Local neighborhood delivery with tractor trailer?

you'll be hauling something like this trailer, with a smaller tractor (business class), probably a class 7


http://www.kaufmantrailers.com/heav...Haulers/50-Ft,-14k-to-18k-GVWR-Wedge-p81.html

and this might be the truck

http://www.commercialtrucktrader.co...763&state=Michigan|MI&type=light,medium,heavy

 

Its easier to hold up traffic while trying to back into a res area off a major street than to try and back out onto a major street from a res area.

 

ya heard me!

I do LTL i go in and out of residential areas in my 75' Long 13' 6 truck ALL day long. Drive by cops and those stupid signs all day too.



American Trucker

 

It depends I've only had one problem in a residential neihborhood. And the Rhoad Island Police were more then willing to come and stop traffic for me, in fact they had 2 cops there in less then 2 minutes!




American Trucker

 

A local delivery might give the driver the authority to make said delivery via the shortest, or a specified, route. However, just because a driver has a BoL in their possession with an off-truck-route address, it does not guarantee that such a delivery is legal, or that the driver won't be ticketed in the case that it isn't legal. A BoL in no way supercedes local ordinances/bylaws.

 

Most of the time, you can ignore those signs if you are a local delivery truck. The intent of those signs is to keep trucks passing through the city/town on the main streets.

But, before you go into a neighborhood, get a local Rand McNaly street atlas, and famaliarize yourself with the area. Know where the sharp turns are, the steep hills, low overhangs, dead-ends, etc.