Pulling Doubles for the first time. Advice?

Yeah, simple dry vans. Luckily my road test is just going to be in a standard cab-over with a 53' dry van. Supposedly going to learn all about the job from the guy I ride with for a short while. That's my best way of learning anyways.

 

Don't pull doubles. It's unsafe and you'll die.

 

Many a day driver who has a good cord and wants to have good equipment to work with will leave a thrashed cord so they get the dolly back the next day.

 

Pulled both pups and turnpikes , as allready said double and triple check all your connections , not many people can back a set , if you want to try I recommend doing it on your break or coming in early so you are not rushed, it only took about 2" of snow on a tractor without a Pindle to learn how to back your dolley under the kit, it's not hard but pay attention, try doing that before you try backing the whole set.

allways carry a extra light cord in your cab as well

 

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm thinking about a new job pulling doubles

 

To piggyback on what MACK said... Most carriers will pay for overweight tickets IF the origin yard does NOT have a scale. If you have access to a scale at a barn, scale each axle. Make sure your set is in sync and legally scaled. It is worth the 2 minutes of your time.

 

Don't pull in a one way dead end at a truck stop. Seen one double driver do that. He was trying to back up for my whole 30 minute break.

 

I tried to pull into the exit gate once at a new terminal. Since the sensor was on the inside the gate didn't open. I had to break my set just to get it inside. Lucky for me I had enough room to keep it off the road.

 

A couple weeks ago I made a mistake in the yard and ended up driving a set of doubles around in a circle for a 1/2 hour before I had to break them down ha-ha ha-ha, oh at least I can laugh at my self.