new drivers/oughta be a law!
#22
05-13-2008, 01:27 AM
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Yep, I figure 30 feet a day is a good days/load backing
 Pull in, to a good big space, sit the trailer on the ground and pull 30 feet straight ahead. Crane comes and lifts off my jeep and sets it right in front of the trailer. Back under the jeep, one foot six inches, hook up the air lines. Back under the trailer, one foot six inches, and done. If the very worst came to the very worst I might have had to deck my stinger and then the crane would have to set it off right behind the trailer and I would have to back another eight inches to get the pins in, but I try not to do that cuz that is way to much backing for the week
#23
05-13-2008, 01:35 AM
Wow...as cool as that sounds...I have no idea what you're talking about...
Is the "jeep" the thingie that has a set of tandems on it that hooks to your 5th wheel? If it's what I'm thinking it may be...it splits the weight between your drives and the tandems on the thingamajigger.... :?
#24
05-13-2008, 01:45 AM
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Yep, it splits the weight between the tandems (or in my case the tridems, 4 axle tractor) and the trailer. Think O OOO OOO OOO OOO
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#26
05-13-2008, 09:33 AM
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Re: new drivers/oughta be a law!
Originally Posted by Windwalker
Originally Posted by choperbob
too many experienced driver sit at truck stops putting down us new drivers as rookies, duh, we are rookies. as long as experienced drivers sit on their duffs and just complain about the level of training we get, they are going to get cannon fodder for their bellyaching. uhh, maybe this industry is growing faster than they can understand. i am sure it is, otherwise us inexperienced drivers, millions of us, wouldn't of suddenly appeared. ok, we are here! on the road! at truck stops! at the shippers! jeeze, what you gonna do now? watch out one of us is gonna back into your front fender, we are gonna take out your whole front end. what you gonna do about it sucker? call my insurance? swift will pay .25 cents on the dollar. now i am gonna stop blasting america's true truckers. because this industry is growing so fast and pushing undertrained drivers onto the roads maybe they need a little help??? i have been given more training sitting over coffee from you old farts than the schools ever gave. us new drivers are easy to spot, we have yet to learn the best clothing. also who we drive for gives us away. any driver with any experience should watch out for us and maybe do whatever they can to pass on what they have learned when they were rookies. i saw a 30 year old tattooed mohawk haired driver with 10 years experience training a 55 year old short haired ex- teacher to drive. yeah our industry is changing but the favt remains that the older guys train the newcomers.
In the truck stops, I've usually been one of the guys that will get out of my truck and help you back into a space for the night. But, I've also seen you guys pull into a space, and back into someone else's grill when backing out in the morning. Idle-Aire spaces are especially good for this. Some fool designed them so that you must pull in, and back out. I've also been a trainer for new drivers. "UNDER-TRAINED"? I've had school graduates that could not even find reverse on the shifter, much less back into a space. I've also had to reach over and pull the "trolley bar" to stop them from taking the fender and hood of the next truck with them on the way out of a space. It's not the drivers I tend to complain about, but the level of training they receive. And, DOT is considering relaxing the requirements even more. Yet, they MUST go through an approved school. They'd get far better training going "ONE-ON-ONE" with a seasoned driver in a truck. Seasoned meaning at least five years experience... YA HEAR THAT, (not so) SWIFT AND C R ENGLAND??? Six months is not nearly enough experience to be a trainer. As to the mohawks and tatooes, you'll find that there are as many types of people driving a truck as there are people driving them. I guess we're a lot like SNOWFLAKES... No two are exactly alike. That also means that ANY ATTIRE IS APPROPRIATE.... Well, that is... As long as it's not a collection of dirty rags.
#27
05-13-2008, 10:31 PM
Last night, I was hookin' up the truck I was driving to my trailer, and one of the other guys came out and guided me back - and I thought about this thread at that moment. (Mind you, these are pintle hitches, not 5th wheel, or ball hitches)
Also, not sure if anyone else does this - but if there's no one else in the yard, rather than driving into my parking spot, I back into it, just to practice my backing skills. I get a li'l better each day. I think someone here gave hints about backing a trailer - hold the bottom of the wheel, and move your hand in the direction you want the back of the trailer to go - that amazingly helped me a LOT. Thank you to whomever offered that hint! --Dave.
#28
05-14-2008, 04:25 AM
Originally Posted by Colts Fan
Just turn off the CB and you'll have nothing to worry about.
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#29
05-14-2008, 05:16 AM
Originally Posted by CrazyTulip
Originally Posted by Colts Fan
Just turn off the CB and you'll have nothing to worry about.
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