Delivery Drivers

[Kentuckyfarmer]

About everyone now days orders parts and other things online and we rely on mainly the two big delivery services to bring our goodies. I just wish one time in my life the little I have left one would come and go and the only reason I knew they were there was my order would be by the back door. I have never had one come and go that there weren't signs they were there. This isn't the worst but it's aggravating.

 

[RNeumann]

Time for a box at the road. Delivery to a specific door at the house? - consider yourself lucky.....not with the chewed up lawn but with a driver that will bring it to your door

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Maybe you need a bit more crusher run on that edge.

 

[Peter 315]

Your driveway is about 4 feet to narrow:laughing: you need these

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

Oh it's nice having delivered to the door but having to fix what is messed up after it gets dropped at the door I would rather pick it up at the end of the drive. I don't think they would drop it in a drop box at the end of the drive here. Never heard of it being done around here.

 

[3Ts]

I had wooden box lights along my driveway - about a foot from the edge and about a foot tall. They got run over so I changed to a concrete pole 8' tall and mounted the lights at the top of the pole. Have to take offensive measures to "control the traffic".

 

[Industrial Toys]

I had to push the Purolator Driver out last winter. I knew they would get stuck, and vowed that I wouldn't help them (him) because they really screwed something up and I wanted them to have similar inconvenience to what they caused me. Heck, I'm just too nice!

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

Your driveway is about 4 feet to narrow:laughing: you need theseView attachment 535090

You can see by the mud trail going back out it is plenty wide enough. But I also thought about buying some of those cheap reflectors and stick them in the ground along the side. I got a couple a few years back and shoved them in the ground along the lady friends yard along side of the road she lives on and I don't think anyone since then has drove in her yard.

My worse delivery experience was bought a stove from Sears and had it delivered. A big single axle truck with a 28 ft enclosed box brought it out. Three yahoo's in the cab. Ground was frozen about two weeks prior but thawed and on and off rain for almost two weeks. They pulled in the drive and drive around back of the house - thats where the drive went into the garage. Drive was about 800 ft long and none could back up using mirrors. Thought they would just turn around in the back yard. Barried the truck up to the front and back axles. Took my tractor and one ton 4 wheel drive truck to pull them out and then I had to back the truck out the drive. I had Sears pay for fixing that mess up.

 

[teejk]

We have UPS, USPS and occasionally FedEx deliver here. They all place the packages either right outside the garage entry door or right inside (or in really bad weather almost to the door into the house). My wife gives them all gift cards at Christmas (as she does for the garbage guy) and it seems to matter! UPS and USPS have even stopped to ask how we want stuff delivered.

 

[Peter 315]

I know your drive is wide enough just joking people cant drive at all i see it all day long, She says to me I back up I say get the f*** out of the car no drivers license

 

[Industrial Toys]

I responded to an alarm at a local residence last week. Their roundabout is so small, you can't turn a truck in there. Plus there are tree branches to contend with. It was all done, by the deceased Mother to be Oh so Quaint. I don't give a #$#t. I just drive on the lawn. I'm not doing a thousand point turn or drive back and forth through the branches!

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

I know your drive is wide enough just joking people cant drive at all i see it all day long, She says to me I back up I say get the f*** out of the car no drivers license View attachment 535096

That's funny. Yup it's wider than the pictures let on. Wouldn't matter if I made it 40 feet wide they would still drive off the edge. Bought this place a few years ago and had a place that me and the X had that was 18 acres. I had thousands of tons of rock hauled there and here. Have lots of places to park and probably be in the neighbor hood of 25 vehicles and never block me from getting to any building or anyone getting out. But if empty there is always the idiot that would park in the yard or turn around in it no matter what the weather.

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

I responded to an alarm at a local residence last week. Their roundabout is so small, you can't turn a truck in there. Plus there are tree branches to contend with. It was all done, by the deceased Mother to be Oh so Quaint. I don't give a #$#t. I just drive on the lawn. I'm not doing a thousand point turn or drive back and forth through the branches!

So you get mad when someone drives in your yard but don't care when you drive in theirs? Why didn't you back out if you couldn't make the turn.

 

[coobie]

About everyone now days orders parts and other things online and we rely on mainly the two big delivery services to bring our goodies. I just wish one time in my life the little I have left one would come and go and the only reason I knew they were there was my order would be by the back door. I have never had one come and go that there weren't signs they were there. This isn't the worst but it's aggravating.

More important things in life to worry about.Lawn roller in the spring should flatten that out.

 

[Ortimber]

More important things in life to worry about.Lawn roller in the spring should flatten that out.

Very wise statement.

 

[TnAndy]

Oh it's nice having delivered to the door but having to fix what is messed up after it gets dropped at the door I would rather pick it up at the end of the drive. I don't think they would drop it in a drop box at the end of the drive here. Never heard of it being done around here.

You can register online with both FedEx and UPS and specific where you want the packages delivered, and in the case of FedEx, you get an automated call or text or email (you choose) within a minute or two of when the driver sets the package off. UPS is text or email only. We have ours set behind the rock wall of the gate.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I never said I cared about people driving in my yard. If people's drive can't accomodate anything larger then a Toyota Prius, maybe a sign should indicate that.

I have a rather large professional reflective sign indicating possible winter conditions and possibly no turn-around. For Winter only. I think that shows some caring for others.

As far as backing up. The driveway was quite long, and equally quaint and stupidly narrow. I saw where someone else had driven off it into grief leaving a big mess.

 

[3Ts]

I know your drive is wide enough just joking people cant drive at all i see it all day long, She says to me I back up I say get the f*** out of the car no drivers license

I saw something similar. A local 2 lane highway was being changed and all the side roads had been blocked. The 2 lane road was getting an elevation change to improve drainage. One side of the road at a time, so there was an 18" drop at one point between the opposing lanes. Even thou it was marked as no turn, a driver decided to do it anyway and got hung up on the drop off. The road construction guys were just shaking their heads.

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

I never said I cared about people driving in my yard. If people's drive can't accomodate anything larger then a Toyota Prius, maybe a sign should indicate that.

I have a rather large professional reflective sign indicating possible winter conditions and possibly no turn-around. For Winter only. I think that shows some caring for others.

As far as backing up. The driveway was quite long, and equally quaint and stupidly narrow. I saw where someone else had driven off it into grief leaving a big mess.

I guess I now have to put up signs for people that have large trucks and drivers of delivery services that can't drive or back up.

Last fall I hooked up to 16 ft gn livestock trailer and went about 80 miles to pick up a few bull calves. I had the address in the phone and it took me to a small road (no wider than my drive) that turned off the main road. I thought as soon as I turned on it I don't think this is the right road. No signs, a fence on the right side not a foot of the road. Left side was mostly mobile homes with drives just wide enough to pull a car in just to get off the road and the rest was banked at least 2 to 4 ft high. Road was about 1/4 mile and dead ended in a drive. No where along the road to turn around, was hilly, and curves. So I backed out to the main road. Not in anyone's yard or ditch(like if there was one) and never got off the road. Point is if you drive a truck for a employment meaning you should be a professional. Maybe I'm not like most but I would never think of driving in someone's yard. Respect for someone's property and being considerate.

 

[Industrial Toys]

It goes both ways. But it is a pet peeve of mine. Like people that make utility rooms and spaces as small as possible. It's all about their "GREAT" room! No thought or consideration for the tradesman.

Maybe a sign. No delivery vehicles. Just throw packages in the ditch. I actually saw some You tube video of pretty much that behavior.

Oh, And people that don't trim their driveway branches! Like driving through a not-so-soft touch carwash.