Feeder question 2.0 newbies

[retiredTxfeeder]

Yeah, dispatch maps suck. They sent me somewhere one night with an old map. "You can't miss it!" they said. "This map is good!" they said. Wrong. And wrong again. I ended up on a dead end dirt road. Luckily I was TO. Always ask any driver you see if they have ever been where you're going. They usually know.

 

[greengrenades]

Got some new meat coming into feeders fresh from feeder school. Need ideas about hazing, initiation rituals you all have done. We are quite the pranksters as it is (gloves with grease inside) one of my favorites. But would like to hear from the feeder brotherhood.

How about you treat them with respect and like an adult. Teach them how to be better feeder drivers. Instead of trying to make a stressful situation that much more stressful. These aren't children, they are grown men and women. You might just "haze" the wrong person.

 

[Stubnose Killa]

We save the pranks for the guys on their last day before they retire. The last guy got some crickets put in his cab to keep him company.

 

[Dusty Buckets]

Amen to all, as a new 8 month driver we have plenty to worry about, from the equipment to techniques to backing anxiety to not knowing where we are going... Fortunately I'm in a center that is FANTASTIC at making us newbies feel welcome, and everyone has been extremely helpful with all of it -- tips, directions, mirror adjustment, etc. It was a relief to hear from a senior driver that he had bad backing days on occasion -- so slow it down, try again, and either concentrate or stop thinking (over thinking) it.

 

[superballs63]

Amen to all, as a new 8 month driver we have plenty to worry about, from the equipment to techniques to backing anxiety to not knowing where we are going... Fortunately I'm in a center that is FANTASTIC at making us newbies feel welcome, and everyone has been extremely helpful with all of it -- tips, directions, mirror adjustment, etc. It was a relief to hear from a senior driver that he had bad backing days on occasion -- so slow it down, try again, and either concentrate or stop thinking (over thinking) it.

Still working on that one, myself. lol

 

[barnyard]

Got some new meat coming into feeders fresh from feeder school. Need ideas about hazing, initiation rituals you all have done. We are quite the pranksters as it is (gloves with grease inside) one of my favorites. But would like to hear from the feeder brotherhood.

Hazing??? Sounds more like 'being a dick to new drivers.'