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[BKBoiss]

Um, hows your gas mileage?

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Now that's funny. At least you have to give them the fact that they did tie it down. Not the whole arm out the window deal.

 

[sixdogs]

Looks like a farm store or nursery type place. All they would have had to do was walk inside and buy a couple rake handles or dowels or closet poles and they could have easily solved the problem of how to roll the pallet forward. I've used small sections of closet pole to easily roll a 1100# safe around several times in the past. Work smarter, not harder.

Rob

Wow--duh on me--that is some great advice.
While I knew the rolling dowel thing, it never occurred to me of the practical application.

 

[farm boy00]

Bet he was inside trying to find a bed extender

Actually I think he was. Heard the employees talk about something among those lines

 

[Fallon]

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Got to love home depot. Guy trying to haul the pvc style deck boards. About 20 ft long in a short box truck. Seen him in the short but the truck sat like this for 15min or so with no one around.

As bad as that looks it appears he promptly realized his mistake & was trying to sort it out before he ended up hauling wrong rather than must starting to load wrong. Still worthy of laughing at him, but at least he was (hopefully) smart enough to not try & finish that haul.

 

[PhysAssist]

I started to say something, then decided not to.

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[PhysAssist]

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Saw on the internet

I saw it earlier on in this thread...

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[Gem99ultra]

I saw it earlier on in this thread...

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I think he should have used some Grade 70 chains That would definitely help his memory in future loading techniques.

 

[PhysAssist]

I worked for 10 years as a driver at Toys R Us. When they ran the transportation, we had a book with exact directions to every store. When they outsourced the transportation to JB Hunt, I stayed on and gave them my book full of instructions. Every new driver (and there was a constant stream of them, unlike the 5% turnover under TRU) was told to look in the master book and make a copy of the directions to any location he hadn't been to yet. And they still would depend on their GPS, the most fickle friend a trucker ever had. We had several stores that if you didn't know what parking lot entry to use, you would end up behind the store facing the dock with no way to turn around. And we had one store (Fayetteville, AR), that if you followed the GPS and ended up in front of the store, you could not get to the dock behind the store. You had to know to leave, go somewhere else, and come back with the proper turns to end up behind the store.

I trained for TRU management in the Boston stores [Waltham, Peabody, and Worcester] through the 1984 Christmas season [read- "was used as slave labor during...."].

[Ever to be remembered as the Year of the Great Cabbage Patch Debacle- because of the 20K+ name waiting list in our small store for said dolls, and notable for customers getting called in to pick up the doll assigned to them at random and then wanting to haggle for ones with different hair or eye color, race, etc.]

Then I opened the Greece [Rochester], NY store, which was placed [shoehorned] into an old Present, Co. building site.

IIRC each and every one of the store I trained/worked in had exactly the kind of completely individual and esoteric loading dock/storeroom approach you mention- mainly because most of the stores were retrofits wedged into existing buildings, which also made following the sales floor/merchandising and storeroom floor plans a real adventure in adaptation and getting by however possible.

Thanks for your service in our behalf!

 

[wolfpack2]

And another bridge removed by a bad driver. A co-worker got caught in the ensuing traffic jam. Fortunately for me it is on the other side of town.

Exclusive video shows semi hitting overpass, forcing I-96 freeway closure - WXYZ.com

 

[PhysAssist]

somebody had a bad day on the water, or in the water,,

Boat launch gone wrong sends RV into the Erie Canal | WSTM

That's about 10 minutes from my house, and I'm surprised not to have seen something from there either on-air or online before now, because that ramp is steep, covered w/ slippery green algae [it has a S-W exposure], and apparently a lot of inexperienced boat launchers use it.

I only use it for one thing- releasing the snapping turtles we catch out of our pond.

And to keep on topic- we prolly transport the turtles inappropriately in a plastic bin sliding around the bed of of p/up or back of the Element.

Then I pick it up wearing heavy gloves in case I grab it too far forward where it can get a piece of me [it's hard to gauge just how far back they can reach with those deceptively long accordioned turtlenecks...] and carry it down the ramp [avoiding going far enough to slip on the algae] [again]...