COVENANT -- From a wife's perspective

I don't know if you could get any to use it. But you could get a couple 100 thousand b##### about it, and telling you how they would have done it differant

You're actually talking about a database that would take years for a single person to compile. And a server usage fee of astronomical proportions if it did catch on.

The storage alone could cost you a good bit.

A single carrier customer data base is one thing. But trucker friendly directions to every potential customer...is going to be intense work.

 

Short answer on that is, no.

It's almost impossible to keep up with every ordinance passed by every local community. It's also impossible to keep up with all the "fake" signs.

He will have to call the shipper/receiver to confirm/get directions.

The longer he is out here, the more he will realize that many No Truck signs are completely bogus. And lack any real enforcement. And are only designed to "discourage" truck use.

I.E. -- A sign with No Trucks in 4 inch tall letters, that can be seen from 50 yards away easily. While the Over 40 tons underneath, is in 3/4 inch tall letters. Which can't be seen from 30 feet away.

We have a customer that is located 100 yards past a 10 ton bridge. We always gross 78-80k going into this customer. The sign is there only to discourage use (it's a short cut route). And has no actual local, county, state, or fed codes for enforcement since it is a privately owned/maitained bridge.

It always wise to contact the customer before proceeding. Because many signs have huge teeth $$$$$$$.

 

Ca is probably one of the biggest anti trucking states in the country. I use to hate going to Ca, as most times when you went in, most of the time I sat for 2-4 days just waiting for freight to come back out.. Like danc said there is a lot of fake signs out there. What people fail to realize is that its the truck that bring them all the things that we use everyday in our lives. Pretty soon some of these states will need to have their stuff air dropped if they keep on restricting truck movements..

 

When people are coming out of their house to gawk at the big truck coming down their street... it probably not a truck route.

The way I see it, if you can get a truck down the road without tearing off your fairing or ripping down power lines, it's a truck route.

And if you knock down a few cable tv lines—well, they were too low anyway.

 

I made a delivery 4 blocks north of the super dome this past monday. It was a truck route.

I also used the entire sidewalk on both sides to make the swing coming out. After I got against the left hand curb of the street I was on to start the swing. No sidewalk there

So yup...anything that doesn't do damage to the truck or surrounding landscape....is a truck route.

 

I just had this class today, you can go past the sign to and from the receiver. Just don't wander around. Most states do not allow trucks more than a mile or 2 from the national network, but if your delivering to a receiver farther away than that you can go there and back. My home state of Iowa says "to and from the nearest truck stop or delivery/pickup". He can check his Motor Carriers Road Atlas, it has all kinds of great info.

 

This rule does not apply in Lancaster, TX if your terminal is located off Schoolhouse Rd. Special thanks to Swift for that city ordinance.

 

My roomate told me that Swift stands for " Sure Wish I'd Finished Training".

 

Not sure about its location, but the terminal I used to go to in Lancaster is right off of I-35E across the street from the FFE terminal.. I know this is a newer terminal than the previous one, so not sure if that is the one your talking about..