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Going Feeders from 5 Years Part-Time "On-Topic"
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<blockquote data-quote="moldsporh" data-source="post: 2100521" data-attributes="member: 54834"><p>Ya dad.....here's the scoop with feeders with your seniority. Generally, unless your really really lucky, once in feeders you will be on the qualified list...this means you are a delivery driver, combo driver...whatever, that is qualified to operate feeders. When needed, you will be called in seniority order. Once a position becomes avail as a full-time feeder driver, you can choose to bid full time into feeders but likely be a cover driver to start.</p><p></p><p>It could take 6 months, it could take 10 years or more to get a bid route, 10 years is the likely scenario if not more.</p><p></p><p>What you need to do is take a visit to your feeder office and look at the seniority list and see where you will fall, and take note of the vacations because generally the summer is not avail to most drivers unless you have alot of seniority.</p><p></p><p>Now the other important part. ..can you drive a manual transmission? If you can then you have a long way to go because commercial trucks, especially road tractors, don't have synchronized transmissions. You need to learn to shift by matching the rpms to the road speed and know what gear correlates....it's alot harder than you think.</p><p></p><p>You need to be able to demonstrate you can up shift and especially downshift, the backing is not your main concern right now.</p><p></p><p>Get the shifting down, second nature, then practice backing.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moldsporh, post: 2100521, member: 54834"] Ya dad.....here's the scoop with feeders with your seniority. Generally, unless your really really lucky, once in feeders you will be on the qualified list...this means you are a delivery driver, combo driver...whatever, that is qualified to operate feeders. When needed, you will be called in seniority order. Once a position becomes avail as a full-time feeder driver, you can choose to bid full time into feeders but likely be a cover driver to start. It could take 6 months, it could take 10 years or more to get a bid route, 10 years is the likely scenario if not more. What you need to do is take a visit to your feeder office and look at the seniority list and see where you will fall, and take note of the vacations because generally the summer is not avail to most drivers unless you have alot of seniority. Now the other important part. ..can you drive a manual transmission? If you can then you have a long way to go because commercial trucks, especially road tractors, don't have synchronized transmissions. You need to learn to shift by matching the rpms to the road speed and know what gear correlates....it's alot harder than you think. You need to be able to demonstrate you can up shift and especially downshift, the backing is not your main concern right now. Get the shifting down, second nature, then practice backing. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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