Are doubles/triples a pain in the butt to drive?

you never knowwhats coming up in your career.....I read your post wrong...

 

Get the endorsements, can't get a job that requires them without, experience is another issue. As already mentioned you have to be very careful in Ice & Snow + it takes lots of practice to back them up but just have do it, there is no course.
I ran this 11 axle combo for 3yrs and can back around most places, never went to the ditch, got stuck in 2ft snow drift across dirt road in a blizzard 1 time, gunned drift at 50mph, nearly made it.

 

I agree get the endorsments, I used to pull gravel trains in michigan before the economy went to ####. Get all you can get and take any chance you get to drive. Practice makes perfect

 

Doubles are easier to drive than a 53' trailer in my opinion

 

I would only pull triples if they payed triple!!!!

 

Driver,

Always good to have more qualifications than fewer.

Pulling doubles isn't hard. The only issue with doubles is the extra work hooking but a little practice and it's not bad.

Good luck.

 

Agreed 150%! I pulled 53's, 48's, van and flatbed not mention straight tanker, and tractor dump and the easiest work i ever did as far as driving were doubles. The driving is easy but the best part about doubles is only going hub to hub( no going to a DuPont plant one day and a Piggly Wiggly distribution center the next) and sometimes dedicated hub to hub or but heads/drop and hook. Building the set is like anything, you will learn it and once you do it will become second nature. If i had some recent xp i would go back to it.

 

If they are so easy to pull why does everybody call them wiggle wagons? And why do you guys crowd the zipper when I am passing?

 

Because everybody hasn't drove them. We can only control the tractor not the pups, they do what they want.