Comments By Nick

When you're going to slide your 5th wheel you should wait until you're empty. Even then, put the trailer legs down and crank on the arm in low gear to get pretty much all of the weight off the 5th wheel. If you try to slide that thing with a lot of weight on it you'll have a heck of a time getting it to move.

I couldn't get it to slide, the pins wouldn't release for nothing. I was able to take everyone's advice and delivered 44,000 pounds of.... Nuts for Hershey to the forwarder in Laredo. That's gonna make alot of candy bars 😁 . I really appreciate everyone's responses, means alot to have somewhere to go and ask for help.

Yeah Nick, you'll be just fine. Just remember that you have to anticipate things a bit more and do some things a bit earlier than you would with a heavier load. I haul more water and paper loads than anything and they come in at 45-46000 on a regular basis. I just tend to go a bit easier when pulling them and realize too that it takes longer to get up to speed. The real suckfest is the climb up 470 out of Wheeling WV with a water or Gatorade load, it doesn't seem like the top of that hill is ever going to come lol.

I appreciate the advice. I can only imagine going up a decent pass with this much weight. Or even better going down.

Congratulations!

That's completely normal. You'll get used to it. That's a lot of weight to slow down.

By the way, you really should slide your fifth wheel forward one hole. Your Steers are way too light at 11,440. If you slide it one hole forward it'll look like this:

S- 11940 D-33460 T-33860

Your awesome. I tend to over think and worry alot lol. I'll slide my 5th wheel when I do my pretrip. Never had a load over 40,000, feels like I can't get enough following distance

Picked up today in Dublin, tx. After sliding my tandems finally got the load legal. 11,440-steers 33960-drives and 33860-tandems. When I'm trying to come to a stop or slow down in having to get on the breaks like I never have before. Am I worrying too much? Gross weight is 79260

Good luck!!!!!!!!

Thank you! I'll be needing it

Nothing to be embarrassed about. I'm the same exact way. In the very beginning on my own id get myself so worked up about backing to a shipper or spot at a truck stop before even getting there. I still stress it, especially when a handful of other drivers are watching. I've asked for help so many times, mostly everyone doesn't mind. Had a few guys gimme a hard time and can only imagine the cb chatter.

I learned this the hard way last night! That would be an app I'd use daily. I refuse to be the guy that parks directly next to the large "no parking" signs, although I've never seen them get told to move. I stopped to scale a load and a fella shutdown on the scale! Said he didn't expect anyone to be scaling a load at 4am

Hello all, after 5 months at Cr England I moved on with Werner dollar tree dedicated. Relocated to Connecticut for this position from Tacoma WA. Crazy I know lol. Was supposed to have a ride along for my first day or so but here I am on my own 😁. Got to my first store a few hrs ago, unload appt is 7am. I know these first few weeks are going to test my attitude, both physical and mental shape, as well as my driving skills. I welcome the challenge! Wish me luck!

Wow I guess Werner doesn't do a hair follicle test on their new hires.....😞😞

This right here is a good example why hair follicle testing on new hires would help prevent something like this happening again.

Not to say the fella was a tweeker but that kinda uncontrolled violence is an example of that type of habitual drug users reaction to stress and confrontations in close quarter confined spaces.

I said a prayer for the trainers family.

I don't know how you figure that at all. The guy was probably severely mentally unstable. A mental health evaluation maybe