One more place, it's not really a hard back but Domino's Sugar in Baltimore... Anyone who's been there knows exactly what i mean
Hard docks.......what was the worst docks you had to back into??
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I think it's a C&S in Brattlesboro VT. Just barely enough room to back a 53' trailer into the dock. The fun part is the sheer cliff on the other side of the Jersey barriers! 150' straight down.
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Then the sales department lines up customers, who work out of their garage, down the back alley in the center of town. You finally back up to his door, open the trailer doors, and the guy says "how we supposed to get those off of there? I don't have a forklift." Or even better, his wife shows up, and says "he had to leave for an couple of hours, I can't help you unload, put those bales over there in the corner...."
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I have a dock I go to 3-4 times/week in Pawnee City, NE. Its an old raised concrete dock, just wide enough for 2 trailers & its at a weird angle to all of the surrounding buildings & stuff. You have to back half way in, dolly most of the way down, finish backing in & dump your bags. Oh yeah, before you do that, you have to back all the way in & go back & see to make sure your trailer doors are high enough to clear the concrete dock, if not, you have to pull out & slide 300 lb 10 ft long sloped railroad ties in place to back your trailer onto so you can open the doors. & the bonus is its outside on gravel. Fun
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9' door, dock back 50 feet from door. Middle of the block, you have an 8' sidewalk on both sides, on street parking and two lane traffic.
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Habasit belting in Buffalo ny, those who been there know what im talking about.... Blind side back at 90 degrees and usually get about 44K-45K loaded there
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Dhl in Elizabeth Nj,old wooden dock. Backed in between two OTR trucks with a day cab, had to wait till one pulled out to open my door lol, and just about every place in Jamaica Ny, almost always indoor docks off 2 lane roads
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