Weirdest place to deliver?

another place but i picked up was in pennsylvania in the middle of nowhere in a field of trees i though i was gonna die.............i had to follow this guy in a pick up he told me to wait in this field for like 30 mins. Im like wtf.......He comes back with chainsaws and all types of tools but he end loading my trailer and i got the hell on outta there

 

Had to put my RGN on a barge on the River for a dregging company.

 

how bout a log home i took up to NC, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, had to take a us route off 77, then had to turnaround in a historical park, then i told the next guy about the fun the park was not easy to turn around, and i got all kinds of weird looks form everybody. I also had a 1600ish mile load of a empty container form KC to Kent WA, gota love Schneider

 

The weidest place i ever delivered to was a dollar general store in Pennville, NJ. Easiest back-in unloading area i have ever seen (lift gate delivery but still) OMG talk about weird.

Seriously though, i had a 53' trailer with 4 pallets in it that went to a Staples store. We didnt think much of it until we were on the road it was on, looking for it, and noticed a sign .. "FUTURE STAPLES STORE!" and realized the store hadnt been built yet. The dock hadnt been built yet.

First of all, the front of the store was never designed for a truck to be in. But the pavement in the back hadnt been laid yet. And why the heck are we using a 53' with 4 pallets?

And the guy thought we'd have a pallet jack with us. Had to be dragged off the truck with chain and a forklift.

 

Sounds like an average LTLer's day. i love delivering merchandise to anew store that doesnt even have shelves or flooring installed yet.

 

heavy duty cleaning chemicals to the weis ecology center in ringwood, nj

halls cough drops to the attending physician of the us congress
post 9/11

3 cases of cotton, the stuff that goes in tylenol bottles on thanksgiving eve. apparently the line was going to run out.

condoms to greaterford state prison
didn't ask, 'cause i didn't want to know

don't know if they qualify as "weird", but they made me stop and think

 

I know the place you speak of. If I never have to go back there again it will be entirely way to soon. I love the ramp going out of the place.

 

I had delivered a pre fabricated building in the middle of a 700 acre corn field..then again, i guess flatbeddn really dont have alot of weird or unusual places to deliver to.

 

By your weird standards (and these did make me stop and think)

Pallets...to canada. Don't they make their own?

DVDs that are going to be in special K cereal, made in the US, shipped to canada to be shrinkwrapped, shipped back to go in the cereal. wtf?

Truckload of Miller/Coors beer to washington DC. The president needed a drink?

Any dollar general store not originally built as a dollar general. Dollar general builds nice easy story delivery areas, where you just back in off the street and straightline all the way back, nice and wide....but most of them are in really old buildings that were never intended to have 53 footers in them.

And the best part: Dollar general has a lot of 40' trailers. But noo, a 53' holds more. AND THE 40 FOOTERS ARE STILL TOO DARN BIG! WTF?

Kind of sad when you have a hard time backing a 40 footer into a place. And then they expect someone to get a 53 footer in there, no problem....

I delivered to one store that was a front door delivery. But i got there late, got there at 5pm. I was only supppposed to deliver real early in the morning right when they opened, but i calld them and they said they wanted it NOW!! ....apparently they have a dock but i was told it was not safe to get the truck back there. I wonder what it looked like...

 

yeah but im not an LTL-er.