Jill,

Check with your primary shippers - such as the art shipping companies
- and they should be able to give you not only the dimensions of the
trucks but the sort of turn radius and other details that might be
necessary.

Cheers!
Dave

David Harvey
Conservator
Los Angeles, California

On 8/17/06, Jill Chancey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I could use some advice on loading docks.  Trucks that deliver art keep
> getting bigger and bigger, and our loading dock is not up to snuff.  It
> is as narrow as a residential driveway, about 40' long,  and opens onto
> a two-lane residential street.  We'd like to expand but we need solid
> numbers on how much space a full-sized semi (what are they, 80' long
> now) needs to turn and back in to a driveway.  Anybody know a website or
> consultant who can help us?  Everybody on our board who ever held a
> drafting pencil has an opinion, and they all differ.  I'd like an
> expert, not a guess, before we start bringing in bulldozers.   In the
> meantime, we have to use a transfer company (the only one in town) every
> time we have a delivery in a large truck.  The sooner we can eliminate
> this middle step, the easier my life will be.
>
> thanks in advance!
>
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> Jill R. Chancey, PhD
> Curator
> Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
> PO Box 1108
> Laurel, MS 39440
> www.LRMA.org
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