Spehro said:
Are they closed union shop like the Eastern ones? I hate having to pay
those guy to do trivial stuff. Dreyage, my a**. 8-( And an
electrician every time, even if the stuff just plugged in.
Exactly.
We've done both SF and San Jose and San Jose was the worst.
Even though the contents of our booth fit in the back of
our Subaru wagon, we still had to go to the "marshaling
yard" across town, wait in line, have the vehicle weighted,
get a pickup time tag, go back to the convention center and
wait to be unloaded, drive the unloaded car back to the
"marshaling yard", get it weighed unloaded and get a weight
ticket, which BTW was at least 200 lbs higher than the
actual weight of the booth. To add injury to insult, as
I was driving off the scale, a piece of metal slashed
and destroyed one of my tires.
Leaving, we just waited for the security guards to kick
back and then sneaked everything out the front door.
By the time we did ESC at SF, we had gotten pretty good
at sneaking the stuff in past the teamsters. The trick
is to have one person in the vehicle, circling the venue.
Another person meets the vehicle, gets an armload of stuff
and carries it inside. Repeat until done.