuel is what? Eight pounds per gallon?

Dave