Veggie shuffle

Yesterday I finished up that heavy load and started the California Veggie Shuffle. Vegetables are grown all over California and are mainly processed in Salinas California.

This is a major movement of vegetables by a ton of trucks. Once they arrive in Salinas they get processed down to consumer packages as in ready made salads and precut packages or into the boxes of vegetables you see at your local store.

The process has to be done in a very short time because vegetables dont have a very long shelf life. Basically they go from the field to your store in 2 to 7 days, depending on how far to your store.

It is a very interesting process to watch go down. Field trucks roll thru the field and are loaded up. From there they come to the central plant where they are loaded into large bin that fit 2 high and side by side in to a refer truck just right. Us refrigerated trucks come to the central plant get washed out, then get a empty weight of the truck, then get loaded up as heavy as is legal and then go get a loaded weight so they know how much of the product we have.

The plant I went to today is out in Huron CA and was packed with trucks both Field and Refer. The time between coming in empty and leaving loaded can some times be very long. Today only took me 4.5 hours.

The main processing plant in Salinas is much faster because they don't really store the product in warehouses. They bring it in the back door, process it and send it out the front door to go out to the stores. Come tomorrow morning I'll do the next part by taking the finished product out to a grocery warehouse and they will ship from there to their own store by way of their own trucks.

So while I wait for tomorrows load I will hit the showers and then I might play some World of Warcraft. I'm working on my PvP gear right now and its a bit of a grind. I will also use the laptop overnight to download all of the podcasts I like to listen to.

I'm saving up for a good digital camera so I can place some pictures into this blog. I do have a razor phone but I don't think the pictures it takes are going to be good enough for the web. Some of the places i see are very awesome and I think the quality of a good camera will be well worth it.

Hitting the showers at the local truck stop. night all.
Salinas CA