Backing In Off The Street

It's good practice for newbies

 

Most car dealers have room to get through, they get their parts deliveries on 48 or 53 foot van trailers (although usually at night) and they get us car haulers in there all day. Usually they have a very specific entry and exit approach, they leave just enough room for us to squeeze through since parking lot space equals money to them, cars sell empty room does not. I get through most with a 53' high mount trailer and sleeper tractor, not easy but doable.

I have a few, however, that do not have drive thru capabilities so I have to back in from the street, most are simple enough but I have two that are blind side, one is across a 4 lane state highway with a blind hill, never comfortable with that one. I put a back window in my sleeper wall just for that one customer because I am backing into a driveway blindside that is only about 15 foot wide at the apron, not much margin for error.

When I did McDonald's many years ago I had a McD's I had to blind side into from under the elevated train on Jerome Ave in the Bronx (just north of Jerome and the CBE). I had to back around parked cars, the support pole for the train, and down hill into their drive thru to line up my side doors to roll off the product, all while they were open 24/7. Not bad if I was lucky enough to get there at 3 or 4 am, but being junior man in a union shop I usually got there about 9 or 10 am when it was a zoo.