I started out straight as a line driver. I still do occasional dock work when freight has to be added on to a trailer, or taken off. They pay us by the hour to do that. Less than 3% of my work time will be dock work.
Co's where drivers don't work the dock
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Thelastofmykind, Nov 11, 2012.
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Good stuff to know...thanks all! I'm almost 52, and hoping to be in my final 24 months as an OTR driver. Still want to drive, but hoping my home situation will settle down by then. But I have zero desire to do dock work, aside from the incidentals required for the job.
Of course, I'm also hoping to win the lottery! -
Big Don Thanks this.
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NEMF drivers dont work the dock, atleast in the terminal here
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NEMF in my area don't work the dock. when they get in they drop Trl and go home.
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I Drive for Central Transport and I spend atleast an hour on the dock after working 10 hrs on the road
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I got my foot crushed one time with one of these. I was on a slope, (that is just the way it was, the stupid outfit leased a place that had a sloping lot. . .) and got a 2500 lb gaylord rolling on a downhill slope. The pallet jack was defective and would not drop the load. It was pushing me out the door, and would have come down on top of me. I did the only thing I could think of to do in that split second and steered it into the trailer wall. Didn't get my foot out of the way in time. . .
Or you have your big slabs of marble counter tops. Usually on "A" frames, but it still takes a bit of "hands on" to off load this stuff.
LTL is determinately NOT "light duty" work. OTOH, I really enjoyed the variety that I got into with it.
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At new century we are not allowed on the dock at the yard. They have a set crew of dock workers, drivers, even yard jockeys. Now doing p&d I have pallet jacked some freight at customers.
This is why us drivers don't go on the dock. I wrote this up and I'm sure someone is gonna get chewed out at the least for putting the fork thru the wall of the trailer. -
Come to think about it, most of the USF Holland drivers i know in this area dont work the dock either.
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