Why Do Drivers Do This?
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Cause I'm new and it's easier. Why do some drivers insist on driving circles around me when I'm backing and have my flashers on? Was doing a straight line back at flying j last night and a guy basically did a u turn around me to get a pull thru. Did a straight line in walmart..... at 3 am and no one was there... this guy flew from behind parked trailers aND went behind me keeping close to the doors as he flew through the lot. Wtf?
I hear ya Rainy.. I see this often also.
Cause I'm new and it's easier. Why do some drivers insist on driving circles around me when I'm backing and have my flashers on? Was doing a straight line back at flying j last night and a guy basically did a u turn around me to get a pull thru. Did a straight line in walmart..... at 3 am and no one was there... this guy flew from behind parked trailers aND went behind me keeping close to the doors as he flew through the lot. Wtf?
Those are super truckers. You often see them on the highway playing with their phone, one foot on the dash and or fingerless driving gloves. I had an issue a while back at the TA In Monroe MI. I was already lined up for a spot so I could drop my trailer and run my truck into the shop for service. A US Express super duper trucker was bobtail , saw what I was doing and snaked in the spot nose first to chit me off. I backed my trailer right up against the back of his truck, dropped my talker and pulled in for service.
Bobtail:
"Bobtailing" means you are driving a tractor without a trailer attached.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Cause I'm new and it's easier. Why do some drivers insist on driving circles around me when I'm backing and have my flashers on? Was doing a straight line back at flying j last night and a guy basically did a u turn around me to get a pull thru. Did a straight line in walmart..... at 3 am and no one was there... this guy flew from behind parked trailers aND went behind me keeping close to the doors as he flew through the lot. Wtf?
Those are super truckers. You often see them on the highway playing with their phone, one foot on the dash and or fingerless driving gloves. I had an issue a while back at the TA In Monroe MI. I was already lined up for a spot so I could drop my trailer and run my truck into the shop for service. A US Express super duper trucker was bobtail , saw what I was doing and snaked in the spot nose first to chit me off. I backed my trailer right up against the back of his truck, dropped my talker and pulled in for service.
Hahhahahh omg... that sounds like me!! The walmart guy and I got unloaded at the same time. I was in line first and he started yelling he didn't want to wait... uh "dude calm down.. cause you gotta wait til I finish first. Jerk
Bobtail:
"Bobtailing" means you are driving a tractor without a trailer attached.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
I don't open doors tell I get into my hole and tandoms slid. Because most my loads go to the back door and I dont want them spilled all over the lot.
This is why you shouldn't back with your door open.
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Did it HAVE to be a Swift truck? Hahaha that's why I wait til I'm lined up before opening up my doors. I open them quickly though so no one has to wait. And I use load locks on every load just in case.
Honestly I NEVER open my doors until I'm ready to dock and I open the doors and release my tandems , do a pull up to make sure im straight and slide my tandems back at the same time, then back in. My company and every one of our customers requires tandems to be all the way back whether loading/unloading or drop/hook and for the life of me, my backing sucks with the tandems all the way back. At one customer location i go to, they require us to move our tandems back at the guard shack so I literally have to slide them to appease the guards, get into the drop lot, move them forward, back in, then move them back again lol. Craziness in action for sure but it is what it is.
Sue- Thanks for details on moving tandems for backing. Good info!
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
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Honestly I NEVER open my doors until I'm ready to dock and I open the doors and release my tandems , do a pull up to make sure im straight and slide my tandems back at the same time, then back in. My company and every one of our customers requires tandems to be all the way back whether loading/unloading or drop/hook and for the life of me, my backing sucks with the tandems all the way back. At one customer location i go to, they require us to move our tandems back at the guard shack so I literally have to slide them to appease the guards, get into the drop lot, move them forward, back in, then move them back again lol. Craziness in action for sure but it is what it is.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".