Stuck semi. Stupid freight company.

[LD1]

I am surprised the driver tried that. I get a fair amount of stuff delivered by truck to my place and the vast majority of drivers won't come in and make me unload them at the road. I kind of laugh at them sometimes because I have a 379 with a sleeper and a 53' flatbed with a spread axle and I drive it in and out of there all the time and I am far from being an expert semi driver. Most these guys are local drivers with day cabs and shorter trailers and they are scared to come in.

Yea the mailbox was clear. Pic is decieving.

I'd driver was good, I think he would have been just fine

 

[LD1]

Oops, hit reply too soon. But i think the driver could have made it.

I have never drove a semi. So I know it's no comparison, but have fully loaded 5-axle dump trucks come in all the time. And had 35' GN trailers behind long bed trucks back in before when unloading building materials/metal.

The reason for my request of a short trailer or box truck cuse my plan was to unload at my house. My house sits close to the road. Maybe 80'. A cab + long trailer + room to run a lift gate....didn't think it would fit. But the drive at my house is a good 3 cars wide.

Down at the shop the drive is even wider (knowing I would be backing in my trailer all the time.) The guy had plenty of room on the blind side of his rig, but kept pulling forward and trying to get the inside as near the edge of the drive as possible. I bet he tried 6 or 7 times before getting stuck.

Once stuck, he tried for about 3 minutes rocking it before I had to tell him he ain't going anywhere, as he is 3' off the road and his front tire is burried:mur:

His comment was "I didn't think I was that far over". How can you not....that's the freaking driver side.

I even gave him the option when he called before arrival to look at the drive at the house on his way by, and see which he thought he could get in. He said " I can back it in either" after seeing them. Since I was already at the shop, that's what he tried. I am glad now he didt attempt the house, as the ditch is a deeper drop off, and would have likely smashed the neighbors culvert. My only concern at the shop was the slope of the drive and possibly dragging the landing gear. I guess my concern should have been the competency of the driver and shipping company. I mean what the **** do they expect, you are making a RESIDENTIAL delivery. There is a reason fed ex and ups dknt do residential routes with a 53' trailer

 

[ultrarunner]

In these days of unprecidented high speed communications, it seems that communication in such matters has never been worse. Try letting the local UPS driver know that he probably shouldn't come up your driveway, and this starts by calling a call centre a few thousand miles away. Then after pressing this and that, and being informed that those numbers have changed and you must listen carefully. Of course, there is no selection to warn a driver of possible trouble. And you finally get a recording proclaiming unusually high call volumes. So, you just hang up and wait to deal with whatever happens. So unecessary.

Ain't this the truth... it has gotten to the point I seldom bother anymore.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I was on a job about 12 years ago and a dump truck driver had to dump a load of top soil near the driveway of the church we were working on. Plenty of room BUT, he went down a side road and drove out into the sediment pond. We had been having a lot of rain so you know what happened. They got another truck that was loaded and about 100 ft of chain and pulled him out. Wonder what the boss said about that one. Ed

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I get deliveries by semi. Most are good at backing in partway and i fork it off.

 

[Looking4new]

I would like to know why the guy was trying to 'blind side' it into the driveway. Looks to me like less of a 90 degree angle the way he is than 'clear siding' it with about a 93 degree angle.

 

[bcp]

Stuck semi + 1 tractor, then 2, then 4.

Bruce

 

[LD1]

I would like to know why the guy was trying to 'blind side' it into the driveway. Looks to me like less of a 90 degree angle the way he is than 'clear siding' it with about a 93 degree angle.

Yep, drive is angle a bit, and the way he is angled is for best success.

The drive is 36' +/- wide at the approach. And the skinniest part of the drive is still 22' wide

 

[bdog]

Stuck semi + 1 tractor, then 2, then 4.

Bruce

That's a strange rig. Triple axles on the trailer and a single on the tractor. No wonder it got stuck so easily there had to be a lot more weight on the trailer axles than the drives. I always try to load my trailer so that the drives have more weight on them than the trailer especially if I know I will be going off pavement.

 

[TnAndy]

I always tell them Terminal Pickup. Our place is end of the road, and turning a long truck-trailer is really hard. I'd much rather drive to one of the local terminals and let them load it on my truck/trailer with their forklift, and let me figure out how to deal with it at home.