weirdest place i think would be a little tiny rural greenhouse 5 miles off the nearest paved road. DUMBEST place would have to be in a subdivision with only culdesacs to turn around in with a double sleeper truck and a 53 foot trailer while in the biggest snowstorm of the year in michigan while delivering 15% of a trailer load of kitchen cabinets without a liftgate or even a dolly. Great dispatching on that load, let me tell you

Think he might have been pulling your leg?

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We just had a delivery to Americold in Carthledge, MO that you have to drive into a tunnel then into a "cave". I guess thats the best way to describe it. [/quote]


Been to that one. It's an old marble mine.

Been to that one. It's an old marble mine.[/quote]

Yeah, I did the cave in Granite City IL (Spacesaver warehouse)
Ok at first, then I started having a mild anxiety attack and couldn't get out fast enough.

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Not a delivery, but a pickup. Alamogordo, NM. Load was firewood. I was looking for a warehouse or something the whole time I was following the directions in. Turns out, it was down a cowpath. A couple of guys in a big wide dirt clearing with 50 skids of firewood, a skid loader, and a pallet jack.

I just flipped a U-ie in the turnaround space, popped the doors, and away they went. Gave me 20 pallets and I was on my way. There wasn't even a building out there. Just a 1500 Chevy and a travel trailer.

with containers, I always get weird places. We once had a woman who imigrated here from Poland, she met and married a man here. Decided after they made some money to have the family log home in Poland dissassembled log by log and shipped over here. Took 3 45' ocean containers to ship it all, she also brought over the laborers from Poland to unload the container and rebuild the house. 10 guys took 5 hours to unload 40,000 lbs of logs from me. We unloaded on a mtn. side.

To get there, since I couldn't make the left turn onto her access road, I had to drive 5 mile up a narrow dirt road to a turn around (hiking trail parking area) then come back down and go up the road. It took 3 spotters and 1 hr to get me backed off the access road (11ft wide) into the driveway. Once they had me unloaded, I had to drive up the road to another property to turn around, then go back to the main road where I had to make a left to go back to the hiking trail access point to make another u-turn and then head back down. In the process I managed to get two rocks wedged in the tandems, had to deflate the tires to get the damn things out.

been to that place a couple of times to pick up loads of hides, you definetly don't eat beef for a few days afterwards.


BTDT, delivered patio furniture to the mid-mountain point at Steamboat Springs ski area, Snowmass, Copper Mtn. and Breckenridge. Steamboat was the worst, at one point the road is 10 ft wide, 50 ft wall on one side, 3,500 ft drop off on the other and your going around a curve the whole time, hug the mtn. side and lost my CB and Sat. antenna's on the tree branches.

In the past when I drove straight trucks to and in construction sites I kept a hammer and masonry chisel to break those big rocks apart (or at least make them smaller so they could be hammered out) Other times when they weren't too tight I'd just spray them with soapy water and pry away.

From Duke's post... While I was being unloaded, I noticed that I was parked next to the incoming live cow entrance. For the next three hours I watched as trailer loads of cows came into the pen.... then enter slaughter house...then heads and houffs would run over my head on a conveyer belt...

Reminds me a bit of when I was doing disk drive engineering in Singapore - back before my engineering career became a "tradable commodity..."

We'd grab a cab from the hotel downtown in the morning, and head up to the factory in the Ang Mo Kio district; on the way onto the central expressway, we'd pass a butcher shop...

Early... pigs marching in
On time... no indication
Late... pig's head smiling in the front window!

I delivered a load of "Critter Litter" to a farm right in the city of Las Vegas not far from the strip. When I arrived the workers waved me in through these gates onto a beautiful lawn. In order to get backed into the barn doors required a 100 point turn and I was not sure if it was even possible. After tearing this lawn to shreads this guy comes running over all upset and apperently I was supposed to back in off the street. I told him what had happened and he said these dumb workers will have fun laying a new lawn after you leave. You should have seen this place. It was truly amazing. It was a farm for their horses who were not much more than glorified pets. They competed in a competition to see which horse was the "Mister universe" of horses. They had a treadmill in a pool for the horses to work out on. A lady drove in from LA every day to groom these animals. They had a custom Peterbuilt to pull the horse trailer around. You should have seen this truck. It was a 4 door and was nicer inside than any limo I have ever seen. We brought that bedding all the way from northern Alberta because they wanted to try bedding made of Alder wood. These horses lived way better than me and you I tell Ya.