When backing into a TIGHT dock...

yeh, you pull up to a shipper and you see the docks and say to your self, how Im I going to back in there? I mean some of these places are insane. Especially when its dark, been raining, and the glare of the lights, and you gotta maybe blind side into it. Totally sucks!

 

tight is backing into old docks built and designed for old 96" trailers with roll-up back doors, with a 102" and swing out doors!

 

Yeah, I worry more about getting it out of that tight spot than getting it in....sorta like, I got it in there, now how do I get it out without rubbing on something. I had a power pole on my blind side at a butter plant in St. Louis that had a flat spot in it from the trucks nicking it and tearing off some of the wood...I didn't need any kindle wood so I left it all on the pole!!!

 

Then there are no lines at most of those old docks.
So the first guy gets a little crooked, and the rest do as well.
Then you have to back between 2 crooked trucks on docks with doors 9 inches apart.
I am glad I have not seen one of those in a while lol.

 

I have one in the morning I've never been to and a warning on the qualcom that it's very tight so be careful.
I have all of 6 weeks experience now ( not counting school) so it should be fun.
My backing has improved greatly over the last week or so running around Portland,Seattle and Sacramento.
Glad I didn't get this one my first day lol.

 

Theres a meat packing plant over near where Im working right now thats just like that. The doors are so close that the truck drivers have to open up their trailer doors before they back in and pull out onto the street to close them. Its a pain to get around the trucks too. The 53'ers will sometimes unhook while theyre being loaded. Other wise the tractor is sticking halfway out into the street. The plant is right on the corner of an intersection and when I come thru there in my 45' flatbed i have to swing out REALLY wide and hope that the 4wheelers are understanding enough to move. Can get a little interesting when Ive got cars coming at me who dont want to give way and cars behind who dont want to wait for me to make my turn.


And then theres our local commercial enforcement officer who doesnt have a bit of symphathy for any of us.

 

Which of you had to back to and from school, uphill both ways?

 

and in the snow...lol

 

Years ago i did home delivery of new furniture in a conventional and a 53 ft electronics drop trailer.I would go out with about 50 stops on the trailer.
I learned to back really fast.Out of neighborhoods,off of mountains,you name it.
One of the worst was in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe in 6 foot of snow.

The customer would always say there is plenty of room....the school buses have no problem! Idiots!

Backed 7 miles down a mountain in Cali one day with the CHP watching me.
Even had the news chopper above filming it.
Little one lane road...

 

My pickup was those big round paper rolls, outa mich, up by the bay there, anyway its snowing , its icing , there a foot and half snow on the ground slick as all get out, i walk in hand him my pickup number, says too me are you gonna hit my wall too, i guess the first 7 hit the wall , i said nope, big light house inb front, coast gauard property then a big chain link fence, went out and almost fell on my kester , took the truck straight down the block got it straight , push it back thru the snow , brought nose around 90 almost too the flaring , quik hard left got it back straight almost, pull up too fence got it straighten out back right in, ya that was super tight en sliden, about 3 inches on ether side , one side wall the other a trl ,my first time and last time there and no i didnt hit the wall, he just said that was some pretty fancy backing up Everett.