Becoming Feeder driver

[Johney]

I went to feeders for the walkie talkie...

Please elaborate cause I didn't get any walkie talkie and I dam sure would like one.

 

[currahee]

Plus you are wide awake all day!

i Sleep on lunch, on Cental sort,and at Logan Airport . Cant beat getting paid to sleep

 

[Big Arrow Down...D]

Please elaborate cause I didn't get any walkie talkie and I dam sure would like one.

Look on the dash...

 

[oldngray]

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Look on the dash...

Do they provide gloves too?

 

[Big Arrow Down...D]

Do they provide gloves too?

That’s all me... shifting is actually a filthy job... them cords covered in grease.

 

[Coldworld]

No I'm not in feeders because I don't wanna be.
I'm sure @Big Arrow Down...D @Indecisi0n @Johney @over9five could give you a better answer.


@Coldworld

LMAO...thanks buddy

 

[burrheadd]

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Look on the dash...

You figured out what all those switches and knobs are for yet

 

[Big Arrow Down...D]

You figured out what all those switches and knobs are for yet

Hell no.

 

[Johney]

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Look on the dash...

My bad I guess if I was a shifter I would've got a walkie talkie.

 

[Coldworld]

Only cons people come up with for feeders is working nights. I say boo hoo. I can list 5 pages of cons for package and maybe two for feeders. It's a no brainier.

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Look on the dash...

you guys don’t have yard cbs in those newer goats???

 

[Big Arrow Down...D]

you guys don’t have yard cbs in those newer goats???

Nope.

 

[rod]

You figured out what all those switches and knobs are for yet

When I first started there was a driver who drove a diesel powered P-600 that pulled a gas powered P-600 into Fargo every night from some place in South Dakota. The dash on the diesel must have had 30 toggle switches on it. I asked the driver what they were all for. He said hell he didn't know but that at least half of them weren't even hooked up.

 

[2Down2Many2Go]

Looks like a Tyco, they drive/trun good but the double windows are a PITA when backing.

 

[brostalss]

1. Weird hours. Can you drive safely thru the night? How you gonna be feeling at 4am?

2. Weird hours. When you start, you could start at 4pm one week, and 4am the next week.

3. Weird hours. How's the wife gonna deal with this? Can she handle you getting home at 6am Saturday morning, and having to sleep most of the day?

That's a pretty easy, adjustment. Weird hours can work to your advantage.

 

[brostalss]

Went Feeder 8 months ago. I love it. Best decision I ever made. I came in at the perfect time. Hardly displaced. Never going back to package. About 80 guys below me already. I have more time at home then when I was in package. Three sometimes four day weekends and never using an FHP.

 

[brostalss]

A veteran Feeder driver told me this along time ago.

"Your worst day in Feeder is still ten times better then your best day in Package"

So true.

 

[Coldworld]

Went Feeder 8 months ago. I love it. Best decision I ever made. I came in at the perfect time. Hardly displaced. Never going back to package. About 80 guys below me already. I have more time at home then when I was in package. Three sometimes four day weekends and never using an FHP.

80 drivers below you in 8 months...that’s insane...

 

[barnyard]

80 drivers below you in 8 months...that’s insane...

"Still can't pick a summer vacation."

 

[Non sequitur]

https://www.facebook.com/

Better practice before signing up

 

[Indecisi0n]

Always had nightmares of a emergency line coming off on the HW, brakes locking up and mass carnage. The line popped off last night while going down the highway. I quickly noticed the air pressure going down and was already in the right line so I wa pulled over before the warning light even went off. Easy peasy. I though the air would leak out a lot faster.