P&D Rookie Advice (Post yours)

Yup. I used to deliver to a mine. The actual mine had three different delivery sites. One was general receiving... The other was the lab... Then finally the continental garage for all the heavy equipment stuff. Sometimes the DR would tell ya where the hell it went... Other times you had to pull a packing slip off of the freight and it will actually tell you who the freight went to. Some customers will also train you how to decipher their purchase orders. "CG-5557282" means Continental Garage with a PO #.

Holy Christ... Dont get me started on college campuses. Some crap goes here, most crap goes anywhere else but where you expect to be "there". One of our drivers who was very familiar with our local campus had to hand truck their crap over 600 yards cause their building set neatly tucked away from any roadway.

 

They have one building where a large portion of freight goes to. But there are random items that they order (like lab equipment) that has to ship to that building directly since they have no way of moving it from their usual drop off site.

 

Universities aren't like single building high schools with one shipping and receiving point. Some of these campuses are large complexes with dozens of key facilities based on the curriculum. The one that I occasionally deliver to is bigger than the town I live in. I actually have to have a colour coded map of it in my truck

Some buildings receive so little freight that they don't even face a road (or border another building that faces the road), and you are stuck dragging whatever the hell you are delivering several dozen yards sometimes. I wish it was as easy as dropping it off and having that class go pick up their new gadgets... But most colleges have limited resources to do an intra campus transfer of oversized freight, and will depend on you to make it work out. There's a reason why they get dinged with a "non commercial" charge on their DR.