Nice place for a factory.

The company I worked for used to deliver a lot of refrigerated and freezer cases to new grocery stores and such places.

I loved the loads myself because there were always other drivers to run with if it was a new store and not just a store going through a facelift.

Anyway...sometimes, information just kinda falls through the cracks in the freight business.

Our driver has a delivery to a new store in some little town in the Carolinas somewhere. He does the right thing and gets there the night before in hopes of finding a place to park at the customer...well, he can't find the address. Finally gives up and finds a vacant parking lot and gets some sleep with hopes of finding the new store in the AM.

Now, before you tell me that he should have gotten directions beforehand, it wasn't unusual with this type of load to just be given an address. Sometimes you got a phone number and sometimes not. Lots of times, it was a weekend drop and hook with a Monday delivery with no one to answer a jobsite phone over the weekend. It's all part of delivering to a jobsite.

Come the morning, he tries to find the address again...no luck. There's an open field where the store should be. A sign was in the middle of the field and grown over with weeds that said..."Future home of...whatever store it was supposed to be.

After that little incident, our company was a bit better about actually making sure that there was a real address to deliver to.

 

Would that have been for a load of scrap metal in Chicago off 1-90?