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Why do truckers creative park when there are tons of open spaces?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Six9GS, Mar 24, 2021.

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bzinger said: ↑

Thanks...I quit hauling produce 2 years ago and now only haul fresh beef , pork , frozen food and temp controlled medical supplies.
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When I park the unit goes on continuous.
I try to park way out by myself or next to other reefers .
Say what you want about reefer work but I'm always busy and have never starved in this facet of the industry...I live in omaha Nebraska and as long as people eat beef and pork my bills will be paid .
If you are one of those that thinks a truck stop is a resort don't park next to me .
A soupy cow trailer parked next to me does not offend me !
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Im a reefer driver, i was responding to the one saying we could use trains....

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skallagrime said: ↑

Which part in specific has you confused?

Basic grammar lessons from 3rd grade or basic physics?

I'd have thought that Audible and youtube together ought to make everyone with a driving job at least familiar with much more than they arr i guess

(Though in reference to the original guy i was dumbing things down from, i imagine he was studying physics at much higher than high school level)
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No i just like the Will Farrell meme and used it in the detailed description of Perfect Present Tense.....it actually blew my mind....

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The "creative" parking spots are the first spots to fill up, not the last to fill up at a truck stop.

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You hit the nail on head. I typically start my day somewhere around 11PM to 4 AM. That means that I often get my pick of parking spots. My priority is, whether there is potential to be blocked. I could care less about how close I am to the TS entrance or much of anything else. I don’t want my typical tight schedule ruined. Most of the time that means a regular spot, sometimes it does not. But I’m always certain that I’m not somewhere that impedes others.
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Exactly; I always try to start early so I avoid spots that can get blocked in by creatives. I prefer ones that I can pull straight out into the middle of an aisle or the ones that face the pumps. Parking facing the end of a row or curb has the potential for blocking.

I’ve seen a few truck stops and rest areas that looked so tight that just having a truck in the spot next you could prevent you from leaving. First in, last out... I’ve had to slide my tandems forward to squeeze out and then back to get legal.

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Exactly; I always try to start early so I avoid spots that can get blocked in by creatives. I prefer ones that I can pull straight out into the middle of an aisle or the ones that face the pumps. Parking facing the end of a row or curb has the potential for blocking.

I’ve seen a few truck stops and rest areas that looked so tight that just having a truck in the spot next you could prevent you from leaving. First in, last out... I’ve had to slide my tandems forward to squeeze out and then back to get legal.
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Had a spot in the middle of a row at an infamous northeast pilot that i had to have the guy next to me leave first and i STILL only cleared the guy on the far side of his spot's bumper by about 2 inches (was lucky he was already doing his pretrip) just so i could pull out (but ive also got a long truck and a fixed spread no dump valve)

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Yep ...LAZY ....pulled into loves at Poplarville miss at 6 tonight and it appeared full with trucks parked all over hell near the building....werner half blocking the exit .
Headed out back and still at least 10 spots open.

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Six9GS said: ↑

First off, I must correct myself. It is not the Schrodinger's uncertainty principle, it is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Unsure how I made such a bonehead error. Schrodinger is most famous (outside of the theoretical physics world) for a thought experiment referred to as Schrodinger's cat. He and Einstein used to posit thought experiments back and forth to debate the effects of quantum theory. Which, although based directly from Einstein's work, Einstein never cared for and often tried to disprove the consequences of quantum mechanics. These thought experiments Schrodinger and Einstein would posit to each other where to argue back and forth about the validity of quantum mechanics. Somehow, Schrodinger's cat thought experiment became famous. Much of the theory behind Schrodinger's cat is based and developed from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
The uncertainty principle posits that you can not know both exactly where a particle is (think atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons, and the other lepton and hadron particles) and its velocity. There is a finite product of the two such that, if you knew exactly where a particle is located, you would be unable to determine its velocity. If you know the precise velocity of a particle, you can not also know it location. It was published in 1927 and to date has never been disproven.
Feynman (my favorite physicist) diagrams are used to illustrate the interactions of different (subatomic) particles. These diagrams are rather ingenious in providing clearer visual insight into the extremely complex and non-intuative behaviors of subatomic particle interactions.
One last geek thing. Richard Feynman is known for his major role in the development of Quantum Electrodynamics, in simple speak, how light behaves. If a theory's success is based upon how closely the theory and experiment match, it is considered our most successful theory. Experimental results and theoretical results match so closely that it would be equivalent to measuring the distance between downtown Los Angeles and New York and having the theory and experiment only differ by the width of a human hair.
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I just assumed you had never watched Breaking Bad. We’ll let it slide.

Technically, it should have been named Breaking Badly.

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bzinger said: ↑

Don't like reefers ? Quit eating !
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^^^^^^ And thats why I like parking next to a reefer...if I take a nap before I get my wagon washed out after a load... Just to remind them of what those frozen steaks their hauling... smell like when they were still walking
Its called the circle of life

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^^^^^^ And thats why I like parking next to a reefer...if I take a nap before I get my wagon washed out after a load... Just to remind them of what those frozen steaks their hauling... smell like when they were still walking
Its called the circle of life
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Hell when I was a kid I used to go explore the south st. Paul stockyards while visiting grama ..made my mother very upset with me .

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