2 years yard driver = how many years road driver experience?

OK, now it seems to me, that if you are an HR person, and you have one opening to fill, that you just might look a bit brighter on someone with 20 years experience in a goat, over one with no experience in anything bigger than mommy's mini van, or daddy's pickup truck. But of course I could be way wrong on that...

I wasn't talking about any of it counting as formal OTR experience. What I was talking about, and what some people apparently did not understand, was the personal benefit of being able to grab a trailer and put it where you want it. It's nothing that can be called "formal training," but if a person is not able to recognize the benefit of it....

 

It is a huge help. Trust me Ive been spotting year and a half.

 

If you would re read that comment you will see where I said I would not hire unless I could train. There is just more to trucking then just spotting trailers. This has to be taught and it takes a lifetime to master. My comment was not a diss of spotters, just an acknowledgment of their skills and lack of.

 

Ive done spot work. What is in Jacksonville, there is a factory building with a dock of three trailers in it. A half mile down a road is a shipping building with about 14 trailers in that dock. Approx 25 trailers are in play. One trailer, next trailer next trailer. Load up empty back repeat all day all night. Get paid.

I enjoyed it they had a ford 9000 late model with good air. Those things can turn like a witch and always have. Plus I still slid the the trailers in on one move.