Popular Post other dog Posted January 20, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2023 Yesterday a trip I made with a van to the Coca Cola plant in Hollywood, Fl. came up in my memories on facebook. I posted a couple of pictures and remarked that it was a tight spot to get into- there wasn't quite enough room to pull up far enough to get lined up to the dock, so I had to blind side it in. There was a trailer spotted beside the dock on the near side, and some metal poles on the far side. So the facebook conversation went like this- Brocky said something like "doesn't look very hard to me". And Jeff Moore, who owned the truck I used to drive, is like green dash- they come up with the hilarious one liners immediately. I altered the original picture just a little. It looked like this at first. But there really wasn't quite enough room to get a straight shot back, and it wasn't too hard to blind side in, except for those poles I had to be wary of. 2 3 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 Cheeky buggers everywhere Paul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 Shelby Elliott'd be lick'n his chops look'n at a truck with that much sleeper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Terry T Posted January 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 Way back in the day I delivered to Central Indiana Hardware in Ft Wayne & Indy, IN. The Indy location at the time was in a building that looked like a strip mall in front with an alley in the back and was cramped but easy to hit until the neighbor was doing renovations and a roll-off box was dropped to the east of the dock. I got out of my truck just as the whse guy was pulling out the ground level door with the forklift. He stopped, looked, with a puzzled look and as I got to him he asked "how'd you do that?" I said it's just like parallel parking. He then told me that Yellow was just there with his Ford C & little city trailer and the driver told him there was no way he was going to get in there. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Binder Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Odog, Can I borrow that frame stretcher? I've got a couple I'd like to stretch. Terry T, Wow! Nice job, I don't think I would have tried it. We haven't seen the other side of the trailer though. LOL 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 9 hours ago, Terry T said: Way back in the day I delivered to Central Indiana Hardware in Ft Wayne & Indy, IN. The Indy location at the time was in a building that looked like a strip mall in front with an alley in the back and was cramped but easy to hit until the neighbor was doing renovations and a roll-off box was dropped to the east of the dock. I got out of my truck just as the whse guy was pulling out the ground level door with the forklift. He stopped, looked, with a puzzled look and as I got to him he asked "how'd you do that?" I said it's just like parallel parking. He then told me that Yellow was just there with his Ford C & little city trailer and the driver told him there was no way he was going to get in there. You've done well, would of been a struggle for me, but apart from loading cattle on the odd occasion I never back into anything to load or unload That been said when hauling sugar can I would back into the siding to load and unload the can train bins (wagons) maybe 50 times a day, I had to line the rails up each time qnd that was relatively easy, mindbyou it was in the open with no traffic or onlookers, very different and the truck was a rigid or body truck so not even in the same category You blokes are pretty handy at this stuff Paul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Yes, it does look like you have plenty of room to pull up in the first shot…… MAY company downtown Los Angeles hardest I’ve ever seen in my life no room at all to pull up come in from the good side but you have to run over the curb and do it in one shot cement, pillar one side , and other trailer next to it only been there once got it in relatively easy but there was absolutely no room for mistakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 back in the late 70's i would make a delivery once a week to a small supermarket in the middle of an even smaller town. loading dock was 50 foot down a 11 foot wide alley. everyone would make deliveries there with a straight job truck, or step vans at the front door. since all i had was a single axle tractor and 40 foot trailer, that is what i used. to get into the alley i would have to drive over the curb and up the steps of the police station across the street. first time i did it the police chief came into the store and out the back to #1: give me crap for driving over the curb and up HIS steps. then #2; tell me he never seen anyone drive a truck like that before without hitting anything and stick it in the hole in one shot, than #3 to ask me to please give him a heads up whenever i was coming into town so he could have his men close the street for me. 2 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Rubber Duck 006 Posted January 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 I picked up Steel in Chicago on a street with a dock made for short trailers and day cab single axle trucks. The guys were always amazed when I would put The Green Hornet and a 48 foot Spread axle flatbed in their dock. And when you got past the steel poles i would pull all the way up into the driveway in front of that garage or if needed into the small alley next to it. Crazy thing is you couldn't do it Driver's side because there were cars and both sides all the way down the street. Sometimes there was a car that would park just past those steel poles and that would create and even bigger challenge lol. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Psssh...🙄 Backing up is easy. 1 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Day Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Dang you all have wheels on the back I can’t use reverse unless I drop the load 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rubber Duck 006 Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 That's the job I miss the most!! Logging!!! Backin down dozer made paths for almost a mile or flyin into an untilled cornfield at 70mph to make our own road to git to the Prentice loader to get the first load out!! Oh yeah fun times!!! Or the time I had a 379 buried up to the top of the back tires and threw that 15spd deep destruction in to low low low gear and had that Detroit justa screamin but still moving with a full load of logs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 I did blindside a 45 footer into a hole F model sleeper cab, two shots. I did get out and look once to make sure I was lined up and not going to hit anything bunch of guys watching. I got out padding myself on the back they were all aawwed over this . I didn’t tell them I just got lucky.I was only around 25 haha bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 One of my first trucking jobs and California. It was a really fun job but It didn’t pay anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 28, 2023 Author Share Posted January 28, 2023 A power mirror on the passenger side makes it much easier to blind side. The Peterbilt I used to drive had a big window in the sleeper too, so by the time I couldn't see the back of the trailer in the mirror anymore I could see it through the sleeper window. The KWs had a window, but they were too low to help with backing up. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Oooooooooooo ya power mirror would been the bomb but that was way before anyone was using them our trucks all have them now…. Makes it nice especially when everyone can adjust accordingly when I get back in all I have to do is hit the switch instead of having to get out 40 times to find the right spot 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Nah...just gimme a 2-stack Mack with a window in the back & I'm good. If I need to spend a night out on the road, I'll stop at a Holiday Inn Express (or nicer) & be comfortable. If the run ain't profitable enough to house me comfortably outside of the truck, it's not profitable enough to keep me away from my own bed at home. Haven't slept in a truck in almost 20 years. Don't have plans to start again any time soon. Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Yes I am with you. I haven’t slept on my truck. In 32 years. The one thing I did like about it when you’re done you’re done you don’t have to drive anywhere just crawl in the back. Ha ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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