Any advice you experienced guys can give a newbie??

Stay away from Lot Lizards and only wear flip flops in the shower.

 

It will be a real trial by fire to go from just getting your license to doing LTL P&D. It will be intense and test your skills on a daily basis. Hopefully they take it easy on you and set you up with volume pickups, deliveries, and switches at bigger truck-friendly warehouses before cutting you loose at the tiny places. But no matter what, breathe, don't panic, and ask a lot of questions of your fellow drivers, especially the LTL vets you encounter at your stops. You'll learn a ton from those guys.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

 

If your day provides the time, google sat view your stops, at least till you get your berings. Baring that, dont be afraid to put the hazards on and take a quick walk, pulling behind some buildings the wrong direction can be catostrophic. And there not always marked. Keep relaxed, like i tell every new blood i train, "your a big truck, people exspect you to be slow and in the way..... dont disapoint."

 

Who ever you work for treat it as though it was your own company learn to be reliable, dependable and safe you will get a good reference for future work that way.

 

take it slow; slow is smooth , smooth is fast
head on a swivel, watch truck and trailer in mirrors as you go through gates and curves.
whenever you go to a customer first, park up front and ask them where you need to go, instead of getting yourself stuck in a place you would wish you didnt venture !

and whenever you go somewhere , make sure you can get out

 

Take your time. Don't get flustered or in a hurry its your CDL even if dispatch is telling you to hurry. Remember a clean CDL gets you a job anywhere even if you get fired vs getting in accidents or tickets. Don't know much about the company but haven't heard any negatives. Welcome to LTL.

 

Avoid blind parking at all costs, only when there is absolutely no other way, if they got you out the Condo then is much better.
Make sure you are going into the right Company, park outside and walk to the gate and ask, some places don't let you make a u-turn on their property and backing it up sometimes is a b....
Be polite and courteous to other drivers, to shippers and receivers, you are the face of your Company, and most of all, DO NOT whine, nobody cares if you are having a bad day, maybe I Am having a great one and you just ruined it.