Yes. Alley was barely wide enough to keep from rubbing the sidewalls. Electric wires were 12 feet high. Downhill ramp to go through the gate had me rubbing my landing gear.
Mostly true if you have under 2 yrs of experience. All the receivers I have been sent to were doable in the end. Sure, some docks clearly aren’t meant for 53 foot trailers with sleeper trucks, but they’re still doable. Sometimes you just gotta watch others back in to see how exactly they’re doing it. If you ask some of the people there they might know how their regular drivers are pulling it off.
One time I had a hard time getting into a dock, and then after I got unloaded I saw a regular drivers pull it off without a sweat. The technique he used was impressive.
Yes, alot of it was from my non-citizen, third world dispatcher who had only lived in Canada for two years and hardly spoke English.
She didn't understand the difference between my 53 footer and a 5ton truck.
Yes and no. Went to a meat packing plant in Chicago. They do indeed get trucks in there everyday, but not while all the employees are parked in the path of the dock.
I had to do a drop n hook in the same door, and the way the employees were parked, I couldn’t even pull the docked trailer out, let alone back mine in. I told him cars had to move, or I was leaving. He told me the other guy does it all the time, and I simply said “then he must be a God tier driver, because this is impossible”. I even pointed at the lines on the ground marking where the dock lane was and where the car parking was supposed to be.
Yes, with dump truck and pup. Called my contact and told him I couldn’t get where he wanted me to go without running some stuff over. His little helper drove up in a golf cart to tell me trucks get in there all the time. It was me, I was the truck that had been there, this was my sixth load and then they parked a front-loader and a street sweeper in my way and I could no longer make the turn.
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