<VV> Re: Big Trucks in Small Towns

[Grant Young]

Hi Ed,
Having worked in logistics in a previous life (I don't think work and logisitics
are incompatible:-), I think that it is possible that what you were told about the 
pick up could be true (or totally false). There are many municipalities with funny 
rules on the size of trucks that can be in the area. It is also true that many 
companies ignore the rule, as do the enforcers. I quickly learned that the best 
way to get a big truck into NYC and several areas in NJ was simply to be willing 
to pay an oversize vehicle fee (bribe). It also could be something as simple as the truck
driver already had several violations on his license or there was a brothel close by......
The Carbmeister

<<The truck driver called late this afternoon saying he's cancelling the pick-up 
because he can't get his truck near the vehicle, trucks are not allowed on this 
road etc, etc ,etc. Said he wasn't told it was a van and the owner would have 
to drive it two miles to a terminal....This same vehicle was brought to this 
address a few years ago right to the driveway by a car hauler!!!
    Now my question is: surely these people who advertise car hauling don't 
think everyone lives at a terminal. I'm sure they have had "in-ops" in the 
past, how are they handled? Why did the trucker not call his home base and ask for 
a local rollback to take it to the terminal.
   So now we start all over again. Sure is frustrating and expensive, not to 
mention dealing with a surly trucker.
   Your thought?  Ed in Fla>>