We're in a building we grew out of about a decade ago. It puts us in a tough spot. They added a permanent dog house last year, but it still isn't enough. I've parked and pulled out vehicles under those conditions, and it isn't easy. But certainly not impossible. The big guys upstairs won't change anything until it's truly impossible.
Use the package car next to you as a guide. If you're parallel, you're good to go.
We have every truck in our building inside this time of year because the old stick 700s won't start in this cold, it's tight now, and we still have to fit 2 feeders in next week.
You guys don't have plugs for outside vehicles?
Completely agree, that's how I did it last year. Never had a big issue with them, just takes more time to get straight.
I'm surprised they leave them on. The ones we have inside the mechanic will take the ball off so it's not an issue in the building or when a driver delivers to a dock.
I'm sure we do but we're either not allowed to use them of they don't work. Never seen one used since I've worked there. We're such a small center that we probably cost the company money rather than making any. There's one stick that won't start below 55, so that thing is pretty much helpless anyway.
Interesting. We're small as well and have them. But it gets bitterly cold here.
Our poor mechanic is so swamped with broken stuff all the time from old crap trucks breaking that stuff like that probably never crosses his mind. There's only one of him after all.
Pretty much every center in my general area is small. And yeah, I feel your pain with the cold. We went through last winter with no heat for about 70% of it. That was fun with last February never getting over -5 at night.
Now I'm wondering if you're in my district.
Well, a lot of the US was colder than normal last winter. But it wouldn't surprise me if you were.
Probably been written up a dozen times for not starting. They know it needs new ones, but they just ether the thing every morning instead. At least that's what I'm told anyway. We've had to push this thing in and out of spots to make lineup right. Too bad really, best stick in the building by far once it's running. At least from what I can tell.
I try for 2" space between cars, when positioning.
I think that we all work in different types of buildings and the standards are different. If you go with 4-6" in our hub, there's no way you are fitting all of the PC's on line and you are going to have to tighten them up...nevermind the unhappy preloaders asking you or someone else to move them, again. I would try for 2"space, anyway..but it's usually a little more.
We car washers used to take pride in how close we could park the cars on the boxline. Center managers finally asked us to park with a little bit more room as the drivers were making the sups pull the cars out because they were so tight.
We have a new parker that thought he had to get cars as close as humanly possible. Last week two were about a tenth of an inch from touching each other. Driver refused to pull it out. So I had the pleasure of doing it with 5 guys sitting there waiting to catch me hit something.
