Almost hit a roller coster

I delivered to a water park last week. I had to go in through the gate where 4 wheelers pay at the gate. That was interesting... It got worse as I got back into the site to unload. I thought I would never get out of there. Had very little room to turn around and could not back out. Had a steep drop off on both sides. Thought for a little bit I was gonna have to get them to pick up my trailer and set it down 6 foot over....

 

One of the women where I work did a similar thing to a driver earlier this year. He called for directions, and she gave him directions without first asking where he was coming from... without consideration for the 48' trailer he was hauling... and then directed him by way of some back roads.

Well, the guy arrived (don't ask me how he made the last turn onto our little side road!), and because her misguided directions took him to our office area and not the warehouse, he wound up in our narrow little driveway. We had to stop traffic and make use of a neighbor's driveway to get him backed out.

Some people just don't THINK! Old Dominion = trucking company = big truck. Big truck = wide turns = road space. Delivery = warehouse, not office. And for cryin' out loud, always ask what direction the driver is coming from!

She really put this driver through the hoops. Had I been him, I probably would have wanted to strangle her.

 

LOL i forgot where i was but i had to unhook and rehook at a 90* angle to get turned around.

 

good thing it wasn't one of those coasters where the people hang under the track, eh?

 

Hey, i am in Hershey regulary for different things (football games concerts so forth) i know that hill you are talking about and i can see how you had climb it in the other lane, definelty isnt a TRUCK route-at least you got out town safely

Peterbilt79

 

Those are the worst words a truck driver can ever hear!

 

I always make sure I am talking to the shipper/receiver and not the receptionist, or some cubicle-dweller.