Like A Wal-Mart Greeter . . .
That’s pretty much what the job is at this gate.
We stop each vehicle as it comes in, determine that they’re at the right place, and then ask if they’ve been into this pad before. If they have, we warn them to drive slow because of the cows, deer, elk, antelope, and zebras, wish them a nice day, and send them on their way.
If they haven’t been in before, we give them directions, and then warn them to drive slow because of the cows, deer, elk, antelope, and zebras, wish then a nice day, and send them on their way. When they come back out, we wish them a nice day and then wave them through.
And then once I start recognizing tag numbers in a few days, I’ll just wave them on it without stopping them.
And that’s pretty much it for this gate. The vehicles and the drivers are actually logged in at the gate on the pad, where I was working last week.
What’s funny though is that Marathon designates the gate names just the opposite. They call the gate at the pad the Greeter and they call my gate the Gate Guard position. But it ‘s my gate that does all the ‘Greeting’.
One thing I got done today was to set up my Mighty Mule Driveway Alarms on both entrance and exits to this gate.
The ones SiteWatch uses either don’t work, or false alarm so much they’re useless. But because the Mules work on a magnetic field they only sense a large mass of metal going by, and not a large mass of cow.
They sometimes take a little fiddling with to get the sensor placed right, but once you get them set up correctly, they just work.
Tomorrow after I get up Jan and I are going to do an HEB run for some groceries and then grab lunch somewhere, probably Whataburger. The Wal-Mart here is one of the old ones with just a small grocery section in the middle of the store, but they do have a nice big HEB here in Cuero so that works for us.
Since Jan’s going to be working this gate Tuesday and Wednesday days, she’ll have to bring me to work Monday night and then go back to the rig, then come back at 5:30am Tuesday morning for her shift. I’ll then go home and come back Tuesday night, and then we’ll repeat on Wednesday.
Thought for the Day:
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