Local driving P&d / LTL

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  1. Jul 2, 2010 #1
    RJ33RD

    RJ33RD Heavy Load Member

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    I know everybody is not a otr driver so this is for the local driver any questions or comments are welcomed . Remember there is no such thing as a dumb question if you need to know ask away !
     
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  3. Jul 2, 2010 #2
    Kittyfoot

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    Ok.... how do male earthworms know when that other earthworm is a hot female?

    Sorry, couldn't resist..... carry on!!!:biggrin_2559:
     
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  4. Jul 2, 2010 #3
    Lilbit

    Lilbit Road Train Member

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    You are a twisted individual! You fit right in.

    Temporary hijack over, now returning to your regularly scheduled programming.

    I don't really have any questions for the local side of things, but some of the places I have seen some of these guys get into just make me wonder how the heck that was done!
     
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  5. Jul 3, 2010 #4
    RJ33RD

    RJ33RD Heavy Load Member

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    Well if the earthworm female is sliding around in fresh soil then the male worm will see this and recognize that she is a high quality earthworm , and by doing this he would wanna rock her earthworm world !!!! Lol. ( I told u there is no dumb questions on here). One ha ha ha ha two ha ha ha ha ha three ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!! Oh and I see some road drivers get in some tight areas and wonder the same thing and then say to myself go ahead driver!!!!! Lol
     
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  7. Jul 3, 2010 #5
    RJ33RD

    RJ33RD Heavy Load Member

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    I know of a lot of times I had to back in places off the street !! Stop traffic with no help , back into a building which I personally hate especially when the sun is beaming right in your eyes and u can't see what exactly is on either side of your trailer because it look like its pitch black in the building . P&D work can get alot stressfull out there in the world of earthworms ! Uh uih I mean TRUCKING!!!
     
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  8. Jul 7, 2010 #6
    dieseldon

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    Good question about the worms.
    Good answer to.
    LOL

    Don
     
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  9. Jul 7, 2010 #7
    Crash935

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    I didnt think having to back in off streets, into buildings, bumping 20-30 docks a day was any more stressful than being over the road (had to back into some of the same type of docks with a 53' and OTR tractor). The worst part of LTL for me was not always driving the same truck every day, a dispatcher that cant plan a route for deliveries or pickups (nothing like picking up at one customer while the other driver that worked that city is picking up across the street), having to know where all the customers were for the western half of Michigan from the state line to Traverse City and having a late start time.
     
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  10. Jul 7, 2010 #8
    RJ33RD

    RJ33RD Heavy Load Member

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    I agree on that it is a btch when u are not routed right and I have seen road drivers get into some tight situations that is hard with a daycab and a 48' trailer . But one of my friends who was a road driver said that u guys have it hard as far as going out the way to fuel at a southern state because the fuel is cheaper but having to go to a northern state for a pick up or delivery. My hats off to the otr drivers !!! Something I can't do.
     
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  11. Jul 7, 2010 #9
    Logan76

    Logan76 Crusty In Training

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    huh, I hated when I would have to take up a lane on a road to make a delivery, depending on if I was using the boom truck or the truck with a moffit. people would fly by me as I was unloading, they didnt care that I had put out traffic cones or had on flashing yellow lights. just morons.
     
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  12. Jul 8, 2010 #10
    Freebird135

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    worst part of LTL for me is driving a different piece of junk tractor every day
     
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