legalto get kicked off a property that didn't post signs about truck parking when ELOG hasn't hours?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by David Schwarz, Aug 3, 2017.

  1. UsualSuspect

    UsualSuspect Road Train Member

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    Depends, if you have hookers and good booze I might let you stay, and bring steaks, not the cheap ones in the package either, but the nice marbled ones from the butcher. If you don't bring all of that, off you go to someone else's piece of the planet.
     
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  3. tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    You can stay on my lot, but if there's a dozer and a couple of trackhoes there, Please drop your trailer on the other side, away from the equipment.
    I had a Swift driver drop his trailer and leave it right between the equipment. Putz
     
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  4. beardedsinner

    beardedsinner Light Load Member

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    Hookers ain't an issue , good booze......might be able to afford plastic bottle brands , but if you got ice , we got a party.

    Steak.....now I'm hungry
     
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  5. BQ Truck Driver

    BQ Truck Driver Light Load Member

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    Haha, I agree wholeheartedly with the point you are trying to make. Many drivers believe that everyone else is solely alive to bbe at the their service (for free of course). They don't think about it from the other side's perspective, can be quite annoying.
     
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  6. David Schwarz

    David Schwarz Light Load Member

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  7. David Schwarz

    David Schwarz Light Load Member

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    While I'll admit that I've never called ahead but a couple times, this place was closed when I arrived, and it "appeared" like a reasonable place to park a truck. I'll admit too that MOST "reasonable" places to park a truck have more than just two parking spots. That's all this space could accommodate, it would just have been empty space otherwise. After I woke up and ate breakfast at the restaurant, I went into the gas station. The owner was there telling me he owned the property with both the restaurant AND the gas station and said that there isn't supposed to be trucks parked here. He didn't mind that I was about to be a customer, and I bought products anyways. I told him about my elog, and he said it wouldn't be so bad if for a couple hours. Sometimes drivers DO park there JUST to go to the restaurant, and I feel that's what he'd rather leave the pace available for. I explained to him that I could leave in 2 hours at that time, doing a split sleeper. It was still morning, I got there when everything was closed. He just rolled his eyes and accepted it, but I ask this question considering what would happen if he tried to have the police push me off the property. I guess it's different in each situation, but even a cop would look at the property and think that it would make sense for a trucker to feel he can park there. A sign would be nice.
     
  8. Chinatown

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    That happened to me at at Costco distribution center. They have acres of parking, but don't allow parking if you're unloaded. I unloaded and was completely out of hours, but the security guard said, "we don't care about that, you must leave as soon as you're unloaded....period!"
     
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  9. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    i don't think a cop could give a care how a trucker "feels" if there was enough parking, or what "makes sense", it is not up to him to allow parking, but to get you off the property.
     
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  10. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    This happens all the time when they're covering a lane that's more than 5 1/2 hours one way. They'd rather not do it the right way and pay for hotel rooms or put bunkhouses at the terminals.

    I hate doing meet and turns. The driver coming from the other end is usually too stupid to weigh the trailers or put the right placards on.
     
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  11. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    God only knows, the times i had dealing with that crap too
     
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