A day in the Life of a Daycab Driver

dkryan, I really understand your frustration here. But it is a fact of life of driving. One thing I don't see, is anything about you having to load/unload your trailer yourself.

Try working local LTL with multiple stops. Where YOU load and unload. Usually into a parking lot, because there are no docks. Most of the time off the regular trailer deck, because there are not enough lift gates to go around. Then having to take the freight into the consignee. In temps over 110 in the summer, and then fighting cold and snow in the winter.

How about those deliveries to construction sights, mine sights, farms and ranches where you run through mud up to your anise when it is raining?

As one of our members signature line says, "Trucking ain't for Sissy's!"

 

Hey kdryan, you are right any moron can get on a interstate and drive forward but it takes real truck drivers to do city pick ups and deliveries with daycabs and sleeper cabs

 

Daycab also for me, no idea why anyone would choose to sleep in a truck. Isn't that what I have a house for?

Nothing like working all week (or more) to pay for a house/car I never get to use.

 

gotta love the companies that send you from dock to dock, no signs or anything to tell us where to go, that would make it too easy

im also a local driver and it can get pretty frustrating when you have 15 stops left and your dicking around at one customer trying to find the right idiot to unload you

 

That's why I bring my own forklift.

 

i love it when you get there and they say sorry, our receiving guy is on lunch he will be back in 30 minutes

im like all you gave to do is watch me pull the skid off the trailer and sign the BOL...i dont say that out loud though

i usually tell them ok, well this is my last stop in this town, im going to (some other town far away), youll get it sometime next week

that usually lights a fire under there ###

 

The longer you do it the easier it will become,....

 

In those situations I just pull it off the truck and ask them to sign,.....

But I deal with a lot of the same people everyday and they know me know,...