Event Managment
My first stop in Buffalo was quite interesting this morning. It was actually one stop consisting of a series of three different events. The first event involved backing off a one-way side street and into the customer’s smallish parking lot. It’s a tight maneuver on a normal day. Today there were snow banks to avoid and it was all made harder with a 53’ trailer. We used to pull 48’ trailers in Upstate New York which was much easier. Five feet doesn’t sound like much, but it is. One day it all changed and it’s been 53’ trailers ever since. It doesn’t make much sense to me because Buffalo, or Rochester, are cities no different than Philly which almost always is sent on a 48’ trailer. Anyway, it took a few minutes to get in the parking lot without ripping off a piece of my tractor, hitting the building with my trailer or otherwise creating an international incident. But I made it. The second event was the actual unloading of furniture. That wasn’t too bad except the air was only...