I live about a half mile up a steep, winding road, and semis cannot get up here. When we moved into our house the big Allied truck parked down at the bottom and they got a smaller van to move all our stuff up to our house in multiple trips. I have seen the occasional semi try to get up here – they almost always get high centered on all the bizarre angles and sharp corners and steep drives. Looks like a trucker’s nightmare to me.
I have had that happen on State Routes that are designated truck routes. Mostly in Tennessee. They are not really thinking of 53 foot trailers when they designate routes in that state.
Growing up we lived on a dead end street that was parallel to and just behind the alley/loading docks of a large retail store.
Every couple weeks a trucker would miss the turn and take our street instead, hit the dead end and scratch their head as they tried to figure out what to do.
The most common solution was to just back up all the way back down our street, which was typically uneventful but extremely slow.
Sometimes they tried to turn around utilizing driveways, part of the greenbelt, our front lawn, etc. etc. Some were successful and some gave up and backed down the street in the end.
The smart ones were the ones that just backed up. 
We used two ordinary adjustable wrenches and it works like a charm. Here is a gut doing it with two Vise Grips, same idea:
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It can make a difference who’s driving.
I live on a narrow dirt road with a turnaround area at the end. I’ve had multiple semis (not all at once) and also welldrilling rigs turn around here with little problem, though often with a certain amount of multiple-point turn; but I’ve also had one driver go off the turnaround area into wet ground, despite having been warned about it, and manage to get himself so thoroughly stuck that another truck had to be called to yank him out (his truck was way too big to be pulled by my small tractors.)
He was bringing a piece of heavy farm equipment, and clearly had no idea what it weighed and didn’t listen to my trying to tell him. It was on a pallet, but it had been stuck behind other equipment, was improperly loaded so that it was hanging sideways partially off the pallet, and was way to heavy for him to maneuver up the slight angle of the truck bed with the hand pallet jack he’d brought to get it on to the truck’s lift gate. I had to call in one of my neighbors who had both experience and muscle (I can use a pallet jack, but I’m not all that strong) in order to get the thing out of there.
I’ve had to have a few things delivered by semi-truck and for the most part, I’ve had no issues. In all cases, I made sure the truck was lift gate equipped and my local streets are wide enough and with sparse enough parked cars that most drivers can handle them.
The only issue I ever really had involved the driver stating that using his pallet jack to move a pallet an additional 30 feet up my driveway and into my garage required an additional 100 delivery service charge. #@! that noise. He dropped it at the foot of my driveway and I managed to get it stored with only a slightly ruptured groin.
There was one other delivery truck that had a gizmo that I’ve never seen before or since. We’ve all seen the common powered lift gate that equip many trucks. That’s essentially the same mechanism but this truck had it mounted on the side of the flatbed, just behind the passenger door. With this lift, the driver would park at the side of the road and drop goods directly onto the sidewalk. This seemed quite clever to me, especially for urban environments. They certainly don’t seem to be a common feature though.
Eh, I wouldn’t believe anything I saw on those shows on HGTV. Part of the script, is that about 2/3s of the way into the show, there has to be a CRISIS for the DRAMA. Predictable as clockwork.
I live on a cul-de-sac. Not only does a truck have to negotiate a very small circle, but there’s a streetlamp in the center of the median. I once saw a truck back down the street (which meant he had to back up for a full quarter-mile) after the driver gave up trying to negotiate the circle.
It’s not the shipper’s problem if the delivery address is not accessible.
when I was building my garage I had to make sure the cement truck could get close enough and had enough slides to cover the distance needed. when the trusses were delivered I had to take my fence down so we could maneuver them into the back yard. I think I had the shingles delivered to the roof but I had to have it prepped ahead of time and offload them myself.
An excellent operator can put a truck and trailer pretty much anywhere. I learned to drive semi-rig years ago, and watched as my instructor backed into places that seemed impossible. But he managed it easily.
I never got quite that good, but his lessons did teach me the value of backing up using your mirrors. A skill I use to this day in my Chevy SUV.
The grocery store near us has a very limited turning area for delivery trucks. A good driver can maneuver their straight truck, even with a wagon, in no time at all. They are a joy to watch.
An inexperienced driver? We went into the store, came out approximately 20 minutes later and he was still struggling. He might have had to call someone to help him get the truck out and/or detach the wagon.
Most trucks here pull wagons, which have two sets of wheels. The front wheels are steerable. Turning radiuses are much smaller, especially as some of the buildings are much older than the automobile engine.
The point with the OP’s banded lumber delivery (and are they even still active here?) wasn’t how to release the steel banding, but that the load was in a truck with no way to remove it in one lump and get it to the garage or wherever to be consumed at a leisurely pace. It had to be unloaded stick by stick, a process that would have greatly annoyed both the OP and the driver for the amount of time it would consume.
I wonder if the trucking company came back a day or two later with a spider forklift to unload it? They’re almost as common as spare tires on delivery trucks from places like sod farms, Home Depot, etc. that expect to make residential deliveries of large stuff, and being little zippy things with a zero turn radius, they look like fun to operate.
I did have a “long carry” experience with a move once. Yes, the movers were unhappy, but they billed extra me for it, so everyone was unhappy!
No problem with semis in my neighborhood. Long beer and Fritos trucks visit the liquor store across from me daily.
No problem with semis in my neighborhood. Most can’t slide down our narrow, twisty, rutted dirt track, hemmed-in by significant conifers. Hauling the three 13x59-foot modules of our manufactured home here required lumbering.
I eagerly await autonomous semi-trucks here. GPS will direct them on non-existent roads, through fences and homes, across washed-out bridges and culverts, etc. They’ll be fun to watch - so long as we’re not the recipients.