In light of last week’s valiant attempt by a truck to back down the drive and the long string of people who firmly believe that they can to turn around on the lawn,* I am considering appropriate driveway signage. The problem is that this is the day of the GPS and the twilight of navigational common sense…
The driveway enters off the main road (the house/GPS entrance) and exits on the side road. It is a corner lot, and the drive curves through it. The ‘front’ entrance is narrow, tight for trucks, and backing down it is a recipe for expensive disasters. However, from the front entrance there is no way to tell that it goes through and doesn’t end like most modern drives in a midget garage entrance. Hence the tendency for trucks to try backing down it. What it actually does is swing down to the barnyard, which accesses the side road, and is large enough for an oil truck to turn around in.
Given that, would this make sense if posted at the front entrance or would it have delivery people claiming foul? The last line is an attempt to make the people in cars lay off on the lawn donuts.
‘No Trucks
Deliveries at Green Barn
First right on X lane
One way traffic’
Or should it be:
‘No Backing
No Turning
Exit at Green Barn on X lane’
The second might be better? The trucks will still beat up their paint job, and I’ll need to consider fixing that.
*Thou Shalt Not drive on my lawn, one of my hang-ups!
Acair Fearann 
I’m afraid, were it I, I’d simply put a nice, visible chain, with an instructive sign on it (also visible) across the front drive out by the road and leave it up except for special occasions. I know it’s nice for all who live there (or routinely visit) to be able to come in the normal front way and unload on the porch, but . . . You might then have to put in a back-and-fill turn under the magnolia (for cars, only! with stakes outlining!). But that front drive just isn’t a good place for any kind of delivery vehicle, nor is it an easy or safe turn for folks in cars who aren’t automatically sure just where the entrance is. 🙂 Betsy
We tried that….and promptly had the UPS truck leaving boxes on the side of the road, an expensive experiment!
The trick is to convince people to drive through and out, without turning at the magnolia.
Or to convince them to turn at the barn and come back up and out, since the bottom gate is almost always up these days.