My least favorite customer dock is a winery in Oregon. It's 70 feet from the front of the dock to a drop off down a wooded hill, so there is no straight backing. You have to make a 45 degree ally dock into a spot with only 4 inches of clearance on either side of the dock plate without dropping your front wheels off the embankment. Then you have to really make sure the load is secured for the 12.5% grade leaving the facility on a hilltop.
Stupid docks
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Mototom, May 14, 2019.
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you really need this extra experience, cuz if you were proficient enough, you'd have docked a stupid dock or a smart dock with nary a sweat... -
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To me that is one of the worst drawbacks of the cattle-hiring companies, they keep throwing the most valuable thing away (actual experience, esp painful) and only looking at immediate economics, not how much they endanger the public safety or hurt others financially through their actions. -
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