Question for LTL City Guys?

I have a tight area and only drive maybe 90 miles a day. Keep in mind i have been on this route for 17 years and can get away with alot at my customers. I can easily do 27 stops in 8 hours or less. Someone filling in for me when i'm off can do it in 10 hours which i have never or will never work.

 

When i finish my route after 8 hours they will all but say, get back out and do more work lazy

 

Gip, they don't even ask me to go back out. They know better. I volunteered once in my life and that cost me another 4 years on Active duty. I learned my lesson well

 

20-25 stops per day seems about right if you include both pick up and delivery. My carrier requires us to average 2.75 stops/hour. There are way too many factors that dictate an actual work day (truck broke down, customer forklift wont start, liftgate dead, roads are blocked due to an accident, you got three other ltl trucks infront of you, you are stuck with the world's slowest forklift driver). Expect no two days to be the same.

 

Yeah I gathered that, but what is dock work. The company I work for we just drive. What's involved in "dock work"?

 

Depends on where you work, anything from loaded/unloading trailers, or putting doubles together for line haul, sweeping floors.....

 

Using a forklift to unload the freight that you and your co-workers picked up during their day. Then loading that freight onto various out bound trailers for the night drivers to transfer.

At my company, Dock Work involves just as much moving freight around as it involves chasing each other around with forklifts; unplugging co-workers lifts when they aren't paying attention; huddling in a corner and #### talking management

 

Sounds about right

 

It's not all just driving fork lifts either. There is a lot of heavy work on an LTL dock. There are some things that just don't lend themselves to being moved by fork lift, for one reason or another. Not everything can be palatalized.

And then you have the real fun situations, such as a 55 gallon drum of (you pick it,) that slipped off a pallet and ruptured. WHAT IS THAT STUFF? Is that a hazmat sticker on it???????

 

That's supposed to be in the barn knowledge, Not for outsiders lol
Working the dock IS doomsday, Have too perpetuate that myth dang it !!!!

I heart the dock and it's no secret now thanks to my IRL brother