Spotters (yard tractors)

Not the way yard guys do it... and let's not forget the trailer damage they do when the get in a hurry.

 

So if I get the gist of all the complaints about yard jockeys in this thread correctly, you guys have no use or respect for the jobs we do!
Question, have any of you critics done the job?
Probably not.
I was an owner-op for 25 years before leaving the streets of the NE US to take a position jockeying trailers right near the house. I've been on both sides of this deal. If you "drivers" think it's easy dealing with hittin 100+ pins in a shift, a shipper that wants their trailers moved now with no excuses, and nitwit steering wheel holders that think your yard is a free-for-all parking lot, Fine!
I'm still not touching the f**king landing gear!
I guess yard jockeys should be eliminated and you heroes can live load every load.😤
BTW, you really think all that trailer damage is from the jockeys? No way a driver would drop a damaged trailer and slink away!
You girls crack me up!😂

JD😯

 

Im sure someone else has already posted this but here it is again, I work on a loading dock load 9 to 11 trailers a night. We have to put a jack stand under the front of the trailer sometimes we have to raise the trailer nose to fit it under the trailer to fit. Try driving a forklift in a trailer that is cranked all way upward? after the trailer has been washed out at 15F outside= ice no fun, have to lower to level out. axles moved to the back and leveled out the trailer makes loading the trailer a lot easier is another reason why some are lowered or raised according to the dock height and truck tandem height. all of out outbound loads are on chep pallets stacked to the refer height so if the trailer is raised to height in the nose, does not make a fun time loading because your picking up boxes because the dock door is to low. just my experience with a loading dock from the other side of life.
stay safe and keep the shinny side up.

 

I drop trailers in a dirt lot and it's perfectly level. Not. We also put them so close together because that's what we are told to do. I don't touch the dollys at all. Whatever height the otr driver left it is where it's at. I can't help the lot is uneven. I do try to make sure it's not in a big hole but that's about the best I can do with what I'm given. I know they are some that are hard to get out but I can't help it. The lot only holds so many and it's got to go there. But I will say this I would be willing to pull one out if a driver asked me to. I had a guy just the other day doing a drop and hook and asked if I would back in the one he dropped and I said sure.

 

I was a yard spotter for a year and never once messed with the landing gear but had multiple drivers accuse me of doing so.

 

Never complained about too high or low, I just think the too close thing is below the belt, and doesn't make sense for them to have to come back and move it, after we spend ten or so minutes almost getting run over to get their attention, should be parked with enough room for us to turn the handle.

 

I bet there isn't really a united states flag on Mars either!

 

It was 1982 and Jimmy Hendricks and the Flying Tartanian twins lived there too.

 

Former yard dog here

I drove to thousands of warehouses and dcs just to lower landing gear 10-15 inches and park trailers closer together. Mwahahhaha

 

Ishunted for a couple years and usually to busy to get out and mess with the drivers that way . sometimes they were dropped low buy the driver or where they were dropped there was a little bit of a dip in the ground. We were always fighting to find spots and were told by management to park em tight. Most of the guys I worked with were lazy and wouldn't get out to crank the landing gear up or down to mess with anyone. Except if it had Québec plates then it was game on.