freight dog

[PILOTO]

ok guys i need help here. i want to explain what i do for a living (freigt dog) how can i explain that to somebody. go ahead and help me out. what's a freight dog to you? thanks

 

[osu_av8r]

Well, just send them the link to the "You might be a freight dog if..." thread. If they still talk to you after that, then they are true friends.
You could also drive them by a homeless shelter and point out the dirtiest, drunkest, most mentally ill guy and just explain that if that guy had a pilot's license, then that would pretty much be your job.

 

[EatSleepFly]

ok guys i need help here. i want to explain what i do for a living (freigt dog) how can i explain that to somebody. go ahead and help me out. what's a freight dog to you? thanks

Let me help you out here- don't bother. Not many people get it and their very next question will be, "so do you want to be a real pilot someday?"

I love flying freight, but I'll tell someone I'm an escaped convict if it will keep me from having to try to explain it.

 

[FN FAL]

ok guys i need help here. i want to explain what i do for a living (freigt dog) how can i explain that to somebody. go ahead and help me out. what's a freight dog to you? thanks

Bid on the right freight run and you wont have to splain much.

My neighbor is a NWA flight attendant and she cannot figure out why the hell I'm off on weekends and sleeping at home every night.

I just tell people we're xyz's regional airline...we fly their puddle jumpers...and I leave it at that.

You UPS feeder guys got the shaft...that's all I can say about that.

 

[belchfire]

Explain??? You're a pilot for frack's sake.
As a freight dog you take dis here pile and
pile it over there...where ever that is...tens
hundreds or thousands of miles away...if you
really get lucky you'll someday get to take
the pile of cokes and beans out of the 207
and pile it on a sled behind a snow-go...and
put an outboard motor back in...(don't forget
to fill out the hazmat paperwork)...

hehehe...

 

[Ill Mitch]

I just tell people we're xyz's regional airline...we fly their puddle jumpers...and I leave it at that.

Except the Regionals don't pile people into trucks and put the overflow on to airplanes. Tho it feels like it.

 

[FN FAL]

Except the Regionals don't pile people into trucks and put the overflow on to airplanes. Tho it feels like it.

Yea, but effectively, we are the freight company's regional airline. It's no different than Mesaba being contractors to Northwest.

 

[Freight Dawg]

My Brothers and Sisters there ain't nothing to Explain. We are Freight Dawgs, not everyone can do it and not everyone is cut out for it, We are the few the proud the Freight Dawg. We are the Cowboys and Girls of the night that keep America running. I bet all the furloughed folks wish they would have sucked it up and taken the Freight Dawg gig with Abex, FedEx, or UPS. Later Ya'll

FD

 

[capt. megadeth]

Tell them you are one of the lucky pilots that don't have to listen to passengers b!tch and moan.

Then say "and no, I don't want to be a commercial pilot someday"

 

[Tyro]

Tell them you are one of the lucky pilots that don't have to listen to passengers b!tch and moan...

Yeah...and boxes don't throw up on you, either.

 

[fokkers&beer]

I just tell them I do drywall. The problem is solved and all of the sudden nobody cares. Well come to think of it no one cares anyway, except for maybe my golden retriever. But then hes logged more Cessna 182 time then most private pilots.

 

[gearjockey]

"So, do you think you might want to fly commercial someday"?

Just wear the freightdog shirt then they'll understand. I wish they had more

XL in black btw.

 

[Lostdog65]

Do you sleep in the back of your plane on the ramp...when it's near or below freezing...while the G4's apu has been running all night...because you don't make enough to even split an apartment with the other dawgs and if you got one, you'd have to buy a .357 to make it from the parking lot to your door...because the FBO says the shower and beds are for pilots who fly the "big planes"....

Then yeah...you could call yerself a freight dawg...

Eric
Been there, done that, waitin' on the t-shirt!

 

[Waldom]

I just tell 'em I haul freight. What comes to most minds is a semi-truck moving through the night. That visual is pretty close to the the truth and cuts down on poorly thought out questions that usually follow.

 

[EatSleepFly]

Do you sleep in the back of your plane on the ramp...

Oh man, I can't count the number of times I slept in the back of the planes at my last job. Hard to sleep at places like YIP, CYHM, or the other big freight dog haunts, though. Good times! :nuts:

 

[rubicon789]

Then say "and no, I don't want to be a commercial pilot someday"

I hate it when people ask that stupid question. Then you have to explain the entire thing about how the "commercial" is a license that any idot can get. I stopped telling people because they just don't understand.

 

[FR8dognit]

When I flew Freight and people asked what I did I would say I work in air conditioning repair. It said "Cherry Air" right there on my polo style shirt and I had Jeans and steel-toed work boots on. Then they walk away and whisper to their friend about how you smell like burnt oil and mildew.

 

[pgcfii2002]

"So, do you think you might want to fly commercial someday"?

Just wear the freightdog shirt then they'll understand. I wish they had more

XL in black btw.

OH PLEASE REMOVE THAT AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pgcfii2002]

When I flew Freight and people asked what I did I would say I work in air conditioning repair. It said "Cherry Air" right there on my polo style shirt and I had Jeans and steel-toed work boots on. Then they walk away and whisper to their friend about how you smell like burnt oil and mildew.

HA....I am going to tell people I neuter small animals.

 

[T-Storm Chaser]

"So, do you think you might want to fly commercial someday"?

I used to get that all the time when I flew freight. I also got the variant "So when are you gonna fly the real airplanes?" Come to think of it, i still get that one now and I fly for a regional(ashamed to say I went down that road). People just don't understand that flying freight was the last real flying gig that I have had. Now I just feed bananas to the monkey pushing the buttons. I just tell people that I am a bus driver. Almost the truth. Some people are still interested after that. Screw the rest.

 

[JessMan]

deleated

 

[JessMan]

I used to get that all the time when I flew freight. I also got the variant "So when are you gonna fly the real airplanes?" Come to think of it, i still get that one now and I fly for a regional(ashamed to say I went down that road). People just don't understand that flying freight was the last real flying gig that I have had. Now I just feed bananas to the monkey pushing the buttons. I just tell people that I am a bus driver. Almost the truth. Some people are still interested after that. Screw the rest.

Just tell them "I'm gonna fly real airplanes when I tired of job security and making a living wage!"...

 

[TheBaron]

I don't claim to be a freight-dog (or dawg) anymore; my current job is much to cushy. Recently we flew a charter to a city that we don't normally serve and got to overnight at the local Holiday Inn. The desk girl asked who we flew for and when we said "FedEx" she laughed. "I've seen their trucks, but they don't have airplanes do they?" We explained that in fact, yes, we do have a few airplanes. She was convinced we were just pulling her leg, but she was kind enough to offer an introduction to the ASA crews that were staying there..."maybe they can help you out with a job."
To think they let these people drive cars and breed!!

PS. Not trying to dis any ASA crews

 

[$$$4nothin]

Tell the girls you are a dolphin trainer at Sea World. You will have much better odds. If you are in Canada tell them you are a world class curling team coach.