They should hire a dozer

rockyridgefarm · Mar 17, 2021

Delivery to La Crosse. Took me a while to get it in there. Be easy for a real driver.

rockyridgefarm · Mar 17, 2021

Not a lotta room for jockeying.

tim s · Mar 17, 2021

There are a lot of dollar stores around here,,it would be tuff to back a pick up and trailer into some of them,,my Hat is off to the big truck drivers that back into them...

coonie minnie · Mar 17, 2021

Perhaps the parking lot is on the lot line?

I've got a couple tight spots for trucks to get into as well. But as trailer and tractors have grown, it gets to be a bigger problem. What is easy for a daycab cabover is near impossible for a truck with a
sleeper big enough to bring the mother in law along.

jd man wis · Mar 17, 2021

I know at times when I drove in MI some
of the places where a bear to get in too.
It seems like the docks are the last
thing they think of for big trucks. An
the same for wis. Good job on getting it
in there. How long have you been driving.
I have started in the 70s and stop in
2014. Seen lot of the world tho. There's
some days I miss it then see the new
crazy drivers in cars and pickup and glad
I'm not lol.

SVcummins · Mar 17, 2021

Id hire a dozer too and a gravel truck and make that lot about
50 feet wider

Mike M · Mar 17, 2021

What do you mean ? There is plenty of room left over ! LOL.

Jason1Pa · Mar 17, 2021

Compared to some places this isn't bad,but
yeah could be better

showcrop · Mar 17, 2021

(quoted from post at 04:40:05 03/17/21) Delivery to La Crosse. Took me a while to get it in there. Be easy for a real driver.

Naaaaaw, piece of cake! At least with a back-up camera on the back of the trailer. They have them wireless now! There are some videos of girls backing full length trailers down alleys in Europe where I don't see that it would be possible without a camera. In One of them the back of the trailer is going through a garage door while the tractor is still around the corner.

the tractor vet · Mar 17, 2021

Oh that lot is just fine ----------- For a 40 footer and a 168 inch wheel base cab over . Ya want a real driving experience then pull a coal bucket . You can not believe where they want you to get into . U S Steel Chicago works if i was just 10 inches longer i would have never got in or out another place in Chicago you had to back off a side street that was one way blind sided down and alley and blind side into the hopper and again not for any tractor longer then a 210 wheel base with a 30 foot trailer . And we won't get into all the old schools we hauled coal into that you could not be over 11 foot tall and again back in following a snake path to get back to there silo dump pit or dump into manholes . Nobody has asked you to take a new dozer back into a strip mine back a haul road that drops off over a mountain side and at the bottom make a hard left and run up the creek bottom in water ONLY two feet deep and to help you down the little hill that was about a 35 or 40 % angle they would hook two D 8's to help old you back .

john in la · Mar 17, 2021

The entire lot is empty. Why would you need to
jockey around ?????

rusty6 · Mar 17, 2021

Try that with two grain trailers hitched on. Like the guy that hauled out my wheat last July. I told him just turn around in the field once he was loaded but he was pretty sure he could back the whole thing right out the approach and make the turn onto the road. I didn't think it was possible but he did it.

MKinON · Mar 17, 2021

Gotta say I agree with John in La. Lot of places much worse. Practice.

john in la · Mar 17, 2021

We have about 40 drivers at our terminal.
While he may have to pull up a couple of times one of them can back a set of doubles to the dock.
About half of them can back up a 28 foot trailer with the dolly on the back well enough to hook a set of pups together.
Working LTL really sharpens your backing skills and your holding up traffic while you try to pass a 65 mph truck with your 66 mph truck skills.

SVcummins · Mar 17, 2021

I thought you did good . I

rockyridgefarm · Mar 17, 2021

This one was fun on monday

moresmoke · Mar 17, 2021

Remember the alley dock? I learned to drive spotting trailers at a paper mill. Your truck would be about 5 feet too long for their dock. Spent more time
going backwards than forward with a yard dog.

Tony in SD · Mar 17, 2021

Ive wondered what in the world were the designers of that loading dock thinking many times. I don't drive Just wondered why would you design such an awkward place for a truck to dock.

rlp in Co. · Mar 17, 2021

The docks I hate the worst is when you have
to block a busy street and it's blind side
and not enough room! And a nut helping and
waving his arms around like a crazy man!

rockyridgefarm · Mar 17, 2021

(quoted from post at 11:19:46 03/17/21) Ive wondered what in the world were the designers of that loading dock thinking many times. I don't drive Just wondered why would you design such an awkward place for a truck to dock.

That is easy to answer, Tony. Trucks have gotten longer. That dock was fine for a straight truck or a shorter combination truck. Tractor/trailers of 40 years ago would have little trouble there. To be honest, I got it in the first shot. I just gave the guys on here something to shake their heads over...

Hoofer B · Mar 17, 2021

That is an easy fix. Add on to the docks at an angle, then u have the whole area to use.

d9gdon · Mar 17, 2021

Not sure if yours is one, but I hated the auto shift trucks when you have to back up an incline to the dock...never seemed possible to ease up to to it loaded without ramming into it, no matter what I did. Just give me a manual shift.

Have you ever loaded out of the underground caves in and around Kansas City? I thought those were the neatest warehouses ever...nice n cool in the summer too. There's some maneuvering in there too trying to dodge the rock columns they left to hold up the "ceiling".

pete 23 · Mar 17, 2021

The local hospital utilizes a mobile MRI imaging unit in a semi. The young
lady who operates the unit had to learn how to drive the semi if she wanted to
keep her job.

Not an easy spot to back it into from the street but she gets it done. I would
not attempt to drive it. I believe it is out of Sioux Falls, SD which is 125
miles from here.

wilson ind · Mar 18, 2021

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fdt860 · Mar 18, 2021

You are right about cabover ease of handling. Seems very easy....
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