Driving in big cities, is it mandatory?

Those Rush Hour Vegans are the worst!

 

so if you run them over, they are not road pizza, but rather a vegemite sammich?

 

Mods. Sensitivity classes for this entire thread.

 

I told your dispatcher that we are at 2951 Peachtree N. E. Gate will be open and go up the curved drive that goes to the right. Want the big rock to the right of the BBQ unit and the the smaller two below the smaller pool. If you use that loader on the back of your trailer, be careful of the new sod
put in yesterday.

 

You guys know a lot of small businesses have closed this year due to a lot of things like the covid shutdown. Commercial real estate has been sold and bought. This means you will have new shippers and new receivers that have bought a warehouse in the middle of a neighborhood or in the middle of a city. Some of these lots are in the middle of nowhere like Indiana, but the warehouse is made for straight trucks.

We shame drivers for going the lease purchase route. We need to start shaming new business men for purchasing a warehouse that is not built for 53 ft trailers.

Where I live, someone bought the old post office warehouse and is making it to a small distribution center. You have to be kidding me, a warehouse that those small fedex pup trailers go to and they expect otr drivers with a 53 to go there. I don’t know if it’s PFG or Us foods but those docks better have 20 feet space in between ;D

 

When I was OTR for 2 years I could count the number of times I was in the heart of a major city on one hand. There was a few places in Louisville and the Anheisuer Busch plant in St. Louis, and that one isnt too bad. The ones in Indianapolis were easy and Lexington KY, too.

Small towns can be way worse. Anyone who has delievered to Yo Farms in Connecticut can attest to what I am saying.

Most of the time when they say you are going to a major city, in my experience, it is on the outskirts of town. I was always told Chicago, but ended up in Bolingbrook in an industrial park built for trucks or Joliet, etc. It can be nerve wracking, but if you take your time and follow your training you will be okay.

 

So basically business as usual. I've picked up at quite a few places in Indiana. The Americolds are what they are. The chicken farms do their thing. None of them are really perfect.

The last chicken farm I went to I drove through a disinfectant shield thing. Then I drove through a bunch of mud, went the wrong way and got blocked by a bunch of construction equipment. Had to back out. When I finally fixed myself the dock kid came out and said, "are you the rookie?"

I said, "Im afraid so." lol