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Do truckers "challenge" themselves?

Discussion in 'Questions To Truckers From The General Public' started by Ducks, May 20, 2008.

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  1. May 20, 2008 #1
    Ducks

    Ducks "Token Four-Wheeler"

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    I stopped at the local convenience store this morning for coffee and I saw a trucker attempting to back up to the dock at the terminal across the road... between two other trailers... from what appeared to be a very tight angle.

    What seemed unusual to me is that this guy had plenty of room for an easy approach, and yet he had positioned himself in such a way that he had to really maneuver to get into the slot.

    Do you guys ever do this intentionally just to challenge yourself or to keep in practice for those times when space isn't available... or was this guy just not thinking? I'm curious.

    Oh, by the way, despite my placing mental bets that he wasn't going to get in angled as he was, he very slowly and carefully did it in a single move. Impressed the hell outta me. I love watching you guys! :yes2557:
     
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  3. May 20, 2008 #2
    notarps4me

    notarps4me Road Train Member

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    I challenge myself every day. I challenge myself to get out of the sleeper.:biggrin_25523:
     
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  4. May 20, 2008 #3
    MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    I think he just may not have been thinking, and decided later to just deal with it how it was. Or perhaps he was coming from the wrong direction, and just didn't feel like going 5 miles down the road to turn around and approach from the other way.
     
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  5. May 20, 2008 #4
    twinturbotrans

    twinturbotrans Light Load Member

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    and some guys are just that PRO which reminds a week ago or so one nursery owner called me and told me how good one of my guys backed in within the 1st try and he said he hasn't seen anyone in 15yrs back up into his dock from 1st try...those type of phone calls make my day.
     
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  7. May 20, 2008 #5
    dancnoone

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    I guess some guys would do that, challenge themselves.

    But most of us, just want it over with when it comes time to dock.

    And too, the angle you saw it from could have been deceiving. I know many times I see a driver attempting to back in a spot. And think it's never going to happen and they go straight in. Then when I get a good look at the situation, it was easy to see how they done it.

    Of course, I've seen guys rip the sides out of a trailer before too. Because they "challenged" themselves.
     
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  8. May 20, 2008 #6
    bbkeo

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    :yes2557::biggrin_25517: ain't that the truth. Seems like the older I get the more of a challenge it becomes.
     
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  9. May 20, 2008 #7
    knighted

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    If I have the time I may challenge myself. I've never done it around something I may tear up though. I'll be the oddball out at the end of the yard all by his lonesome with two pop up orange cones.

    Something that this driver may have been doing is that he was assigned that particular spot by the company he was backing into. Sometimes they do that to us. 75 open doors but they give the ONE door with two trailers on either side and fire hydrant directly across from that door.

    Just another reason I'm the quirky one trying to back between two orange cones at the far end of the truck stop where no one seems to park.
     
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  10. May 21, 2008 #8
    dancnoone

    dancnoone "Village Idiot"

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    Ain't nothing wrong with those orange cones. I've got 4.

    They come in handy in lots with no markers/lines and 400 docks.
     
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  11. May 21, 2008 #9
    BigDiesel

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    Wow.... awfully late in the shipping season...........
     
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  12. May 21, 2008 #10
    dancnoone

    dancnoone "Village Idiot"

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    I wouldn't make bank on it too much.

    I had a guy make a similar comment to his boss about me a couple a weeks ago.

    Then I reminded him, I was the one he #####ed about for a solid hour, the month before ;)

    Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you :)
     
    dancnoone, May 21, 2008
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