Sleeper to Day Cab

I am spotting at a Pepsi warehouse, Pepsi owns Gatorade, the Gatorade bottling plant is less than 2 miles away, we are main warehouse for plant, its peak right now, we have 3 spotters running 2 12 hour shifts 5 to 5 m-f and 2 per shift on weekends, now in winter i might only move 30-40 and have had nights where i moved 9 trailers in 12 hours and let me tell you, i'd rather be hammered than bored out of my mind with nothing to do but sit for 12 hours

 

I'm worried it will be a hard transition for me to go from backing up day cabs back to sleepers. I've been driving day cabs lately but I'm about to go OTR again in August. Luckily I'll be going out with a trainer for 2 weeks as a refresher so hopefully I'll learn how again. Day cabs are really easy. You never have to worry about cutting it too sharp and crunching your side fairings.

 

The Jockey job I had was three docks of the factory production building which load as they go. When complete that trailer picked up to the Shipping building for packing and shipping via outside trucks. That gets docked there. That second building had I think 20 docks. And gravel for 30 more.

Pick up a empty and go drop it at the factory building and find a second trailer loaded and ready to go. 25 trailers all together 24/7 Buildings were about half a mile apart. So it's a CDL job on public right of way (Road)

It was a very happy place. That is one of the things that helped everyone there. No stress.

 

No, meal times consisted of about 100 people working a grill outside weather permitting, sometimes a row of pizza delivery and so on. No yelling, just laughter, story telling and music. For an hour anyhow. Then it's back to work until the afternoon break of 30 minutes halfway to quitting.

The food was wonderful. I literally did not concern myself about what to bring for lunch. I ended up with boxes of food in the passenger seat gratis to work on while jockeying. Ive always depended on food to keep up the body when working and that was one of the reasons I mourn it's closure and rotting situation. It's a ghostly shell of what it was once, full of life. I think the production went overseas or something. I don't presume to know what happened.