Feeder drivers don’t deserve top pay.

[Cowboy Mac]

They don’t work as hard as package delivery and even make a little more than drivers.

You try working overnight 12 hours a day. Or try being an on call cover driver flipping days/nights and feeder/package. Where dispatch calls you for work while you’re asleep and wakes you up every time. Or be a sleeper driver and spend your week away from home sleeping in the back of a moving vehicle.

As much as we joke about feeder drivers being fat and lazy, feeders is a dangerous job where we put our lives on the line every day.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Nooooooo
That would be the pilots

They don't count. Lol.

 

[Future]

That's @Future in the left

SOB !

 

[moldsporh]

They don’t work as hard as package delivery and even make a little more than drivers.

A guy in my center has about 24 years in delivery and just went into feeders. Are you going to tell him he didn't work hard enough?

By your rationale, a flight attendant should make more than pilots.

With all due respect, I think you're an idiot.

 

[Johney]

They will get replaced by robots first.

Much easier to put a self driving feature on a vehicle that stays on highways.

They're already being used in the industry. Driver just has to press a button every few minutes to make sure they're awake.

Yea ok that makes sense. SMH

 

[Coldworld]

Yea ok that makes sense. SMH

Waymo just ditched their driverless truck division and is going to focus mainly on rideshare. Most of us will be gone before you see every rig driving themselves.

 

[raceanoncr]

Yeah, I think this OP is right.

While driving, mostly, at night most of my 32 years, trying to get enough sleep in the daytime so I wouldn't fall asleep behind the wheel, sometimes driving thru such intense fog you couldn't see the end of the hood, trying to go up and down icy hills with 80,000 lb doubles, dodging drunk drivers, hooking or unhooking doubles, singles when it's -20, all the hoses, lines, chains frozen solid, worried you checked your pins/safety pins, so you wouldn't drop a trailer on road or even in the yard, driving to a hub so croweded you couldn't drive a cycle thru the yard, let alone a 45/48/53 foot trailer, fueling 80 or more gallons while it's -20......

Yeah, I thot about this all these times, I AM overpaid. Wish I was in P/C where I didn't have to put up with all this.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yeah, I think this OP is right.

While driving, mostly, at night most of my 32 years, trying to get enough sleep in the daytime so I wouldn't fall asleep behind the wheel, sometimes driving thru such intense fog you couldn't see the end of the hood, trying to go up and down icy hills with 80,000 lb doubles, dodging drunk drivers, hooking or unhooking doubles, singles when it's -20, all the hoses, lines, chains frozen solid, worried you checked your pins/safety pins, so you wouldn't drop a trailer on road or even in the yard, driving to a hub so croweded you couldn't drive a cycle thru the yard, let alone a 45/48/53 foot trailer, fueling 80 or more gallons while it's -20......

Yeah, I thot about this all these times, I AM overpaid. Wish I was in P/C where I didn't have to put up with all this.

Maybe the physical work is a lot less impacted but you have a really big responsibility driving those feeders

 

[over9five]

Also that radar seems to have an issue with some overpasses , considering them collision threats.

Absolutely. I've had tractors that slam on the brakes going 60mph for a frikken overhead sign. Most dangerous thing we have to deal with, should be outlawed.

 

[Zowert]

Yea almost as much as the young driver whose wife is spitting out her second kid

This is true, feeders are all single or divorced.

 

[Zowert]

You try working overnight 12 hours a day. Or try being an on call cover driver flipping days/nights and feeder/package. Where dispatch calls you for work while you’re asleep and wakes you up every time. Or be a sleeper driver and spend your week away from home sleeping in the back of a moving vehicle.

As much as we joke about feeder drivers being fat and lazy, feeders is a dangerous job where we put our lives on the line every day.

Not saying feeders is easy, I couldn’t do it. However, you don’t see feeders getting highjacked then shot sixty times by the cops. When you’re out in the city, double parking and impeding traffic it comes with consequences. Getting run over or stabbed by some bum is always in the back of my mind.

 

[Cowboy Mac]

Not saying feeders is easy, I couldn’t do it. However, you don’t see feeders getting highjacked then shot sixty times by the cops. When you’re out in the city, double parking and impeding traffic it comes with consequences. Getting run over or stabbed by some bum is always in the back of my mind.

UPS driver kidnapped at gunpoint, found tied up in tractor-trailer, police say

The suspect and other people tied up the driver and stole packages from the truck before they left the scene.

www.wsbtv.com

Trucking in general is dangerous. We get road rage as well as other criminal acts against us.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

UPS driver kidnapped at gunpoint, found tied up in tractor-trailer, police say

The suspect and other people tied up the driver and stole packages from the truck before they left the scene.

www.wsbtv.com

Trucking in general is dangerous. We get road rage as well as other criminal acts against us.

That's why I try to tell my supervisor
People want to shoot you for double parking

 

[Cowboy Mac]

Not saying feeders is easy, I couldn’t do it. However, you don’t see feeders getting highjacked then shot sixty times by the cops. When you’re out in the city, double parking and impeding traffic it comes with consequences. Getting run over or stabbed by some bum is always in the back of my mind.

What happened to Frank never should have happened. Then there was the guy in Cali that got hit by a plane. We lost a feeder driver July 4th morning. He was 2 miles from the building almost done for the day. You never know which day will be your last. That’s package or feeder.

Maybe the physical work is a lot less impacted but you have a really big responsibility driving those feeders

Building a set ain’t no joke either. Lifting that dolly. And if you don’t follow the methods the set could roll away and flatten you like a pancake. It’s happened before.

 

[Coldworld]

Maybe the physical work is a lot less impacted but you have a really big responsibility driving those feeders

Get a room

 

[Coldworld]

Yeah, I think this OP is right.

While driving, mostly, at night most of my 32 years, trying to get enough sleep in the daytime so I wouldn't fall asleep behind the wheel, sometimes driving thru such intense fog you couldn't see the end of the hood, trying to go up and down icy hills with 80,000 lb doubles, dodging drunk drivers, hooking or unhooking doubles, singles when it's -20, all the hoses, lines, chains frozen solid, worried you checked your pins/safety pins, so you wouldn't drop a trailer on road or even in the yard, driving to a hub so croweded you couldn't drive a cycle thru the yard, let alone a 45/48/53 foot trailer, fueling 80 or more gallons while it's -20......

Yeah, I thot about this all these times, I AM overpaid. Wish I was in P/C where I didn't have to put up with all this.

Gotta love the meth zombies walking on the interstate between exits right on the fog line…in dark clothing. You don’t see them until you’re right on them and can’t get over fast enough…not fun.

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

A guy in my center has about 24 years in delivery and just went into feeders. Are you going to tell him he didn't work hard enough?

By your rationale, a flight attendant should make more than pilots.

With all due respect, I think you're an idiot.

Yes

 

[UnionStrong]

Gotta love the meth zombies walking on the interstate between exits right on the fog line…in dark clothing. You don’t see them until you’re right on them and can’t get over fast enough…not fun.

I saw one walking on the 303 2 nights ago. I could barely see the idiot, wearing dark camo like clothes. Death wish

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

Waymo just ditched their driverless truck division and is going to focus mainly on rideshare. Most of us will be gone before you see every rig driving themselves.

It'll never happen if it's built in Cheyna with Radheesh Blamamanondingdong programming

 

[Coldworld]

I saw one walking on the 303 2 nights ago. I could barely see the idiot, wearing dark camo like clothes. Death wish

And then you can’t get over because there’s a rig in the middle lane…some people suck