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[Fuddyduddy1952]

Ours was 8ft then last summer repaved to 10ft. I'm thinking if it's much wider a driver wouldn't pay attention. We have deliveries a lot and never a problem.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

It's just lazy/bad driving when they go thru a garden or off the driveway into the lawn, because they're looking at their GPS for their next delivery, instead of watching where they're driving. No excuse, don't blame the road.

I've pulled our former FedEx driver out of the ditch a few times, about 200' from the house where the driveway makes a mild left...and he went straight.

Always figured he was texting. Anyway, I recently widened that section just in case. And it helps me with longer trailers.

 

[4570Man]

Came back across this post, and had to laugh again. When 29 out of every 30 delivery drivers manage to get in and out without leaving the asphalt, I don't think the 30th should be blaming the driveway for their bad driving.

Moreover, we have had everything from cement trucks, to boom trucks (pumping cement up and over house), to 56k GVWR moving trucks (the longest single-body trucks), and even three semi tankers in this driveway for filling our swimming pool. All have made it in and out without leaving the asphalt, so I don't see why an idiot in a comparatively tiny FedEx delivery truck has so much trouble with it. Heck, our oil man manages it several times per month, and his truck is substantially larger than any FedEx or UPS truck.

We live on a very wide road, with only three houses past us to a dead-end, so basically a zero traffic situation. It's not as if they're rushed, or can't use the opposing lane, to make as wide a turn as they want. When I pull my tandem-axle trailer, my rig is both longer and wider than any delivery truck, yet I make it without even having to think much about it.

It's just lazy/bad driving when they go thru a garden or off the driveway into the lawn, because they're looking at their GPS for their next delivery, instead of watching where they're driving. No excuse, don't blame the road.

I’d pay good money to watch you drive a 53 ft trailer off a 2 lane road that’s only 20ft wide into a 15ft wide driveway without running off the pavement. That’s impossible. If I’m pulling my 30ft gooseneck into my 30ft driveway I have to steer the truck off the opposite side of the road to get crossways in the road as I can before ever starting the turn and steer the truck off the far side of the driveway to not hit the culvert with the trailer. If dump trucks are coming into my 20 ft wide construction driveways they have to make several pull up and backwards attempts to get in. I had a septic tank delivered on a tandem axle Volvo and that truck could flat turn. My single axle Volvo will also flat turn around. My Ford 350 doesn’t come close to the same radius.

 

[WinterDeere]

I’d pay good money to watch you drive a 53 ft trailer off a 2 lane road that’s only 20ft wide into a 15ft wide driveway without running off the pavement. That’s impossible.

Who ever said my road is only 20 feet wide?!?

Besides, arguing 53 ft trailers is aside from the point, when the gripe was specifically "delivery trucks (mostly Fed Ex)". Let's review:

I think I might need to do the same at the end of my driveway. The damn driveway is 12 feet wide, flaring out to about 15 feet wide at the road, yet delivery trucks (mostly Fed Ex) still drive thru my garden several times per week, cutting the wheel too early.

Point is, probably 1 out of every 30 delivery drivers either goes off the side of my driveway into the lawn, or cuts the corner across our garden, while the rest seem to manage it just fine. Drivers of much larger vehicles, including myself with my own trailer, also manage the driveway fine. Those running off it are almost certainly too busy playing with their phone or GPS, hunting for their next delivery, and not watching where they're driving. I am not sure why you make it such a point to argue this, or if you really have that much trouble understanding it.

I actually measured the end of my driveway today, to check my numbers. It flares out to 19 feet wide at the entrance, and the road is 25 feet wide, with zero traffic. Anyone who can't make that turn in a short delivery truck is just incompetent. Feel free to argue, but I think this horse has been beaten to death, twice.

 

[4570Man]

Who ever said my road is only 20 feet wide?!?

Besides, arguing 53 ft trailers is aside from the point, when the gripe was specifically "delivery trucks (mostly Fed Ex)". Let's review:



Point is, probably 1 out of every 30 delivery drivers either goes off the side of my driveway into the lawn, or cuts the corner across our garden, while the rest seem to manage it just fine. Drivers of much larger vehicles, including myself with my own trailer, also manage the driveway fine. Those running off it are almost certainly too busy playing with their phone or GPS, hunting for their next delivery, and not watching where they're driving. I am not sure why you make it such a point to argue this, or if you really have that much trouble understanding it.

I actually measured the end of my driveway today, to check my numbers. It flares out to 19 feet wide at the entrance, and the road is 25 feet wide, with zero traffic. Anyone who can't make that turn in a short delivery truck is just incompetent. Feel free to argue, but I think this horse has been beaten to death, twice.

Well I’ve driven a semi in my parents property that only has like a 12ft wide entrance but it’s a 5 lane road in front of it so I can make the turn before the driveway. If the road is narrower so you have to actually make the 90 degree turn into the driveway 15ft is woefully inadequate for large vehicles. And now you’re changing the rules. Previously the flare was 15 ft and now it’s 19 ft. And yes I agree with 25ft in front of the driveway and 19 ft wide is sufficient room to turn a delivery truck in.

 

[WinterDeere]

But a Fed Ex delivery truck is not a “large vehicle”. Either way, I like the idea of putting rocks either side, to make their pain at least as much as mine, next time they drive thru my garden.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Well I’ve driven a semi in my parents property that only has like a 12ft wide entrance but it’s a 5 lane road in front of it so I can make the turn before the driveway.

I'm pretty sure my gate is 12' wide, and it's about 20-25' from the edge of a 2-lane road. The driveway widens to maybe 30' at the road.

While I've never driven a semi through the gate opening, I've pulled several of them past it, including doubles. It's close but doable, the main problem being that the driveway has a slight turn right after the gate and is quite narrow there because of a culvert. It becomes more than a 90 in real life.

Over the years I've had a 45' trailer back in (that was impressive) and also 40-footers pulled by city tractors fail to drive in. One of those I ended up pulling out backwards after the driver put his right front in the deep ditch. Another time I politely offered to drive a tractor trailer in after the driver had spent over 20 minutes trying. After that he listened to my suggestions and drove in.

One delivery that rightfully should've been no problem, a short tractor with 40-footer full of trusses, ended up with me asking him to dump the trusses on the shoulder of the road. After seeing how inept he was trying to get in I didn't want him driving down to the house and then have to turn around.

Basically, even professional drivers aren't always in tune with what it takes to negotiate turns.

 

[ultrarunner]

We have had problems at the farm with tractor trailer taking out the gates several times…

At the Post Office loading dock for decades no issues.

Then Amazon started delivering and it’s contract drivers have hit the dock several times… even took out the Deadman so now bigger and more Deadman.

 

[Oaktree]

Are folks talking about different things? 15' wide for the length of the driveway is pretty wide. 15' at the end flare at the street is small. 10-12' average width is probably normal around here. At the house side and street side they are wider, of course.

My driveway is a little over 10' wide, not much of a flare at the end. Oil/propane delivery trucks don't have any problem with it, UPS/Fedex usually park in the road and walk in.
My wife can't consistently manage to go in/out without driving on the grass with a midsize sedan.

 

[WinterDeere]

My wife can't consistently manage to go in/out without driving on the grass with a midsize sedan.

Same. Mine ran off the driveway so many times at the turn coming out of the garage, that the edge of the driveway has failed and crumbled there. I eventually put a plow marker at that spot, that stays there year-round, to keep her on the driveway.

Of course, that hasn’t stopped her from hitting the house about once every 5 years. Every new car she gets somehow ends up rubbing the garage door jambs. Doesn’t bother her, but really peeves me.