Hard docks.......what was the worst docks you had to back into??

I know the area probably been there when I was doing freight.

 

Anybody been to the Knotts warehouse in Commerce Ca? Staggered is the only way to back in very reduced front turn radius I seen a guy trying to leave not back in the yard goat spotted a trailer next to him he was at it for a minute on a classic xl. He almost had it but the yellow post filled with concrete was bout 3 inches in his passenger corner...he powered thru it just heard the crunch and crack he was pissed he didnt even looked at it he just left.

 

CJ Foods, north side of town on 50

 

Conagra Foods in Trenton, Missouri..My first time doing a blindside back where I had to jack knife the truck in order to get the trailer in without hitting the wall, rail road tracks or the JB Hunt guy next to me..

 

Some podunk meat processor off of Adelaide St in downtown Detroit. Back into a covered dock... barely wide enough for a trailer with the barn doors open. Lots of traffic in and out of the area... morons walking around with no regard to backing trucks. On top of it, the dock area was poorly lit, so you couldn't see what you were doing.

Cleveland... some podunk meat processor with one alley dock off of a narrow street. Had to back into an alley about a trailer plus a couple of feet wide... telephone poles on each side of the alley, chain link fence on one side so there was no extra room for trailer swing. Plus... the street was so narrow, you couldn't slide your tandems back and actually get into it.

Denver, Safeways warehouse... it's an ancient building with covered docks... not very wide.

Anywhere in downtown Boston. Milwaukee pretty much sucks too.

 

There is a two story Target in Chicago where the dock is right on a 1 way residential type street with cars parked on it. You have to do it just right and when you are in the dock your front bumped in just barely out of the road. My fish eye mirrors were going over top of parked cars.

 

#1 for me, Ralphs in Compton. Freezer side. There is a retaining wall that makes it just about impossible to put her in without the guy to the left unhooking. Forget it if it is a long nose.
#2 The C&S in Brattleboro. See above, but instead of wall, nice little drop.
#3 is the nestle foods place in East Anaheim. Each hole has this concrete wall that juts out about a foot, that if you are backed in properly, is about 4 inches from the open door. Lots of chips in that concrete.

 

The good ole rainbow wall. Always called it that from the rainbow of colors left by the noses of trucks on it.

The worst one I've hit was somewhere north of Seattle. I didn't even know if I could make it through the driveway to the backside so I had to park the truck in the middle of the street and walk around the building first to make sure I could get in one way and out the other since there was no way to turn around. Find the guy that's going to load it and he tells me they've never had a 53' there before. Ended up having to keep the tractor at about an 70 degree angle to the trailer once I was backed up against the dock and the brakes set. Even at that angle I was inches from a wall with the nose.

 

St. Vincent's Hospital (3rd and Alvarado) in downtown Los Angeles. Tank located inside underground bldg. Pull out onto 3rd, (pray traffic stops) then jackknife a complete 180 while hoping that (A). You get within 20' of fill fitting. (B). You don't hit any of the transvestite prostitutes loitering in the area. You all have not really experienced the "fun" of maneuvering an oxygen tanker in insanely tight, old, screwed up hospitals, usually populated by moronic, selfish doctors who just HAVE to park that BMW right where we have to go. Now, I get to do old, screwed up gas stations populated by the "non English speaking"..Just as bad..Dock's ?..What are those ?