Ask a Feeder Driver, Feeder Driver FAQ
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What'dyabringmetoday???
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Ask him about the mysterious trolley valve. Lol.
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
"ah, what's a post-trip?." man i'm running late.
Indecisi0n
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Ain't no one got time for a pretrip.
I'm betting someone didn't, and drove it from the rail like that.
45 highway miles, that could have come apart and killed someone.
Indecisi0n
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I've seen some scary stuff even in my short time here. I wouldn't think there would be runners like we had in package but there are.
Sweeper
Where’s the broom?
It drives me nuts that we pull chassis out of the rail yard that shouldn’t be on the road. The next drivers hooks it at the hub and brings it to the shop. Lights out, brakes out of adjustment, bad tire, missing mud flap......Automotive flips out when you bring them into the shop. Just a thought, do a thoughrough pretrip before leaving the rail yard. We get paid by the hour, they can put the box on a different chassis before you leave the rail and keep our shop working on our crap.
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pickup
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If the divr/ccr function is working properly on your handheld ivis, you can sometimes figure out who brought the chassis on property in the first place and then go have a talk with that guy later on in the lunchroom.
If the function ISN’T working so well, you can find out who pulled it six months ago.
Rick Ross
I'm into distribution!!
This morning I watched an hourly driver skip his tractor pretrip and then do a 2 minute pretrip on his prebuilt set, he was out the gate in under 15 minutes.
An hour down the road I pass him going 15mph under the speed limit trying to milk time on a 500 mile run...how does that even make sense to someone?
An hour down the road I pass him going 15mph under the speed limit trying to milk time on a 500 mile run...how does that even make sense to someone?
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
I hate taking prebuilt sets.
Wait til it's pouring down rain, you might feel a little different...
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Why do you think I keep an umbrella in the cab.
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
they stopped sending me to the railyard because I was red-tagging so many trailers and it would take me over an hour to find a decent one to the yard. they got some other idiot to bring any old trailer to the yard and then before i went on road would be over at the shop getting it fixed which would take anywhere from 20-30 minutes to an hour or more.
sometimes the mechanic would red tag it and they would have to do a complete load transfer. the dispatches and managers would be screaming about that.
glad i'm retired and don't have to put up with that BS anymore.
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
good luck on talking to a driver about doing his job properly . all you will get is a "FO!" . It's not like the old days when you could meet him behind a building or out in the parking lot.
everyone at my hub knew who were the lazy asses in feeder. not much you could do about it because the idiot managers loved those guys. I just ignored them in the break room or off property. If i had no or little respect for a driver , they knew it.
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pickup
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Sometimes it’s a guy who doesn’t even know that the corners of the chassis need to be secured. Sometimes it’s a guy who can be shamed into doing better if he knows we can figure out who brought that mess into the yard. And for the lazy a holes, it’s a counter argument to when they get on their soapboxes about doing “the right thing”.
Johney
Pineapple King
It's hot out? It's still 85 degrees here at 3 am.
Johney
Pineapple King
I bet that just broke their hearts.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Toot!! friend*in Toot!!
Rick Ross
I'm into distribution!!
That's a pretty lame excuse, it's not like you can't get in the AC and cool off when you finish.
Some people are so lazy they will always have an excuse for not doing what they are supposed to do.
