Got an email on Tuesday to pick up a 480 lb. copy machine in LA & deliver to Coolidge, AZ on Friday, before noon, to a construction trailer with removable steps. I thought ok, I've delivered and picked up machines to & from trailers before, didn't think this would be any different. They're usually in an open area with plenty of room to back up to the door, drop the lift gate and roll it into their trailer or into my trailer.
Coming in on the road, I get this uneasy feeling about this.
Then I see it. The trailers are sitting on an old tennis court with the entrance behind the chain link fence and light pole. Not enough room for a big truck or even a box truck to get between the pole and corner of trailer.
Challenge accepted!
Boss shows up with his pick up truck and just happens to be the right height to get it in the door. So he backs up to my trailer and I roll it out onto the lift gate and lower it onto the bed with my metal dock plate.
We drive up to the trailer with me in the back holding on to the copy machine and back up to the door. I bridge the gap with my dock plate and roll it into the office trailer.
Everyone is happy.
The End.
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I had a similar, (but different,) situation. Don't remember what the freight was now, but it was a residential to a "gentleman rancher's"
place up in the mountains, about 52 miles from our dock. I got to their driveway, and they had one of these fancy overhead gate post signs. No way I could clear that. Walked to the farm house. Woman there by herself. Said her husband was down in town, and wouldn't be back until he got off work after five. He had their pickup truck. She called around the area, literally spent a good hour on the phone, trying to find someone with a pickup, or flat trailer, to help us out. Nada. All these good "gentlemen ranchers" were working in St. George.
Whatever this was, the lady was hot to trot to get it, because of a party they were having, the next day. Of course, this was Friday...
Anyway, my supervisor sent a small box truck out from the yard, so we could load it onto that truck, and carry it less than half a mile.....
I sort of got the feeling that these folks were friends with the owner of our company...Ruthless, Bakerman and passingthru69 Thank this. -
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