Why is it OK to send drivers to unsafe places not meant for trucks

The past several days I have not felt all that good. This subject, however, makes me want to explode though. You guys today have NO IDEA what hard is! Go back to before single state and IFTA. Tractors had 5 or 6 license plates and registrations. You had better buy fuel in some states or you could be arrested for tax evasion. The docks where drivers got loaded and unloaded sometime would make a driver sit for hours if the boss did not get his hand greased with a few bucks. DOT officers were more crooked too. Drivers were so pushed that they were taking pills just to stay awake. Now some of you snowflakes are crying because you don't have enough room to spot a 53 footer? really?

Go back 50 years when drivers had JUST a sleeper. A hook to hand a few clothes in and most had to keep their clothes in a suitcase under the bunk. It was really bad with the teams. Most AC units were roof mounted and never worked right. You either froze or burned up that if you could get the dang thing to stay on long enough. Go back 70 to 90 years and you found drivers with huge arms because some trucks had no power steering systems. No AC, NO Radio, you spend 8 to 10 hours in those and you were ready to drop. You drivers today should be thankful you are not operating in that environment!

Property is expensive. The taxes are horrid. Truck stops used to have acres and acres of it. Today they are limited by what they can afford and how the area is zoned. The production and warehousing areas are no different. Of course, it's hard to spot a 53 footer. Why do you think there are at least a thousand threads where drivers are asking what next after a preventable? Over my career, I have been in some gosh awful places getting loaded and unloaded. Kroger Warehouse Houston Texas comes to mind. You deal with it. If someone is in your way you get them to move or you wait. There are a lot of older drivers in and out of these forums that have been forced to do that just as I was, who in the name of heck do you think you are just because you don't like it? SNOWFLAKE! My recommendation is simple. Get used to it or GET THE HECK OUT!

 

That was how I started in my time Moose, bingo cards, several plates, tire changing kit piled in the right side no power steering and so on. I was a better driver for it.

If I started off in say 2015 with all these nice trucks with push button everything I would be such a whiner for sure.

My Father used to shake his head and say you always have to do things the hardest possible way, that's because the parents and teachers were not happy with the easy way ever growing up. That produced some peace and quiet while he thought that through.

 

Roosevelt ave in Queens is a real kicker. Better dump those bags if you don’t want the tip of your trailer chipped.

 

I’ve always wondered that in my reefer days. Happened all the #### time. Never been an issue running flatbed tho I always straight back everywhere I go even truck stops I don’t do all that extra stuff no more I’ll park on an off ramp if I have to

 

Too late. Touched the L near the police station. Put a cut in the trailer about 4 inches long. Company had me drop the trailer at some repair yard in Pennsylvania. The irony of that company was it was beneath them to do anything. So instead of them passing on the info of what needed repairing, they put it back to work with the same hole still in the roof.

 

A driver that I work with told me that in Chicago there's a number you can call when you get to close to a low bridge and you can't backo out. Someone will come help you back out by directing traffic etc.

 

And a 40 foot trailer?

 

Accept it as yet another problem to be solved as your evolution to "professional truck driver" progresses. We're always problem-solving what wasn't planned for. When you conquer it, it'll be no different than the times you were in driver training and not sure of what you were doing and thinking "I'll never get this"...only to eventually get it..................................................................................or not.

 

I used to do it twice a week with a 53 footer reefer Jamaica and Liberty both took orange juice and other drinks to a warehouse there couldn't have skirts on the trailer because the decline was so bad that it would rip the skirts off backing into the inside dock from the street.
I drove through all the boroughs over the years most of Jersey Camden Trenton and I'll tell you the one place I hate more than anything because the people there are just plain crazy and that is Old Town Boston Massachusetts on a Friday afternoon those people will throw hand grenades at you if you get in the way they don't care they're pretty much like hit me I need a new car. Lmao