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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 1336367"><p>Worse day ? More like a week I won't forget. I was (and am) a feeder driver that was working days and very local for a while at the time. Job was cancelled and went on the spare list and ended up working nights. Shifted in the yard, went to lunch and then mystery time.. Where will they send me ? Railyard?, back in the yard?, or a trip to another hub? Well, it was , all week another hub. Some I have been to before, and some not. </p><p></p><p> One night I went to one that I had not been to before with very vague directions. I ended up getting off an exit of a route(not an interstate) that fed into a very insular residential neighborhood , 2 am in the morning. I end up going down a long road( at this point, I realized I got off at the wrong exit) that dead ended. I backed up my tractor/trailer combo(53 foot trailer) about a half a mile to the onramp. Sweating as I backed up around some curves. Fortunately no cars came up behind me on this narrow road. </p><p></p><p>Another night of the same week, poorly worded directions at a critical point, ended up going left when I should have gone right. Went 15 miles the wrong way( realized this 5 miles into the journey on this road( but needed 10 more miles to find a turn around) </p><p></p><p>Similar stuff during the rest of the week with some hubs I went to before(although a long time passed before making the trips again. I realized that , while the directions sucked in the above two cases, the other cases for the rest of the week, I should have done better and I realized that I was part of the problem. Needed to be totally prepared(mentally.attitudinally and other ways) before leaving the outbound gate and I will now find people to ask if I go to a funny upstate ny hub again that I haven't been to in a long time or at all . Yorktown indeed!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 1336367"] Worse day ? More like a week I won't forget. I was (and am) a feeder driver that was working days and very local for a while at the time. Job was cancelled and went on the spare list and ended up working nights. Shifted in the yard, went to lunch and then mystery time.. Where will they send me ? Railyard?, back in the yard?, or a trip to another hub? Well, it was , all week another hub. Some I have been to before, and some not. One night I went to one that I had not been to before with very vague directions. I ended up getting off an exit of a route(not an interstate) that fed into a very insular residential neighborhood , 2 am in the morning. I end up going down a long road( at this point, I realized I got off at the wrong exit) that dead ended. I backed up my tractor/trailer combo(53 foot trailer) about a half a mile to the onramp. Sweating as I backed up around some curves. Fortunately no cars came up behind me on this narrow road. Another night of the same week, poorly worded directions at a critical point, ended up going left when I should have gone right. Went 15 miles the wrong way( realized this 5 miles into the journey on this road( but needed 10 more miles to find a turn around) Similar stuff during the rest of the week with some hubs I went to before(although a long time passed before making the trips again. I realized that , while the directions sucked in the above two cases, the other cases for the rest of the week, I should have done better and I realized that I was part of the problem. Needed to be totally prepared(mentally.attitudinally and other ways) before leaving the outbound gate and I will now find people to ask if I go to a funny upstate ny hub again that I haven't been to in a long time or at all . Yorktown indeed!!! [/QUOTE]
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