What try pulling 3-4" hose out of their locker and sometimes 2 to 3 different grades. Then get back unhook that trailer and grab another,,,, oh and you better pop hatches to see you got all the load off.
Drive in the snow you maybe fieght a frozen fire valve, or tank manhole 100 people drove over and packed ice on it.
100% No-touch freight
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#### skippy, ######## are stiffer then a dog dick in winter, and the OPW API fitting get #####y in cold as well.
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Hoses arent freight.
Maybe TO you it's not. It sure is a problem with tanking sometimes. Maybe you should give that flooded cement hose a try and see how you like wrestling that... with the plant batch man yelling at you to fill his silo right #### now. -
As a parting shot, I offer pallets arent freight. Just try flipping a 100 pounder and moving it. Ideally several times as you get em all stacked in the nose. After lumping off them.
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OP: "100% no-touch freight" means you won't ever have to use a pallet jack (Which you COULD, even with RA, which I have.)
But you're gonna have to pull a 5th-wheel release a LOT, and even on dry-van or reefer, close cranky doors, which can, at time, be a challenge.
With RA, FORGET tanker or flatbed. It will kill you. a 5th-wheel puller will make 5th wheel bearable. The rest, you should be fine with. If not, you'll deal with it, but you'll be making money in the meantime.
The main thing in OTR trucking is stamina to drive 10-11 hours a day, hopefully utilizing only 1/2 hour for your mandatory break and maybe 10 minutes to take a dump in the AM after a couple of hours.
14 hours every day will kick about anyone's but. Your entire day should be no more than 12 unless you just got unlucky that day. But sometimes your "day" will be more like 16-20 hours. Welcome to trucking. -
Only 20 hours? Sometimes 30. Or alot more.
Tanker is the best bet for no touch.. but if anything goes wrong with balance up top and so on it's too tricky. I had a incident in which a silo was being used as a transfer from rail car to truck as a surge bin, here I am walking through. POOF a few hundred pounds of cement came down. That stuff gets into your lungs and literally cements it. It showed up on MRI well over 30 years after it happened there.
Reefer work... you are going to end up touching unless you are dedicated somewhere and everyone here talked about that 5th wheel, landing gear and tandems etc. That 5th wheel will hurt most if it is a POS loose that wont release until you pretty much try to dislocate your shoulder on the #####. And you learn to pop it back in and still 600 miles today.fbc91 Thanks this. -
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Where is your location; Danny Herman Trucking doesn't run northeast.
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That's great news, Chinatown. For me though this would be still in early stages since i live in south america. I just recently began sounding out every legal aspect i could get on working abroad. I'll check that company's website either way and for now I'll just keep looking. Thanks again.
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