TRUCKERFAG THREAD

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So what happened to Farm2Fap?
Its now called F2F?
Is it kill?
Is big bad bill blind?
I keep hearing rumors, whats the deal truckerfag?

Who

>>16042423
Yes.

>>16042424

MIKE JONES

>>16042528
https://youtu.be/Qo2hlWLno5Y

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EF, isn't this your brothers truck?

Hey guys,

i got a question.

Is there such a thing as free lance trucking?

I have a lot of extra cash and a lot of free time and I think it would be fun to get my CDL and then do some gigs every other weekend or some shit to fill my time.

Thoughts?

>>16042573
no

Who has the best cuckshed

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>>16042573
There's actually tons of gigs online if you own a straight truck or van just being an independent contractor and moving whatever the fuck people can't fit in their cars. Just go on CL and you will see 500 "Man with a Van!" ads.

>>16042605
Me

>>16042423
Farm2Fleet got bought out changed name to F2F.

Since I didn't get an answer in the last thread, TruckerFag what are the average rates for LTL? I'm making $1.80-$2.20/mile doing TL's but my lease company doesn't offer LTL. Is is possible to drive 2,000-2,500 miles a weeek, or are you sitting a lot? Could I make at least $3/mile driving that much a week 36-52 weeks a year?

>>16042573
It's called being an O/O and you can run as much or as little as you want. Don't expect weekend gigs but I do know people that will take a load out and a load back home and that's all they do once or twice a week. Don't expect to get rich though. Those people I know are "retired" and just do it to travel or pay for health insurance and stuff.

>>16042830
You need to work as a company driver for at least 2 years to be a O/O
Viable part time is not really a thing in this industry.

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R8

>>16042916
You don't need shit but a truck and CDL to get your own authority anon.

>>16042974
And you know, insurance and registering everything as a company and paying taxes and all that bullshit that comes with trying to do things by the book.

This is why I could never vote for Hillary even though I was scared when it looked like Trump might actually make into the race. It's so difficult for a guy to start his own business these days and actually make a living with some hard work. The gubbermint just chokes them to death.

>>16042974
He was meaning that you really need at least that amount of experience to begin have a clue about actually how to drive a truck and be effective instead of some waste of space like an England driver.

>>16042989
The Government expects people to wage slave until they're 50 to have enough money to get past all the red tape yet alone starting a business debt free.

>>16042974
You also need insurancet , and aint no company gonna insure at a rate where you can make money if you dont have 2 years in.
None of this is viable.
Possible? I guess if you are willing to lose a ton of money every single week then maybe but you will go broke fast.

>>16042974
Good luck trying to get a broker that actually has money to pay attention to you without at least two years experience.

>>16042680
Breddy gud.

>>16042573
Google owner operator trucking.
Or find your own gigs, guy I know ships and grinds wood waste from a lumber mill and sells the sawdust as animal bedding.

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>bees on my truck
>bees INSIDE my truck

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>16043081
Leave the window open when parked, and they'll leave. If not, pick them up on a sheet of paper and shake them off outside.

Assuming you're not still loaded with them. If you ARE, keep your fucking windows shut at all times, fuck the inside-bees. The fuckers outside will get in and dump wax and sticky shit over everything.
My first car was given to me after my grandfather died. He transported beehives in it, containing the bees through the simple expedient of keeping his foot hard down and flattening them onto the back window.
Every single surface, outside and inside, was COATED with wax and honey. The heater smelled of warm honey. The steering wheel had to be unjammed when I picked it up, because it was glued to the mounting.

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>>16042680

>>16042825
He gave you a typical superior asshole truckerfag answer.

>>16042938
>hauling cans with a pete

>>16042938

Memes/10.

>>16043229
There's a huge difference is budgeting your expenses on a $ per mile basis and having a more miles = more money mentality.

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>>16042938
yournoteventrying/10

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>>16043628
>not a KW

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>>16043656
i cant paint the KW's in the game, the templates are fukt....

>>16043680
The sleeper on that truck is too many , good luck manuvering in tight space.

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>>16043719
its comfy tho, and the length really is not an issue

>>16043719
People who drive houses are typically flat bed drivers and hardly ever back up. From the ones I've met at truck stops. People make room for them.

>>16043829
Having pulled a flatbed with a house, I must ask;
>u fokkin wot, m8?

the other day say a truck that had a cng engine, car how do they compare to diesel?

besides not being loud as fuck

>>16043910

To simulate how a CNG engine works in the real word, simply grab a lighter or anything else capable of making fire, and apply it directly to your wallet. As you watch the bills burn, just imagine that your handing them over to the service desk at a shop.

Congratulations, you've just learned what its like to own a CNG engine.

>>16042565
Yes it is.

>>16043842
Hey TF are you still with Big BB and his crew?

>>16043910
>call up W.W. Williams about a dual fuel CNG retrofit
>they have a specialist call me up the next day
>we have a 20 minute discussion about technical specs
>he's wrapping the call up
>ask for a ballpark price range
>$30k install
Wew, lads. Maybe on YBJ.

>>16044920
Yep. Still watching the doorswingers get unhinged while the flatbedders kick back and get plastered every weekend.

>>16045192
The dry van guys are the bulk of the business though right?
Are they gonna make it?

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>>16043910
>>16044232
Back before they sold off our full service vending unit, we had a CNG or propane or whatever Frito Lay truck at the warehouse all the time. I'm assuming it didn't weigh a ton since bags of chips are light and I think the tractor was a single axle even with a 53' trailer behind it.

There is also some Volvo "Hydrogen Powered" Pepsi tractor that is at our plant sometimes and I believe that dude does regional runs so like Jacksonville to Miami and Tampa. It was parked one day and I was checking it out and it looked exactly the same as any other truck aside from the giant "Hydrogen Powered" greenpeace bullshit stickers. Then I was reading up online about them and it was something goofy where they only use the hydrogen a very small portion of the time and it runs like any other diesel truck 99% of the miles. Can't remember exactly how it went but it was a load of bullshit and just trying to trick normies into thinking this big company gives a shit about something other than profits.

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>>16045452
Pic related is """hydrogen powered"""

>have a reefer that sounds like an orchestra of jackhammers
>9pm, hit a no-name truck stop with an enormous gravel lot
>park all the way in the back by my lonesome self
>there's like 8 trucks in a lot that could fit a hundred
>a few minutes later a tanker rolls in, all the way back and parks right up on me
>wtf

>>16045409
All but I think 5 of the 65. I figure at least 20 of them are going broke this year. Out of them, a few will have their lease terminated for shit behavior before they're bled dry.

>>16045452
Yep, that's how most dual fuel systems are set up. The system I looked up used "up to 75% CNG", and most of that was at cruising speed. At WOT it was 90% diesel with a bit of CNG to help complete the burn, but the injectors were trimmed enough so that you weren't seeing any additional power. A propane bottle actuated by the boost gauge would be more fun.

>>16047134
Some people sleep better with white noise like idling engines. Also, in gravel lots, it's considered polite to park next to another truck to reduce the chance of varying parking angles that end up reducing available parking as the lot fills up.

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>>16043193
>He transported beehives in it, containing the bees through the simple expedient of keeping his foot hard down and flattening them onto the back window.
a time when men were made of sterner stuff

>>16048022
By that point, he'd survived WW2, multiple recessions, at least three heart attacks, and had retired twice, only to give up on it out of boredom.
He said that if he stopped working, he'd die. When he got too sick to work, he died within a week of his body just shutting down and giving up.
It's a shame he never liked me much.

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Time for some more janky carpentry. Getting in over my head now with the joints, but at least I have a square this time.

Found a new favorite truck stop. JJs Benton Arkansas i30 x106. It's a shithole and the locals are decidedly methy but it's got like 10 acres of glorious mostly paved unlined never full parking.

>>16049003
Wew lad, you can do better than that. Try the Pilot at exit 5 off 23 or J&D's at exit 3 off 31 both in Michigan. Never seen either full, and they're pretty meth free.

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>>16042251
>selling your soul to Swift
already there, senpai, sage

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>>16049018
>Pilot at exit 5 off 23
it was nice and clean last time i was there.

>>16049018
Yeah but I'm in Arkansas. Now I have 3 places in AR I don't hate to park at.

>>16049386
My favoritest stop of all time is Midwest Oil on i44 in Cuba mo. Dem Dottie's burrito s

Could I make $6k a week gross doing LTL flatbed? I'm currently averaging $4k a week gross but want to make more and drive less.

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Shiiii. I ran out of wood to finish this box, but I made the thing, even with a damn landstar canadian talking my ear off for 3 hours. Holds 9 binders and 4 chains comfortably. Once I get the lumber to finish this box I'll probably just keep my short chain and lose hooks under the binders.

>>16049565
>calculating on gross revenue
Why?

What's wrong with netting $4000 out of $5000 instead of grossing $6000 to net $3000?

>>16050041
That's cute. Let me back on your truck now plz

>>16050070
Get in the fucktruck lady.

>>16050041
>>16050070
>>16050216
Post pics.

>>16050041
>hence why I want to run less to NET more

I'm currently only NET $1,300/$4,000.

I consider all costs before NET (cell phone, food, health insurance, etc.) not just fuel and tractor/trailer related payments. So that $1,300 is basically spending money. But I want to make more without working more.

I can do multi stop loads but I don't think that's the same as what you're doing.

>>16050070
Go away

>>16050315
I would say if I only counted fuel and truck costs, my NET would be $2,600.

I don't know how you run your business to determine what your costs are, but I would be interested in a general explanation of LTL.

>>16050315
>>16050326
You really need to keep your personal and business expenses seperate. Figure out your personal expenses then break that out as a salary and transfer it to a personal account. I keep my personal salary at a flat $1000/week, and can do a draw from the business account add needed to keep my taxes simple.

The way I run LTL is I grab 4 loads around Chicago going to around Cleveland, kick those off, and do the same thing going back. Loads usually pay $300- $600 each, so that's $1200- $2400 on around 400 miles. It usually takes the bulk of a day to get all the loads on or off, but depending on how the markets are balanced I might end up taking a truckload back to the market I just came from which means I can be back in the hot market every 2 days.

You'll have to find a market and pace that works for you.

>>16050419
Thanks.

And I will try working out a better budget. I'm pretty fresh. Bought a cheap truck my Dad helped pick out (he's a diesel mechanic so that helps a lot). I mostly do a triangle and back home. Always try to hit Detroit. I mostly leave out of Virginia or North Carolina, down to Missouri/Alabama, up to Detroit/Toledo, then back home. Or in that general vicinity. But recently I've just been staying out weeks at a time booking 1 load ahead at a time. Racking up revenue but more miles != more NET.

I'm assuming you haul machinery. Can't imagine steel or lumber being LTL.

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>drink redbull because i need to drive late tonight
>want shower so stop
>1 hour wait
>sitting around twitching like a mother fucker
>just want to drive

in other news i got stuck in over a foot of mud today and sat for 2.5 hours

>>16050717
witnessed

>>16050737
apparently the city dug down 12 feet, put in a new sewer line, back filled with gravel and the didn't pack it. and they didn't mark it or anything....

>>16050759
did you send the city the bill?

>>16050791
yes that will be happening

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>>16050717
Real drivers don't need showers. Tbqh.

>>16050870
i left before it was my turn. i got shit to do bruh

>>16050938
Me too. Buy some babby wipes and scrub your asshole on your 15 min PTI. Must be nice to be able to stop and wait an hour for a shower at the local petro. I don't have time for that bull shit

>>16043628
Dat bitch on the hood is THICC

>>16042251
Any of you fags have info on Superior Carriers?

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>>16051035
i put that thicc bitch on all muh truks

My 94 Mack transmission is about to blow I can feel it

>>16050419
But wouldn't those count as business expenses since they're tax deductible for your business?

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>>16049003
My favorite in the 48 is Lisa's in moriarty, NM.
It's like the tiniest gas station C-store you've ever seen, with the tiniest little diner you can imagine.
But that food is fucking amazing, and it's a little ways off the main route so all the pilot/loves/TA monkeys don't clog up the lot.
>pic is all my preferred truck stops

>>16051477
>live in Indiana
>none in Indiana
FUCK. Guess I'll be asking for OTR all the time then.

>>16050472
Steel LTL pays decently, and when your running bundled bar you can usually fit 2-4 loads under one tarp and still have half the deck empty. There is lumber LTL out there, but I leave it fit conestogas since it's usually sub $1/mi, and nobody's throwing an 8ft tarp for that noise.

>>16051477
Shiii, I rolled through there on my way to Hatch to get some onions going to jew york. Booked a 4pm appointment 2 days out so I swung by a walmart the first night, then rolled down to Lisa's the second. Should have just eaten up a spot there both nights, but new food being a gamble, and them closing at night, I rolled down to a pickle park for the night in case of anal explosion.

>>16052265
>pickle park
what is, senpai

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Did someone say ltl

>the gained 7 pounds since I started 3 months ago

Feels bad

>>16052807
Tarp that retard

What could cause a tanker scully to keep tripping by itself? I'm getting sick of telling a driver to keep fixing it

>>16052807

thats an old photo.

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>>16052989
Tarp what?? The only thing needed tarred was tarped.

>>16053143 are you insinuating this isn't the norm for me? I've quit taking load pictures a while ago

>>16052915
>tfw I can eat as much candy and McD's as I want and not gain weight
Kinda nice to not have to worry.

>>16053244
That just makes me feel worse

It sucks that I'm going to have to start jogging again. Especially after 10 or 11 hours of driving

How do you keep yourself and your truck not filthy?

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>>16053294
>implying I don't live in squalor

>>16053294
tfw my company has people that wash our trucks inside and out every weekend.

>>16053244
same here man. i eat like a fat fuck all the time and gain little to no weight at all. and when i feel I'm too bloated i just eat one meal a day instead of 2 for a few days then I'm back to being sexy.

>>16053294
>>16053362
Operations made me give my lower mile truck to one of our OTR drivers and I got his that's getting close to the end of its lease because I'm on a dedicated that only runs like 1500 miles/wk.

I don't think the guy cleaned it once in the 400,000 miles he put on it since new. He took one look inside my truck and said "Ooo, yeah, you're not going to be happy." I swear to god it had 1/16 inch of finger goo built up on the turn signal stalk and back side of the steering wheel. All the switches had a layer of sticky slime too. I thought the dash pad had a spot worn in the paint where he put his hands to steady them while he turned on the lights. Nope, a shot of degreaser found that it was shiny black dirt. It was literally the nastiest truck I've been in that wasn't intentionally vandalized and he lived in this son of a bitch too.

>>16053244
My brother eats nothing but McDonald's and Chinese takeout and has never weighed more than 190lb. I inhale air near a deep fryer and gain 20. Same with my 2 sisters. One is skinny as a twig eating 24/7 and the other has to constantly diet and workout.

>>16042251
Do I have to do everything around here?

>Obtaining a CDL: How do?
Community College or a dedicating truck driving school. Do your research and don't get sucked into a "school" that's actually just a meat grinder for a shit company. Do not pay over $5000 for a course that lasts several months.
>How can I into avoidings shit companies?
Here are some decent/good companies:
http://pastebin.com/Sv0cyWyH
If you don't see the company you're looking at included on this list, lurk moar.

>I could totally go to school but I'd rather be a trucker.
If you think you'll love the lifestyle, maybe. You'd be better off getting a """""real""""" job. You can fall back on trucking at any time, but it is essentially a path of decent money for those that fail at everything else.
You can have good business sense and work ethic and make it big as an owner operator, but you would do even better at any other job.

Obligatory meme section
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>You will get fat.
>The only clothing you'll own are pajamas.
>The only reason you get paid well is because you work 70 hours per week.
>The longest relationship you'll get is 1.5 minutes with a lizard.
>Eating nothing is better than roller dogs.
>You have the most dangerous job in the nation.
>The D.O.T., Police, and Le'dash-uh in receiving hate you, and will harass you every chance they get.
>Other drivers hate you.
>Your job will be obsolete once self-driving trucks become available.
>Your loved ones miss you.
>If you don't change careers you will forever be considered a cuck and a homo. Especially if you cuckbox with another fag driver.
>lol 'murrica

>4 4 T O N N E S
>4
>M
>E
>M
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>S

Previous Bake
>>15992066

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>>16053740
Yeah I'm not that bad. Just dirt and gravel on the floor.
I still don't understand how these fuckers live with filthy hands 24/7. I've swapped into trucks with deposited strata of grease and grime. It's incredible.
>10bux says ex-gordo has filthy paws

>>16053740
Time to get a bucket of disinfectant!

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>>16054035
>tfw i cringed hard at my awkward wording immediately after I posted the original pasta
>tfw the pasta has been altered and updated repeatedly
>tfw the phrase I cringe over has survived every iteration

>>16054140
Yeah I've been meaning to reword the copypasta because it's worded funny but I'm a lazy fuck

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fukken sikk

>>16054385
So free exhaust paint job with delivery? Fugg ye

>>16054385
All I can say is that better have a two-stroke Detroit in it too

>>16054975

pls be 12v71 with twin blowers and 4 turbos

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page 9 bamp

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>be just now sitting in Petro fuel island in Ohio
>co-driver filling up
>just ate, showered and in my pajamas
>maximum comfy, pull up /o/ read TF thread
>on my /g/ approved IBM Thinkpad
>hear this sound of banging metal
>look over to the CAT scale
>fucking Swift doing like 30mph up the god damn scale
>stands on his brakes to scale out
>scale is rocking back and forth
>dumps air
>scales out
>hauls ass out of the scale and is probably about to back into some guys W900-L

Keep your eyes on Twisted Truckers this week lol

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Got a call today from my old company.
They need drivers bad so begging me back.
Feel that itch for the road but fucking reefer hours suck and I was planning on going to Baja for the winter.
Wat do?

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WE GIANT ROBOT HAULER NAO

>>16056569
North Baltimore?

Could someone explain to me how the whole process of a trucking company works?

Company A calls Trucking Company XYZ and says they need something moved from place B to C.
So who usually puts it into the shipping container?
Does Company A have to bring it to the XYZ's place?
How is this order dispatched to the actual drivers? Is there an order? Or is it whoever isn't already on the road?

Once a driver gets to C, what then? Does he call someone back at XYZ's office?
Also when is the payment actually sent?

>always been interested in how the whole thing works but never knew

>>16056756
Go to Baja. You can work later.

>>16056994
Using my load from today as an example
>Honda calls equipment manufacturer X
>they need a new assembly line
>X calls all the materials suppliers for supplies
>some send their goods over in their own trucks since they move product almost, if not every day
>some have a trucking company that they don't own, but contact directly, move their product because they typically have a few loads a week
>a few that ship very rarely or so frequently that the prior two options have been exhausted in the available shipment window contact a broker
>broker gets load info along with how much their customer is willing to pay to move the goods
>posts on load boards
>negotiates a rate with trucking companies that call in
>the broker tries to find a trucking company willing to move the load for as little as possible to maximize their cut of the flat target rate given to them by their customer, the shipper
These three scenarios are known as in house freight, contract freight, and brokered freight respectively. If you're interested in a linkhole, read up on logistics here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_logistics

>>16056994
Now to where I come in:

How I got my load today was
>several months later the project is nearing completion
>manufacturer has no trucks of their own to ship the product out on
>their freight is too infrequent and variably specialized to form a contract freight relationship
>however, they do know how many trucks they need to move the equipment and when their customer wants the product to arrive
>they call a broker and say they need 8 trucks, 6 conestogas, a stepdeck, and an OD flatbed to arrive on Friday and Saturday to make Saturday deliveries for a target rate of $8000 between the 8 of them
>broker receives truckload dimensions
>allocates the budgeted linehaul to each load to match market rates without overshooting them to maximize the broker's profits
>$700 for the stepdeck, since it's a tall, but otherwise easy load
>$900 for each conestoga, since they're expensive, high demand/low volume equipment
>$1000 for the flatbed, since permit costs and regulation command a higher rate
>reasonable $900 profit for the brokerage
>nobody wants to fuck with a wide load on a saturday
>I call in
>ask for $1100 to meet permit costs
>broker explains that cuts out their profit for my load
>agree to come down to $1050
>sign the rate confirmation
>call the broker back and tell them the load is too wide to run legally over the weekend
>he panics
>the shipper panics
>last minute on a Friday
>I offer to wait until Monday to run the load for about extra $100 a day over the weekend
>they agree to a rate of $1250
>I go home and fuck around for the weekend
>come back and run the load for a better rate than I'd initially asked for

This is one way that commerce works.

>>16056994
There's the shipper who's asking the freight company for a quote to send their product to the receiver. The only time this gets complicated is when the shipper asks a broker, who in turn posts to a load board hoping some schmuck is dumb enough to take a $2 a mile gross load.

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Is a $20-30K truck worth it? Looking at old 2000-2003 Freightliners with Detroits, but every O/O I talk to at truck stops say they are all trash and I should spend at least $75K on a truck if I don't want a money pit.

Also, how much should I need for a decent aluminum flatbed and gear?

Also, what skills are essential before I should consider being a O/O? I know basic maintenance schedules. I know how to change fluids, filters, grease, etc. I'm pretty handy. I manage trips well and have only had 6 late deliveries in my 3 years of driving, and 4 were out of my control. I know freight lanes pretty well. I just don't know what to look for in buying a used tractor or trailer.

>>16057303
>however, they do know how many trucks they need to move the equipment and when their customer wants the product to arrive

Yet they want OD on the weekend. If they knew the customer wanted it on say Monday, they should have shipped it out days prior and the stupid driver taking that would have sat a weekend with no pay.

Sometimes it's great when drivers get one on a stupid shipper than a shipper getting one on a stupid driver.

>>16057305
Why do people take cheap loads? I get huge carriers taking them because they can do the volume and they pay drivers pennies. The only situation I plan any trip that pays less than $3/mile is if I'm wanting to get home or I'm leaving home to get in the lanes. Sucks living in a shitty area but I love living on the river.

If I had to pick between a 2014-2016 Prostar or Cascadia, which would I be better off with?

>>16058215
International > Freightliner > Kenworth > Peterbilt

>>16058272
top lel, lad, top lel

>>16058272
Think you meant < bud

How often do you pick up hitchhikers?

>>16058215
Cascadia

t. never been anywhere near a truck outside of vide games

>>16058215
I would rather drive a 15 year old Kenworth with no AC in the South Florida heat over a brand new International.

>>16058591
Never

>>16058215
Cascadia. I've driven both. Cascadia is way more reliable

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>>16057539
Roll the dice brotha, I pulled the head off my 99 twice in a year.

>>16059442

do you regret getting that Pete with the tiny sleeper? Not much room in there imo.

>>16059815
Who needs a stand up sleeper when they've got a cuckshed?

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>when the lease op fag thinks he knows more than you and you hear he's headed to Denver

Why would you even go that far west? It's nothing but <$2 freight.

>>16060332
Forty keks - is that a PC tower in that green lit cubby?

>>16060359
that cubby is being green lit by his PC.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run.html?_r=0

>>16057576
But that wouldn't be Just In Time Logistics, where you have people sitting around waiting for shit to arrive in order to get some goddamn work done, and then it has to be rush rush rushed out the door and hared down the motorway direct to the next step.

>>16060530
Was just glancing at it before rolling out. Looking at it now I see it's one of those chintzy 'MLG PRO GAYMUR' cases. Meh. 'Bout to pick up a Sugo SG13b and an SFX power supply to migrate my tower into. Might even bring it on the truck with me some time.

Question from a guy who drives a pickup 500 miles a week-
If I get a CB radio so I can talk to truckers on long trips up the highway will the truckers be annoyed if they figure out I'm not driving a truck?

>>16061383
No in certain areas you can here radio hobbyists sitting in their basement. They are the worse. Drivers it doesn't really bother me at all.

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>>16059815
If I'm in the sleeper I'm asleep.

Pic: rare 5 years ago cuckshed specimen. She had pierced tits. Lives in Colorado now smokes weed and snowboards all year. Recently asked me to hit her up if I passed through recently. I'm afraid I'd want to stay

>>16053294
I sweep the floor everyday and put trash in the trash bag. It's not hard. Keeping yourself clean is easy since you get free showers when you fuel at the major fuel chains.

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>be at National Beef in PA
>told load is ready
>bobtail to site
>rowing gears in a 500hp 587 showing off to my co-driver who can barely float
>get there
>TransAm can't back into a spot and we gotta go
>She moves out of the way so I can snatch trailer
>Get hooked up all paperwork done
>Get to the guard shack to put load locks on inside trailer
>see this nopescicle
>Remember the last time I was at National Beef and saw that
>Got a paid 4 month vacation and a new ankle
>Ankle started hurting instantly just looking at it
>Now at Petro getting it fixed

Swapping trailers during my 10 hour break interrupts it, right?

>>16061753
yes.
>>16061727
man ive only gotten a few broken hinges and each time ive reported them before i touched them, please dont go for a matching set of ankles.

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Got 4 new tires. Speedometer is accurate again. Curious to see how these TY577's do in snow compared to the TY517s before I swap out the 4 on the front axle.

>goodbye $1800 dollarydoos

>>16061921

>dubs checkem

>>16061921
Well, my International now no longer has A/C, and the Cummins seems to burn oil quicker than diesel. Not to mention the interior is falling apart.

I kinda want a new truck but don't want all the baby assists.

>>16060543
Driver assisted is not self driving. The government is already making Tesla change the name of Autopilot because of this.

>>16062565
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/10/25/inside-nvidias-new-self-driving-supercomputer-powering-teslas-autopilot/

>>16061383
>500 miles a week

But what do you do after Sunday?

>>16062580
>can't even detect huge semi trucks and is killing people in Florida and China
>Germany doesn't even approve making Tesla remove "Autopilot" from marketing because it's driver assisted technology, not autonomous
67% of Americans don't want self-driving technology on the road
>Uber is going bankrupt trying to make self driving cars

Literally a bigger meme than consumer 3D printers

>at rest area in NJ
>get boxed in by truckerfags desperate for parking
>[REEEEEEEEEEEs internally]
Gonna have a real problem when I have to leave in 2 hours, but for now I will shitpost.

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>>16062565
Cope harder faggot you and all you trucker faggots will soon be obsolete

>>16062968
It would take years and years of successful self driving before govt regulations allowed unmanned trucks on the road. For that reason self driving trucks can't get here fast enough, I can't wait to spend all night shitposting while my truck does my work for me.

>>16062968
80% of trucker faggots own their own trucks. I personally can't wait to buy one once they become affordable and don't kill people because they can't see a giant fucking semi truck like in Florida and China.

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>. He transported beehives in it, containing the bees through the simple expedient of keeping his foot hard down and flattening them onto the back window.

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>mfw I saw a military HET truck swerving in and out of lanes of traffic on my way to work this morning

the military must just throw these guys on the highway, he almost took out two cars. I've got to get a dashcam

>>16060332
I really want to take my desktop with me but I'm afraid it'll vibrate to death.

>>16063308
Get a SSD. Mine's been fine for almost 2 years.

>>16063123
>80%
More like 40%.

>>16063252
I followed a convoy of military tanker semis for giggles. They were going 78mph into a 55mph curve and jumped on the brakes as they started to roll, and tried to merge into the exit lane last second, leading to them dropping to 20mph in the right lane. It's pretty obvious they just let fucks with class C licenses drive them.

>>16063437
I've got one plus a regular hd. What about the video card? Mine is pretty heavy (980 or something) and I think it's only secured on one end, I'd have to look at it.

>>16065297
Get a GPU back plate to eliminate flex or build a mini-ITX box using a case with a horizontal motherboard tray on the bottom.

>>16061921
>TY577
132 rolling resistance
I thought you knew better than that

>>16064996
According to some trucking organization, 90% of the industry is small businesses with 10 or less trucks, averaging 1.2.

>>16065953
I don't know where you got that from, but 97% of the industry are fleets with 20 trucks or less, while ~50% being 1 truck operations.

Self-driving trucks are still a long ways away, and these driver assisted trucks won't be replacing anybody. The only people that should be scared for their future are the mega company driver cucks and their cheap as dirt contract freight. To the rest of the industry, it'll only benefit us. I'd still like to see how a self driving truck alone can impact the spot market. I want a self tarping flatbed trailer god damn it.

>>16060543

Let's ignore the topic of commercial trucking and look at the broad aspect of driverless vehicles for a second, because the trucking industry lags greatly behind the innovations of the rest of transportation.

Level 3 and 4 vehicles still require a driver's licence because YOU are the driver. The autonomous technology is driver-assist technology. You are still the driver and liable for tickets, wrecks, and damages.

Let's consider level 5 driverless cars. Who's liable for tickets, wrecks, and damages? According to the companies of these driverless technologies such as Google, all people in the vehicle are passengers, and the computer is the driver. Under current law, the driver is always responsible. A passenger isn't wearing a seatbelt? The driver gets the ticket. You're involved in the wreck, the driver is responsible, not the passenger. So are these manufactures willing to take complete liability? Do you really expect people to sign some waiver accepting liability for something completely out of their control? The entire legislation on traffic laws would have to adapt.

Here's my prediction. Level 3 and Level 4 cars are coming soon, but they will be a very small percentage of market share and grow very slowly as the technology improves. It has taken ACC 26 years just to capture a 3rd of the market, and still isn't a standard feature for most new cars coming out today. This new technology will have no exception. It'll be an optional feature for luxury cars for years if not decades before it becomes standard or even optional in your $20K Honda Civic. You'll have taxi's adapting them more than us, and that may drop the private car ownership rates in big cities, but it won't make a huge impact very quickly. I don't see this making a big impact at least until 2030.

Level 5 is still at least 50 years away from becoming standardized.

>>16060543
We MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE now!

Stuck in the Werner Dallas terminal hotel. Been a week so far. Office says Mabey another week. I'm waiting on a new trainer, I had to cut short my last one. Caught him going through my things in the middle of the night while I was in the sleeper bunk, He was also a disgusting person and had a really aggressive and hostile demeanor.

I hope this wait doesn't take much longer. I'm bored out of my mind here. Nothing to really do nearby.

>>16067190
>in Dallas
>nothing to do

You mean you can't afford to do anything.

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Dropped at Aldi in Salisbury today. Oh boy

>be 5 hr late because of aforementioned trailer hinge issue repair
>show up to Aldi
>bills in hand
>security guard mumbles something over the intercom
>Door 89 Primefag!
>get to door 89
>it's a fucking blind driver's side alley dock
>Aldi's xboxhueg Cat generator completely blocks the view of the space and the trucks on both sides
>truck on the curb in front of me so have even less space to back
>fuckers up front were probably like "Prime? Oh yeah those guys can back give him that pain in the ass door that has all the shit in front of it"
>set up my backing job
>trailer slides right in the hole first time
>forgot to open the fucking door because I'm stupid
>have to pull back out of the spot and open the doors
>can't open doors
>oh this shit again
>eventually open doors and am greeted by the Leaning Tower of Beef
>it's about to fall out of the back but there's just enough plastic holding it up
>ride the clutch all the way back into the spot blind again
>lined up perfectly
>takes another 2hr to get unloaded
>just as im about to nap bills are ready of course
>get preplanned load to Mass for 3 bucks a mile that we're already late for because the shipper took 5 god damn hours to load the trailer and we got out way late

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>>16061495

>>16067386
Lawl..

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>>16067532
The story with with this one is odd. And probably the one that gets to me the most.

Friend of a friend somehow met at sheetz and she came back to cuckshed with me.
>goes to bathroom
>Comes out topless
>look I just got my boobs pierced
>I am a deer in headlights
>oh cool.
>she goes back into bathroom comes out and starts playing music on the stereo
>I approach and ask to see again
>she lifts shirt up
>I just go in.
>she was said she wanted to fuck now
>I go lay on bed she gets on me
>15 minutes of riding. Biggest tits I've ever played with..
>15 minutes of missionary
>was so worried about lasting long that I just fucked both of us raw and I couldn't cum.
>go to sheetz again for snacks.
>she sleeps on my futon
>I am on my bed feeling like a bitch that needs cuddled.

In retrospect it absolutely eats me up inside I never got to doggy style her. I have no mental picture of her ass at all. And it drives me mad. I think because I didn't cum all over her that she didn't really develop a connection during that encounter. This was 5 years ago.

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>>16067661
5 years later and a diet of 90%weed and snowboarding everyday it looks like her tits are a lot smaller and she just lost that excellent chub she had going on. Need to find a load going through Denver man...

>>16067709
More like you need to put a load in her pooper

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>>16067759
Driving me mad... she was literally a redhead pornstar. Look at that belly chub.. my god, kill me

>>16067825
Girls hate that tummy though, they've all been conditioned to believe only a plank-flat stomach is good-looking. Pisses me off.

>>16067825
That's gross though. Flat belly with fat ass and tits.

>>16067386
Care to offer any suggestions?

Mind you I'm a weeaboo shut in. I also like children's card games.

>>16067386
the werner dallas is a prison. you have to take a shuttle out or walk for an hour for anything decent

>>16068001
Thank you. Just getting to a walmart is a 3 hour trek there and back. There are plenty of shady looking spots for lizards all around out here, no decent places for food. And the nearest movie theater is a shit box designed for Mexicans.

>>16068044
D'Ventures is pretty decent and there's a Whataburger.

Does Werner not have transportation for you? My company has a few mini vans we can check out when were at terminals.

>>16068498
The only place I do want to go and hang out at is too far away for the shuttle to take me. There are no shuttles that I could actually use myself.

>>16068578
Yeah, trucking companies are weird about that. They're fine with you driving a quarter million dollars plus of equipment and load but ask for a four wheeler and it's like "holy shit, NO!"

Of course WernerPrisoner is a bit different since he's still a trainee.

>>16069012
Crete has company cars at their terminals, but you might end up waiting in line.

I fucked a lizard a few weeks ago outside of Houston, TX. She was a cute petite brown girl. I don't think she was Latina but from the middle east. Not really Arab though because she didn't have a big nose.

So when is my dick supposed to fall off?

>>16069236
Sounds like your dick is gonna turn to shit instead

>>16065755
Between getting stuck on ice, and all the stone drilling I needed something with a softer compound. These are load range H as well, so the RR is probably closer to 145.

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Thread on suicide watch?

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes-first-delivery-50000-beers/

>>16070066
na.its glorified cruise control. you still need drivers for the start middle and end.
im also positive one of these twits is gonna take a nap and cause an accident also probably gonna make sitting in the back illegal while vehicle is in motion.

>>16070203

>If he can nail that, Ron says he can make trucking a local profession. “You can imagine a future where those trucks are essentially a virtual train on a software rail, on the highway,” he says. He sees a day when trucks do their thing on the interstate, then stop at designated depots where humans drive the last few miles into town. Drivers, in effect, become harbor pilots, bringing the ship to port.

>>16070401
unless they've figured out how to deal with road construction, inclement weather and stupid people someones still gonna be in there. and we can do the port thing now, its called drop and hook.

Where will /tfg/ go when 4chan is impossible to use?

>>16070401
>ignores the government

What you are describing is a Level 4 autonomous car, which still require's a driver with a license.

Do you guys 4chin while you truck? Is that why you're such awful drivers? Also, stay the fuck out of any lane that isn't the rightmost lane.

Why are new drivers so terrible?

This guy washed his truck in a fuel island, then sat there for 45 minutes waiting for his company buddy to pull up in the next pump and they swapped trailers. Then the other guy took a 30 minute break without moving his truck.

Was waiting to drop a load and guys were laughing at some guy trying to fold his tarp in the 20mph wind. They kept yelling at him "If you can't even fold a tarp you don't deserve to be a trucker." Not one of them walked over to help besides me. Then while I was watching them struggle, I said "If you can't even fold a tarp you don't deserve to be a trucker."

>>16072586
Np, I'll be sure to be there in time for you to merge for your exit :^)

>>16072593
By the way, all of these drivers were from the same company, and wouldn't even help each other out. I'm an O/O and I've seen much worse lack of respect for other drivers, but the fact that they wouldn't even help a fellow company driver makes me sad for the future of this industry. Driverless trucks can't get here fast enough. I'm saving now planning to invest in one and see how it goes, then probably lease more. These retards will be back flipping burgers.

>>16072602
I pass by a weigh station that has my exit less than a quarter mile past it every day on my way to work and I always try to help every trucker-kun get on the road. Please no bully.

Anybody have a console in their cab? I want to bring mine but afraid the vibrations would fuck up the console or the disc.

>>16072661
What about getting a Vita and leaving a PS3 or 4 at home and remote playing on it?

>>16072680
Does it work that well? Want to play some Madden and NBA 2K.

>>16072690
I've never tried, but I always wanted to try it for maximum comfy.

>>16072690
I' imagine it'd work as long as you can maintain a stable connection while out and about, and that the homeowner's association doesn't have your stuff seized for non-payment of fines because you haven't mowed the lawn in a week.

I am getting sick of finding a parking space at night.
I have cargo van and wondering if I cant make just as much o r near as much money with that thing since I am only a company driver now making fucking .35 cents a fucking mike.

>>16072807
What's wrong with the rest stops?

>>16072807
If you want a good spot at a truck stop then you should be calling it a day at 5-6pm and waking up early.

I hardly ever stop at truck stops. Its nothing but nasty people. I stay at rest areas or find a parking lot in town so I can do some shopping.

>>16072661
I've brought my X1 and my PS3 a few times. Long as it isn't running while you're driving you should be fine.
>>16072680
What are data charges and latency?
>>16072690
Outside of playing via Wifi on the same network, there's noticeable input lag, and you don't even see the action as it's happening, you see it all a brief moment later. Terrible for games that require any sort of quick reactions.
>>16072807
See >>16072940 and >>16072991. Rest areas for night parking, or start and stop early for truck stop parking. It was 6pm when I pulled into this pilot and its jam packed. You can make okay money with a van if you can actually find a not-shit job in your area for it, but it'll never be owner-operator-tier money.

>>16073147
I think his wages are pretty average for vans. Any higher than $0.40 and it becomes too picky, not just pass a few checks and off to orientation.

It took me almost 3 years on $0.36/mile to save up to become an O/O. I just ran hard not bitching about pay not bitching about home time not being a faggot about everything, etc. I don't know how people can stand being a company driver for longer than 5 years max. I now make the same I did as a company driver working only 36 weeks a year.

What are all these blinking red lights off I40 just inside the west border of Texas? Aliens?

>>16074155
better report it to coast to coast

>>16067825
I bet you fuck fatties

>>16074179
Save me art bell there are thousands

>>16074223
Found out they're wind turbines false alarm.

>Company expands to new warehouse
>It supposedly larger but the lot is a clusterfuck
>First day I drop there
>Mess of trucks trying to get in and out through a tiny entrance
>Security has no idea what to do with my empty trailer
>Local guy then drops his trailer after failing to secure it to fifth wheel
>3/4 of lot blocked
>No one can get in or out
>Watch as slowly lifts his landing gear and reconnects properly
>The impatience was palpable


But I got to see Anthrax and Slayer today so gg

>>16074692
Not bad. I came back to my truck and found about a gallon of diesel under it. APU ate a filter apparently.

>>16074692
I had a swift/central truck playing games with me today in wyoming.
Fucker apparently had no cruise control, was just kind of orbiting 60mph without ever really maintaining a speed.
Every time I'd hit the left lane to pass him he'd hammer down and trap me there.
>tfw 62mph company slave
Then when I'd give up and back off to let traffic through, he'd start the ol' "am I gonna do 50 or 60? Who knows!" Pattern again.
We played these hilarious games for 80 miles.

>>16075314
Sounds like a typical new driver. He was probably doing it on purpose too.

>>16075314
>62 mph company slave
CR England?

>>16074770
Damn, same shit is going on with my truck but with the oil filter. Fucking Internationals man

>>16075582
Keksimus, I know a guy at Roehl that was all excited when the company gave him a '17 International with a Cummins and less than 50k miles. It's been in the shop three times in the last three weeks and last time it was there for a couple days.

>FUCKING ADS REEEEEEE
Seriously the fuck Hiroshima

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>>16076410
I know, it's fucking terrible on mobile. You have to scroll through two pages before getting to the first comment. And then if you click "Bottom" you have to go back up two pages to see the thread.

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>>16076450
>not using desktop view

>>16076450
>>16076462
>not using Clover

>>16042251

>you're own

>>16076450
>>16076462
Isn't that Claire? We've got some sketchy picture-stealin' advertisers now.

>>16076462
>All them notifications
I need to find an app now I reckon. Or get another android phone for better ad blocking.
>>16076485
Sketchy advertisers are the only ones that'll advertise on 4chan. Would much rather have Google text-only ads.

>>16076377
I can't understand how companies justify these trash barges, they're constantly in the shop or rattling off all their parts on the highway.
Maybe now that guy will realize literally anything else is better, even with higher mileage.

>>16077129
>>16076377
Our new Internationals always have problems and they justify it by saying "It's under warranty!" and send it to the dealer which means it is gone for a week minimum. Then when it's busy we have to rent Penske trucks. We have had between 3 and 6 rentals in our fleet over the past year. There's no way that is cheaper than just buying new Kenworths or even Freightliners instead of Internationals.

>>16077391
Presumably, someone is taking backhanders, or they're tied to a contract.

>>16077550
Idk they could have some deal if they purchase a ton of trucks, but Internationals are cheaper normally and the people in charge of the money want to save a couple pennies in one spot even if it means losing dollars later on.

>>16077796
Big companies generally cut deals with suppliers. My employers have signed a deal with Iveco to supply vans on the cheap and save money, for example.
All the drivers are bummed; they like their Mercedes vans. And I liked being able to say I got to ride in chauffeur-driven Mercedes for work.

>>16042251
What are the in and outs of the job?
How do you become a trucker without becoming a fat lardass?
How do you get a job delivering soda for pepsi or coke?

>>16077854
>What are the in and outs of the job?
You back into bays.
You drive out of bays. Simples.
>How do you become a trucker without becoming a fat lardass?
Don't eat too much, do some fucking exercise.
>How do you get a job delivering soda for pepsi or coke?
Apply. Keeping it is a different matter.

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>>16076589
Mayne, you don't even know.

>>16077874
>You back into bays.
>You drive out of bays. Simples.
But how do you become those truckers that only deliver in state rater than national?

>Don't eat too much, do some fucking exercise.
Do you get time to exercise as a trucker?

>Apply. Keeping it is a different matter.
What do you mean by keeping it? Do they hire anyone to be a driver at the coke company?

>>16077902
>What do you mean by keeping it? Do they hire anyone to be a driver at the coke company?

It's hard work, and they have high turnover, according to our friendly neighbourhood Pepsifag.

> discount labors
Indeed, captcha. Indeed.

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>>16077902
Do you really want to know about it?

This is also the slower season so with no experience it might take a bit for them to hire you unless they have a bunch of people quit. It gets much busier in the summer, our volume seriously probably dropped like half since before Labor Day.

It's not that terrible once you get the hang of it. Pay will be like $40k-$60k a year depending on location, pay structure, and how good you are at the job. I had a handful of 60hr weeks when I first started but now that I have my route figured out and know what I'm doing, I work ~45hrs a week and it ends up being $20-$25/hr at the end of the day.

Just remember, it isn't really a driving job. You are gonna have to deal with shitheads and stock some coolers but you also get to sleep in your own bed every night and they will treat you like a king if you make it a year.

>>16077902
Idk what else to add. Pepsi is straight because you get health insurance and all that shit from day 1, you don't have to wait 3-6 months for it to kick in. That's a big factor for some people.

A lot of beverage distributors are independent bottlers. We're actual PepsiCo and I believe Coke around here is actually Coca Colla. We get paid base pay and commission, it's like $120 just for clocking in for the day and then ~15¢ per case. I heard we make more than the Dr. Pepper and beer guys but also work pretty hard because Pepsi sells so many damn products. The Coke distro buy us pays drivers hourly now, up until like 2yrs ago they had salary and commission too. Some of their drivers like it, some don't. But from everything I hear, Coca-Cola around here is twice as dysfunctional as Pepsi.

D-Bay or Driver-Merchandiser will probably be what they call that position online. It can be 10-20 stops, 300-700 cases for us. Stops are anything from 10cs to 150cs. We do gas stations, 7-11, Walgreens, CVS, restaurants, etc. Average delivery is around 30 cases.

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>>16077902
And if you apply...

Starting pay for us was $12/hr. Hopefully your location will send you with one vet and you can get the hang of everything within a month. Some of our new guys (especially the shitty ones) will get thrown on trucks with whoever needs help and it sucks for them because they don't learn as much but it is normally guys who won't hang around long. Last week I had a dude with me who started in July and still only has routes a couple days a week when people call out or we are heavy, but this nig is especially niggish and lazy and slow and dumb. I was collecting paperwork on Wednesday and he had like 3 fucked up forms from one day. That dude also stays out for 12hrs to get 10 stops and 300 cases off his truck while I'm doing 550 cases and 15 stops and still back in 9hrs.

But don't expect to be grossing $1000+ right at the beginning. We do have this Chinese overtime where you make a little more money when you work over 40hrs but it totally isn't worth it. You may only have routes 2 or 3 days a week if it is slower so you still get your base pay but no commission on those days. I don't mind when they cut my route once every week or two though, it gives me a little rest.

When I get my route cut, it ends up working out since I do other shit instead of just helping somebody. Wednesday I had no route, so I drove a van around and got missing paperwork. Even dragging ass, I was still done by 10am so I hung around and talked shit to people and clocked out by 11am and got my $120 base pay for driving a van around, smokin cigs, and listenting to the radio for 5hrs. The last two weeks I had my route cut a few times and took the sweet airport delivery. So I clock in at 6am, smoke cigs and talk to people for an hour, drive 20min to the airport, sit and wait anywhere from 10min to an hour for a security escort, then go drop 5-10 pallets and leave. I make a bunch of commission on those pallets with no real work.

>>16075314
If it was in a busy area I would just concede and keep a safe following distance. But in Wyoming? There is no reason to be doing that shit when you have all that open road. I don't think I could ever drive a 62mph truck.

>>16072661
It'll be fine as long as it's not running while you are driving. The hard drive is the main concern since it has moving parts and the vibration could fuck it up. None of my consoles have ever broken while in my truck over the past 3 years

>>16072940
From my experience the only thing to worry about stopping at rest areas for a 10 is DOT showing up to inspect trucks. IL, TX, and PA seem to be big on this

>>16078269
62mph does suck. The speedos and governors in our trucks are all over the place. Some end up around 60mph so you are forced to ride in the right lane with people who don't know how to merge. But even the trucks that get like 66mph, you can pass all the 62mph trucks so much more easily.

They really need a "Push to Pass" button where you can hit 70mph a couple times an hour just to pass those fuckers and then go back to 65mph

>be me, trucking
>it's friday, so decide to stop driving one hour early to stop at popeyes and get me some tendies
>walk in the popeyes, boxes stacked everywhere
>40 minute wait for tendies
>a fucking goddamn tour bus called ahead and ordered all the tendies

REEEEEEEEEEEEE.FLAC

>>16078308

Same here my man. All of our 2014 - 2017 school buses are governed at 70mph.

We have a pair of 2009 Bluebirds and 4 2012s that are governed at 65mph for some reason.

>>16078308
I deliver building supplies all over my state to home centers, large commercial job sites
Work for an international corporation, all company vehicles from salesman SUV's to our Freightliner Fleet are all governed to 59 mph, that's it, on my truck the system slows me on downhills to make sure I don't go overboard 59, it really, really sucks, my state has a 75 mph speed limit, have to run with my flashers on at all times, even have a sign on the rear of my trailer, warning other drivers

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>not a trucker, but have to regularly drive a van around, and usually have to haul a small trailer full of shit behind it
>always try to give truckers plenty of room for safety and courtesy
>always faggots that try to cram themselves into the safe space I keep between my own vehicle and trailer and the truckers truck and trailer

I should really get a dashcam to record all the batshit stuff that happens on the highway when Im pulling my trailer around. No accidents, but lots of near misses with assholes almost clipping me, or swerving around me and the big trucks with no blinkers.

Just today I was in the left lane with a big truck and trailer was in the right lane, and as I was going to pass the truck a fucking car that was behind the truck wedges just barely between the truck and me so he can get in front of me and pass us both. If I had been going any faster he would have clipped my front bumper and gotten launched into the backwheels of the trucks trailer.

>>16078971
70mph is straight, especially because of the kids and all. You're not a cpm cuck anyway.

>>16079151
That's rough. I-95 around here is 65 and then the Turnpike and I-75 are 70mph so it sucks when you are trying to stay out of the rightmost lane with people merging but can't even go the speed limit.

Fucking weekend dispatch man. My dispatcher is cool but he goes home Friday evening and I'm left at their mercy. These fuckers sure know how to kill my entire weekend with a little 20 mile added on trip or two. Who are these bastards anyway, and can I defy them?

>>16079719
It's 2 days. Stop bitching like a newfag or find a different job. There's people who deal with bullshit 7 days a week.

>>16078657
>>>/r9k/

>>16079187
What is there to record? 4 wheelers get away with anything. If a trucker did that, he'd lose his job. I really wish DOT would include how to drive around semi-trucks in the driver manual and skills test.

>>16045455
Change your fucking rears.

>>16079764
So what's the motivation, cuck? I'm paid on an otr pay scale and am happy to work 12-14 hour days as long as I'm rolling. We have local drivers who are paid on a different pay scale who do these little 10-20 mile runs around the city and make good money doing it. But on my pay scale when I do these little short hauls I'm almost not getting paid at all and am killing a Saturday for nothing. For what purpose.

>but it's your job
Fuck off, you want some pride and loyalty then don't fuck the otr guy with local bullshit when he's trying to get home. Or pay me more than 35¢ per mile for it, then I'm straight. I'm not out here pissing in Gatorade bottles for charity.

>>16079857
Find a different company and stop complaining or find a different career pal. If you want to bitch and moan about things that are part of the industry, go do it on r/trucking with all the other fags.

>>16079719
>>16079857
You need to take it up with your DM first and see if you can get it arranged that you get paid like the local guys when you do this weekend work or at least a flat $150 or something. If they won't work with you then it's time to move on because they're just being abusive and there's no reason to put up with that shit.

>>16067661
>>16067709
>>16067825
nice trailer trash you got there.

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>>16067190
Meet me at the flying J on Bonnie view, I can help you find an actual white hooker. You can't miss me, I'm the nigger wearing gold chains riding a horse around the parking lot.

>>16079719
>tfw gonna sleep til noon on Saturday

>>16079799
You don't like muh hydrogen powered super singles?

>>16072650
Hammond, LA?

>Earlier
>Mt. Juliet, TN
>Fuckton of Mustangs on the road
>In five minutes of driving I see:
>One mustang run a red light
>One cut someone off
>Two change lanes without signaling
>One passed me on the fucking shoulder going 20+ over the speed limit
>And one did the speed limit and even let me over
The fuk.
Then:
>Coming home in the blazer
>Melanin enhanced American citizen driving a white BMW with the top down
>He's got a goddamn 7" tablet sitting behind the steering wheel, in the gauge cluster, watching a fucking movie while he drives
I called the cops cause that's legit the dumbest goddamn thing I've seen all year.

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>>16080467
>>Melanin enhanced American citizen

>>16050419
>It usually takes the bulk of a day to get all the loads on or off, but depending on how the markets are balanced I might end up taking a truckload back to the market I just came from which means I can be back in the hot market every 2 days.

You said it takes the bulk of the day loading and unloading. Do you just log off duty, or how else would you have the time to be back in the hot market every 2 days?

>>16079774
they make fun of me over there for having a job

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Well here's how my past few days went

>be in Mass
>tight switchback roads
>co-driver flipping his shit because he is scared of the NE
>has never driven snow and ice and is about to
>raining and at night which he hates
>go lay down in sleeper
>PRIMEFAG FUCK THE TRUCK IS SHUTTING DOWN WHAT THE FUCK
>typical Peterbilt 587 electrical shit
>manage to coast down a hill to an intersection
>He's dead, Jim
>cops show up order it towed to Ricky's
>spend the night in a tow lot and find out our bunk heater doesn't work
>call Peterbilt and Prime the next day and proceed to ream them both shiny new assholes for the 4th time broke down (2nd in two weeks) and $4000 in revenue lost over this fiasco
>get our tows paid by Peterbilt
>get our Holiday Inn paid for by Prime
>Pete says they might get to it next week
>guess it's time to get banned off of CS:S servers for "cheating" (read: newbies who suck accusing me of wallhax)

>>16081873
>>spend the night in a tow lot and find out our bunk heater doesn't work
Did you have to cuddle for warmth?

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>>16081873

Also

>on 85 on the way to pick up aformentioned Aldi load in NC
>nice big gap in front everyone playing nice
>65mph
>see a Camry in the breakdown lane
>another truck next to me so can't move over
>remember It's Always A Fucking Camry
>play it off, surely he won't pull out in front of an 80000lb lead sled
>he does
>beat the On-Guard and stand on the brake pedal
>get so close I can't see the back of his car
>lay on the fucking air horn
>driver raises their hands in the air like "what the fuck do I do omg i'm a dumb ass 4 wheeler fuck fuck fuck"
>doing 20 god damn mph
>two trucks behind me are behind a cloud of their own smoke for locking their wheels up
>nothing gets hit somehow
>none of the brake nannys or collision nannys kicked on
>no "critical event"
>keep my continuous 1 year of perfect safe driving
>buy a dashcam the next day
>mfw

>>16081873

Almost forgot I would like to put in a pat on the back for our Pete rep Van over at Prime he talked me through the engine bay asked to look for this and that we both came to the conclusion of a shorting J3 harness all the codes are on that harness and he's in touch with the Pete dealer on this so hopefully we can get rolling soon although I don't mind the hotel accommodations here.

>>16081912
for me its always a jeep. Cherokee i believe.

>>16081873

this is why you don't lease at a megacarrier. the moment something breaks down you're in the hole and the company legally doesn't have to pay you shit.

Better to be a company cuck, that way it ain't your problem when the truck breaks down.

I'm going to be starting out OTR next week. What are some essentials I should stock up on? I've got like the basic hygiene supplies, but what else would be good to have?

>>16082770
Rubber gloves for pumping fuel
Wet wipes for cleaning
Box of disposable latext gloves for cleaning
Flushable baby wipes for your ass
A good led flashlight
A waterproof mattress pad for spills and stuff
Top Ramen or canned food

Unless you actually want to cook. If you got an inverter, get an electric foreman grill or something. If not, get a small tabletop grill with a small propane canister. And then of course a mini fridge. Microwave is also helpful. I'll cook a bunch of chicken breasts before I go out and eat them cold with a can of green beans and potatoes. I get a lot of cup of noodles as well and microwaveable food like pizza rolls, hot pockets, etc.

Once you get out on the road, you'll know what you're missing and can buy it then. I'd try to find parking in town/city at least once a week to do some shopping. Don't get lazy and just eat truck stop food. It's cheaper to raise a child than maintain a truck stop diet.

>>16082770
>>16082875

If you're going out with a trainer he might already have a lot of the necessities so make sure you ask.

>>16083168
And you'd also learn then what you need

are you truckers overweight

>>16083485
Well, we're almost all Americans, so of course.

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What's the reality of trucking? Do you get tired often? Do you get a chance to sleep? Have you gotten into an accident? How much do you get paid?

>>16083485
Oh yes.

>>16084310
No. Yes. No. Pennies.

>>16084310
>What's the reality of trucking?
I book a load from a load board. I pick up load. I deliver load. Bunch of paperwork and bullshit and I get paid.

>Do you get tired often?
I don't get tired but sometimes I just want to get home and I'm cranky all day.

>Do you get a chance to sleep?
Usually have 12-14 hours of total free time a day.I sleep about 7-8 hours a night, and spend the rest playing video games.

>Have you gotten into an accident?
I smoked my breaks once and had to crash into those run away truck ramps down a mountain. I was extremely embarrassed and regret the company I went to because I was never trained for it. My training was 4 weeks with a local driver. Ran the same local routes every day then went back to company HQ. Once I got my own truck, I was regional and running just about everywhere east of I-35. Had no experience in hardly anything and went bald due to fear and anxiety.

>How much do you get paid?
I'm owner/operator now and made $79K NET last year. But as a company driver, I wouldn't expect any less than $0.35/mile for your first job. Expect to make anywhere from $40K to $60K as a company driver. I made $52-55K a year in my 3 years as a company driver making $0.38/mile.

Ran out of time in middle of nowhere SC because of a receiver who won't take it until Monday and water in the fuel. Now I'm bored.

>>16084310
>What's the reality of trucking?
Hard graft.

> Do you get tired often?
All the time. Roads are boring.

> Do you get a chance to sleep?
If I'm lucky.

> Have you gotten into an accident?
Pretty much every time traffic jams solid and I have to barge 4-wheelers out the way.

> How much do you get paid?
Get... paid?
I paid for the hardware and the software... Oh, you mean REAL trucking, not ETS2 and ATS?
My bad.

>>16068044

>he doesn't have a 1000-dollar beater at his company's main terminal stuffed away in long-term parking

Single best decision I've done as a trucker is bring my car to our terminal. I'm in the midst of purchasing something much nicer for hometime.

I've actually considered putting beater cars in other terminals we have, specifically our Fontana, CA drop yard and Pittston, PA. Maybe SLC. I think if you plan on spending any time with your company of choice and are OTR you owe it to yourself to buy a cheap ass beater car that could potentially make it home if you got axed and store it on company premises so that way you got wheels.

>>16086746
There's also the 'keep a bicycle in the truck' idea, because they're much faster than walking and stupidly light, and can be stored with next to no maintenance.

>Now there's a banner ad at the bottom of the screen
This is some bullshit.

>>16086791
And on Safari with the iPhone, every once in awhile I will get one of those pop-up type ads where it gived you the "Ok" or "Cancel" choice and all you can do is close the whole page and go all the way back from a home page.

Fuck mook. They should at least get rid of that bullshit for pass users.

>>16086757
I've always pondered how to keep a bike on the truck without either keeping it in the cab or getting it mangled if it's hung behind the cab.

>>16086884
Longer-frame tractor so there's room to hand it behind the cab?
Attach it to the trailer?
Otherwise, take a wheel off and keep it in the cab, away from the grimy shit outside.

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>>16086884
Bike as in bicycle?

It wouldn't be hard at all just to strap it to the rear of the cab. And if you take the front wheel off, you can turn the handlebars to the widest point on it would be the pedals which is like <12".

And if you want to go thinner, leave the front wheel on if you want but take off the pedals and handlebars and it is <6". You could also look at flight bags for bicycles, you take the handlebars, front wheel, and pedals off and they back down so small you could probably slide it under the bunk.

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>>16086884
>>16087267
Front wheels will often come off without tools, so you would need a single wrench for the pedals and a hex key for the stem to take the handlebars off. Hell, some pedals can actually be removed with a hex key by going from the back of the crank arm so you could pack it away with 2min and a couple hex keys.

>>16086884
Longer frame and a retracting ramp motorcycle lift to place it. They exist for pickup trucks but the geometry would be a bit different for a tractor frame height. There are plenty of pics on the net. You could have one custom made or fab it yourself.

>>16086884
just buy a folding bicycle for $100, they are small enough to put in the passenger footwell

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>>16086798
>he fell for the 4chan pass meme

I find it amusing how some of you flatbedders can manage to secure thousands of pounds and dollars worth of equipment to the truck, but have trouble doing the same with a small bicycle.

Nigga strap it to the ceiling of your cab or some shit. Get creative.

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>>16087795

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>>16087820

Bump.

Changed the oil in my car today. The wife served as paper towel wench. Was good.

>>16089555
Checked

>>16087783
That's a terrible location, you can literally watch the thing get caked in dirt and rust.

>>16087625
They got me by the balls. I always post from my phone and there was a ban across AT&T everywhere around here. The one that says "You can't post from this country" or some shit so I bought the $20 pass. Not having to deal with the Captchas is worth it though, those things get worse every week.

>>16087625
>he works for google, for free

>>16086746
Sup primebro are you company or O/O?

I'm going to prime's orientation next Monday. What is Prime's policy on parking a beater at their terminal? Got a old Toyota.

I might have to start posting here. Long time member of the 4chin """"""""community""""""""

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>when you get the big shower

>>16092152
for u