Comments By MAC

My main concern about becoming a driver, is that it seems to be a inescapable fact of life that drivers often are stuck for several hours or even a few days waiting to be loaded/unloaded or being assigned the next new load. Down time that you may or may not be getting any pay for.

Are company drivers expected to stay with their rigs 24/7, even at times when your not being paid?

If a driver knows they will be parked for a while....like say 4 hours or more, do you have the freedom to lock up the rig and slip away to do something?

Providing of course, that you don't need some extra sleep.

Thanks....

I too am thinking of part time driving as a retirement job. Probably full time at first for a year to learn driving, then go part time.

I met with a Schneider recruiter at one of their Denver career events and asked him about if they expected all of their drivers to always work full time and drive hard.

Told him about how I am considering working some seasonal fun jobs mixed with part-time truck driving.

He said no problem, they have many part timers.

I thought he did say though, that you do have to drive a minimum of 6 days a month to be an active driver.

Also: If you are researching less than full time driving options........check out "Knight Transportation" jobs for your area.

When I search Knights' Denver area jobs, it lists their Western 11 State Dedicated job info, that offers various different home time scheduals to choose from, like 1 to 4 days on, 1 to 4 days off.... in any combination, 7 or 14 days on then 7 days off.....a nice mix of non-full time options.

I've read a few posts here about moving rear tandems to balance the weight of the trailer, seemingly to comply with state regulations and to tweak how the truck handles.

A while back I thought I remember where someone wrote about having to slide tandems back because a receiver had some rule or requirement that all trucks coming onto it's property had to have their tandems slide all the way back.

Is this really a common rule, and why would a receiver have such a rule?

So, are drivers commonly sliding tandems for each new load?

Thanks.

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