Question:
what is the real definition of no touch freight? when someone advertises 99% no touch what does it REALLY mean?

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"No touch" is supposed to mean just that, you don't touch the freight... no unloading/loading or any sort of handling at all.
What it really means? The percentages the particular carrier claims may nor may not be true... only way to find out is to speak with their drivers.
100% no touch is the way it should be in my opinion. You don't see airline pilots working the baggage before and after the flights, same with train engineers, etc etc.

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Means that on a whole, in every fleet a company has, that is the percentage of freight they haul does not require driver loading or unloading. This in no way indicates how much feight a particular driver may have to lump.
I will always be a mutter trucker at heart.
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Let's say a company advertises 99% no-touch. That means it's 1% touch. Let's say the company does 4000 loads a day. 1% of 4K would be 40 loads. Do you feel lucky? BOL

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When checking into companies, especially as a company driver, beware of the qualifications they request of you...
Was recently made aware that some companies may inquire regarding your ability to lift, lower, an roll certain amounts of weight.... If you have no disability that disqualifies you, you may be expected to consent to this ability......in such case:
You may have signed away your right to descent from an assignment, merely based on "driver load/unload".... Futhermore, considering that the drivers with waivers requiring that they be offered driver "no touch" freight increases the odds that a driver with no qualifying disabilities, will be expected to accept a disproportionate share of the pecentage of freight which must be driver handled....
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The only thing I touch is my paperwork, and all things pertinent to that truck moving up and down the interstate to pick up and deliver freight. I refuse to touch freight; I attended driving school to earn a C.D.L. for the purpose of driving, not to be a driver/lumper!
Carlo 0351/8151/6531 I.Y.A.O.Y.A.S
Truck #553
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"Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat."

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CDL means Commercial Drivers License!
It DOES NOT mean.....Combination Driver Lumper!
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sube23_ yes some companies require you to sign a form stating you will and can lift ex amount of weight.
Where I use to work every signs a form stating we can lift 100 pounds up to 40,000. Meaning we would carry 100 opounds at a time until we moved a total of 40,000 pounds. We all signed it.
The result would be carrying 400 boxes. You can average 3 minutes per box. It will be longer the farther in the trailer you go. Anyway its 400 boxes times 3 minutes equals 20 hours to unload a trailer one box at a time. In orientation we all agreed that it was a very stupid thing to sign. It just wasn't going to happen.
You will have to unload some and assist some. That will mean lots of work when it happens.
Also driver unload includes lumpers. If you pay a lumper to take it off it is not a no-touch load. It is a driver unload that you paid some one to do for you.
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try to find out is also the companies truck to trailer ratio. If a company has 10,000 trucks and 30,000 trailers your chances of unloading are decreased.
I personally don't do anything but open the doors.

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will a truck company hire a recent truck school graduate with a waiver for heavy lifting? how do i get a waiver? will a truck company hire an experienced driver with a waiver for lifting?