The past couple days have been hectic...

The wine from Argentina finally arrived on Wednesday morning at 5 am. An hour late, and about the time I arrived at the warehouse in Austin. That meant I left here at about this time (2 am) and drove to Austin from Houston.

This container was a doozy. 450 cases loose, not on a pallet. We had to use good pallets, load them with the loose cases, and then get them down and put the pallet away in the warehouse. I should mention that we don't have a truck-level dock, so we have to use the forklift to get the pallet (once loaded) down to ground level, and then use the pallet jack to place the pallet.

After packing these pallets and getting them down, there were another 450 or 500 cases (of a different winery) on pallets. The space in the container is too small to use a pallet jack for the first couple of pallets, so we have to use this heavy-grade chain, loop it around the support blocks of the first pallets, hook the chain to the forklift, anf then pull the pallets to the edge of the container where the pallet can pick up and "deliver" the pallet to the warehouse.

After that, almost everyone else took a nap. I loaded my car and drove back to Houston to make deliveries.

I'm not meeting the container tomorrow, but I'm doing more deliveries.

fun fun.