ever drive for a spotting service?

spotting service? dont you mean spy service?

 

my bad, thought you meant those guys that follow important freight. it never leaves their view,ever. those guys are really creepy. they act like those guards at buckingham palace. they wont talk to you or anyone else except their co-driver. usually in minivans. you never know their there till someone asks you why that minivan is following every move you make. also they have camera's mounted on dash like supertroopers. to answer your question no ive never run a yarddog for anyone except the co. i was working for.

 

I dont know about scum. Usually they are home every night, steady and consistant hours. Plus..........its a job. Probably pretty boring and monotonous after awhile.

 

i drove a goat for a year. it was actually a pretty cool job. real short wheel base on the tractor makes spotting trailers real easy. most of the guys i worked with were really good drivers. and.....i remember turning in move tally sheets of 200 or more moves a day on a 12 hour shift.

 

dude.....go for that job!!! i did a LOT of trailer hostling before i got my CDL. it didn't make a truck driver out of me, but it did give me a leg up in that i was familiar and comfortable with different types of equipment and how the equipment acts when you move it around.

good luck on your interview!

 

My company runs the yard for a large auto maker in The South. The drivers of the switcher trucks, yard jockeys, hostlers, etc. work much, much harder than other drivers if they are busy. With the recent slowdown in trucking and the auto business we have had some of our daycab drivers work as yard truck drivers and they really don't like the work. The ride in trucks with virtually no suspension, climb in and out of the truck 100 times per night and they get paid a dollar per hour less than in their previous position.

The details of the job, how busy and how much you are paid will vary wildly between companies.