NAKED JUICE?

Our down time came to an end this morning with an early wake up call to hit the road and mingle with all the LA commute traffic. Sixty miles and almost two hours later we arrived at San Pedro Forklift in Long Beach, CA. This is the third time that we have delivered here, so it's always nice to have that comfort zone of knowing the "lay of the land". When we pulled out from the dock, there were two other TWT drivers waiting to have their trailers of frozen french fries unloaded. As we drove down the street and then found a patch of dirt to park on, the computer beeped us with our next assignment.

Just 32 miles up Interstate 605, in Irwindale, we headed towards Naked Juice to pick up some chilled juice which we will deliver to three different locations in Oregon, Corvallis, Clackamas, and Milwaukee on Friday. I've never heard of this company, they have a catchy little slogan, "Naked Juice.....Nothing to Hide" If you like your juice with no sugar added and no preservatives, this is the juice for you, and they are now selling it at Starbucks!

There was a bit of a "snafu" at the shipper. Seems they wanted one truck to make five deliveries, but our company wouldn't do that, so they split the load. We arrived first and were getting loaded when the other TWT driver showed up. After he checked in, there was an issue with his bill of lading number not matching. Long story short, and after numerous trips inside and phone calls to our Company, we finally figured out that the other driver's load was on our trailer. To make it easy, we just swapped trailers and he was on his way, while we still sat waiting to get the rest of the juice loaded on our newly swapped trailer.

Presently we are headed north on Interstate 5 with Santa Nella, CA as our goal for the night. We'll have a full day of driving tomorrow, which should set us up for a short drive, less than 100 miles, Friday morning for our first delivery in Corvallis, OR. If I have the time tonight, I may have to force myself to walk to the Starbucks in Santa Nella and see if they have any Naked Juice in their cooler case.........then I'll go about ordering my latte, thank you very much!