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Hi Lakota, :) Yeah, you almost understood I wrote that way to quickly this morning and I wasn't too sure if it would come out clear as to what had happened. First things first, no there are no bay doors on a basement that has yet to have a building constructed over it, my job site is an open excavation site where I back down into the basement of a building that has yet to be built or the addition to an existing building, (as this is -- pretty big addition if you can back a truck down into it???) So the ramp didn't have rubble, but stone it is part of the sub floor material and is pretty deep on both sides of the footer to which the basement walls will be built upon. As for towing we were close to our shop so I called for one of our company vehicles to come over and pull me up and out of the hole. Sparksofinsanity did a great post on an unintentional deposit of a dump truck into a foundation hole. (Did you read that post?) What she went through, I almost hate to remind her of it... :) (Almost! heheheeheee ) The worst part for me was having to crawl underneath the truck to attach the tow strap onto my vehicle. (Who likes crawling around on the dirt? After all I don't want to damage and soil my garments.) Imagine trying to put material under the tires so that I could drive up and out hopefully gaining traction from something solid under the tires, the problem was that I kept kicking what ever I put under the tires out, it was a futile effort that required me to call for assistance. Help came and I was free to finish that part of the delivery once we had the big ole truck up and out of that basement. I was not having fun... and I was not being very productive. P.S. Just a foot note when I say management I'm really not trying to point the finger at any one person in particular. That is a bit of a complex issue and in this case things just didn't work out as they should have. The next delivery I used a different type of delivery system and had a mechanical malfunction on that piece of equipment, once I had good working equipment the delivery worked out pretty good I believe. I have to talk to the mason and his son's to find out for sure. I like to double check and make sure everything was as they wished or if they thought I should have done something different. I always try to keep everyone satisfied. (The customer and my employer after all my employer pays me and the customer pays my employer.)

Oh now I have the picture . and after all that did they like your delivery? Hope so with all you went thru. As you know I have a neice that is a driver. and she has told me of some very bad places she has had to backinto. tight ones too. THose 18 wheelers arent easy to turn. No I didnt read her post must of been before we became friends. I also can imagine being a job site like that that the dirt ramp going in wasnt very stable. Shame on you to keep kicking it out! Glad you could get a tow from your job that helped alot I am hoping. Happy trucking!

Oh' yes shame on me for kicking out the material that I put under the tires after lifting them up off of the ground to pack all that material under those tires. The material should have stayed put where I placed it instead of deciding to fly away when I tried to drive forward... Let's see if I can find a link, Sparksofinsantity did a great job of describing a truck down in the basement albeit that the truck Sparks wrote about created his own ramp... Let's see what I can find???