Our one job as a contract with Tarmac, they out bid everyone by like 20%.  It really shows.  Today when we went to start pumping, I had a hopper full of slick pack and I told the driver to wait until I told him to start unloading.  At that point, he procceded to start dumping just as I started pumping.  I very loudly yell at him to stop and he pushed the handle down even more.  Even the test guy started yelling at him.  At this point, the line clogged breaking the 2x4 that the hose was hooked to 3 stories up and also breaking my hook clamp at the welds.  While trying to beat out the hose, we ended up just taking that section out, the driver started talking crap about us to the test guy in spanish(he barely speaks English), which I don't speak.  My Superintendent heard this 3 stories up and started yelling at him.  We got him out of there as fast as we could.  And guess what, Tarmac did not have a truck for us even though they new we need 30 yards today a week ago.  They had also shorted us 1/2 yard on Friday, plus did not have enough trucks.  This is not the first time Tarmac has bent us over.  When we poured the footers for this buliding, they brought straight rock, did not even have cement in it.  Tarmac ended up paying for the 10 crew, and the 2 Owners Overtime, and All costs for the Boom Pump.  The Crew got there at 6 AM and no one left until 930 that night because of Tarmac's mess up.  I have another 23 yards tomorrow with them and if they screw up again, I dont know what I am going to do.  Sorry for the rant.  I will be quiet now.

I have had a few know it all drivers but none that screwed up.  Ill listen for you to scream tomorrow.  Good luck.

This beats the time when Tarmac on another job sent a truck that was not properly mixed, driver mixed it for about 2 mins right infront of me.  Needless to say, we had 10 clogs in 250' of hose and the S-Tube was clogged also.  Took about 45 mins of 12 guys beating and pounding to clear everything.  We dont have issues with Cemex and Vaulcan(Florida Rock and Stone)

What is a pump operator in the eyes of a truck driver. Nothing more or less than a forktruck driver, they are there to unload the truck. Ready mix drivers are like flies you catch them whit honey not whit vinegar

Goose you need me to be there I'm 6 ft 6 inches and weight 360 lbs I don't have drivers like that here they all respect me and I respect them, we have 4 ready mix plants here only one makes quality fisrt rate mud two of the others I will not even try to pump their mud to much rock plus the wrong size and not enough cemtious.

I am always nice to the guys, until they prove to me they are an ass.  I have a very good working freindship with a bunch of the drivers I work with.  It is just a few of them that have proven to be an asshole.  I'm 6'3" with arms and legs bigger than than most guys whole body.  I can drag 4 hoses at a time running accross the site.  Most guys dont mess with me.  I have a reputation for doing it my way.  I always get what I want in the end.  I dont mind working with anyone, just dont be a dick.  

When I finally got over to the Tarmac job, had a bunch of non concrete porblems, we got pumping.  We had set up 10+ on grout.  When were just about done with the first truck, our most favorite driver, we call dispatch.  They had shut the plant down early because they thought we were done.  So now we have to start early early in the morning so I can get done and 100 miles north to my other job.  

On a brighter note, we are testing out some 3" hard line on Friday in down town Tampa.  We have to line pump the whole job because there is not enough space for a boom, and because everything is inside the buliding.  YAY for LOTS of OT.

 Because of the economy ready mix companies have scaled back in every way, and so have the attitudes of there employes. We actually had a ready mix company call our office and apologize for thier drivers actions. By the way if your looking for a job look to Colorado 303-472-5838 mountain time m-f 8:00 am 5:00 pm, good luck.

A couple of years ago, i was injectpumping concrete into a high wallmould that i conected my hoses into. That type of job must go very slowly to not  burst the wallmould. One mixerdriver didn´t know what kind of pumpjob i had - the mould was far down in the basement and i stand beside with my remotecontrol.

Suddenly the wallmould explode - i did a kangaroojump for saving my self from all the concrete that explode out. A couple of concreteworkers get hurt, two of them real bad. It looked like a warzone in the basement. When i was out of the basement near my pump i noticed that the pump was set up with full throttle and fully hydraulicflow. It shown up that the mixerdriver thought that i pumped too slowly so he change my pump to full throttle and hydraulicflow ! (???)

I couldn´t hear the pump in the basement because of all the jackhammeringnoice, and at that moment the mixerdriver change the setup on my pump, i didn´t had a foot on the hose to feel the speed of the concreteflow.

Two guys badly hurt. What meaning is fast or slow pumping for a mixerdriver when he is payed per hour to unload into the hopper? And a mixerdriver that ever touch my pump is worth a big taste of my sledgehammer!

Mixerdrivers.....sometimes i just wondering what planet they come from.  

As a linepumper i do many pumpjobs "in the bush" that the "road" for a mixertruck is not that good, but as i as a former mixertruckdriver see as a driveble road - bad, but driveble! And the mixerdriver has to back half a mile on a narrow clayish steapy "road" to reach my hopper. So what, tricky mixertruck-workingday? I´ve had thousands of that in my life - on top of that, with many tons of an overloaded truck, every load, every deliver to any pump. The cops (coppers) didn´t look and care about at a mixertruck at that time.

But nowdays our spoiled mixerdrivers has curage to shout out in my face about where my pump is located. They realy believe that i park my pump on an impossible location, and then call for a mixertruck - only just to made a realy bad day for a mixerdriver, don´t matter who ever, just a mixerdriver. They realy believe that i´m that evil - and got that money to pay that evilnes to call out a fully loaded mixertruck into nothing - just to be evil.

 They don´t understand that i have a pumpjob to do! That´s why i sometimes wonder what planet mixerdrivers come from.

Nowdays i don´t listen to their shouting in my face - i have a job to do! I just answer them with: "If your wife don´t want to fuck with you, it´s not my problem"!

Or the better one:"If your wife see your dick as too small to fuck with, it´s not my problem"

Only once a mixerdriver gave me a hard punch in my face. He probably got a small dick. But i completed the pumpjob with a badly bleeding nose and a loud noise sounding in my head.    

Nowdays there are very many girls in Stockholm who drive a mixertruck. I like it - not because of their gymtrained bodies or their goodlooking faces or their handpolished nails....of course - not

They can bahave exactly as any mixerdriver as else.

But then i allways tell them: "Your period of the mounth is not my problem!"

And i even got a bleeding nose from a mixertruck-girl (!). Even a tiny girl can give a hard punch in her period of her mounth......

The only reason why my wife (works as an emergencynurce) didn´t feel sorry for me even though i was injured bleeding from my nose - me and our dog share the doormat that night. My wife wiched that i had one more nose to give a hard punch.

 Don´t comment about womens period of their mounth. The evil mounth!

 Nowadays male mixer drivers are pussy's. In the old days they had to know how to drive. All of the old guys could pour a whole foundation with there shoots, but not anymore. When I retire from pumping I'll probably drive a mixer because any mindless idiot can do it.

Our Tarmac Job is over finally.  Had no issues yesterday while pouring.  Tarmac can kiss my ass!

Unrelated, we tested and bought on the spot the 3" hard line today.  Worked like a charm.  We had trucks unloaded in 25 mins average which included dragging the end hoses around inside the buliding.  We poured footers for steel coloums.  We will also be pouring the 4" Slab on Grade, and the 4" 2nd Floor.  We are using a Sidewinder mix that pumps very nicely.  

And that's a Cemex job so it hits the back ally spot on.