Weirdest place to deliver?

Weirdest place for me was Domino Sugar at Baltimore MD. That place is not meant for a 53ft reefer and a 70in condo sleeper' Freightliner Columbia. When you go in, you go in on a 10' wide bridge. I was a little scared but glad to get out of that place.

KH

 

That;s one Hell of a big Columbia! 70'!

 

Hi, i;ve been too caves in kc, i like it really , manly becuse it was 22 below zero and a blizzard outside, went inside , docked and rolled down the windows at 70 degrees, kinda weried feeing the ice snow thru the windows, the sound was kinda eriee sounding , but i had a real good nap and just took my 10 there, they was no hurry and nether was i ,after a knuckle busting too get there on time,on icy roads, next weirdist place i delv too was a greenhouse in wis, now as you wis people know they have long mile curvy driveways of narrow gravel, his farm was down there below the hill on one these driveways, i thought i was going too green house, nope, meet him in town , follewd out to his farm , i just said o geesh thats a long driveway and barely wide enuff and no turn around at the bottom , so i just pull ahead far enuff and put trailer tadem on the close edge of his grave drive and proceded got too the landing gear and almost hangup on the center of hyway cause my trl was titlting so much , but i gave it heck pop over that and folled and back it all the way down, lets say a certaing hyway has scrap marks both going in and out the driveway, and too make it worst he wanted me too unloaded too, i just told him i got it in here and was tired all that turn and twisting of steering wheel i never seen a steering wheel turn so fast as goesa back and forth folling that curvee driveway and was kinda proud of meself as no pullups ether, Everett.

 

On 2 occasions I have had to haul loads of wood chips to hog farms.
Trying to back a 53 into someones barn is a pain. Out in the middle of nowhere in farm country, on roads that are very limited weight wise.
Also potato farms can be interesting.
Oh on the cave people. I use to deliver to the ones in Independence MO several times a week. Those are rather tight.

 

I been to the caves in Carthage, MO and there are some more outside Springfield. I forget exactly where. Neat places.

One of the funniest loads I hauled was bailed up crushed aluminum cans in the summer time. They were crawling with maggots and a smell from hell. I get to the delivery place and alot of the maggots turned into flies. There must of been a billion of them in that trailer.

Anyways, the poor guy that had to unload them, I could see him turning green. About a quarter way into the trailer he gagged and barfed. A couple more bails he gagged and barfed again. By the time he got half way he parked the forklift and went up to his boss and said "I QUIT" and walked off The boss finished unloading.
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When I first started trucking, I delivered to that mall in downtown Chicago. You go underground and the docks are at a 45 opposite from you. I was like ??? How am I going to turn around to line up?? With pillars everywhere, turning around was a puzzle. In the middle of this complex is a double set of recessed railroad tracks running through the middle. Ah, there's a place for me to turn around. I look both ways and didn't see anything. I pull on the tracks to do a 3 pt turn. At that time a train horn sounds, comes around the bend and I'm like I look and the conductor was laughing. He was moving at a crawl and must seen this many times.
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Another time, I had to pick up a load from a business that was closing in Cincinatti. It had a small dock for little straight trucks only. There was a bar across the street from the dock. I had to use the bar's sidewalk and jack knife it carefully into that tight hole. It wasn't easy. While I did it, the bar patrons come out one by one. By the time I wiggled it in there, there was a crowd outside drinking and cheering me on

 

I took a load of calves to meet the rancher in nowhere, kansas. followed him 20 miles or so into nothing on the dirt road, stopped in the road, pulled up a portable cattle chute, and off they went.

 

This is a good topic...

1) The "Subtropolis" in K.C.---not difficult, but that place is a trip, as are all those other cave warehouses in MO and elsewhere.

2) Like IraqVetTX, I once delivered one lousy skid (the last skid) to a farm in the middle of nowhere... had to serpentine back down this skinny little dirt road, and ultimately bumped this cheesy homemade "dock" on one side of a barn.

3) Had a "NASA load" once out of FL, near Jupiter, I think... the load went to a NASA facility in TX. Loading was no problem, but it was a mere 12,000 lbs. of aluminum stringers and I-beams used in spacecraft construction... WTF? The load barely covered the floor of my wagon... I asked the hand forking it on why there was so little, and he said these were all the parts that were forgotten in the original order.

4) Delivered in Houston one day, discovered the dock was meant for small straight trucks only. Had to drop my wagon in this tiny dock, and the wagon blocked three lanes of traffic on a four-lane road out front. Put a cone or two out there and sat in my unhooked tractor, waiting for the dude to fork that load off the wagon so I could rehook and get out of there before some cop showed up and gave me a ticket.

5) Same thing as above, only in the Lower Bronx, and this time the wagon blocked the entire street.

6) Glen Helen Minimum Security Prison: first of eight drops in Southern CA, scheduled to deliver one lousy skid at 0430, opened the door to find the skid turned sideways... no forklift, of course, just twenty or more convicts rousted out of bed and standing around, with a useless pallet jack that wouldn't fit the skid. I asked one correctional officer, "Can't we all just grab a case each and restack 'em on another pallet?" The cases weighed about 40 lbs. each or whatever. The officer said, "Can't do it, one of the prisoners might get hurt and sue the prison..." WTF?

7) Donovan State Prison: not the place to deliver if you have an outstanding warrant . I've never had one, but I pulled up to deliver and they ran a pretty thorough background check on me, license and criminal check, the works... had to wear a goofy white jumpsuit and Visitor's tag just to drop off two skids of cooking oil. My empty wagon got checked again at the gate... the officer's hand strayed toward his pistol, as if he expected to see every inmate from "Cell Block H" jammed into my trailer like illegal aliens, looking to escape en masse.

8) Any of a number of registered treatment facilities for hazardous waste... those places are always a trip, and you see a lot of rum s#!% there. Reminded me of large construction sites in the past, where ya gotta look sharp and watch out for yourself, because nobody else is gonna do it for ya... a lot of those places made you watch a safety video before letting you through the gate.

 

Picked up a load of bagged sand (the big bulk bags) in tx and took it to tampa fl

 

I forgot about those #### cave warehouses in MO. Those places are definitly a trip.

 

Hey, "badcompany!"

I guess there wasn't enough sand in Tampa, so they had to order some from TX...