Working the Portland waterfront
Commercial Street and the Portland fish piers run on tides and truck traffic, so we set units where a boom truck can still swing through. Portland wharf jobs usually take a standard unit chained to a piling or blocked hard against a bollard. Salt spray and a steady wind off Casco Bay will walk an unstaked unit down a Portland pier in one gale. Service along the Portland waterfront runs early, before the lobster boats and the tour boats tie up the whole apron. Anything set on Portland decking gets a pad under it so the hatch never scars the planking.
Island freight out of Portland
Everything bound for Peaks, Long Island or Cliff Island leaves Portland on a ferry or a barge with a slot booked well ahead. Portland island deliveries are scheduled around the Casco Bay Lines freight sailing rather than around our own route sheet. A unit that misses the Portland boat waits for the next freight window, so island orders carry an extra day of slack. Pumping happens on the same trip, since the truck rides back into Portland on the return sailing that afternoon.
Festival season on the Portland peninsula
Portland fills its calendar from Memorial Day to Columbus Day, and the big crowds land on the Eastern Promenade, at Thompson's Point and on the Maine State Pier. For a Portland street festival we stage banks of standard units on flat pavement and hold one ADA unit at the accessible route. Cruise ship mornings at Ocean Gateway crowd the Portland waterfront, so those drops go in before six. Portland couples renting tents on Munjoy Hill or the Western Promenade tend to ask for the climate-controlled trailer instead of singles. Teardown in Portland is booked the same week, because parking bans clear fast once the crowd goes home.