Ask a Yard Dog

I'm curious to know what kinda experience is required to get a job like that? I'm dedicating the next 5 years or so to driving a truck and if my gf and I are still together at that point, AND she doesn't want to move from where she lives, I want to try getting on with the Amazon DC near the town she lives in.

 

Where have you been? been some time since I have seen you around on here.

 

I quit driving, got a foreman's job at a warehouse, tore my rotator cuff, went out on Worker's Comp., decided that if I wanted to quit working with my body and use my brain to make money that I needed a college edge-a-ma-cation, started working an my Associate's degree in Polysomnography (think sleep apnea).

So far, after 1.5 semesters, I have a perfect 4.0 GPA!

Who would have thought? Me, in college???

 

Sounds like you're doing real good.Sure beats the heack out of a going no where job doesn't it?

 

Very cool, congratulations on your new career. Good to see you floating around the forum.

 

I've always heard them called goats. And the drivers...hostlers, spotters, shag drivers and a whole list of other things that are not mentionable here. J/k

 

Do you mind being called yard jockeys?

 

Attitude, is usually brought on by stupidity. I would have drivers come in and Park there truck right in front of everyone, so they can not get out. I told them where to park, and either they listen or we play the attitude game, which I will always win at. When ever you find a trailer butted up against another trailer, back under hook up all your lines, and pull it out, drag it out. Usually when I would drop one, butted up against another trailer, I would lower the landing gear a bit, so when you hooked,it would be an easy pull out or a light drag on the landing gear, then get out after the landing gears cleared and you can crank it up. But the best way is BE NICE, and KINDLY ask the spotter" Do you have a second to pull a trailer up for me?".