Airport Experience
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NaeNaeInNC's Comment
1 year ago
I have only done it once, for FedEx, and we had to use the roller deck trailers that Prime has specifically for those air cans. I don't remember specifically how many or what they each weighed though. Was kinda cool, pretty fast load and go.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
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I had this very strange and unusual load story I would like to share.
Most the time when UPS planes land a driver doing LTL comes picked up some pallets and takes them to the local distribution center. They are almost always short trips and I haven't ever done one because I do OTR driving. Anyway I had 6hours left on the clock and I got a load that I could pickup and dropoff right before my reset. I agreed to it and was sent to a airport. The airport was Mc Gee Tyson airport and it's off of Alcoa highway which might I say was really hard to get back onto. I made it there and had to park along the fence till they finished unloading which took like 15 minutes I got a photo of the plane that the cargo was got off of right after it was done. Cool to see such a big flying semi truck
It took 15minutes to finish unloading then 45minutes to load me then 1.5hrs to the distribution center and it was a drop and go then I went to the truck stop with time to spare. I thought it was really unusual for them to send a OTR driver on a LTL load but it was cool and I did enjoy it for the most part. The pallets were heavy metal containers and weighed 9000lbs each and I carried 2 of them.
Anyone here regularly pickup at airports? How much do you prefer or dislike it rather then distribution centers?
LTL:
Less Than Truckload
Refers to carriers that make a lot of smaller pickups and deliveries for multiple customers as opposed to hauling one big load of freight for one customer. This type of hauling is normally done by companies with terminals scattered throughout the country where freight is sorted before being moved on to its destination.
LTL carriers include:
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.