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Labrador! Buddy from the wharfingers office called around super time last evening. [I’ve had freight come in on the boat off and on all year and never received a call to date].

So buddy says “the Northern Ranger will be in at 2 in the morning, you have two pieces of freight on it”.
Oh, say I, can you put them in the shed and I will get them later in the day. “Only if we have room” says buddy very un enthusiastically. Well see if you can fit them in, there only small, give me a call if you need me to pick them up say I. “OK” says buddy un enthusiastically.

So that is why I’m about to head down to the dock at 3 in the morning, the bloody boat better be there and my freight off or near to being off.

LATER:

Well the bloody boat was there, she arrived 1.30. So I was back home at 4, not too bad eh?

Pity the ones with multiple pallets of freight, having to organize people to help off load from the trucks etc.

Still the conditions were not as bad what I have seen in the past, +1 or so, roads are mainly dry, bit slushy and slippery at the lay down area.

Word is that the Ranger is heading back to pick up another load. I wonder when this crowd will join the 21st century and up grade their freight tracking system. Freight taken to Lewisport in September should be here by now, but it is not. No way that it can be tracked either, just that it has been accepted and is on the way somewhere.

Then there are split loads of freight. Example would be 17 pallets of freight accepted at Goose Bay dock. The most efficient way would be to load them onto a container and ship them up on the freight boat via Cartwright [sorry, that is the most efficient we have] you would think. But no, 6 pallets arrive on the Ranger [taken out of the container], 11 are still either in Goose Bay, on there way to Cartwright for transfer to the Aston or some other scenario, no one knows until they arrive in Nain.