Meat plant

Besides the terrible smell, you could tell it was a meat packing plant, the animal haulers drove into the east side of the plant and the regular trucks went in and out of the west side of the plant. So, the animals went in one side and came out the other! But what this whole thing reminded me of, have ya seen the movie 'Fast Food Nation'? This reminded of that movie, with Mexicans all around and it being a meat packing plant, I don't know it just reminded me of that movie.

Now back to this load that we picked up in Friona Texas, the great part of this, Gary let me drive the truck more than usual, he backed the trailer into a spot. But I got to disconnect the tractor from the trailer, drive to the other end of the row of trailers and connect it to our loaded trailer, it was so cool!

There were two very long rows of trailers out back, most of these trailers were loaded and ready to go, we found ours, we were hauling tripe (cows stomachs). We were taking this load of cows stomachs to Laredo Texas, were we would deliver the trailer to a Mexican shipping company in Laredo and they would take the trailer with it's load over the border to it's destination. We have done this before. And believe me when I say that Laredo Texas is the bowels of hell! It's dirty, hot and miserable, nothing but Mexicans, lousy drivers that cut ya off, even other truck drivers, I think I mentioned that in the blog about our first trip to Laredo and we didn't even get any tamales this trip.
Once we were inside, we could see this place was really busy. There was a wash bay, all trailers had to be washed out before they could be loaded, luckily we were just dropping our trailer so we didn't have to wait and go thru that part.

We had to pick up a load at a meat packing plant in Friona Texas, it was head for Mexico. This whole town of Friona smelled, it smelled real bad and with the heat I'm sure it made it even worse. Driving up and getting into this place, you would think it was Ft. Knox or something.