Question about western express

Then only thing that'd get me in trouble delivery NYC is backing in those tight freaking docks, I don't think my backing skills is good enough for NYC LOL!!

 

CT, a lot of their trainers want to "force team" the training truck most times.

Stupid & dangerous, but they do it anyway.

 

Where in the world did you get that notion? I know numerous drivers making over 100k in oil field. Also, if you're smarter than the average driver and have a strong back you could make even more and move up in companies I know one dude making 250k to be fair he really wasn't a driver as many of us would say he drove some the equipment, crane, and such but rarely then he moved up. My brother makes a little over 300k as an operations manager to be fair he lost his CDL due to drinking, then became a surveyor that worked with oil field, quit the surveying, and was made operations manager. The average company driver makes less than 70k. Anyone who makes above that your doing well, making 100k in trucking isn't the average a trucker makes. There are companies that pay that but many that had to earn to get those companies.

 

It's unnerving at first. When you back into tight places, you have to leave space on your blind side. That's the trick. They teach you to back at 90 degrees in truck driving school. My trainer undid all of what I was taught in school, and re-taught me differently. He taught me how to be a driver in the real world of trucking. I was doing flatbed at that time so he taught me to back at a 45 degree angle. Thay was necessary if you had a spread axle, especially with those 53 foot trailers Western has. Now that I'm pulling reefer and dry vans, I'm using those same techniques in those scenarios. You can always tell who has back spread axles just by watching drivers back up at the truck stop. If they set up with a 45 degree angle, there's your indicator. By doing that, you'll leave some space on your blind side if you're in a tight spot.

 

NYC has tight spaces but tight spaces aren't unanimous with NYC. I know a few Chicago and LA that are tight as can be, and you will get honked at I wouldn't pay them any mind. Unless one got out of the car, I always had something if they did, depending on what they had in hand. I would grab a spray of pepper spray. Be warned if you get a wind, it will blow in your face I am essentially immune to pepper spray. I have been sprayed too many times to be effective against me, and my brother still randomly pepper-spray each other for fun and each other. In the course of your career, it won't mean much to come up to a tight spot, even blind side backing,g depending on the circumstances I had my very back window open in the bed area and I could see things to let me know where I was at but sometimes you will need get out and look even if it raining you wont melt but you maybe soaking wet after.