And I'm (mostly) off next week -- just an orientation session for some stuff for a couple of hours one day, and possibly the delivery of a half-million worth of new equipment at the North Campus.
The delivery has been specified as absolutely, positively needing to arrive in a truck equipped with a lift-gate. We've never had a loading dock there, large deliveries being extremely infrequent. I'm predicting that the delivery vehicle will most likely not have a built-in lift or, if it does, it will be too small for things we need to unload. Past history makes this almost certain: trucking companies find it inconvenient and so they either overlook the requirement or assume it isn't really necessary -- after all, what place doesn't have a dock?
So that could be fun.
Past that, I've got lots to do around the house and a lot of sleep to catch up on. The present predictions call for the weather to not be quite so brutally hot. Sure hope they're right!
We sell and deliver full equipment racks (4 post style) and some times the customer's doors are the problem, even when we bring a pallet jack to move the gear around. More than once we've had to take the rack off the pallet to get thru a door, then put it back on to trundle down the hall to the next. Non-freight elevators are fun, too....
ReplyDeleteGood luck, hope the shipper paid attention to your delivery instructions
What happens if the truck does not have a lift gate? Send it back?
ReplyDeleteMerele, I don't know. In the past, I have had to make panic-fast arrangements to get a fork truck. Our former rental source of these is gone.
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