Other trucks can do it

Huh?

 

So is that customer saying other trucks can do it why can't you? I've always hated being compared to other drivers.I'm not them get over it.

 

These customers have no clue about set back front axles or the lack there of, wheelbases and their effect on turning radius. To them, a truck is a truck. We all know that not to be true.

 

Had to snake backwards down a dirt road just wide enough for two smart cars (or so it seemed) to pass. The customer (home owner I was bringing a load of rocks to) kept complaining that I was taking too long and that other drivers didn't have such a hard time. I asked him how good of a contractor he was his first year? If he was as good as all the rest. Of course he said no. So I told him to get off my back or he can unload on the main street a quarter mile away.

 

What? If you had a point in that statement I didn't get it.

 

Okay, I think I got it.

The one I got last week, "Trucks come that way all the time." But the sign on THAT road says NO TRUCKS.

 

I've had a Sheetrock supply company driver at a job site tell me I had to take my truck up a ramp, inside the building and then snake my way around all the columns and other contractors to get to the office on the other side of the warehouse to unload cause he didn't want to drive his donkey lift that far. He said I could do it because he has taken his truck in there and he only got on the curbs a little bit. Yeah just a little bit if you call 2 feet with the steers and trailer and missing a decorative wall and a fire hydrant by about a foot just a little bit. His truck was a daycab sterling about a 180" wheelbase pulling a 45' closed tandem trailer with the axles slid forward to make room for the donkey lift, my truck a W900L 270" wheelbase with a 48' spread axle. Yeah he got more sunshine and seat time with that donkey lift than he wanted.

After several bad experiences and arguments at job sites over this stupid statement "well other trucks have done it" I don't take loads to job sites.