[Zeke]

It's not the longshore union. You can thank the NSA and Homeland Security. The TT driver has to have a TWIC card. The longshore can't operate a vehicle outside the terminal gate.

There have been very few incidences where a TT picked a car up just outside the gate and drove it through just to unload it. But if he did, he would likely take it all the way into the warehouse. Sometimes they line the cars up outside by the fence. (Edit: Let me clarify that is outside the warehouse, but inside the fenced terminal area.) I saw a Ferrari outside in the rain with the window down. My wife wanted to roll up the window but it was power. Getting the keys was way too much trouble so she put some cardboard over the window she found in the dumpster. She's not supposed to touch anything. That's the union right there and they don't give a sch!t.

It's even worse if you want to pick up a shipped car in out port. You definitely have to hire a TT to come get it out of the terminal for you even if you stand outside the gate. I don't know what would happen if you had a TWIC card. You MIGHT be able to meet with the yard man and drive the car out. I just don't know for sure. I think that may have happened once or twice since the TWIC mandate.

Maybe I should look into a new career here. I could hang out and make 50 bucks a car.

No, it's really complicated now.