anyone ever deliver to a prison ?

I've found wearing basketball shorts flip flops and a cutoff shirt gets you thru the searches quickest. They don't even frisk you. Customs as well.

But if that's your thing...

Just get out lift the hood open your side boxes grab your GPS and phone. Throw it in their lock up they usually provide a locker.

Me and Pendleton Indiana's dock #1 had a love hate relationship.
It hills at the bump abit and throws off my eyeballs. My last load delivered was at that place before I quit.

Get you in and out quick. I liked delivering to the slave labor of america.
Good for my wallet.

 

Off topic a bit. Years ago I delivered sack cement to a Barite mine 2 different times. Had to go down in a very deep pit, the road circle around the outside edge of the pit about 6 or more times, it was steep. At the bottom they unloaded it by hand. If I remember correctly going down I was on the outside edge. As I went down I met 3 or 4 of those huge Cat Mining Dump Trucks hauling Barite out of this pit.

It was not fun!

 

maximum security? you mean you did delivery at Florence, CO and Terre haute, IN facilities? as far as I know this two places are SUPERMAX now. This two places have inmates-former terrorists and serial killers on dead raw or life sentenced.

 

The one prison I went to there was no guards in the part I delivered to. They slept right in a bunk house and could walk away at any time. No checks or anything on me or my truck. There was a guard but he really wasn't guarding anything. The inmates did everything for me. When I asked what they were in for they all gave me a bunch of bull. Murder, rape and so on. They all made up ridiculous stories.

 

During one of my many breaks from trucking, I took a job as a independent contractor with my own mini-van, and delivered medications to nursing homes, pharmacies, hospitals and such. You've seen those plastic totes. One of my stops, was the medium security prison in Oregon, Wis. (just S. of Madison) After a while, they got to know me, but still, pulled into the chain link enclosure, shut the one gate behind you, (long enough for a semi) open all doors, trunk, hood, surrender all cell phones, they took the mirror to the underside, then open up the other side, and I made the delivery, and reverse order on the way out. Place seemed pretty laid back, although, these weren't the bad boys, mostly truckers with delinquent tax debt's, probably.

 

Back in the 90's I made a Del. to the Fox Lake Medium Correctional Institution in Fox Lake Wi. was not to bad. But what was a real interesting Del. was at a Nuclear Power Plant back in the 80's, I made a Del. to the Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant in Two Rivers Wi. I had a part for the reactor. They went through my truck inside, outside with a fine tooth comb. Went through a metal detector, explosives detector, and had to sign a waiver to get a complete pat down to get in, had a guard ride with me to the dock and even followed me back to open the doors and could not leave the truck while being unloaded, the guard sat in the truck with me. When I was M/T I had to go back and go through a Radiation Detector, and this was before 911, would like to see what it would be like post 911, they did close the plant down but the Protocol has to be the same elsewhere....

 

I met a guy from the school I went to and a member of this site that drives for the prison system in NC..
I see them advertising job openings occasionally...
Hourly, state benifits, home everyday... Seems like a good job

 

The scariest place I've ever delivered was the mine near Cripple Creek, CO.

 

Hi CJ, Do tell us !!!

 

Super steep tracks. You had to drive on the left side of the (ahem) 'road' so the big mining trucks had a chance to see you. No guard rails. Very narrow passages and nothing to keep you out of a big drop if you screwed up. We had to have an escort to get back to where they wanted their delivery. We had to watch the safety videos before going onto the property too. There were also a lot of pipes reading 'Sodium Cyanide. Do not drink.'

Adding to the stress, my boss kept calling and I needed to get out of there.