Pulling Doubles In the City

Hey LTL guys, I have a question,

How often do you Pick Up and Delivery Guys go out into the city with doubles? Meaning like maybe the trailer behind the tractor is loaded with stops to do and then the tag trailer (GFS talk for second trailer in the set) is full or empty which ever and you go to a factory or major warehouse and break the set apart park the converter dolly and then park the trailer to and go on you're way and do you're thing and swing by said customer at the end of the day and pick up the loaded or unloaded trailer.

The reason I asked is because the company I work for we run a very large interstate doubles operation for a broad line food service company we probably have the biggest presence of doubles out on the road. Any how I got to my last stop today and one of the people at my stop asked me if we pulled doubles, because he could see all of our 28' have pintel hooks on them. I said "Yes they run doubles at night to the warehouse. It's not a bad job to have, it's not my current bid, but eventually I would do it if the opportunity came up."

I said as far as us running doubles in the city I'm not saying it's never not happened, but I have never known of it to happen. Once in a while we do drop full trailers of food off at customers, but usually when that happens the trailer gets dropped at our yard and then taken as a single to where it has to go, I've never known of GFS to have someone pull a set out to a customer break down park the converter in the customers parking lot and then go run a route. I think usually because our customer base is a little different then a big factory that ships out stuff by truck and train every day us pulling doubles in the city is not totally practical. However I think it's different for you freight guys right?

 

I'm not the worlds greatest backer (there I said it) I mean I can do what I need to do and make it work, but backing a set of doubles into a loading dock I defiantly couldn't do that ha-ha!