larry retired
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..whats a hostlers...jockey..
Yes, we call them hostlers out here in Colorado. It is a bid job. It is their work to hook and split all sets and to put trailers to the dock. At our terminal we have a very small road board, 12 drivers, who service outlying EOLs. We have shuttle drivers who serve close in EOLs. The shuttle drivers are part of the city/dock board so they have to string and unhook their own trailers, but road drivers do not. Of course, we also have road units arriving and departing continually from several other breakbulks. Those drivers pull into the inbound lanes where hostlers then take them to the pad to break them down and hook to pre-strung outbound sets.