Finding Loading Bays with Maps

Google Earth. You raise above the store in question to a overhead angle very low in the air. At the right angle if possible and available you will see how the dock is.

There has been some threads on TTR going over certain docks at stores that are particularly challenging in some way in the past.

Another source is Sanborn Insurance maps, they go back like 100 years into every building ever built individually. But it's not exactly easy to get to that resource. And a bit too much to expect drivers to get into those.

 

No.

Nothing that simple. It would be such a nightmare to engineer that into coding.

 

Drive around lost, running over curbs in Philly, or Boston, since they are both so truck friendly, until you find a dock, they’ll take it and sign everytime

 

Google Maps has satellite view. So just look for the loading docks. It the big open area usually on the side or behind the building. Places like Walmart DC you can see the long driveway and the guard shack

 

One time I had auto parts for Pontiac MI, hot load of transmissions. I get close to the address and found myself with four city blocks of bricked over building. It literally was THE factory but everything was sealed off to prevent theft etc. I actually was a little late from incessant circling and when they quit yelling at me and kicked me out rudely I was happy not to fool with them again.

another facility would be at the bottom of electric ave in Pittsburgh I believe. You get way down there and sit at a T facing a blocks long stretch of factory wall. This way or that way? SHEESH.

 

^^^^^^ this