And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The backing up isn't that hard. What used to bother the hell out of me backing into a building like that was not being able to see worth a chit. I always walked back and looked around inside before actually backing in.
I once was visiting my Dad at work at the firehouse on Pier 22 1/2 in San Francisco. He was one of the engineers on the Fireboat Phoenix in the '70's. Hills Brothers Coffee had a plant right across the street. I watched as a Kenworth with a big sleeper backed into a loading dock. It was a very difficult approach, and the driver accomplished it perfectly.
After the truck was in place he jumped out and that was when I noticed he was missing his left arm. I was impressed, to say the least.
Delivery driving in a big city. You either get good or you quit doing it. Many many years ago when I was a young man I worked for a mobile imaging company. One of my accounts required backing the rig into an alley.....off of Broadway....in downtown LA.....in the day time in traffic. And the unit was a million plus dollar scanner. Talk about pucker factor.
FedEx Express used to send the tractor drivers to a school in R-Kansas IIRC. I watched a recent grad try and back into a dock in SE Houston back in '97. She had a huge concrete parking lot for maneuver, no real stress, and she could not do it. At all. Crooked, missed the dock, halfway between two docks... It was maddening to watch. I finally just bagged it and left.
Like a boss..... easier with a short tractor.
ReplyDeleteThe backing up isn't that hard. What used to bother the hell out of me backing into a building like that was not being able to see worth a chit.
ReplyDeleteI always walked back and looked around inside before actually backing in.
GOAL - Get Out And Look
DeleteEasy in a day cab…
ReplyDeleteTry that in a long “sleeper” truck.
Be that guy.
ReplyDeleteNot this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=O1FAMPzPAwg&feature=emb_logo
I once was visiting my Dad at work at the firehouse on Pier 22 1/2 in San Francisco. He was one of the engineers on the Fireboat Phoenix in the '70's. Hills Brothers Coffee had a plant right across the street. I watched as a Kenworth with a big sleeper backed into a loading dock. It was a very difficult approach, and the driver accomplished it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteAfter the truck was in place he jumped out and that was when I noticed he was missing his left arm. I was impressed, to say the least.
Lets see a driverless electric truck do that
ReplyDeleteDelivery driving in a big city. You either get good or you quit doing it. Many many years ago when I was a young man I worked for a mobile imaging company. One of my accounts required backing the rig into an alley.....off of Broadway....in downtown LA.....in the day time in traffic. And the unit was a million plus dollar scanner. Talk about pucker factor.
ReplyDeleteFearless.
ReplyDeleteFedEx Express used to send the tractor drivers to a school in R-Kansas IIRC. I watched a recent grad try and back into a dock in SE Houston back in '97. She had a huge concrete parking lot for maneuver, no real stress, and she could not do it. At all. Crooked, missed the dock, halfway between two docks... It was maddening to watch. I finally just bagged it and left.
ReplyDeleteshorter trailers are harder to back
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