Looks like you guys in the North East are in for a big one. I hope all stay safe.
I remember working the night of the blizzard of 78. No work for me that day at Red Star so I ran a load of Emery Air Freight from Newark over to JFK. When I punched in at 11PM at the AFT terminal on South St. it had just started snowing. I bobtailed over to Emery and picked up the load. By the time I got over to PanAm at JFK there were blizzard conditions. PanAm had declared an embargo refusing all freight. It was lucky for me because at least I had some weight on the trailer.
The major highways were passable. But when I started down the exit ramp off of 1&9 in Newark to Emery there were cars abandoned in a snow drift and I couldn't back up. I was about a quarter of a mile from the terminal. A coupled of times that morning and afternoon I trudged thru the snow to check in, call home and get a cup of coffee. I sat in that tractor until around 5PM that afternoon when the mechanic picked me up out on the highway. We left the tractor stranded and running on the ramp.
That was a very profitable and frustrating day for me. I got paid for the 8 hours and 10 overtime. Plus back then it was the Martin Luther King holiday. I also got the holiday pay from AFT for working the day before and from Red Star for working the day after. Money was the only important thing to me back then. In later years I was a lot more cautious about going to work in snow storms.
I remember working the night of the blizzard of 78. No work for me that day at Red Star so I ran a load of Emery Air Freight from Newark over to JFK. When I punched in at 11PM at the AFT terminal on South St. it had just started snowing. I bobtailed over to Emery and picked up the load. By the time I got over to PanAm at JFK there were blizzard conditions. PanAm had declared an embargo refusing all freight. It was lucky for me because at least I had some weight on the trailer.
The major highways were passable. But when I started down the exit ramp off of 1&9 in Newark to Emery there were cars abandoned in a snow drift and I couldn't back up. I was about a quarter of a mile from the terminal. A coupled of times that morning and afternoon I trudged thru the snow to check in, call home and get a cup of coffee. I sat in that tractor until around 5PM that afternoon when the mechanic picked me up out on the highway. We left the tractor stranded and running on the ramp.
That was a very profitable and frustrating day for me. I got paid for the 8 hours and 10 overtime. Plus back then it was the Martin Luther King holiday. I also got the holiday pay from AFT for working the day before and from Red Star for working the day after. Money was the only important thing to me back then. In later years I was a lot more cautious about going to work in snow storms.
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