Van Wyk Inc.

Been there my friend, it only makes it worse due to lack of sleep.

 

i hope, my weekend has gotten off to a good start so we hope next week can be better.... I entertained the option of going to Cedar Falls for Weds but i'll see what NE BS that got going on when i call in on Monday..

Good seeing you also Mushroom, be safe out this week, there's calling for an 3-8 inch snow storm here in VA, you know when that usually happen VA is basically shut down for a day... well at least everything East of I-81..

 

Sitting in Schuyler waiting on a load for home. Just killin' time. I've only got 4.5 hours today...so when the load is ready the farthest I'm making it is Worthington, or maybe Sheldon for a free breakfast and a shower.

Anybody ever been to the paper plant in Madison, ME? It was a brokered load (from there to Lenexa, KS) but I'm just curious. It was an...interesting space to work the truck in. In order to get to the docks you had to wind around a bunch of building sized equipment infrastructure, then squeeze between a retaining wall and the corner of the plant (I think the gap was maybe 9' 6" wide, and it was a gentle right curve the whole way). Then the door was set up such that you had to back in alongside the building, which would have been fine, except there was a set of stairs stick out right where you'd want to put the tractor to get the trailer pushed far enough right to get into the door.

I did it creatively and half-jacked the tractor out to the left in order to try and get the trailer straight in relationship to the dock. It wasn't hard, it was just weird. Got a compliment from the dock hand, though; apparently the typical trailer winds up in the door so wonky that the dock lock can barely secure the trailer.

 

In fact, here's photographic evidence. The angle isn't great, it's north enough that the satellite shot with some deflection, but if you look closely, I think you get the idea.

 

paper rolls??? in a reefer???

 

i dont see why you could not just back over the track and hope ya dont stick out over them


jmo


unless there a fence in the way

 

Rookies anyone wanna handle this

 

Hey good luck with that snow,I'm headed to el paso,TX and then San Bernadino,CA

 

Ah. What you can't see in the satellite photo is that those tracks are elevated above the paper mill's level by 15-20 feet. That's why the tight squeeze, the retaining wall is there to hold up the ground where the tracks run. You can see the dirty green/brown of scrub and grass, and then to the left the gray of the mill's driveway. Where that color change is is where the wall rises up.

 

oohh whoopsss

could not tell it was elevated tracks understood now