Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Can’t come from the opposite direction, because the way the entrance is angled you would be turning back on yourself to get in, compounded with the fact that you would be coming downhill on the pavement, then uphill into the jobsite.
The way we’re coming in it’s uphill on the pavement, slightly less than 90° into the uphill entrance, but the entrance is so narrow you almost have to pass it, then jug handle it to get the trailer through the gate.
No traffic lights, and a four way stop a quarter mile away in each direction.
I don’t like to think about trying to backing in with all the traffic. Sometimes it’s the only option, but I’ve had so many idiots squirt behind me in a situation like that…..
The biggest frustration isn’t the traffic, or how tight the entrance is, it’s the utter stupidity of murdering our equipment to get in and out, when in 10 minutes they could cut a nice grade into there, where we aren’t hanging a loaded trailer off of one axle while turning.

 

No doubt about it! I feel your resentment for places like this. Like u say millions and millions of dollars spent on projects like that and can't bother to think about the guys bringing their material. I blew out a trailer airbag one time working a jobsite like that, where the driveway was angled in such a weird way the front spread would come off the ground and when it came back to pavement after being extended out , all I heard was a bomb go off and dust went flying...
I had a jobsite last year in Yuma AZ where they were building the pilot truck stop. Brought some insulation for the building and they couldn't be bothered to build up the dirt and gravel to the entrance , and it was so steep it dragged my fuel tanks on a stock height truck... I told the foreman I sure hope u guys don't get anybody in here with a truck lower than mine, because u gonna be paying for a wrecker or dragging ur material out from the street...

 

I’m the foreman on the other side of that, part of that job is just like you said, give a proper entrance, have someone who uses their brain available and asks the driver what they want for help with traffic or spotting, and have the building site as clear as possible. I also give hell for stray nails on my sites, on our sites our boss pays for flats, which means I will hear about it

 

We need more foremen like you.

 

Getting my class 1 license really helped me to see the other side of things. Added plus, might get to be an earlier stop if the driver is a repeat visitor, driver knows there is no bs at this stop

 

We use Big Willy as our act of congress, he’s a former heavy tow operator, is about 6 foot 8 and about 350. He isn’t in the sass taking business, traffic stops but quick when that much hi vis moves into the roadway with the Dusty Hill beard on the go!

 

“Well how are you gonna get it on the roof?”



wut

 

Stainless steel tank from WI going to WI

 

Would be hard to resist the old “Sounds like a you problem!” To the client. “ We will willingly bring it back a second time fora second delivery charge”

 

For once I actually have a photo of a load on a flatbed. Loaded today to deliver tomorrow in Chicago.