Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Guy i worked with had the funniest story about trees like that. He's relatively new and new to flatbedding but he'd been driving like 2 years at this point and he's hooked onto a somewhat marginal outfit (to say the least)

goes out to get trees like that taking them to like Philly area.

Way overweight, hanging over the sides whole bit. not really knowing, gets the old story "oh we do them like that all the time, blah blah blah" So he ties it down and takes it. coming to a regular scale, but it never opens before 6am and it's like 5:30, so he's good

comes around the corner and bam, the scale is open
He's boned and he knows it

Pulls up on the scale. red light, red light, red light
Finally an officer comes out to his driver side window "um son, is this your first day driving a semi?"

 

LOL i think the only reasonable answer would be " yes officer i usually work in the shop sweeping floors, boss man gave me keys said get it done, just trying to make boss man happy officer"

 

"We get trucks in here all the time" is probably just my FAVORITE phrase of all time.

1. It's safe. C'mon in.

2. It's been done before, so evidently you're not as good of a driver as the last guy that's successfully maneuvered in here.

3. Last guy did it without even pulling up, so no pressure. Lmfao

 

so i've been delivering here


yeah. and the first time (that guy) they had him turn around (there's a bunch of piers in there, 4' high, barely enough room to do even that) of course they had to use the forklift to pick up the back of the trailer and straighten him out Then i was the 2nd guy in and i actually managed to back all the way out (to where I'm standing taking pic) (took like 10 minutes)

so then they decide that you unhook down there and they use the forklift to flip the trailer around, hook up and then drive out the 90 deg. The 3rd guy makes it. I"m the 4th guy (again) and they do that and can't be done. they have to keep moving the back of the trailer over cuz it won't make that turn. (older long wheelbase Pete 379). and the guy gives me a good matured hard time "hey the last guy made it" yeah, set back front axles make all the difference. I'm up against the wall what else can i do?"

Like 3 days later, the plan changes again. now they pick up the trailer. you drive up the ramp and they put the trailer down at the bottom of the ramp facing out and then you hook up and drive straight out.

I ask why did we change?

well it turned out that ONLY THAT ONE GUY MADE IT. Everyone else was like me, couldn't be done.

 

We have a small engines guy that moved last summer. From his house out in the country, with room to back a semi into the driveway. To a commercial lot in town, on the main drag intot town. MUCH NICER setup. But, it comes with a REAR facing dock. And NO room to put a semi into it, in the winter. He's said it can be done.
I mentioned that I remember being the first one to deliver to that new location, for him (from US anyway). And we talked about it, then.
We can't get in or out, with where he piles his snow, in front of the exit gate.

 

He has a smallish Kubota tractor with forks. It works really well for what he does, with it.
He just REALLY wants to use his dock. I told him that he needs to remove the snow, so we can pull out the gate.

 

I swear every time I've pulled a set into the hub over the past few weeks, my front trailer goes to the yard and the rear goes to a door. It's getting to be pretty #### annoying at this point. Maybe I should start hooking them in reverse...