Most of these type of places were designed strictly for straight trucks. I used to deliver to Pacific produce out of Vancouver with 48 and 53 foot trailers. Their little yard was designed for street trucks.So when you have a bunch of the tractor trailer is in there.You have to blind side, jack knife It in. With inches to spare on the front bumper, and most drivers don't unhook, so you're really kinda screwed. It's literally one of the harder back in you'll ever do, and i had to do it weekly. So when I went down to a cooler in salina, california, the one spot that was designated for the straight trucks that had a telephone pole and a fence that had maybe ten feet more room than i'm used to.Nobody could get into it.So unless other trucks were not parked there. So I said, well, I can park in there.What if I get in there?Would you load me. The shipper and the four or five forklift operators that were there started laughing their asses off at me. Now you have to understand when we used to do this back in the mid-nineties, you'd go to a cooler there and it would be 24 to 36 hour weight. And you'd have to have your cb on their channel.They would call you three times if you missed the call, you would be put to the back of the wait list. It sucked. They said sure you can back in there.Not only will we load you, but we'll load you immediately. They knew me. I'd been there before. I said, okay, I'll be right back.And they started laughing and jeering me, and all this. I drove up there, opened my back doors and already.The drivers were gathering around watching they heard what was going to happen. I was going to embarrass myself apparently. I did the u-turn in. Prepared two yard and back it in on the blind side. I set it up like I normally would over in vancouver back her right in first shot perfect. No, i've done that up in pacific produce before.But with all the people watching, and I was still fairly new.I'd only had my license for like four years at that time. And i shut the truck off jumped out, walked up to the shipper, gave him my paperwork and said, here's my paperwork. The guy looked at me with his jaw on the floor looked at the paperwork, looked at me, looked at the truck, looked at the paperwork, looked at me, looked at the truck. Then he looked at the other forklift Unionized drivers. Their jaws were also on the floor l o l . He looked at them and said. What are you guys waiting for load this truck now. They said absolutely nothing, but they kind of jumped out of their skin got on their forklifts.I was loaded and gone within half an hour. And technically speaking, I had like twenty or thirty hours left to wait to get my scheduled reload.As they say. Now, apparently, after I left the drivers in the Staging area, which was just a glorified dirt yard. They all came up and started asking, what the hell? Why did you load that driver before us. He said, well, I made a deal, and the driver got in here in the spot you cannot back into with another truck sitting there. So these drivers all tried to make deals, and he said, sure, go for it to the first person who suggested it. Apparently this went on for a day or 2. As the docks were full and when you recalled, you go to a certain dock, these guys would once that other person backed in, try to back in. Every single driver failed, and apparently dozens tried. Every driver who was there was laughing at the other ones who failed. And every time I got there, the shipper would look up, see it's me and said, oh okay, he'd go up to a truck and say, pull out this driver.Needs to get loaded now. They would protest, and he would say, do you want to be put on the end of the list? They would, of course, say no, and he would say, then pull out and they would always give me the easier door I would back in load and go and everybody would stop what they're doing and load me.That happened another four times and then I stopped pulling reefer. But damn it was satisfying as hell. I have pulled off other more spectacular back. Ends are driving into yards and turning around where you can't turn around or backing up fifty kilometers to get out of a sight because you can't turn around anywhere.But this was my most entertaining, when you have lots of people witnessing what you're doing, you could either be massively embarrassed, or you impress the hell out of the group. So look for those times when you can impress people with your skill. It'll be give you a great ego boost for the next six months to a year.And you will have people not believe you when you tell the story. As a lot of people don't believe me when I tell them this story. But like I said, this was not the most spectacular i've ever had, because after being a reefer driver for a year and a half or so I went to flatbed, and believe me, you can get into more serious areas, smaller areas, more difficult terrain, then you would with a van or reefer. But the more important thing is to take your time if it takes a long time to back in and you don't hit anybody or anything you've succeeded regardless of whether they're screaming at ya to hurry up, get out of your way. They would appreciate you even less if you hit somebody. Take your time practice whenever possible.And you will get better guaranteed.