No crying here, just want the real deal if I am offered a position. I still don't understand the whole working the dock thing. I think everyone should work a truly ridiculous trucking job before moving to ltl. Any ltl company. What I mean by ridiculous?ty CSA ratings that get your company dot'd every time you go thru a scalehouse. Sketchy equipment. The inability to make any real money without running illegal. School of hard knocks will help get minds right, believe you me.
Some years back it was different than it is today. Then you hired on as a dockworker, or a city driver, or a road driver. Today, they have pretty much done away with just being a truck driver. Everybody does it all now. dock workers had to get a CDL. They don't hire truck drivers anymore. If you have a lot of years in, and you're at a big center, if they have day runs, those drivers are strictly truck drivers. Small (EOL) end of line centers strictly go to a hub and bring back freight for there city operation. They don't get any thru freight, therefore, no day runs. If you hire on as a road driver now, you will come in, hook a set, and drive to a hub and do the work that dock workers used to do. A road driver hiring on today is a dock worker with a CDL. I guess it's not bad if you don't mind working nights and driving a forklift. Some centers in big city's drive 30 or 40 miles to a hub and do dock work for 6 or 7 hours and then drive 30 or 40 miles back to there center. If you want to be a "truck driver", this is probably not what you're looking for?
