What is the most physically demanding part of the job?

I hate that #### of having to crank down a trailer that has a ###### up landing gear that was jacked WAY to high because the customer's dock's weren't built for current trailer floor heigth and the trailer is loaded with 45,000 lbs of chicken of beef and the yard jockeys most of the time are in to big of a hurry or plainly #######'s and don't want to help you. Can't tell you how many times I've pulled a muscle in my back because of that ####.

 

I don't eat at the buffet's no more. After watching one guy that paid the porclin god a visit and took the wall's down with a smell that about took everyone else down then walked out and straight to the buffet without washing his hands. Haven't eatten in a restaurant sense.

 

depends what kind of job you have. i deliver milk, i average around 14 thousand pounds of milk a day, and i can only move about 150 pounds at time with the dolly. its not that hard. i worked construction and landscaping, my career was going to be carpentry but the economy is so bad right now ill never go back to it. construction is hard work, driving trucks is really not that physically demanding i don't care what kind of job it is.

 

The most demanding part for me, other than physical is leaving the house. I hate leaving, but I sure do love coming home. LOL.

 

Hardest part of the job? It's a tossup for me on these three.

Required to get 600 miles down the road after having my tractor pounded by the lot lizards when I've only gotten two hours of sleep initially. It's really tough to get back to sleep...

Or having to restack 5 pallets, 10 on a level, 14 levels high, on that nasty beer load because it shifted forward and they come out to tell me, "That's YOUR job. If we do do it, we can't make a claim to the company."

Or the constantly changing schedules and locations. The need to be flexible with whatever may come. You just never know out here.

Can I get a witness, please?

 

I shoveled lots of snow. First, I had to shovel snow from under the nose of dropped trailers where the shipper's plow guy had plowed the employees' parking lot. Then, I would throw sand or slag where the drive tires would be located after hooking up. Finally, I would shovel drifted snow from around the trailer tandems. It was also necessary to shovel snow and throw slag when spotting a trailer at the same shipper's dock which was the pit/slope design.

I would say that the danger in the above activities for us older drivers is a heart attack. My hernias actually happened unloading light boxes of margarine at Viking Foods warehouse in Muskegon. Positioning their heavy, wet freezer pallets is what did it.

 

From what I've seen the most difficult part of the job for most of them is driving in circles in the parking lot for 2 hours waiting for a front row parking spot to open up...So they don't have to waddle so far to get to the buffet!

 

or carrying that heavy ### plate back to their table.........