What dedicated routes have the easiest backings

Target DC DeKalb il. You pull through to your drop spot. Drop the trailer. Leave the DC for about three hours while the spotter puts it in a door and they unload. Wait another hour. I've never been out of a target in less than four hours... and it's always a half a trailer load. Makes for a nice long lunch though. Only places I have trouble with are the ones built for 45' trailers max.

 

I deliver to both of those DC's. I always see the guys having boxes hand loaded from the ceiling to the floor. And they'll have ten ramps. Seeing that makes me glad to have a no touch job.

 

Tell your friend, start pulling a flatbed.we rarely back in to a dock.maybe 2 since the year started. Oh almost forgot its never that tight.

 

Well, since Werner changed the pay structure...
3 loads a week / 750 miles plus load pay grosses me $1200.
Home every weekend for reset now.
The other day I had visitors. Walking around downtown Salem it hurt like hell. I was walking like one of those old guys you see coming out of a large car. Bull legged and can't walk.
F that.
I'll get exerciseand see home weekly

 

'We know'.
It's great seeing some of the Flatbed Guys backup at the TS's.

 

^^^ That's a good one! Hauling tanks, home daily, I don't have to back much, either. When winter comes in Ohio, and I do FlatBed for UPC in the offseason, I'll admit, I am a little rusty, LOL!

 

Same with tanks ~!

 

Wait, are you talking about flatbedders trying to get into a 90° back with no room in front with a spread axle? For newbies, pay close attention when you see a spread axle get into a tight 90° slot. It may take a six point turn. We can't get into a 90° jacknife unless we have a dump valve on the front or rear axle. Get into a 90° jacknife with a full load and you can destroy an entire set of trailer tires in one back. I witnessed a guy blow three tires right off the rim at a tight customer yard.

 

^^^^^ Tis why I respect the HELLOUTTAYOUGUYS. Read my post on the last thread I posted and confessed my lack of finesse.
Seriously, you guys are amazing..... been driving for 34 years and can't hold a candle to y'all. I've seen some of these maneuvers back in the 90's and 2000's, when I was still OTR, and all I could do was try to spot; and buy one of your dinner at a Subway.
I pulled doubles for Fedex/Linehaul back in '04 before they 'really sucked' and only did it a year, due to the teaming part sucked......and moved on to more OTR before I got 'lucky' hauling asphalt, basically local. I'll take the surge and the hot anyday, over what you guys do.