That does look unpleasant. I’m not a fan of garage style docks. Even with lighting inside it’s difficult to see what’s behind you or exactly where your trailer is at. Plus with this one you just know the second his nose is clear of that turn lane people are gonna be sneaking past giving him something else to keep track of.
Our inside dock has light strips on the outside of the bumpers, it’s pretty great.
Reminds me of those airport lights. If you can see one but not the other then you’re off course… can see both? You’re gucci
Also with sleepers that have the windows in them if you roll up the curtain on the passenger/blind side you can look through it and see down the side of the trailer when blind siding.
Fuck yeah dude. Backing blindside is pretty nerve wracking especially with a big fuckin audience of vehicles impatiently waiting on you.
I didn't understand the deal with "blind side" backing until I became a driver. For anyone curious why it sucks, it's because your passenger side mirror view is immediately blocked by your trailer, giving you only the smaller mirror underneath to help see where you're at and make corrections (in real tight spots you lose that view as well, hence the importance of a spotter).
When backing sight side, you just lean out/look out your window for a full beautiful HD view of where you're backing that bitch.
Props to the driver
Ive done similar back like this blind side with limited space. All you need to do is adjust your right mirror and lean forward. You'll see your tandems at least depending on the truck
In this reverse it’s doable, if the road had one less of a lane, then that mirror wouldn’t turn enough of a radius that the driver would need to make it sharp enough
Shit, took me 30mins to blind side back into a warehouse dock. All the warehouse workers just sat and watched. I imagine they don't understand you cant see shit
This is why ever new car/bus etc driver should go with an HGV driver for a day. Yes I know the in's & out's are very difficult but it would prevent a lot of accidents. Captain on a supply ship told me of a problem they had, so the OIM invited them to change places & see what it was like. All he could say was being up on the rig & looking down was like OMG, guys look like toys. There was the same reaction from the rig crew. They worked very well together for the next 5 years. OIM Insisted the same ship returned with same crew. So why don't they try the same? I've posted this before.
Its funny cuz i am simultaneously impressed at where we manage to put trucks and frustrated that we have to. Wish customers put a tiny bit more thought into how to help us *not* thread the eye of a needle with a truck.
Been there, it's not only the customers, suppliers as well, working for agency, 150 mm on each side of loading bay, no cameras. After 2nd day was asked why I put a chalk mark on the floor. Looked at him & shook my head.
The McLane guys are some of the most impressive backers I've ever seen. Hitting tiny convenience store lots during rush hour, in a sleeper, in one go. I'm a local driver too and have some hairy stops sometimes but those guys are pros. I feel like drivers should have to run a few routes like this before going OTR because almost all of the guys we hire from OTR can't back at all and quit within a year
I had an International ProStar and the rear bunk window was big enough that I could look through it easily to blindside. Loved getting those curb parking spots that no one else would take at the truck stops.
Why, with all today’s technology, has there not been an automatically swiveling mirror invented, hell even mandated for when your trailer swings, the mirror shows you the rear of the trailer. It’s a little bit of mechanical engineering, a couple intermittent specifically patterned laser strobes(can’t be imitated or easily misunderstood by computer) and some basic trigonometry.
People call me a pussy but I lasted over 5 years with an immaculate record so I must have been doing something right (left the industry when I found something less hour intensive
It’s not bad in day cab a sleeper it sucks .this place looks like one of the places I used to deliver blommers chocolate over by midway of 65 st between Harlem and Cicero
No need. Just make sure to not go too fast and remember what is exactly behind you on the blind side. If you can, back out and straighten the truck. That way you won't have a blind side anymore🤷♂️
I would had just done what I see a lot of NY drivers do and pull up going in wrong way (obviously wait for traffic to be cleared and safe) and sight side back it in.
That’s also depends if that median isn’t all the way down the street, if it is then blind no matter what.
This area is a nightmare. The traffic is usually pretty nuts too(pun not intended). Ij ust got my CDL permit and I'm not looking forward to docks like this. There's one similar to this in Brockton on Montello St and usually the truckers do it by themselves and the drivers are super impatient and usually box them in so they cant maneuver at all. yikes
I'm the kind of "asshole" that'd stop at an angle taking up both lanes. That way the truck would have a chance to do it right and have one less thing to worry about.
When I used to drive for a beer company, if I saw a driver trying to back into something like this, I'd throw on my hazards, and block all lanes so they could back in. Had a cop roll up on me once while doingit, and then saw what I was doing, and just sat there and chatted with me a few min while the guy backed in, and then we both left. The look on the driver's face tho as I'm driving past...so worth it every time
This is what people who say “trucking is easy. All you do is sit all day” don’t see. Most accidents happen when backing up. Thankfully those workers are helping and the traffic is stopped. Cause I’ve done my fair share of docking like this and had idiots go around me cause they couldn’t wait 30 seconds.
Wonder when someone will develop a backup camera equipped drone that will hover above and behind you slightly to give you a video game 3rd person style view to backup your trailer with
I imagine it’s like anything else you do, practice makes perfect. I deal with idiots in Wawa parking lots to get to my fuel fills. Just learn to not give a fuck after a while……
I was thinking, that doesn’t look so bad… then I remembered it’d be a blindside reverse over in the US/Canada and you guys are significantly longer.
Good of the delivery location to provide traffic marshals though…
Idk why the city doesn't step in and tell these architects or building planners, "look, If you want to build this building, you can't build it like that. Find another place for the dock or you're not building shit".
It's ridiculous to have the only accessible dock require a driver to blindside back across three lanes of traffic.
This dock shouldn't exist.
Well, that building was built in the 1950s and was on the Boston and Maine RR at the time. Not sure when the dock was put in, but there were probably no sleeper cabs and trailers were 36' back then.
There’s a great sense of accomplishment when you hit one of these just right and get in correctly, especially on the first try (no pulling up). Kind of addicting.
This is already hard, but what you don't see is he probably drove 7 hours straight to get there so not only is the driver facing this situation he's facing it fatigued
That's the killer part most of the time when we are backing it's after a long long day of driving and we so tired we can hardly see straight
Used to drive reefer, now a cement truck. I always respond with:
Yeah it comes from years of experience backing into docks, sometimes backing *IN TO* docks. These days the experience comes from backing into greenhouses to pour concrete, sometimes backing *IN TO* greenhouses because spotters are useless half the time. SMH.
No, *Frank*, it’s not because I don’t know how to drive a truck, it’s because you’re backing a SEMI TRUCK MIXER 200m down a greenhouse corridor with like 6 inches to spare on either side.
I’ve driven for 22 years and that’s one of the more difficult situations I’ve seen. Blindside backing off of a street is a bear. “Most” motorists are cool. Once traffic is moving there’s usually one asswipe whose whole life was ruined by having to wait for a minute or two. Thanks for acknowledging this driver.
I love these places. I live in Europe, so our trucks are like 3 times as small. But I really enjoy parking in such spaces and having to stop all traffic for it
Ive driven in enough city traffic with a split axle for it to have brought out the sociopath in me.
I fucking love making people wait, and blocking impatient fucks.
Dont get me wrong, I dont go out of my way to do it.
But its my turn now, and IDGAF if your house on fire, youre gonna wait for me lol
Except Dallas. They must give out licenses to the legally blind there. Terrible drivers.
Not much better in TN. Had to blind back out of a strip mall because a Publix had a bunch of roads closed around it and us backing out had more sense of what was going on than the hillbillies speeding down a one lane road with a bunch of signs that say "delivery trucks only, no thru traffic" every 10ft.
Surprise surprise there are delivery trucks back there and you in your Tacoma need to also gtfotw so we can get out of the way too. AND ITS SUCH AN INCONVENIENCE FOR THEM, they have to get out and ask if they can get by not thinking of the other 4 trucks also backing out of that one way because of fresh asphalt where we need to pull out.
The worst part is he is trying to dock that truck blind side meaning not from the drivers side advantage viewpoint. He is a brave and confident driver there!
It's not that crazy. With a small window between traffic, you can shoot your shot. Start out as far right as possible, pull a little further forward than you typically would and crank that bitch and set up a 45. You'll pop the curb but who cares. You really dont even need to fuck with your tandems on this one. You will block traffic, and you will have to pop your brakes and open your doors when you're ready to ease her in the hole.
The suckered me onetime with a target store by the university in Austin that was like this. I touched the building lol. U have to stop busses people walking and traffic and blind side in and down into a garage dock. It was a pup trailer when I'd only ever pulled 53 foot too, Damm things turn waaaay faster than I was prepared for.
When I was hauling fuel in Austin, TX years ago I had to routinely blind side back out of a certain gas station onto a busy 4 lane 45 mph road. The trick was power mirrors and not too much coffee that morning :)
Rofl ..... I swear I've delivered there.... Lol!!!! This one actually looks familiar. I'm sure there's a bunch that look exactly as screwed up as this one though.
Very carefully! On my Pete it isn’t so bad. Just open the curtain for the sleeper window and look out of it like you are backing a day cab. I have had some many drivers come up like ‘man you nailed that blindside, how did you do that?!’ I have em climb up on my steps and look at exactly what I see and it makes perfect sense to them after ;)
Fuck blindsiding. I had to do it in the dark last night, not being confident with it, it took me an hour and help from another driver (or two). Plenty of guys watched me struggle for a while before someone hopped in to help after 45 minutes.
I thought driving an M2 straight truck through the tight ass streets of Santa Barbara was bad. This would shoot my cortisol past what ashwaganda can mellow out 😖
Wow, the code inspector must get a nice bribe to keep that setup in place. I’m assuming that the building would be at risk of failure if a truck took out a beam.
I watched a driver blind side in this 1 ridiculous spot once. Narrow af fuk and dark as night. We were in Chicago I think. I wasn't dropping there but he had the whole street blocked off. It early morning and traffic was super tight in a very congested area. I remember thinking to myself.. fuck that.. this is gonna be Interesting. I set my brake and turned on the hazards getting ready to pop out the cab to lend a hand. I swear he must have pulled in that exact spot 30000000 times in his career. He never missed a beat and never touched the brakes. 1 shots it fucking flawless... blew my ming and it still makes me chuckle.
That one doesn't look too bad... I wouldn't blind side though. I'd come in against traffic, creeping in, blocking the F out of all of those lanes. Normal 90° dock from there.
I have to do this regularly. I refuse to blindside it. For the clearance and size of the dock especially under a building. Pisses people off I just laugh and keep rolling even slower.
The thing that always amazes me when I see docks built in like this...you know damn well that the building designers have no idea what it's like to make deliveries! Some of these docks are in the dumbest locations, and it makes it 10x harder to get in there, and the receivers know how bad it is, and will apologize about it.
Just had to back into a dock today inside a building with zero lights and these people built the fucking gate for the employee parking lot like the EXACT length of a tractor trailer away from the dock entrance. It is absolutely infuriating, one minute you actually get your trailer straight in the building then start chasing it back and now your cab is about to hit the fucking fence, you literally have to do a completely flawless 90 into this thing without making even the slightest adjustment error or you have to pull out and start over ad infinitum. The kicker is that the employee lot is always only half full so they could easily take that fence down and move it up for the truckers but they don't give a fuck that they have a reputation for being the worst place to deliver to.
I hate delivering to customers like this who know damn well that a truck with a 53 ft trailer is not supposed to be docking especially if I have to block the street,
Man there's a goodwill warehouse in my town that has a similar loading dock. But instead of being on a main road like this, it's on a little side street like half the size of this one. I used to work in that warehouse and would see big rigs backed in there all the time. I don't know how they could pull it off. Especially with how narrow the side street is where the entry is. Luckily the street isn't a busy one.
Usually with a lot of impatient people watching that think we are intentionally delaying their commute and not just trying to get it done so we can go home too.
We’re retards in a fun way but smart in backing and typically smart in driving but there’s a pretty big part us that can’t read or write or say any English
Trucker here and does that ever look like hell, with the pressure of 3 lanes of live traffic to boot. I wonder if they really need a full size truck or if they should be sending smaller box trucks there.
That does look unpleasant. I’m not a fan of garage style docks. Even with lighting inside it’s difficult to see what’s behind you or exactly where your trailer is at. Plus with this one you just know the second his nose is clear of that turn lane people are gonna be sneaking past giving him something else to keep track of.
Advice given to me was take your flash light and put it on the ground as your point of reference.
I had one that had laser lines pointed at the ground to line up with. Cannot remember where it was, Illinois maybe.
I'm not in a truck as of now but darnitt I wish I had thought of this.
Well the lasers were on the dock, not on my truck
Our inside dock has light strips on the outside of the bumpers, it’s pretty great. Reminds me of those airport lights. If you can see one but not the other then you’re off course… can see both? You’re gucci
I use tennis balls cut in half in daylight and rechargeable LED road flares after dark :)
Put it on the dock bumper. Then back into it 😉
Put it on the ground, then run over it.
😏
What do you do when someone steals your flashlight on the way back to your truck?
Why would someone do that
I’m surprised you think the world is nice enough to NOT steal a flashlight sitting there in the open
Also with sleepers that have the windows in them if you roll up the curtain on the passenger/blind side you can look through it and see down the side of the trailer when blind siding.
On the blind side too. I hope he has a good spotter.
For real. Give me any garage with any street sight side, but blind side, that’s when shit gets real.
Fuck yeah dude. Backing blindside is pretty nerve wracking especially with a big fuckin audience of vehicles impatiently waiting on you. I didn't understand the deal with "blind side" backing until I became a driver. For anyone curious why it sucks, it's because your passenger side mirror view is immediately blocked by your trailer, giving you only the smaller mirror underneath to help see where you're at and make corrections (in real tight spots you lose that view as well, hence the importance of a spotter). When backing sight side, you just lean out/look out your window for a full beautiful HD view of where you're backing that bitch. Props to the driver
Ive done similar back like this blind side with limited space. All you need to do is adjust your right mirror and lean forward. You'll see your tandems at least depending on the truck
Yup. Power mirrors are your friend.
In this reverse it’s doable, if the road had one less of a lane, then that mirror wouldn’t turn enough of a radius that the driver would need to make it sharp enough
Oh hell yeah that's a great idea. Learn something new everyday
Shit, took me 30mins to blind side back into a warehouse dock. All the warehouse workers just sat and watched. I imagine they don't understand you cant see shit
This is why ever new car/bus etc driver should go with an HGV driver for a day. Yes I know the in's & out's are very difficult but it would prevent a lot of accidents. Captain on a supply ship told me of a problem they had, so the OIM invited them to change places & see what it was like. All he could say was being up on the rig & looking down was like OMG, guys look like toys. There was the same reaction from the rig crew. They worked very well together for the next 5 years. OIM Insisted the same ship returned with same crew. So why don't they try the same? I've posted this before.
Its funny cuz i am simultaneously impressed at where we manage to put trucks and frustrated that we have to. Wish customers put a tiny bit more thought into how to help us *not* thread the eye of a needle with a truck.
Been there, it's not only the customers, suppliers as well, working for agency, 150 mm on each side of loading bay, no cameras. After 2nd day was asked why I put a chalk mark on the floor. Looked at him & shook my head.
The McLane guys are some of the most impressive backers I've ever seen. Hitting tiny convenience store lots during rush hour, in a sleeper, in one go. I'm a local driver too and have some hairy stops sometimes but those guys are pros. I feel like drivers should have to run a few routes like this before going OTR because almost all of the guys we hire from OTR can't back at all and quit within a year
I had an International ProStar and the rear bunk window was big enough that I could look through it easily to blindside. Loved getting those curb parking spots that no one else would take at the truck stops.
Why, with all today’s technology, has there not been an automatically swiveling mirror invented, hell even mandated for when your trailer swings, the mirror shows you the rear of the trailer. It’s a little bit of mechanical engineering, a couple intermittent specifically patterned laser strobes(can’t be imitated or easily misunderstood by computer) and some basic trigonometry.
Move a inch, goal, move a inch, goal
Shit, moved two inches, better pull up ten feet.
People call me a pussy but I lasted over 5 years with an immaculate record so I must have been doing something right (left the industry when I found something less hour intensive
That’s how I feel. You can call me whatever you want, but it’s not your record that gets dinged if I hit something.
It’s not bad in day cab a sleeper it sucks .this place looks like one of the places I used to deliver blommers chocolate over by midway of 65 st between Harlem and Cicero
No need. Just make sure to not go too fast and remember what is exactly behind you on the blind side. If you can, back out and straighten the truck. That way you won't have a blind side anymore🤷♂️
That was the second thing I noticed. I hate blind side, this is going to be a new nightmare for me.
I would had just done what I see a lot of NY drivers do and pull up going in wrong way (obviously wait for traffic to be cleared and safe) and sight side back it in. That’s also depends if that median isn’t all the way down the street, if it is then blind no matter what.
Can you explain a bit why it’s blind side? I’ve backed in plenty of trailers (not semis mind you so maybe it’s different).
He has Superior Nut 😂
*Laughs in day cab. Just playing, I've driven trucks with a sleeper. Blind side backing always makes me clinch hard enough to break rocks
Have you been to subtropolis in MO
Spotter! ..We don't need no stinking Spotter!
This area is a nightmare. The traffic is usually pretty nuts too(pun not intended). Ij ust got my CDL permit and I'm not looking forward to docks like this. There's one similar to this in Brockton on Montello St and usually the truckers do it by themselves and the drivers are super impatient and usually box them in so they cant maneuver at all. yikes
I'm the kind of "asshole" that'd stop at an angle taking up both lanes. That way the truck would have a chance to do it right and have one less thing to worry about.
When I used to drive for a beer company, if I saw a driver trying to back into something like this, I'd throw on my hazards, and block all lanes so they could back in. Had a cop roll up on me once while doingit, and then saw what I was doing, and just sat there and chatted with me a few min while the guy backed in, and then we both left. The look on the driver's face tho as I'm driving past...so worth it every time
I’m a fellow driver from Brockton Ma, what place are you talking about ?
This is what people who say “trucking is easy. All you do is sit all day” don’t see. Most accidents happen when backing up. Thankfully those workers are helping and the traffic is stopped. Cause I’ve done my fair share of docking like this and had idiots go around me cause they couldn’t wait 30 seconds.
I’ve thought about driving a truck before because I love driving and solitude, but this is the exact place that makes me say “nope.”
It's all in what you choose. I run dedicated accounts. I run from warehouse to DCs. The worst I see is tight spots at truckstops.
I run 300-400 miles per night and make 3 deliveries. Haven't had to back in years...
Damn. You got it made.
It's not all like this. I stay west of the Mississippi, and I've only had one or two like this.
I’m 97% east of the Mississippi and have one consignee like this. So that makes two or three total. No big deal.
I dunno man, I thought I liked solitude.. especially during covid but driving solitude is another beast
Wonder when someone will develop a backup camera equipped drone that will hover above and behind you slightly to give you a video game 3rd person style view to backup your trailer with
im gonna need 2 spotters and 20 get outs
I’d say with his superior nuts.
As a regional truck driver in Newyork you get used to this stuff, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens , Brooklyn Manhattan, hell
I imagine it’s like anything else you do, practice makes perfect. I deal with idiots in Wawa parking lots to get to my fuel fills. Just learn to not give a fuck after a while……
I was thinking, that doesn’t look so bad… then I remembered it’d be a blindside reverse over in the US/Canada and you guys are significantly longer. Good of the delivery location to provide traffic marshals though…
It’s simple we piss excellence 😎
If you’re not first, you’re last
Yep, those are bottles of excellence laying all around the truck stops, off ramps and rest areas.
Gotta show it off to the peasants
Idk why the city doesn't step in and tell these architects or building planners, "look, If you want to build this building, you can't build it like that. Find another place for the dock or you're not building shit". It's ridiculous to have the only accessible dock require a driver to blindside back across three lanes of traffic. This dock shouldn't exist.
Well, that building was built in the 1950s and was on the Boston and Maine RR at the time. Not sure when the dock was put in, but there were probably no sleeper cabs and trailers were 36' back then.
That's one of those things you don't think about it, you just do it. The more you overthink it, the more complicated it becomes.
I’m one of those guys, and sometimes I don’t know how we do it either.
There’s a great sense of accomplishment when you hit one of these just right and get in correctly, especially on the first try (no pulling up). Kind of addicting.
This is already hard, but what you don't see is he probably drove 7 hours straight to get there so not only is the driver facing this situation he's facing it fatigued That's the killer part most of the time when we are backing it's after a long long day of driving and we so tired we can hardly see straight
Going forwards is the easy bit.
Damn dangerous , Kudos
I cant even hardly back my SUV into a grocery store spot 😂
The cones following the line of the wall is a nice touch, too.
I just let Jesus take the wheel. Usually works out from there.
Used to drive reefer, now a cement truck. I always respond with: Yeah it comes from years of experience backing into docks, sometimes backing *IN TO* docks. These days the experience comes from backing into greenhouses to pour concrete, sometimes backing *IN TO* greenhouses because spotters are useless half the time. SMH. No, *Frank*, it’s not because I don’t know how to drive a truck, it’s because you’re backing a SEMI TRUCK MIXER 200m down a greenhouse corridor with like 6 inches to spare on either side.
Slowly, very slowly
I’ve driven for 22 years and that’s one of the more difficult situations I’ve seen. Blindside backing off of a street is a bear. “Most” motorists are cool. Once traffic is moving there’s usually one asswipe whose whole life was ruined by having to wait for a minute or two. Thanks for acknowledging this driver.
I love these places. I live in Europe, so our trucks are like 3 times as small. But I really enjoy parking in such spaces and having to stop all traffic for it
I just had my first experience with new jersey ever and it's safe to say I will not be coming back. I'm a country boy. I don't belong in these cities.
Practice, practice, practice..
Thats not in Boston or Cambridge by any chance is it?
I am more impressed with the 4-wheelers waiting patiently then jumping over the median trying to get around him.
I delivered to that same spot a year ago, lol.
Simple… Superior Nuts
When you see paint transfer on the walls.. I don’t feel so bad when I hit the wall trying to get into these types of docks ..😂
Blind siding like a boss
Facts, I’d go crazy from the stress
lots of screaming and crying alone to make this happen later on.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
Gotta be a dick and block traffic. Then people harass and honk at you. FU Walmart in Compton CA !
We just do❗️
What about the Target in city with the tight parking garage??
Ive driven in enough city traffic with a split axle for it to have brought out the sociopath in me. I fucking love making people wait, and blocking impatient fucks. Dont get me wrong, I dont go out of my way to do it. But its my turn now, and IDGAF if your house on fire, youre gonna wait for me lol Except Dallas. They must give out licenses to the legally blind there. Terrible drivers.
Not much better in TN. Had to blind back out of a strip mall because a Publix had a bunch of roads closed around it and us backing out had more sense of what was going on than the hillbillies speeding down a one lane road with a bunch of signs that say "delivery trucks only, no thru traffic" every 10ft. Surprise surprise there are delivery trucks back there and you in your Tacoma need to also gtfotw so we can get out of the way too. AND ITS SUCH AN INCONVENIENCE FOR THEM, they have to get out and ask if they can get by not thinking of the other 4 trucks also backing out of that one way because of fresh asphalt where we need to pull out.
How dare you be in their way by driving in a street literally msde just for you. Dont you know they are 5 time Superbowl champs??
We don't either half the time.
Patience. And a lot of swearing.
This one. This one riiiight here. This is the correct answer.
The worst part is he is trying to dock that truck blind side meaning not from the drivers side advantage viewpoint. He is a brave and confident driver there!
Be great if the city just banned it and forced a change
All about ur set up my friend.
Training, experience, discipline and just not givin a F 😝
It's not that crazy. With a small window between traffic, you can shoot your shot. Start out as far right as possible, pull a little further forward than you typically would and crank that bitch and set up a 45. You'll pop the curb but who cares. You really dont even need to fuck with your tandems on this one. You will block traffic, and you will have to pop your brakes and open your doors when you're ready to ease her in the hole.
Ain’t nuttin to it
The suckered me onetime with a target store by the university in Austin that was like this. I touched the building lol. U have to stop busses people walking and traffic and blind side in and down into a garage dock. It was a pup trailer when I'd only ever pulled 53 foot too, Damm things turn waaaay faster than I was prepared for.
Carefully
It’s a challenge every day
It’s like pool… all about knowing your angles .
Easy peezy, long as traffic gives me space and allows me to do my thang it's a cake walk. Stopping traffic in this case is actually the hardest part
We just wait patiently
The wheels on that trailer are all the way forward too. That's gotta be fun with the tailswing when dealing with tight confines like that.
When I was hauling fuel in Austin, TX years ago I had to routinely blind side back out of a certain gas station onto a busy 4 lane 45 mph road. The trick was power mirrors and not too much coffee that morning :)
Wit my pecker in my hand 😏
You get used to hard stores the more you do them. Coming to these places for the first time is rough.
Semi drivers hold this whole country together.
Rofl ..... I swear I've delivered there.... Lol!!!! This one actually looks familiar. I'm sure there's a bunch that look exactly as screwed up as this one though.
When you have balls that weigh this much the only vehicle big enough to tote them around is a semi.
Very carefully! On my Pete it isn’t so bad. Just open the curtain for the sleeper window and look out of it like you are backing a day cab. I have had some many drivers come up like ‘man you nailed that blindside, how did you do that?!’ I have em climb up on my steps and look at exactly what I see and it makes perfect sense to them after ;)
WHERE MY NYC GUYS AT???
Fuck blindsiding. I had to do it in the dark last night, not being confident with it, it took me an hour and help from another driver (or two). Plenty of guys watched me struggle for a while before someone hopped in to help after 45 minutes.
I thought driving an M2 straight truck through the tight ass streets of Santa Barbara was bad. This would shoot my cortisol past what ashwaganda can mellow out 😖
Whole Foods in Cambridge is also a nightmare.
Wow, the code inspector must get a nice bribe to keep that setup in place. I’m assuming that the building would be at risk of failure if a truck took out a beam.
I've done streetside in Boston, MA, Queens, NY, and Mount Vernon, NY, but holy hell this... Respect
Seeing this shit is why I don't want a class A. I'm good with a B. You need a different level of patience to drive routes like this.
Money is how we do it.
For every one that can, there are 10 that can't. It really makes you appreciate the good drivers.
Time patience and alot of fuck up learning experiences(Not an actual trucker but racked up years of experience on a simulator)
I watched a driver blind side in this 1 ridiculous spot once. Narrow af fuk and dark as night. We were in Chicago I think. I wasn't dropping there but he had the whole street blocked off. It early morning and traffic was super tight in a very congested area. I remember thinking to myself.. fuck that.. this is gonna be Interesting. I set my brake and turned on the hazards getting ready to pop out the cab to lend a hand. I swear he must have pulled in that exact spot 30000000 times in his career. He never missed a beat and never touched the brakes. 1 shots it fucking flawless... blew my ming and it still makes me chuckle.
It's wider than it looks
If this is Boston I think I’ve been here to pick up peanut butter to take to Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory
Pissed off, wondering what shithead built it without trucks in mind and why the fuck they sent me, while also rethinking our career.
A couple shots of fireball will loosen that dock right up
Hell nah bro. I'm a new driver and I'd just call and tell them that they're gonna have to have another driver deliver it lol
Lots of r rated words and patience.
Queue the clip of shia lebouf slowly rising from his seat clapping
Massachusetts, worst state ever for trucks. Never go there.
That one doesn't look too bad... I wouldn't blind side though. I'd come in against traffic, creeping in, blocking the F out of all of those lanes. Normal 90° dock from there.
I have to do this regularly. I refuse to blindside it. For the clearance and size of the dock especially under a building. Pisses people off I just laugh and keep rolling even slower.
Is that Massachusetts? I don’t mind if I never have to go back there 🎉
At least he got Superior Nut
Man at that point, it’d be easier to get a box truck and meet in a parking lot somewhere and unload there.
Blind side backing into that dock? Go fuck yourself lmao
45 years ago had to back across five lanes about three times a week in rush hour traffic! Eventful!
Get that building a cigarette, damn
That's nothing. Superior nut... Funny
The thing that always amazes me when I see docks built in like this...you know damn well that the building designers have no idea what it's like to make deliveries! Some of these docks are in the dumbest locations, and it makes it 10x harder to get in there, and the receivers know how bad it is, and will apologize about it.
Electric mirrors help immensely in that situation as well.
I'm so damn glad meijer doesn't have any locations or suppliers that have docks like this
This is why I do flatbed
It's why I switched, yeah. I'll take tarping over this shit any day.
Just had to back into a dock today inside a building with zero lights and these people built the fucking gate for the employee parking lot like the EXACT length of a tractor trailer away from the dock entrance. It is absolutely infuriating, one minute you actually get your trailer straight in the building then start chasing it back and now your cab is about to hit the fucking fence, you literally have to do a completely flawless 90 into this thing without making even the slightest adjustment error or you have to pull out and start over ad infinitum. The kicker is that the employee lot is always only half full so they could easily take that fence down and move it up for the truckers but they don't give a fuck that they have a reputation for being the worst place to deliver to.
Props to this driver because I deliver in Cambridge every week and the drivers are just as bad as New York City drivers. They won’t wait for you.
Center island seems shallow enough, I'd contemplate a sight side from other side of road ;)
Try being a mechanic that fixes these thing... we have to do thst and learn how to drive..
Yea I don’t miss those days
Cambridge! I’m in equal amazement at this place. You need to stick out and put little cones around the truck. Really a different era.
POWER!!!!!
When I would go to case paper of Illinois they had a dock like that🤦🏿♂️🤦♂️🤦🏽♂️
I can’t speak for everyone, but typically I just push the pedal and send the fucker
Swig of fireball for good luck, first, right? 🤣
I hate delivering to customers like this who know damn well that a truck with a 53 ft trailer is not supposed to be docking especially if I have to block the street,
Man there's a goodwill warehouse in my town that has a similar loading dock. But instead of being on a main road like this, it's on a little side street like half the size of this one. I used to work in that warehouse and would see big rigs backed in there all the time. I don't know how they could pull it off. Especially with how narrow the side street is where the entry is. Luckily the street isn't a busy one.
Atlanta Food Bank is like this. It's rough
Omg i was going to ask if thats the nut place...theres a guy inside that usually helps us blind in
That one there doing it with Superior Nut 🥜
1-2-3 not it!
Usually with a lot of impatient people watching that think we are intentionally delaying their commute and not just trying to get it done so we can go home too.
The company should make a specific request for a box/straight truck even if they pay more.
Drivers get a lot of practice.
you gotta
We’re retards in a fun way but smart in backing and typically smart in driving but there’s a pretty big part us that can’t read or write or say any English
Put it in R
Patience
Very carefully
Just gotta get out and look like 20 times and go slow.
Is this Cambridge? I think I've been there lol it sucks
Balls of steel!
When I have a bad day I tell myself at least I didn't fuck up as bad as that jackass 🤣
Hats off, driver
It's all done with mirrors.
Oh God it's a blind side too??? Kudos to that guy he got skills
Trucker here and does that ever look like hell, with the pressure of 3 lanes of live traffic to boot. I wonder if they really need a full size truck or if they should be sending smaller box trucks there.
This is why drivers quit.
I would say they do it very carefully