Learning As I Go
Topic 9915 | Page 1
Man, that's tough!
One time I had several produce pickups to make - potatoes, onions, and a few other things. Well after making all of the pickups on a Friday I went to a truck stop to scale it and I was over on my tandems and couldn't slide them enough to fix it. And of course the last shipper was quite a ways back and already closed for the weekend.
So I climbed in the back and carried 40 bags of onions from the back of the trailer, walking over top of everything else, to the nose, and it worked. It was super hot out and I had to take a shower after that but it worked. I was legal and took off on my weekend run.
You'll learn a whole lot in the beginning, no question about it. A lot of the rookie mistakes go away after a short time and things go more smoothly after that.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
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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Since I didn't go to a school to learn this trade I have been learning as I go a hard lesson this last week was I had a run to ca I was so tired when I got to the place to load that I told them I was gonna sleep til they are done well being half asleep and not knowing how this load needed to be loaded when asked how do I want it loaded I told them I don't care big mistake he put it all on the nose of my trailer so after talking to a family member I found out I was to heavy on my steer and drive tires so what did I have to do to get legal unload 4 pallets by hand and move them to the rear of the trailer but the good part bout this was I learned what to do so this won't happen again
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated