Hooking doubles with dolly attached to lead
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by 2BucTruck, Dec 20, 2017.
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Usual corporate safety Nazis though. Company policy over driver skill level first.LtlAnonymous Thanks this. -
I've found that I'm more successful (i.e. only having to do 1 or no pull-ups), when I come at the tail at a slight angle, favoring the driver side. It's not that I can't straight-line back; it's just hard for me to judge when to swing it so that I'm directly in front of the tail when I set up for the backing. I used to set up the same way when I'd back the lead to a jiff that was already spotted, so it's probably a continuation of that familiarity.
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I'm pretty #### decent at it. I had a situation recently where I had to drop my rear trailer so the spotter could throw it in a door for the dock, then he'd pull it around to the other side of the building. There'd be just enough room to slip between the building and the trailer, then I'd have to get under the trailer with the building on one side and the terminal workers' cars on the other. No pressure!
In my head, I always said if I could do it in 5 minutes or less, I was saving time. Got it in 2-3 minutes every night. A lot of pull-ups were necessary due to the setup and having to work the trailer and dolly onto my driver's side, but it was quick once that was accomplished.Banker and LPjunior1970 Thank this. -
Good thing to learn when going to rail yards or possibly a larger terminal if you have to build your set
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I do it every night. My son is a yard jockey at my terminal and he started practicing it at 19yrs old after watching me do it. He's 21yrs old now and can do it better than 90% of our drivers.
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I practice every morning by backing my dolly into my parking spot, so I’m not in anyone’s way. My problem is that I can never seem to get setup to where it’s a straight back. I always seem to end up at an angle, then I get it as close as I can before I have to jackknife it to get it pointing the right way, then get out and walk it back by hand.
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