45 Degree Angled Parking Spots
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The WalGreens DC in Madison, WI has 45 degree blind side docks.
I guess it is a good thing I have parked at a lot of TAs, lol
From left to right, 1-6. Loaded trailers in 1 and 2, empties in 3 and 4, overflow in 5 and 6. No spots to drop an empty in row 3, have to blindside into row 4 before going to the overflow side. And you have to slide your tandems back at the gate to make matters worse. I hate drop and hook here.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Drop And Hook:
Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.
In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.
Why? God hates us. He gave dominion over Hell and Petros to Lucifer. Lucifer just gets greedy and grabs the odd TA and shipper here and there as well.
**Real answer, with the grain whenever possible. Don't even try against the grain at night without at least 12 GOALs and preferably a ground guide you trust.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
It's not really hard, just use up your daily allotment of GOALs. 😆
The advantage at a trailer drop is you can (eensy teensy bit) touch the trailer next to yours without too much penalty.
I pulled this off at a truck stop, between two lazy or chicken drivers. "Blind side"!
Lol the Worley Warehouse (Quaker/Pepsi/Gatorade) in CR also has us drop our empties in 45 degree angled slots on our blind side. I can do it and getting better but I most definitely have to use my goal allotment there. I really get paranoid about dropping in row 4. Sometimes I get lucky and they'll ask me to drop my empty in a dock.
And yeah I've been to kellogs too.
Union Pacific railyards Portland and Seattle have blindsided 45s as well. I've seen drivers bump containers as they back in.
What's messed up is I can do 45 blindsides much better than the typical straight spots lol. Its one of the reasons I avoid loves and pilots.lol
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First of all, why...
Second, what's the best way to go about setting up for these spots? Do I set up with the grain or against the grain? What about the spots that go with the grain on the blind side?! Frustrating...
If anyone has been to the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids, IA, you'd understand my frustration haha!