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

I guess here is where I would list my degree and the school I attended. I guess here is where I would state my years of safe driving as well. Don't need to do it though because I don't have to feed anyone's insecurity that way.

My father was a high school drop out that enlisted in the Army @ 17 and fought in Korea. Came back after with a foot injury and raised a family. I would take my father and his common sense solutions to a problem over most of these educated kids today, full of education but lack the basic common sense to get under a shelter when it's raining outside!

 

You're right, it's a discussion. In any discussion there are bound to be contrary views.
Somebody disagreeing with you doesn't constitute an attack and I was in no way attacking your character.
I merely pointed out, as have the majority of people responding to your post, that most drivers deal with the situation you described without a lot of undue angst and complaint.
Are crowded loading and unloading areas a pain in the neck? Of course they are. Most drivers recognize that fact and deal with the situation.
What you're describing is aggravating but I don't see any real danger in it.
If an aggravating situation became dangerous you might want to consider what course of action you took that allowed that to happen.

 

Good analogy. You're right, they won't come in out of the rain...but they'll sure as hell stand there and complain bitterly about getting wet.

 

Saying most drivers deal with it is irrelevant to the point since this thread isn't about turning down loads or refusing to deliver somewhere.

 

It's irrelevant to you. Most drivers, and the majority of people who responded to your post, understand that.
You might be aggravated but you're not in any danger unless you allow a dangerous situation to develop or exist.

 

Our family bought one of those built to order there at one time. It was ok thankfully. We sold it quite some time ago at a small profit and got out of there.

As far as the baked on concrete inside the drum you got to enjoy the joys of confined spaces with a jack hammer chisel for a few days to get it out. We traced some of my body issues in wear and tear to that particular job because before that week I did not have the issues medically that I would have later after using those things.

And you wonder why they could never find jackhammer workers in Baltimore city with the old cobblestones to be removed and there was a alot of it.

One poster talked about steep cliffs. We had one in the ozarks that I would call about a 40% grade with loose shale rock to boot. I managed to force my R Mack mixer up it backwards but after a certain point she would take a hop and then after that hop go ahead and slide down the hill regardless of what you did in that cab. It was a little bit dangerous in that particular customer because he was on a cliff with a 300 foot fall beyond the end of his driveway. Which is why he wanted concrete delivered up there so he does not have to slide anymore. One hop did something to the engine inside and required some shop work to find it and fix it. It was a mechanical engine and some damage was inflicted on it in ways I don't understand today. I was told that if I had forced it past that hop there was a good chance the crankshaft or piston rods would have failed completely from the shock when it came back down against what I was trying to do.

Made a mental note never to buy his used cars or trucks for sale when he wears em out up there.

And the heat? Ha. Try being on a rocky hill in bright blue skies no a/c for hours as the house footing crew works on the basement pouring. A dallop here, move 12 feet another dallop there. Hoping to get empty and off that hill before the rain got there. Because once it did get there you are stuck and in need of a heavy wrecker. (That is if your brain and body did not fail first in 130+ temperature which I have had a few times. Heat stroke is nothing to laugh at. Stay in bed a day or two and drink until you can get out of the house and back to work.)

 

About the only thing I can think of that is dangerous about tight spaces and moving around is hitting some OOs brand new truck. They tend to take that a bit personal.

 

I remember in 2009 when a lot of college graduates working in 200k jobs yearly suddenly were out of a job and we're losing their house and their mortgage was going through the roof. But guess what industry was there to open their arms and welcome them in ,that's right Trucking.
you'd be surprised how many professional college-educated people are actually in this profession.
One of the reasons that I chose Trucking was because I'm pretty much highly anti-social in real life and couldn't deal with the BS that goes on working at a job site or in an office daily with others around me.
So when I got into Trucking which many of my family members had been in before me, it was the perfect job for me cuz I didn't have somebody sitting on top of my shoulder constantly. Trucking has been very good to me in the past 28 years my house is paid off I got good insurance I put one of my kids through medical school he's a trauma surgeon in Orlando now and I was always able to provide for my family and even help friends out from time to time that really needed some serious help.
I've actually driven in six different countries and I've traveled extensively when the time permitted.
I dropped out of school in the eighth grade and I never looked back.
I worked a lot of jobs making peanuts Doing Hard manual labor and then I decided that I wanted to do some driving.
I've met every type of person pretty much in my career out here on the road everybody from college-educated professionals to ex-convicts retired military people from different countries.
I've always seen that Trucking has its Arms Wide Open for new people to join the ranks.
Sure it's got its bad side just like every other profession but I think it has a lot more going forth in a lot of other jobs in many ways.
Dispatchers are total dicks most of the time and so are the load planners and brokers it all comes down to that profit margin.
If there was a way for a load planner to plan you to take a load to the Moon believe me they would.

 

I've seen heat stroke drop many people over the years when I was in Iraq in 04 as an independent contractor we get days during the hot ones that were about 131 Plus degrees it was so hot that the Flies wouldn't even move.
I've worked in Sawmills as a teenager and I'm talking about getting baked like a potato Sawmill working nothing to joke about. I even work with a Mexican Landscaping crew in California for cash under the table I got paid $195 a week and I lived in a bachelor apartment the size of a bathroom. I would have hated to be one of those Ridge Runners up there in Coal country back in the day that's some serious driving.
But overall I wouldn't trade a trucking job for any other job and I say that in all seriousness ,maybe I'm just nuts lol.
Met a lot of good people out here over the years and I've had a great time.