Naw, i just didnt care from the get go...

 

But the fact is i've done 'backhauls' before. So don't think you've got one up on anybody. sucka. =)

 

Oh NO!!! Them warehouses close at 3 dude!! They are on their thirdish beer by 5!! :lol:

 

This is very true. Even with new store buildings (like the one on Burkemont Ave. in Morganton, NC), they screw it up so that it makes it hard for trucks. However, *sometimes* our dispatchers actually have us take a truck and trailer to a prospective location (an existing building/shopping center) to do a 'store audit' to make sure we can get in there with a 53 (or make it restricted to a 45' or 48' trailer), and see if we should deliver before the store opens, or if we can unload at any time the store's open.

Truth be told, the worst loading docks for any shipper I ever went to were at Domino Sugar on Key Highway in Baltimore, MD. There just wasn't any space between trailers. If you had swinging doors, and the guy next to you did also, they'd hit each other. Other than that, it wasn't bad.
I've never picked up or delivered in Chicago proper, so I don't know squat about that area firsthand.
Oh, and what are these 'docks' of which you speak? That sounds like a nice idea, but where are they? hahahaha

 

Seen a few mirrors get taken out by trailer doors there also(I like my roll up door).

Trurthfully, that is not one of our worst places to p/u. Getting loaded on time can be a pain somedays though.

We have one in NJ and one in NY that that SUCKS with our 48's.

Now, some of my stops, well, that's another story. VDA, seeing that you run DG loads, I'm sure you know what I mean:thumbsup:.

 

I went to deliver to a food processing facilty today. They told me to back into door 23. I asked if I broke the seal or would they come out and break it.

They told me to back into the dock with the doors closed and seal intact and they would break the seal and open the doors from the inside.

I never knew that docks like that existed.

 

I've been to a couple of places that have them. Don't remember just where they are, though. I think it's a far better idea for more than one reason. You'll also find that those docks seal up any drafts better than the... conventional? ones.

VDA, I've been to Domino Sugar. Not to bad at all. Let me know when you get to deliver to Blind Industries in Baltimore. Just getting there is half the fun. Then, turning around is the rest. Once you get your back end aimed at the dock, the rest is easy.

 

what are these backhaul things you guys keep talking about? and docks...wtf? i thought u dropped trailers on one side of the building and got loaded or mts from the other side....so confused.

 

as i am sure i'll be told i'm wrong.....here goes....

you get a load, dispatched....and you are paid like a round trip as if you were loaded, but normally you're MT on the return half of the trip....so what the company will do (wal-mart or whoever it was you're running for) will have you swing by a vendor and pick up a load to bring back to the D.C. The backhauls we normally had on my 2nd mentor's truck, were headed to a orchard and picking up a load of apples, or another place in northern Iowa, and picking up a load of eggs, or something like that.

 

Kevin, you are correct on your statement. We do them for the account that I am dedicated to also.