What is the worst place you..

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  1. xFreeWord420x

    xFreeWord420x Light Load Member

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    What is the worst place you have to deliver or pick up a load? Thought this would be a fun discussion. Being a scrap hauler/stone, we end up miles in the woods sometimes, on dirt roads, built for 4-wheelers(atvs lol). Three Places come to my mind right off the bat.

    We go to a scrap yard in Kittaning, PA, called PJ Greco, on Hawks Hollow Road.. it's on a 10ton limit road, on a hillside. 12% grade dirt road to get in to the woods, then a 90 degree turn to get on the scale.. to get off the scale, has to be a 15% grade lol, and their roads are made of crushed brick.. so every turn you make sounds like a popped tire.

    McConway Torley in Pittsburgh.. on 48th Street I think it is.. One Way Road to get in, with cars parked on both sides.. barely enough space.. Probably 5" on each side.. then you have to go down that same road to get out.. if you been there, you know EXACTLY what I am talking about.

    Last but not least, North Coast Ferrous on 55th Street in Cleveland.. It is tucked behind all the 5 story buildings, so if its your first time there.. your passing it.. Then you have to back in to the place.. and in order to do that, you have to pull across 4 lanes of BUSY traffic, hold them up, and back in lol.. sucks.

    I could name a bunch of these crap places they want us in.. but I will let some of you guys throw out some more.

    Ferrotech in New Castle, PA... Pretty much all of the PJ Greco's in Kittaning and Tarentum.
     
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  3. MNdriver

    MNdriver Road Train Member

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    got into a place in PA.

    Small country road delivering lumber to a "worksite".

    The further I got down the road, the worse I liked it. I knew I SHOULD have dropped the trailer at the beginning and bobtailed in to check it out.

    Like a dummy, I just barreled in to a 5 mile long road with an old wooden covered bridge limited to 3 ton gross and 8'6" clearance.

    It was a long day backing up.

    Place in Chicago. Dock was 60 feet into the building. Your nose just sat in the parking lane on the city street that was 2 parking lanes and what was "supposed" to be two driving lanes. (right).

    The dock worker asked if I wanted him to do it, or if I wanted to try to back in. The cars on the street ignored the "red zones" around the dock and filled them in anyway.

    I still wonder how he got it in the dock with no damage to anything.
     
  4. Lonesome

    Lonesome Mr. Sarcasm

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    Lake street in Chicago, about 3 blocks west of Cicero. "L" train tracks run overhead down the center of the street, not the best neighborhood, we have to back into this customer. Dodging traffic, bridge supports for the tracks, people, it's a mess!
     
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  5. xFreeWord420x

    xFreeWord420x Light Load Member

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    I did that the one day in Ashtabula, OH. It was a new demo site, and everyone kept telling me, "It's a dirt road.. so if you see a road you SHOULDN'T go down, that is it!".. So I see a road through a corn field, and thought, "I shouldn't go down that road".. well, I did.. and ended up 3 miles in to the woods, at some ones farm house. Luckily, no one was home, I backed out like a mile, and found a dirt area and yard jobbed them a little.. here, the place I was supposed to be was literally 300 ft away.
     
  6. walstib

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    I deliver to plenty of places that were built for horse and buggies with a 53'er, I lump them all into the worst places...
     
  7. xFreeWord420x

    xFreeWord420x Light Load Member

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    Some places are better forgotten.. but being local, once I forget about them, I end up dispatched to them the following day lol.
     
  8. Young_Gun

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    Newark, New Jersery... rather get kicked in the balls 50 times than go into that hell hole.
     
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  9. dracon

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    Port Elizabeth New Jersey. One way in, the same way out, tighter than tight to back into the dock, and customs Nazis that don't accept the smallest mistake in maneuvers
     
  10. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Marshall Fields in downtown Chicago because the CPD had to escort me and block off both sides of Michigan Ave so I could back into the dock and unload. Even at 1am I had a lot of pissed off people telling me I was #1

    And the other one was Bloomer Chocolate in Chicago as well. Real pain to get in and out of a dock that was 104" wide with a 102" trailer, all while backing in from one of the busiest streets in the city, and as you know the people don't care and will try to squeeze around you and many times I had them drive down the sidewalk.

    But once I mastered both of those docks, everything since then has been a cake walk.
     
  11. LandShark

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    Visy paper otherwise known as Pratt Industries.
    In Conyers Ga. Its usually an all day waitfest to unload.
     
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