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Originally Posted by danallxt
Next, local longshoremen are tasked with driving the vehicles off the vessel and into a preliminary parking area on the docks.
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When I was in my late teens I worked as temporary Longshoreman on the docks of Vancouver, BC. When the car transport ships were ready to off load, the cars were driven off one after another.
That first mile they were driven was brutal, I don`t know if the guys were instructed to drive that fast to save time or they were just having a good time but jamming gears, overreving and screeching tires were familiar sounds on the docks. Hopefully, things have changed these days, I certainly wouldn`t have wanted to pay full price for a car that was transported by the crews I worked with.
I have to admit that all of us temps would have loved to trade places with the offload drivers but they had seniority and we had none.