Backing into a tight space

I went back and did a little better, my boss even went with me and gave me some good tips. Seems he got almost all the way in this building years ago and rubbed a tire flat, probably why he is so understanding.

 

G.O.A.L.

 

As long as you do these two things, and don't be afraid to say " UNCLE " either.

I go to every exotic F dock in the Phoenix area. What those guys said are the two golden rules. No matter how long you been playing this game. Use good judgement and never lose your patience. F what anyone thinks or that is waiting on you, it sucks to be them.

This was this morning. Had to blind in. Probably took me a good 10 minutes, and in and out of the truck at least a dozen times, maybe more.



Look in the mirror and you can see the tractor I missed by like 3 inches as well. Told the dude I'll do my best, but you have to know when to say when as well ( true mark of an expert ), they want their stuff, somebody will move something or they can give you an easier door.

 

BINGO

hot diggity that brings back memories.

What gets my goat is I get within 4 inches of the edge of the dock for the plate to meet the deck inside the box and they say not close enough. Fine. RAM. break half the bolts on the doors. Happy now? lol. A box of bolts and wrenches took care of that a time or two.

 

O.O

And I thought I've been to some tight places

 

Gotta love tight ones, especially when the ground isn't quite smooth or level.

 

I used to go to a place in Dallas, the docks were so close together you could barely fit between the trailers to dolly them down. Trucks backin trailers in pushed off doors of already docked trailers nightly. Then they'd have to unload that trailer and park it somewhere and re-dock a new trailer. The company finally abandoned that terminal and reopened in a new place 30 some miles away.

 

In the end a trailer will fit or it will not. The rest is a drivers skill operating their rig and their judgement to NEVER try something that is beyond that ability. I remember a night in NC when a greenhorn refused to back into the door assigned because he knew his tractor would not make that sharp turn and he did not feel comfortable doing that back.. They made fun of him but he was give a door that was not so tight to get in and he docked the trailer. The moral of that story is the driver left that shipper without a preventable accident. I am not scared to put my super trucker status in danger by admitting it but in my career I have refused to dock my trailer many times and left it either up to the customer or my company to fix it. There is NO shame whatsoever in doing this and NEVER let another supertrucker or some ####### on a dock try to bully you.