My -oh- my 3 am came early. Kurt is all buisiness on delivery days. We had 5 stops to make this day. First one only 5 miles from the truck stop came off quickly and without a hitch. When we arrived at the next delivery there were 20 trucks ahead of us and a gate guard who was friendly but non committal about how long the wait would be. We decided to go make our third delivery and return. Good thing too because there was still a long line when we returned to the second stop. We ended up waiting to unload for a total of 5 hours for our 3 pallets!
Our last two deliveries were about 10 blocks from downtown LA. After an hours drive on 3 LA freeways we discover that the loading dock for one delivery was in a one-lane alley off a city street. We were lucky that there were only a couple other trucks waiting on the street and they were able to move to make room for Kurt to back up. See pictures. The last delivery was at a newly built loading area with more than enough room for today's 70’ long trucks. Our trip back to the truck stop was through LA rush hour traffic—and just as slow as one would expect. We walked back to the mall for dinner again and this time made a few purchases.
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