I'll tell you about un-loading trailers and I've un-loaded a few in my time. A lot depends on the receiving facility. Some will actually accomidate you and some will not. You may have to find your own pallets and get them to the trailer door, by using a pallet jack. In the "old days" you could use an electric pallet jack, now it's a simple push/pull type, sually with bent wheels. If they accept your pallets, they want perfect pallets, so a pallet with broken wood needs to be restacked. Then the checker will get to you when he's ready, not before. If it's a union shop, have fun ! Oh, I almost forgot, all cases need to be turned so the labels can be read from the outside.
Load/unload trucks?
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I look at it this way, I didn't go to trucking school to load or unload trucks.
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Combination
Driver
Lumper
What else could cdl stand for ?
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firstly, the house gets 50% off the top
the company gets 25%
and workers split the remaining 25%
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If you want to load and unload trucks, come to the dark side of trucking. Us bed Buggers (movers) always load and unload. Excellent workout, and provides a Challenge. Nothing beats where i'm going to be Monday. 20th floor apt in downtown Chicago now that's a workout. But then again you can always hire a few lumpers. The moving industry will also challenge your driving skills, constantly putting trucks in places trucks shouldn't be.
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When I took my CDL training many years ago, I was never taught anything about pallet jacks, loading or unloading, securing a load or being a Lumper... I was taught to drive a reticulated vehicle.
Now... what was that question?
'Bigfoot'
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