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Thanks SloPok for the read. I've been considering moving trucks. Been driving far too many heavy loads & have had to visit the chiropractor's office too many times from all the crazy unbalanced bouncing. So I hope you can answer a few questions. Are the trucks already connected when you pick them up? How heavy are the boards and what do you do with them after delivery especially if you drop one truck at a time? Or maybe your company delivers all the trucks to the same place? I admit it, I'm small & not very strong, lifting 35lbs would be my max. I failed a physical once cuz I couldn't lift 85lbs above my head. This limits me from doing unloading so moving trucks may be an option for me. Would love to hear more from you, keep writing, thanks

 

The dealer where I work: We'll call in a wrecker to help with undecking piggybacked trucks set up like shown in your signature line. However, transport driver has a lot of work to do after the wrecker plucks the trucks and leaves. There's work to do before the wrecker even shows up, even.

Basically if it's material related to the transporting of the trucks, we don't mess with it. That's the transport driver's job (unless they really need a hand for a safety reason). Seen many a transport driver (even from Truck Movers) out sweating to the oldies in the sun while they do undecking work.

 

Can you explain what work the transport driver must do to undeck? How strong must a person be is my only worry.
Thanks so much!

 

At my location:

Any axles which have been removed for transport on piggybacked trucks have to be installed. Any auxiliary lighting devices have to be removed. Temporary mudflaps are removed. None of that is particularly difficult or heavy. What can get heavy is removing the piggyback saddles (like the ones used in SloPok's signature picture. A lot of the transport drivers remove those themselves, but if they really do need a hand I go out and help them lift and carry them to where they need to be, or I'll bring a pallet over and they get loaded on to a pallet and I'll move them with the forklift. If the trucks are hooked together with "Z Bars" you'd be climbing underneath trucks to do the work to get the trucks ready to come off of them. Any mess generated in the undecking process is the responsibility of the transport driver to clean up. We don't sign for/accept trucks until everything is done and clean.

It's not like it's a lot of super strenuous backbreaking labor, but it's not always the easy skate work that SloPok is trying to make it sound like. I've seen transport drivers of all shapes, sizes, ages, strengths and both sexes.

I have seen where one driver does the undecking of several trains because the other drivers were, for some reason, not capable or whatever to participate in that part of the process (think they were all from Truck Movers, including the poor guy who spent three days undecking trucks).


Also, be an upstanding sort. Follow the rules and don't trash the inside of the trucks. Have had several occasions where we had to spend more time than was necessary to clean up sticky messes in interiors or have smoke smell removed. We're not here to pick up your trash.

Had one transport driver vehemently deny smoking in the truck despite overwhelming evidence proving that he had. "That smell is from the heater".

No, no it isn't. Neither is the ash all over the interior.

 

This is something that I have thought of doing as well. Keep us updated Slopok

 

This is one of the few positive post I've ever seen here on this topic.

Especially about this company.

Reader beware............

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s-so-full-of-crap.104846/page-16#post-4303454