No Touch vs Driver Work

Discussion in 'Refrigerated Trucking Forum' started by AsphaltFarmer, Aug 19, 2023.

  1. NewbiusErectus

    NewbiusErectus Medium Load Member

    586
    613
    Jun 27, 2012
    0
    Hand jack isn’t bad, if life is perfect. Cotton candy clouds & blue skies, unicorns flying around & farting pixie dust, clean trailer floor, perfect pallets with unbroken wood and tight wrapping.

    but you know how that goes.

    The first time you get a pallet that’s wrapped as if the wrap is tinsel strung around a Christmas tree, the pallet wood is all busted up, wood chunks all over the floor, pallet contents leaning and just waiting for you to come to a dead stop because you ran over a said chunk of wood on the floor.. you will hate life.

    electric jack fixes a lot of that. If you got a bad leaner, you can lift half the pallet and push the top contents to get it straight. You can often ram the jack under crushed/broken pallet wood. You can pull heavy pallets uphill, you can control them going downhill, with a lot less hassle. If you can only get the jack part of the way under a pallet because the pallet wood is crushed, you can likely still drag it off the trailer.
     
  2. Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.