I'm 35 but LTL is kicking my A.

i'm 53 and have anywhere from 10 to 14 deliveries a day, pallet jack and liftgate all the time. about ready to give up and do something else, i won't get to top pay till june 2017. rats.......

 

Back in the day up here Roadway with there little Ford City tractors had the hand trucks attached to the front bumper of the tractor same as the beverage companies.

 

You can have my job, I get out 250 to 300 times a day dumping carts that feel like they stuffed a dead body in and 70 gallon bags that feel that way too, if I am going to kill myself I'd rather to it making better money that's why I'm looking here.

 

Always need hand cart to painfully pull 2-300 lb rolls of carpet to tail. No matter how many times I tell dock workers "I need rolls on tail, they don't have a dock" rolls end up in nose. Oh well, P&D baby!! it can be physically demanding but route I'm on now is like 80% docks and practically no residentials! Oh-Ya

 

Hell yes. I stopped back in 1997 I started to refuse LTL loads and lumping loads. When I got fired I hunted companies that did not run LTL. Lo and behold FFE did discovered that after the fact. *Grumble took the pain like a big boy. Used it to feed off anger and resentment so I can put away the 600 miles to the next morning's stop or pickup without getting tired and sleepy. So pain was good.

We stopped for medical reasons in 2001 after 9-11, years later I was informed that my T1 through T12 is gone 25 years early onset bone loss. Humans are not supposed to have that until 70+ years old.

I spent my 20's in and around hunts point and similar places lumping 40,000 pounds once or twice a day or night every day of the week. I was big and strong then. No problem. It was the mid 30's where the meat loads on slipsheet started to hurt a little but I laugh it off see?

Into the 40's it really hurt. Like a stubborn dumbkoft I kept lumping.... enough is enough.

 

I used to think the dock crew lay awake at night, thinking up new ways to screw drivers!

 

I did a lot of physically demanding jobs in the past. Started off delivering flooring, P&D, hand unloaded every square inch of a 53 to retail stores, food service.....all jobs that I didn't mind doing in my 20's and early 30's, but can't imagine doing that stuff again NOW. If you can move up to linehaul to save your body....DO IT. But you have to get use to nightwork though.

I'm glad I got a cushy government job now at USPS. We got senior drivers that are over 70 years old, and they just won't leave. They litterly have to drop dead of old age....which by the way, has happened in the past before. They recently got rid of that PSE bull crap and are now starting everyone at career status now. So if linehaul winds up not being your cup of tea....maybe give USPS a shot.

 

There is a oldster who just wont stop. Life had him dried to a 80 pound beef jerky type person. But that sob was so tough I watched him move things we younger ones avoided. It's unbelieveable if I did not see it with my own eyes.

Some of the older people are like that sometimes. Lucky? I guess.