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It would definitely be good experience for you. As a yard jockey, you will be backing trailers all day long. They dont back the exact same as a regular UPS tractor will, because of the shorter wheelbase, but adjusting from a jockey truck to a tractor isnt that hard. But as a new driver, it would be great practice for you to get the basic mechanics of backing a trailer down.

 

Its perfectly legal to drive a jockey truck on private property without a CDL. UPS Freight allows it. We have jockeys who have been there 20+ years and have never held a CDL. Im not sure about the parcel side though. It seems like atleast half of their "jockeys" are actually drivers. I saw a bunch of them wearing uniforms, and I think it is drivers who do a run, come back to the hub and are told to go help out in the yard. (I personally heard supervisors telling drivers to go out in the yard).

 

Not corny at all. I also love the sound of a diesel engine. I think alot of drivers do.

 

i do

 

Don't need CDL to shift, but if you are good at it, you have everything you need to be a UPS trucker as long as you learn to drive on the road... I can almost gurantee that any experienced UPS shifter will impress a CDL examiner with their backing and tight manuvers so getting that CDL will be a cake walk for you.

 

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