Yard jockey=Experience?

just write it down as local driver.

 

perhaps not yet, but lets just say years down the road i pursued OTR driving, after years of driving locally. im not going into OTR anytime soon (if ever). i have seen western express job ads "you can be a trainer after 6 mo". a 6 month driver trainer??? sorry i laugh at that right now, i have 1 year 6 months experience driving various types of commercial motor vehicles, i consider that to only be touching the surface. i learn everyday. a 6 month driver doesn't know anything and shouldn't be training anyone to drive, the job takes a long time to get good at it.

that werner joke that i rode with for 8 weeks only had 1-1/2 years of driving himself and did not know how to mount chains. i probably got more benefit ridding with my current boss who has been driving for 40 years, he has only driven milk truck but he knows what he is doing.

sorry, but the joke is WHO the megas put in as trainers, pretty much anyone who has had a CDL. i for one, dont want to be teaching anyone after 1-1/2 years NOPE.

 

i think the biggest difference between a day cab and a sleeper cab is the day cab i am driving has back window. this actually helps me back into farm driveways, some of which you wouldn't be able to get a large sleeper truck in very easily. there is a reason why a company like my company uses both OTR tractors and day cabs (we have both), different tools for different jobs. i pick up the milk with a day cab and the guy that delivers the load has OTR tractor. you wouldnt want to take his truck to treadwell farms, blindside backing off the street, mailbox on one side dead tree on the other side.... you need as much visibility as possible.

different tools for different jobs i think.

 

A day cab is shorter. Easier to maneuver the trailer in backing.
Jostler is shorter. It's so quick maneuvering that it's fun.

 

a day cab road tractor is more difficult to drive then a yard tractor and a sleeper truck is more challenging yet.

not all day cabs are shorter though, usually the case but not always the case. we have a peterbilt 386 (like my truck except a 2015). this truck was in the shop getting a PM a noticed it was allot longer then what i drive. it was a daycab built on a long frame. i asked the guy in the shop what the point was, he said it was built that way for ride quality.

what you said is USUALLY the case but not ALWAYS the case, i have seen a few exceptions.

 

for me its a visibility thing, i can see allot more from the driver seat of a day cab. some of the driveways i back into im thankful that i have that visibility, i have noticed that we have SOME OTR tractors that now have a rear window. visibility around a tanker is also better, if i ever did regional work..... i would still likely stick with tankers. i like tankers and dont care for vans.

 

You don't have to worry about seeing anything. Just do like da Cat does. Back in. If you take anything out. Just tell them to quit whining. They obviously needed a wider approach anyways.

 

i got one farm that's so bad my boss calls it a sh#thole, it really is a dump. i think the farmers should have to be held to some sort of standard in their driveways if they want their milk picked up, if they dont fix it they should get fined. i have some that are very well run farms, but one in particular, not so much.