My experience with the 2 scrap dealers is they all can be "independent". Don't like me, go someplace else, no sense of humor or even business like. I hauled a semi load of rail into the local place for the local tourist RR. I'd never been there before. Weigh in weigh out, no big deal. No instructions of any sort on the speaker system at the scale. Now the scale is set up for semi's but i have to get out to use the buttons. Lady scale operator acts like i should know what to do. Just barking at me.
I need to buzz her again. Ah, where do you want this load? The cars and pickups make a right turn just off the scale, head back to the gate and dump their little pieces on the correct pile on the way out. I'm not doing that with 25 pieces of 1000 lb rails. "Follow the green truck going ahead of you until he turns left, you turn right and go until you can't go anymore. OK
This a big yard, real neat to get inside.
Fortunately the scrap handler operator was a cool guy, told me right where he wanted me and picked those rails off like he was using his fingers. I had a short piece that ended up on my deck. I went to roll it off, he waved me of with a big grin and picked it off just as slick.
Go across the scale to get out. Lots of room for the cars and pickups with trailers. Ah, where am I supposed to go? Parking in the driveway i guess. I had to go inside to get a check made out to the railroad. In their defense, almost all the semi's are either their own or their subcontractors with tare weight "on file". I'm a newbie so I have questions, no patience for questions
So I scrap a car at the other yard in my area. Again no instructions, nothing on the website. I've never scrapped a car before. Office lady was real easy on the eyes, but the "boss" is standing behind her (Bullet proof glass
) giving me the eyeball with a pistol strapped on his hip. The whole office was creepy.