Weirdest place to deliver?

"Emo" is a variety of grass. In fact it is the best variety of grass because it cuts itself!

 

I thought emo was that little red furry puppet on Sesame Street.

 

No that would be Elmo!

 

I can't remember where on Manhattan this place is but it's a tall building with different manufactures in it. You have to back in off the street down a 30degree ramp about 3 truck lengths. when you get to the bottom there 4 docks on both sides of you with a pillar in between the center 2 doors.

it's not "to hard" if there is no one else docked down there! Heres what you do when you get to the bottom. you get your trailer started to turn to the dock you need and get the rear of your tractor as close to the wall of the ramp as you can. Then you dolly down and drop the trailer and get back under it at as sharp of an angle as you can and pick the trailer back up and back up some more till you can clear the wall. Do the drop thing again and pull out of the building , turn around and go in and around the trailer and then back under it from the side and pull the trauler up into the opposite docks (hopefully there isn't a dropped trailer there!) and get lined up and put it into your dock. Pray no one else comes in while you are docked as it means you will have to wait for that guy to get loaded before you can pull out!

You have to drop and park on the street until they come and get you and then go through the drop and hook so you can get out! It was a freaking load of those velor Christmas ribbons that you put on your front door. Nice light load to run to LA with but man oh ma what a pain in the butt to get into!

Now all of the caves around the area here in Missouri are a trip and not a problem to get into! But I've seen drivers freak out thinking they can't do them! The only cave I had a problem with was a new one being opened up in Ar. North of Little rock and that one was muddy, had 1 spot light on a wooden dock and was hard as heck to get to because of the mud! Couldn't steer on that crap for nothing! I did come out of that one with a 50 pound bag of gypsum to put on my yard though! And got charged for 2 trailer wash outs!

 

You have pics of this manuever?

Weirdest place was unloading in pompano beach fl. Had to hoodmart which is right by the police station. Took 1hr to unload four pieces of pizza ovens with a small forklift.

The forklift operator gave me a pallet jack and I pulled the ovens back one at a time. I then had to help him push it onto a jack. He then backed out and in under the middle. We did this three other times. I will upload a few photos of it this evening.

KH

 

NO, this was almost 15 years ago. Probably the most insane dock I've ever hit!

There is another pick up on Terry St in Brooklyn. I got there at about 1am and I'm creeping down the street looking for the address number when the biggest black guy I've ever seen in my life walks up to the drivers door and is standing on the GROUND looking in my window! I look at him and he asks me what I'm looking for and I tell him and he points too this wooden dock sitting on the sidewalk. He tells me that I need to pull up to the curb and park just to the front of the dock and they will come out and wake me in the morning when they get to work at 8. He tells me not to worry as he's the "block" guard! I don't think anyone lost a thing while this gyuy was on duty!

Sure enough they wake me up in the morning and tell me where the coffee shop around the corner was and that they'll get me loaded as fast as the can.

A couple of guys grab a hold of this ramp and move it behind the truck and they bring a stack of pallets up and then, because the company was on the 3rd floor of the building they have to load this tiny elevator up with the boxes and send them down to the street. it took 2 loads to fill the pallet then they would run the pallet into the truck! Took them about 6 hours to load but I actually had a great time sitting there watching the "sights" walk by on that nice spring day!

 

Sometimes the 5 B's of NYC aren't too bad.

Picked up a load of "Watchtower" magazines at the Jehovahs Witness HQ in Brooklyn back in '00 or '01. Loading dock was immaculate, complete with the original Toledo scale compliance certificate from 1967, framed, up on the wall.

I walked down to the corner and got the biggest plate of chicken and rice I've ever seen for four bucks, then went back up. They finished me up and I left.

Scaled the load at what was Johnny's T/S on 78 in NJ.

82,400 pounds, and I was headed to Kingsport, TN.

I dodged the VA scales...wasn't going back there on a weekday afternoon. I just thought at the time it was ironic that they were so meticulous with everything else, but overloaded me by that much.

Would have rather gone to the caves...last time I was there was in a JBH cabover back in '99.

 

SHOPPING CARTS: First, they nailed to the trailer floor these steel bands (very thick and wide), then pushed enough carts inside to fill the trailer. Then they attached steel clamps to the steel bands to hold the bottom layer in place. Next, they used flat sheets of 4x8 cardboardto create a "flat surface" and, using a ramp, again pushed in another layer (or tier) of carts. Well, needless to say there was, if I remember correctly, 3 maybe 4 tiers of carts. What a sight it was!

 

wow...excellent stories guys!

 

My most memorable run was from Trafford Al. to the U.P. I was to pick up a feller/buncher
(big #ssed logging machine)at a salvage yard outside of Trafford . It was a permit load ,
loading on a friday P.M. with Monday A.M. ETA. The shippers were an odd lot who did not
want to run the machine they were shipping. They were forced to as I sure was not going
to assueme the risk.The "Timbercat" was to be loaded on a rusty old RGN ,Which went fine.
What didn't go so well is the reattachment of the goose neck. We had a heck of a time
getting the neck aligned with the trailer as the ground was soft and we could not keep
either piece consistant. It took at least an hour to accomplish but it did happen.I threw
a half dozen chains at it and went to the office for my bills and faxed permits. Of course,
the office was closed!One of my "shippers" was still there with the bills but he actually did not
work for the salvage yard,the machine was just stored there .I was on my own !Luckily a fellow named
(nicknamed)"Bimbo" was working at the fire department next door and helped me to receive the faxed permits.
When the permits arrived they did not allow me to run on Hwy79 ,I couldn't leagally run the handful of
miles back to the big road ! The truck grossed close to 90k ,I sure wasnt going to go for it!
Dispatch was on third sting for the weekend and no modification of permits was available until monday!
Well it turned out that "Bimbo" had connections with the local sherrifs deputy and he arranged for a
police escort back to I65 (with a blind eye towards my permits) on Saturday morning. "Bimbo" also took
me to a local restaraunt for a burger and checked on my safety during the night.That load would not have
left Alabama that weekend had it not been for "Bimbo" if anyone reading this happens to know this person
give him a HUGE thank you.
I was northbound on I65 early Saturday ,My bag pressure guage read quite high so i began to worry about
scaleing the load.I did so at the "Tennessean" in Cornersville, I don't remember how the permits were
actually set up but I was way over on one of my axles ! They had added the extra 10k to just one axle set
and the other axles were way over!
Dispatch told me to start the machine and move it on the trailer,good advice I suppose, but the key had
been left on the day before and the machine was dead. I was fed totally up at this point and took a reset
until they could tweak the permits on Monday. Monday brought a better mood and correct permits ,my weights
were sorted out but the height read less than 13"6"(i don't remember exactly),that was new, the last set
had 14'0"!I had not checked the load.(I had checked the route for clearance issues though)
Sure enough it was a little tall but I was able to make it 13"6" with the RGN. No longer any reason
to worry too much about height!.....until I got to chicago where I was routed for a load that was
less than legal height !Well the overpass was marked like 13'5" or thereabouts and I cleared by dumping
air out of my tractor.
The rest of the trip through Wisconsin to the U.P. was uneventful, I let the logging company know we
would need a jumpstart and arranged for delivery.Delivery turned out to be several miles out in the woods
on logging roads.I don't remember the guys name or the name of his logging company but he was also
an interesting sort. I followed his skidder down a sand road with grass growing in the center,he knocked
down trees on the insides of corners and flattened out humps I would ground on . While this load was a
huge PITA,and really not a money maker for a company driver it's this kind of adventure that makes me
wish i still had a truck.