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Least favorite places to deliver?

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Pumpkin Escobar, Apr 16, 2013.

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  1. Apr 16, 2013 #1
    Pumpkin Escobar

    Pumpkin Escobar Bobtail Member

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    I do 20+ stops a lot of days, and have been to about every type of business in existance....

    My least favorite type of business to deliver to are....



    Union auto plants! Big, sprawling complexes that never know where they want their freight.

    You pull in there with 1 skid to deliver, sit in line behind 3 other trucks, check in at guard shack where they want to know everything about you and a blood and urine sample. Rude rentacop tells you take this to door 7. You take it to door 7, which may or may not be marked, stand outside a steel door with no buzzer until somebody finally decides to put their newspaper down and let you in.

    Disgrunted employee looks at bol and says oh you gotta take this to the parts department, which is of course on the other side of the facility. You navigate your way across 17 employee walkways, go to parts department, wait at door again, disgruntled employee says this needs to go to the machine shop. You navigate the place again, blah blah blah, machinist lets you in.

    Sorry guy, we are going to lunch, be back in 30 (which you know is 45).

    Wait....Wait....Wait....

    Machinist comes back, pulls off skid, signs bill...You go to leave, wait at guardshack...Sometimes takes an act of congress just to get out of these places. :)


    Sorry fellas, had a rough monday!

    I also hate delivering to car dealerships (priuses and minivans always parked in the way)
     
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  3. Apr 16, 2013 #2
    ACH1130

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    i hated doing residential to rich snobs who wanted you to bring it inside to the top floor, by yourself, a 700 pound delivery, then put it together make sure it works for them, one scratch its not good at all blah blah blah

    and wal-mart in our area... everyone had a problem there
     
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  4. Apr 16, 2013 #3
    snowwy

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    i hate delivering to a house. on a winding dirt road. 5 miles up the mountain. most times the only way out is to DRIVE BACKWARDS.
     
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  5. Apr 16, 2013 #4
    lv gn

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    The Navajo reservation in Arizona!
     
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  7. Apr 16, 2013 #5
    millsjl01

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    Why the Navajo reservation?
     
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  8. Apr 16, 2013 #6
    snowwy

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    yeah, why?, and where, that whole state is navajo along with NM.

    i took a back road into nm. stopped at mcd's. just before the state line.

    kind of surprised me to be the only white guy in the whole town. my first experience in an all indian town.
     
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  9. Apr 16, 2013 #7
    lv gn

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    Just outside of page. These people are very difficult to deal with and everything is a problem. What ever they ask you, the anwser is wrong!
     
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  10. Apr 16, 2013 #8
    carl320

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    The union auto plant sounds like those sprawling RV factories. There can be 20 buildings in one facility and if you don't check your DR before going in, you'll be driving around lost :biggrin_25523: And that doesn't even mention driving around the facility, with forklifts and trucks on paths barely big enough for two lane driving.
     
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  11. Apr 16, 2013 #9
    Marksteven

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    Because i'm assigned a Liftgate trailer, residential/retail stops are daily and have some perks (Women!) But i hate Jobsites period! New schools, hospitals, factories etc. I dont like dealing with contarctors at all.
     
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  12. Apr 16, 2013 #10
    blazer1

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    Union food wharehouses, you pull in, back up to the dock, open your doors, (no other trucks around), the forktruck driver suddenly decides it's break time. Then it's break time again whenever the lunch wagon shows up.
     
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