Ask a Feeder Driver, Feeder Driver FAQ

[Cementups]

These yardbirds part timers or actual feeder drivers? Most part timers are lazy af....a few of the feeder drivers are lazy af, usually find them sleeping in a corner and yard control is yelling to everyone on the radio if they've seen so and so.

Most I've ever ccome across are feeder drviers.
The biggest problems I've come across were actually in DENCO. Guys refuse to even help, never mind build the set. I've asked jockeys to simpley spot a dolly and get refusal. Come to find out most of them are laid off sleeper drivers and they would rather say FU to their brothers and blame them for their routes getting cut and they refuse to help other sleeper drivers. Because, you know, it's my fault

 

[Covemastah]

Most I've ever ccome across are feeder drviers.
The biggest problems I've come across were actually in DENCO. Guys refuse to even help, never mind build the set. I've asked jockeys to simpley spot a dolly and get refusal. Come to find out most of them are laid off sleeper drivers and they would rather say FU to their brothers and blame them for their routes getting cut and they refuse to help other sleeper drivers. Because, you know, it's my fault

Are you in sleepers @Cementups ??

 

[Cementups]

Are you in sleepers @Cementups ??

yes sir

 

[Johney]

When I left feeders to shift at my building for my last 6 months of my career(there were only two of us and the other guy was part time)I was told by my ex feeder manager that I was NEVER to set foot in a tractor off property ever again!

 

[Coldworld]

When I left feeders to shift at my building for my last 6 months of my career(there were only two of us and the other guy was part time)I was told by my ex feeder manager that I was NEVER to set foot in a tractor off property ever again!

Did you tell him to MYOFB????

 

[Johney]

Did you tell him to MYOFB????

I just laughed and said I really don't ing care.

 

[Coldworld]

I just laughed and said I really don't ing care.

Love some of these mgrs...thinking every decision they make actually really even matter.

 

[burrheadd]

yes sir

How fat are ya?

 

[Cementups]

How fat are ya?

Not as fat as you think and way less fat than my fellow sleeper drivers. Been in sleepers 2+ years and don’t weigh anymore than I did when I was in a brown.

I see some of the amounts of food these guys bring on the road for 3-5 days and it’s more than I would eat in 2 weeks when I was in package. And then they wonder why they are 300+ . If eat anything when I’m on the road it is only breakfast and some snacks to get me by and some sugar free Monsters. Now if I could cut out the soda I could easily drop 20 lbs.

 

[Covemastah]

15 yrs in a brownie, I was fine

,, but this bad boy sent me to the chiropractor every two weeks for yrs now

 

[UnionStrong]

15 yrs in a brownie, I was fine View attachment 503219 ,, but this bad boy sent me to the chiropractor every two weeks for yrs now

Brownie, haven’t heard that for a long while.

 

[Johney]

15 yrs in a brownie, I was fine View attachment 503219 ,, but this bad boy sent me to the chiropractor every two weeks for yrs now

I drove one of those for 3 years 269xxx. Back breaker for sure. But it would do 75+ which was nice getting around the poor souls governed at 64.

 

[Coldworld]

15 yrs in a brownie, I was fine View attachment 503219 ,, but this bad boy sent me to the chiropractor every two weeks for yrs now

That your daily driver??? Say it ain't so.

 

[Jones]

15 yrs in a brownie, I was fine View attachment 503219 ,, but this bad boy sent me to the chiropractor every two weeks for yrs now

I had one for a while on a local run, and I liked it. It had plenty of power, turned on a dime, and was easy to sleep in. I got the mechanics to replace the airbag under the seat, and after that it rode a lot better. Not as smooth as a Mac but it wasn't a back breaker.

 

[ManInBrown]

I drove one of those for 3 years 269xxx. Back breaker for sure. But it would do 75+ which was nice getting around the poor souls governed at 64.

What was the rush?

 

[Covemastah]

That your daily driver??? Say it ain't so.

No. Shop spare

 

[Covemastah]

That your daily driver??? Say it ain't so.

In a 273, Mack

 

[Johney]

What was the rush?

MYODB

 

[Coldworld]

No. Shop spare

Feel bad for any sucka who has to drive something like that in 2024....

 

[PreTrippin’]

I've learned not to expect better from them , I see a buy go by me everyday with one hand on wheel and left foot up on dash in a Brownie , how the hell does this tatted up man bun guy drive like this ?? I stopped waving , they never wave back

I usually do the Forrest Gump wave

For some reason people don’t wave back. One guy shined his flashlight in my eyes.