Making your day efficient

Another trick is to get to your destination the night before, assuming you can park there or nearby. You have to get there 8 or so early so you get a fresh reset. Then you idle to the dock and load up. Even if it takes a few hours it doesn't matter. You leave and your clock starts. Saves a lot of time, and you have 11 to drive.

 

Set the cruise... And keep that left door shut.

 

have a nice load in to Richmond can park in the dock they take 4 hours to unload so get paid detention of $200 get there around 1 or 2 am from my house a 10 hr drive and take my 10 while getting detention and still get out of there by noon plenty of time to get reloaded somewhere with a full clock

 

Truckers who've been out here a long time have the most efficiency. You will see them doing their 30 minute breaks in the fuel islands, racing through work zones and truck stops to save time as well.

 

yes, back in the day, when truck stops had a room of video games and such, they would be loaded with drivers, and maybe thier kid(s) that went on the road with them..'


so many times, i'd hear a driver saying he was running late, did anyone one a "quicker way" to get to where he was going...so many times, i'd hear back,,,"yeah, stop playing videos, you dumb....explicative"

 

i actually take my 30 at my last stop, and this kills me..i only do (on average 8.5 to 9 hours) nightly.

my company has us getting fuel on site, back at our warehouse, i rarely make it back in 6 hours, unless the weather is really bad, like a winter snowstorm, and i cannot get to my last stop....even then, i can easily blow thru hours trying to get back....

 

Agreed, when I drop a trailer and also have to wait on it? Im gone to the truckstop or some other lawful parking far from the property if at all possible.

The world is very hard on truckers who are in need of a little rest. And frankly it's not welcome or nice when yard jockey leans on the horn. If i was a jockey I would be tapping quietly until you are up.

Fuel = life always. Fill at half tanks assuming 300 plus gallons. ATS gave me a tractor with just a 140 or so with less than that useable and it turned into a nightmare running empty, as in actual drain the tank empty with van a number of times. Since that employer was disposed of, I swore I will never run a one tank truck again. Unless it's a 1000 gallon tank or something.

 

In Safeway food distribution at Atlanta south of I-20 on the west side the gaurds let me in with their load prior to midnight. It would have been a full day getting there (And then some with logs) from little rock. Because I am already on the property about 50 yards from the famous Apple Lady's office the mornings are pretty smooth provided you are standing at her counter 7 am whars dem apples? (Yakima WA apples. probably red delicious etc.)

 

What made even madder than hell was this: the office lady gave everyone a post it, with your trailer # and door number.

You would stick that on your driver window, so the yard jokey can verify, before he knocks on the wrong truck, to wake you up.

The lazy fat ess did not even get out of the yard truck. Just blared the crap out of the horn ... Smdh

 

Nothing from nothing but that advice flies in the face of what you claim is the problem with detention.

Giving away that time "even if it takes a few hours" is the plague keeping drivers stuck in the 50k a year range of pay. Make every hour count you are working, and make them pay you.