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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coldworld" data-source="post: 3478078" data-attributes="member: 4777"><p>I personally use my phone ONCE IN A WHILE.... if your dispatch and the trailers you are taking out are at the same location then they can usually radio over to dispatch in the larger buildings...I have tried to msg through the ivis and really don’t get any msg back... we don’t use it as communication like they do in pkg with the diad...I have never had an issue with stopping to use the bathroom or getting out at a rest stop to walk around to try to wake up or stretch....but if you are stopping for a safety nap at night I would record that time as a meal or break, some guys don’t and they can burn you on that if they catch wind you are doing it... you usually have access to the building you are going to and might be a good idea to just try to use the bathroom even if you don’t have to go because you won’t be sweating anymore and a bathroom urge can sneAk up on you.. dropping a trailer means you dont hook or unhook properly and drop it... usually is caused by not lowering your landing gear when unhooking and it drops on the raised shorter legs.... and many times if the hoses and light cord are still attachehed they will fly back and break the back window... just make sure when hooking up you get underneath the trailer and check the couple and do your test tug... and when unhooking remember L.A.P. Landing gear, Airlines, Pin... do it in that order, lower landing gear , take off airlines, and finally pull the pin... you will learn all of that in training ....more than likely you WILL drop a trailer at some point in your first year ... the first time I did it I was at a small Bldg with nobody around and you will remember that sound for a long time... biggest boom you could imagine... if it happens you will be cranking up the landing gear in low gear for 30 minutes...lol</p></blockquote><p></p>

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