Backing In Off The Street

Yeah.....you go down honore street which is an alley, then you turn left UNDER the elevated train which is narrow as heck, Into their receiving area..Turning right onto Honore from Montrose requires nothing but skill.......

Gasman..Its not a hardware store..Its a metal fabricator that makes custom hinges,latches etc........

 

Or take the freight back and demand it be delivered on a pup.

 

I vote straight truck for that one!

 

I have a few of those stops on my route. The first time I saw them I wasn't sure if I should even try backing, some where blind backing which made the difficulty even more challenging and dangerous.

There were times my anxieties flared up but I was able to control myself. I did the same you did: wait for traffic to clear as much as possible, have a plan A, B and C in case I wasn't successful. My first goal was to calm myself down and be able to focus on what I was doing without letting others affect my plan.

I won't say now it's a piece of cake because it takes only one idiot trying to go around you and F&@ things up, but I don't get all sweaty and nervous like the first couple of times.

 

I feel your pain. I'm a local driver for South Eastern Freight.I do a lift gate run. I have to do residential s,hotels, restaurants and construction areas.

 

I usually had 1 or 2 of those per day when I did P&D. My worst one was a tiny plumbing contractor that sat on a lot behind a small fast food joint on a busy 45 mph street. You had to wait for traffic on the street as well as make sure there was nobody in line for the drive-thru or people walking to their car.

I gotta say, I'd much rather do that with a long box than try to back one of your pups in off the street, @Mike2633 !

 

It's all in what you get used to. If you run pups all day long every day you really get an appreciation for them. Actually one of the things I liked best about my last job, was the variety of it. Not unusual to be hooked to pups, long boxes and sets all in the same shift, with a possible straight box truck thrown into the mix. Also city, desert and mountain driving not unusual in one shift.

 

I did grocery delivery to convenience stores, small general stores, and tobacco stores for 4 years. I frequently had to pull across roads to back up. I'd wait a short time for traffic to clear then throw the 4 ways on and make my move. if traffic was busy I'd find a small gap and shoehorn my way to where I needed to be. out of 12 stops a day I would back up to a door or curb on 10 of them. they were busy areas with cars always floating around the truck. we had 36 and 48 foot trailers. ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I was slow and deliberate about my moves. Idk if I was lucky or good. I never had any accidents of any kind and I can back up a truck like nobody's business.

quite a few times I had to stop and get out of the truck when blocking all 4 lanes of traffic bc some numbskull pulled up behind me and got right in the #### way.

 

We've backed the pups into some pretty crazy spots.