Refusing a back.

I end up in a recessed bay in this little steel house. Nice and small yard they have dump bins for rollbacks in the yard.
Far left side next to the trailer and that bin. Was my door.

 

That's just sad

 

If you really did take pride in your current job, Would not be having this conversation.

Good on you for sqeeky clean, It will help out in several years when you have 19 kids 2 mobile homes 6 cats 4 dogs 32 cars 4 ex-wives trying to obtain a top tier driving job and supporting 4 grandkids

 

I refused to back in to a place down in weehawken nj on shippen street. The receivered asked me why i was holding up traffic and not backing in to the dock and I told him because of the sign over the door. He asked what was the problem wth the sign and I said it says 12'6 clearence! He told me trucks back in there all the time and it shouldnt be a problem. So I told him the trailer is 13'6 and Im pretty sure it will be a problem.

 

Company I started with made one delivery in the city where you had to turn left on a side Street & back accross a 4 lane into their lot. That wasn't the hard part. 90ing behind the building with an 80' embankment on the blindside was the hard part. The receiver would come out & stand on the sidewalk supposedly to stop traffic. While making this back once a city patrolman happened upon the scene & put his lights on & got out & actually stopped traffic until I got off the road. He pulled in & told me he knew trucks routinely did this & it was the only way in to this place & he wasn't going to cite me even though it was illegal, but he left me with a warning. That even though it was 35mph, cars speed through there all the time & that if one ever plowed under that trailer & someone ended up dead it was involuntary manslaughter & 5 years minimum in the pentiteniary. Supertrucker may not be so so super at being big Bubba's wife. Putting drivers in these situations is flat out wrong. These places can either update their facility or get stuff brought in on straight trucks.

 

In transfers, we have a mudflap switch to flip the flaps up. By far, most of our deliveries are offroad and we are always needing to back over stuff.

But better not forget to lower the flaps... It will quickly wear holes in them from rubbing against the tires if you drive off with them up.

 

You say NO when safety is the issue.

 

Easier said then done, Encountered this early in the local world with a new upstart owner with 3 trucks and 150 dumpsters.

Long story short: Document everything . Saved my butt when fired and tried/did collect UE.

 

When I worked for Pepsi, the customers who lived along NM152 in Kingston and Hillsboro, NM had to meet our truck at the RV camp at Caballo, NM just off I25 because the road was restricted because it's incredibly curvy and there's no turn around so our trucks would have to go way out of their way to make deliveries from either side.