How often do you find yourself backing up into tight spaces

As your Skill Level increases your idea of what is a tight place will change .

Just remember. You only HAVE to back into the spot at the customer. You don't need to back into that tight spot at the TS.

 

@Moose1958,

My first stop today I had about fifteen feet of pull up space when I got on the door, then it was a big ditch. My truck is a 175” wheelbase, and I have run multi stops for years, so I am used to it. Drivers in trucks with 240 wb or longer have an impossible time getting on these doors. My second stop I have to park in the oncoming lane to open doors and take up both lanes to back on the door, and I can’t pull a skirt trailer or it breaks the skirt getting back on the road due to the elevation from the driveway. Typical day for me.

 

Or looking down the door because some genius parked in your backing path and you don’t want to hit his pickup with your steps.

 

If you deliver to NJ,CT or NYC it will be every load. The northeast is old country, nothing was designed for trucks.

 

At least your familiar with where your going.

 

Depends on the type of haul you get into.
I do LTL furniture OTR in a sleeper truck with s 53' in some places not designed for it.
It can get nasty.
I may hit 10-30 docks per week, or wiggle up into an alley to shuck off the freight.
Most operations OTR may hit 4 docks per week.

Get into flatbedding and you may not have to hit many docks at all.

 

Oh, I go new places all the time. I haul cardboard boxes so we pick up new customers constantly. I was referring to the fact that I started in trucking working for Ashley Furniture hauling up to 15 stop loads OTR so it’s normal to me.

 

Depends on what you hauling as well. I hauled newsprint into the USA for a few years and many of those newspaper printers were original to the town, built the same days as post office and church. Backing down alleys and around corners... I was fortunate to have a cabover with a dozen mirrors.