Busy 48 Hours (for Me Anyway)
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Sounds like a very exciting two days for big numbers. Hope you see a big check, too!
That's amazing, Greg! I'd like to use this story in my CDL class. My students will need to have a good idea of the job description for Go To Guy.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Errol wrote:
"That's amazing, Greg! I'd like to use this story in my CDL class. My students will need to have a good idea of the job description for Go To Guy. "
Hey, Errol! What CDL class have you got going? I'd love to know more about that.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
My company (has many Vo-Tech schools under its wing) has a contract with another major company to offer CDL training to some of its employees. Not open to the public.
But a new CDL OTR driver still needs to learn the unwritten secrets of their new career, and you can imagine the CDL gold mine that is TruckingTruth.Com. These forums have given me new driver insight that my own experience can't touch.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Thank you, Errol, and wishing you best with that.
Humbly spoken on your part and agreed; what's aggregated here becomes that synergistic "gold mine". Each time I log in, I leave with nuggets 
.
My company (has many Vo-Tech schools under its wing) has a contract with another major company to offer CDL training to some of its employees. Not open to the public.
But a new CDL OTR driver still needs to learn the unwritten secrets of their new career, and you can imagine the CDL gold mine that is TruckingTruth.Com. These forums have given me new driver insight that my own experience can't touch.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
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Usually my life as a driver for Ryder on a dedicated auto parts account is fairly laid back. Based out of Hebron, KY I normally do 1 or 2 overnights a week to Aurora, Ill with the other days being 300-500 mile out and back round trips. This week things got a little more interesting.
On Tuesday I left Hebron with my normal load to Aurora at 4 PM. Get to Aurora around 9:30 do a double drop and hook and head home with an empty. Shut down at the rest area in Roselawn, IN on I65 at around midnight. Woke up in the morning with a text message to call dispatch. Here is when the fun starts. Instead of going home they needed me to take my empty to the Peterbilt dealer in Indy to rescue an Aurora bound load from one of our OO's who had broken down. Get almost to Indy and get a call that they now need my empty in Lafayette,IN. Of course I am already past Lafayette so I need to turn around drive to Lafayette to drop the trailer and then bobtail on to Peterbilt.
Get to Indy at 1:45 and hook to new load and then get the call that after getting empty in Aurora I am to head up to Waukegan, Ill to get live loaded and take it to Georgetown,KY for a 1 PM delivery on Thursday. At this point I am crunching the numbers in my head and with the unknowns of Chicago traffic I knew it was going to be tight. Gave them the ole "I'll do my best". They said great and by the way Waukegan stops loading at 9 PM!
Luckily traffic was not bad and I made it to Waukegan at 8:30 pm and get loaded quickly. Was back on the road at 8:55 pm with a little less than 2 Hrs left on my 11. Made it make to the Roselawn rest area for the second night in a row with about 30 min left on my 11.
Hit the road as soon as my 10 was up and headed to Georgetown. Was docked and getting unloaded at 1:15 PM. While talking to the receiving folks, who were very happy to see me, I discover that they knew all about the breakdown delay and that my dispatch had told them that they had their "go to guy" covering it. Come to find out that is me.
Get empty and head back to Hebron drop my empty and park the truck a little after 4 PM.
48 Hours 1365 miles 2 Double D/Hs 1 live load 1 live un-load
Not "Super Trucker" numbers but I am pretty happy with it.
Bobtail:
"Bobtailing" means you are driving a tractor without a trailer attached.
Drop And Hook:
Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.
In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.