A day in the Life of a Daycab Driver

I like that . . . inactive! That works. Yes, it does get in your blood, and you can NOT get rid of it. I still drool over a purdy truck, and there are plenty of days when I miss it big time.

My body is just too beat up to handle it anymore. Drawbacks of being small and stubborn.

 

I will see your 35 and raise you ZERO!!!!!! The front half of my trailer is set at ZERO! Top that in the winter! LOL! And I could have up to the same amout of stops.

 

well then... excuse me . i'm by myself all day, and i drive a straight truck. when that reefer tuns on, im no more then 10 feet from it and it blows right on me! i also just noticed your picture, i see you're a traveling man

 

Yes I am. And big hello my felliow travler.

I am alone all day also. I WILL NOT RUN AS A TEAM IN THIS TYPE OF WORK!!!!(tried that for six months, NEVER AGAIN!) I know how you feel with the reefer on sll day. Feels nice in the same and SUCKS in the winter and the rain. I move ALOT faster in the winter months then I do in the summer.

 

I'm a "daytripper" I drive a day cab,and have done so for the past 9 years.You have good days & bad days.I do the best I can to get the job done legally,which sometimes isn't easy to do when you have a 100mph dispatcher and you drive a 60mph truck (actually governed # 72mph)...I spend a lot of time in a "hurry up and wait" situation,and have to deal with companies that don't care if you're running low on hours,but it comes with the job...in time you just learn to deal with it,if it's not working for you move on to something else.

 

always a pleasure to meet a brother. amen to that, i honestly cant stand working with someone on my truck, unless they can simply shut up and do what i tell them to. sorry but when i'm driving, i'm in charge period. nothing slows a day down more then two genius's trying to get a job done lol. and if someone else is driving, i dont say a word i just say "what do you need me to do". i have my route/job down in such a repetitive manner i can pull loads out fast now. even the 25 year vet stood back as he watched me the other day and said "wow i'm really impressed how fast you got you're definitely working the truck efficient."

i dont know what kind of reefer you're running but mine has a setting called "auto start/stop" and what it will do is keep the temp within 5 degrees or so of your set point, with that being on in these colder months my reefer really doesnt turn on until i've had the doors open for about 10 minutes you can give that a try if its a possibility i'm not sure how critical your load is to keep a set temp but with milk it's not very strict. twice last summer my reefer cut out and the back of that truck was pushin 70 degrees. all the customers were going "How come our milks wet" "oh uh, condensation?" hey my supervisor told me to say it! i dont know if you've ever been in the back of a reefer truck at 70 degree's but its like a sauna, i was dripping sweat after being in there for 5 minutes.

 

usually you have a driver and a lumper. the driver does the driving and leads the lumper on what to do.