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[quote user="twcenterprises"][quote user="gear-jammer"][quote user="GAPPLEG"]      For the lack of something better, Haven't taken any new shots lately: An overview of my industrial area. The fence lying on the road has since been put up.[IMG]http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/unloadingdock.jpg[/IMG][/quote]Looks like the driver of the red Kenworth had his hands full backing in with the empty flat bed across the street.  I would have made him move (give me 40 acres and all that stuff). <a href="http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk572YYUS"><img src="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_10_4v.gif" alt="Truck Driver" border="0" width="110" height="85" /></a> Larry[/quote]Oh come on, he's driving a day cab, with a short (by today's standards) 40' wagon.  If he can't back it in, we're gonna send him back to remedial driving school. Now, if the fence had been in front of his truck..........Brad [/quote]Now you are picking on someone who has been there and done that with the 48' Fruehauf Flatbeds and a CH Day-cab mack. There is a little story.I believe it was up in Delran NJ where a major 3 lane highway passes by. The reciever was off to the side, a lumber dealer of some sort. We would park smack dab in the right lane and sit.The traffic coming off that light on the bottom of the hill would just have to move into the two left lanes to get by because we aint moving. Usually it's not a problem because it happens every day.The fun begins when a slot opens up inside the reciever and we get out triangles to close the two right lanes and corral the traffic to the far left lane only. Only then can we attempt to Blind side back jacking across half the road and a little bit of that left lane.Again people were pretty good about it. But one in particular blew through my triangles and had her car stopped under my flatbed deck forcing me to anchor the rig right where it is. The  result was my bed tilted down and tried to dump the 34,000 pounds of stuff onto her car while my tractor rose up to the sky and came back down with me in it.Because of the 45 degree angle at the 5th wheel the tractor took a few seconds hanging in the air to decide one of three things:1- BReak the frame forward of the 5th wheel2- Proceed on over and fall onto the side or roof3- Come back down onto it's tires.For me it turned out to be option three.That is how you learn how good your load-straps and bracing is. I wont recommend this to anyone.I was still functioning and the poor lady probably never drove that way ever again and thank god for Mack trucks, strong when you really need it to be.The rest? Well if the driver cannot function effectively in that situation then back to school he goes to learn a new trade.Oh and I completely missed the lady on the corner in the picture. Too busy evaluating the model situation.
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