/tfg/ - Truckerfag Thread

Cruise control isn't working fuck my life senpai

>>16092591
Better stop skipping leg day. My APU ain't fixed. Glad the weather's comfy.

Wish there was more CNG filling stations out in the middle of nowhere.

Then I could convert my truck.

http://www.trucktrend.com/how-to/engine/0811dp-diesel-natural-gas-injection/

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>>16092915
>no ape hangers

disappointed

>Pick up truck from shop
>Pick up load
>Drive a few hours to get ahead of schedule
>Stop for the night
>Wake up
>Pretrip
>Oil fucking everywhere on driver side steps
>Open hood
>Oil everywhere
>Oil cap missing
>Rig a psuedo oil cap with sandwich bag and electrical tape until I can buy a real one

I have no idea how this happened.

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>>16093257

Swift drivers lol

>truck still not fixed
>stuck in comfy hotel
>want to leave
>don't want to leave

halp

>>16093596
Spending my 34hr reset playing civ 6. Comfy game makes the time go by quick.

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>>16092579
If I were trailer trash, I would bring my 14 kids to the truck stop tonight and have them knock on all the truck doors asking for candy. They would probably come back with a lot of hard drugs.

>>16093596
Yeah but at least my truck is running

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What are you supposed to do for knee health? I do all city driving and my left knee bothers me about every other week. Been driving since June and hasn't gone away.

>>16093669
I would give them my leftover Phil-Brrrr cups filled with piss.

>>16093724
ok mr. moneybags

>>16093716
Not part of the automatic master race lol

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>>16093739
Small price to pay imo

>>16093644
Be careful there. Your 36 hour rest may turn into a 48 because you just want one more turn.
And then your boss calls because your load hasn't moved in a week.

>>16093716
Adjust your seat.

>>16093735
>I didn't take advantage of the free 350 pts with every purchase in the the month of September.

All I paid for was tax when I bought those cups with my points.

>>16093644
Quick review? I'm a quarter into a 48hr 34 restart, might burn some money on it.

>>16093973
It's Civ 5 2.0 with a little more complexity and strategy. Mainly there are civics and districts that add flavor and ai civs have agendas. Overall it feels better than civ 5 but not much. Also the barbarians are outrageous in this one.

>>16094467
Outrageous, you say? Truly, truly outrageous?

>>16094467
Bleh, I guess Ill wait 3 years and get it with all the dlc for $10

>>16094536
Standard barbarians are equivalent to raging barbarians in civ5

>>16094467

Is Gandhi still a backstabbing warmonger?

>>16094701
Actually no. He is peaceful. Just don't mess with him during the classical/medieval cause he has op elephants.

Got the trailer out of the shop and 3 loads booked for the next 3 days. Hope I remember to get the wheels retorqued.


>>16092591
Your truck is governed anyway. Hammer down, company boy.

>>16092726
Just size your tanks appropriately. There are already conversions with 1500 mile ranges.

>>16093716
Put your seat low.

>tfw office is on central time
>wake up at 0700 eastern for no reason
>still waiting for rate confirmations
I might just nap until 1000 or so. Only have 210 miles to run today.

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>>16093716
>using the clutch

Nah actually I get the problem in the cramped cabover rigids, lifting my feet off the floor for any reason just trashes my knees out.

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>be sitting and driving for a few hours
>finally move
>Immediately feel hemorrhoids act up
>asshole in pain

Why is this allowed

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>>16097153
Get one of those donut cushions senpai

Also had another egregious backing today, fucking tiny "warehouse" in downtown Denver.

>>16097173
>Landing gear on the ground
>Aero skirt too
Not meant for truck and trailer eh?

>>16097203
most of the places we go are not built for 53'
they never planned for expansion and by the time it became a problem it became too costly.
Denver isnt alone in this nonsense. ive been to places where you have to line up and go over two curbs before the back is remotely close to the dock. and one place in laredo i had to take my mudflaps off before i backed or id have lost em.

>>16097203
Not at all, but that doesn't stop our dispatch from sending us to places like this. I'm sure I've already told this, but we've had several drivers get loads going to houses in tiny residential neighborhoods.

>>16097215
The least they could do is get another company with box trucks to deliver this shit. Swift can usually T-Call at Conway, their pups would be far better suited for this arduous delivery.

>>16097253
>get another company with box trucks
but muh profits!
it should be mandatory for anything in cali thats for sure.

my personal favorite was having to back a mile down to deliver the appliances to a being built apartment complex, the place didnt even exist on maps yet and the directions i got were
"oh yeah, just keep going straight, they finished the asphalt about an hour ago. ill go park in the finished driveway."
close runner up was a printer delivery in california where i had to drive between two apartments and park the nose of my truck dangling over a ravine so they could man handle the rolls out. then back all the way out to the main street.

>>16097275
Yeah see that is absolutely ridiculous, I wish dispatchers were required to have OTR experience to understand some of this shit is just unsafe.

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>been sitting at a Pilot J in near Denver for 3 days now waiting for a good load to come on the board
>almost tempted to buy some mary jane
>sitting on flatbed relaxing grilling some chicken breasts and smoking cigarettes
>seeing all of these van drivers in a rush to get in and out of the fuel island a tight schedule

Man I feel bad for some of these guys. They make trucking look like hard work. Looking all grumpy and pissed because somebody went to take a shit before moving their truck.

>>16097424
Are you kidding me? They are $14/hour cucks that are always getting threats and take out their shitty jobs on drivers. If they actually knew what they were doing, they would demand twice that. Become your own dispatcher senpai.

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when you've only driven straight trucks, and then the boss wants you do drive something like this and back it down a dirt road.

Hourly cuck is best cuck shout out to you cpm cucks taking the shit jobs

>>16097468
>tfw base pay and commission

Had a doc appt today, need to be there by 1pm at the latest so said I'll come in and I will leave around noon. So I figured Tuesday I will just run to the airport and be done by 10am. Of course I'm about to leave for the airport and dude comes out so I hop on his route all late and go drag ass for a few hours. Brought like half the truck back. Good times.

>>16097424
having knowledge of what the truckers life is like is actually grounds to be fired in most of the big companies. they don't want you identifying with the driver. as it cuts profits. not even joking

>>16097478

This. I remember when I first started, I had a Mon-Fri dispatcher that was cool as shit, and then the weekend guy was nothing but an asshole. I was dropping off a load on Friday and there was a pick up there that was to be dropped off the next day on Saturday. I asked my dispatcher if he could find me something else that holds me over the weekend so I don't got to deal with the weekend dispatcher unless there's an emergency. So he booked me on a load about 100 miles away, and pushed the pick up appointment there a few hours back for another driver to get picked up. Come the next week he was fired over it. I felt so terrible. I had the guy's personal number and apologized for weeks. But he's now a driver for Crete and doing good. Dispatcher life sucks dick. You can't please the drivers and you can't please management. Management fucks up, you're to blame for not fixing it. Driver fucks up, you're to blame for putting him on the load to begin with. It's the shittiest job you can have.

>>16097477
Are you being cheeky or did you switch jobs?

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>>16097654
I'm a lesbian now, haven't you heard?

>>16097666
Nah I don't hang /out/

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>>16093697

>>16097468
Gotta get my year in before I get those posh cucks. Still, getting a grand a week after tax for a 21 yr old is great.

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Damn navigation.

>truck shakes hard enough for me to go investigate
>peek out window
>corner of trailer inches from my face
>oh no reach for horn he pulls forward before I hit it
>pull on pants shoes
>he is now parked
but I can't find anything he hit, thought maybe he tapped the mirror but no marks on it
Guess I got lucky

>>16098851
Might've been just perfect enough angle for the trailer dock bumper to nudge the fender or something. Just a guess.

>>16098557
Kek.

I know that route. Although I normally take I-65 instead of I-57 if I'm going to Chicago because of retarded slow IL speed limits. Also on I-65 you actually his some scenery in KY while it's totally flat on I-24 to I-57.

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Why are some trucks so low? I understand car haulers but don't see a reason for anything else.

>>16099498
For downforce

>>16097442
Yeah but wouldn't that at least make the company that much more efficient by having competent, decently paid workers?

>>16097478
Jesus Christ, Corporate America is getting out of hand desu.

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>>16099498
>Bridge

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>>16099498
for hauling rice obviousy

>>16097478
False. We just have to stop carring about you road jockies.

I drove for 7 years. Now i manage a fleet for a 3pl.

I know your life, and I have paved the way to my cushy salaried job on the broken bodies of truckers.

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Was looking for this thread

will truckerfags be replaced soon by self driving trucks???

>>16099949
Yep, next week even.

>>16099949
I give it 10 years.

You will still have some drivers , but they will be more like traveling desk jockies

>>16099498
Needs moar camber

>>16099949
no
see: trains, ships, airplanes

>>16101788
The train thing is what really gets me. They can't even run those without conductors. And airplanes basically fly themselves but still need a minimum of two highly trained people to pilot them. Neither of those have to deal with anything near the traffic and unpredictability of the roads.

If anything, the autopilot stuff will make driving even easier but as long as people are still driving their cars on the same roads as the trucks, I don't think they will be run without somebody inside them. It's just too much of a liability.

>>16101804
if they do go full automation i for one will begin highway pillaging, no one for miles around? goddamn right im opening that box and stealing a few pallets of huggies or paper towels

>>16101816
You could do that now. Not like the 400lb company cuck will stop you.

Driving from Columbus, OH to Nebraska tomorrow..am i gonna see any of you famous truckerfags??

>>16101967
I'll be in Nebraska tomorrow around Omaha. If yer cute come say hi.

>>16101967
Its a possibility. But you'll never know for sure.

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>>16102960
why post the low res version?

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>>16103753
only because i didnt find the hi res version, my google fu is apparently weak

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>docked in, about to leave, finishing paperwork
>guy starts to back up, wife gets out and starts guiding him
>guy finishes backing, wife blows him a kiss
>start leaving
>wife dutifully comes and checks to make sure my doors don't hit her husband's truck's mirrors
>tfw will never have a trucker wife

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I wanna get my CDL and make as much money as humanly possible without the use of drugs, gaining weight, or having no time to drive car at all.

Where do I start (dead serious)?

>>16105822
>I wanna get my CDL and make as much money as humanly possible without the use of drugs, gaining weight, or having no time to drive car at all.
>Where do I start (dead serious)?

Start by not getting a CDL.

>>16105929
Start where then?

>>16105822
There are local CDL jobs where you can be home every night, even regular hours. I wouldn't say it would be a "career" job though. Probably wouldn't make over $25/hr.

I heard Trach tucks are pretty good if you can deal with garbage. Supposedly you get paid a certain amount a day and get your route. How fast you complete your route and get off work is up to you.

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>>16103741

>Flames

Zozz my rozz

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>>16105525

You could always kidnap one. It worked for this guy:

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/utah-trucker-sex-slave/2014/03/13/id/559334/

>>16106059
I average right around $25/hr. A little more or a little less depending on the week and how many hours I get stuck there. Our bulk guys make $26 something I think, maybe $27 now with raises. And we are in FL with no state income tax.

Plus anywhere that is straight hourly, most driving jobs are ~50hrs a week so even at $22/hr, you will end up at like $25avg with OT.

Been a Tyson yard driver for almost a year now.

My wife is Korean, she doesn't work and I'm starting to tread debt because I only make $13 an hour, we both want to get out of Missouri, I'm thinking about getting my class A when I get my income tax back.

Are there any companies that will hire fresh drivers or where do I even get experience, will my yard experience count with most employers? Everyone seems to want 2 years or more.

Also, do any of you guys carry guns?

>>16107126
There are tons of companies that will hire people right out of school with a Class A, but lots of it is OTR. What were you doing in the yard without a Class A? Trailer jockey deal? If so, I'm suprised they let you do that without a Class A.

Our warehouse guys don't have Class A licenses but they do pull the trucks around the yard. They are responsible for a whole lot of dings and scratches.

>>16107170
Yeah, no CDL required because it's a jockey like in the OP picture, I thought I'd need a license too but everyone said I don't.

I've never scratched up or dinged a trailer yet, the most damage I've done was I pulled one trailer and bent a dock lock because the idiots inside didn't push it back down when they said they did.

Most every trailer on our lot is a reefer too.

>>16107192
I mean that will def look better on your resumé than having never driven a truck. Any company that hires you will still want to put you through their training but if you know what you're doing then you should get through it faster.

>>16107199
Nice, do new drivers typically make decent money or not really?

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>>16107224
Better than $13/hr after training. If you do OTR, it will take a bit to learn the tricks but by the end of your first year you should be doing a little better. Wherever you go (local or OTR) you are going to get the shitty routes until you have some seniority. But so many of these companies have high turnover so it doesn't take long.

>>16107229
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it man

>>16107262
You should talk to your boss and ask if there is a way that you could possibly test in one of their trucks.

Like a year or two ago, we were short on drivers and they ended up letting some merchandisers and warehouse dudes study for the test on their own time and then letting them drive the trucks and train with their permits and then test in the Pepsi trucks.

Most of them quit within a month or two of getting their Class A. I don't think they will do that again at our location.

>>16107281
I asked last week but they said no to using a company truck for the test, they also never got the information back to me about the Tyson CDL program they have and when I asked today they said they'd look into it and get me the stuff but I doubt they will because I also asked for it a month ago

I might go in early tomorrow and go straight to HR and see if they can't give me something because my managers are practically useless

There is a local place that will rent me a truck for about $75 when I go to take my test

>>16107310
That's straight then, if you can study for the test on your own and get your permit, then just keep driving the Tyson trucks for a couple months until you are ready for the test, rent the thing for $75 and you should have no problem with the road and skills test as long as you study up for the pre-trip.

>>16107126
I'm pretty sure Tyson does. I'm thinking about going to work with them. Those who KWs are nice looking.

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>mfw still stuck in hotel
>mfw have to have breakfast with hamplanet codriver who eats so fucking loud god damn have some fucking manners jfc
>going to lose my shit
>pisses me off to no end

>>16108080
>oh yeah training newbies is a great way to earn extra cash
and now you know better.

>>16107126

Noel, MO? I've picked up there that place is shit they made us wait 16 fucking hours for a load in bumfuck nowhere

>>16108132

This is my first and last co-driver. I will never make it in the training program not fuckin worth it

>>16108169
>>16108132
I would never even want to do that. Not even in my position where they won't be beating off in the back of the truck like with you guys.

Brand new guys are a pain in the ass and slow you down. But after the first week or two, they can actually help you get done earlier. Only problem is 75% are going to be lazy and/or stupid and fuck stuff up that I have to fix so I would rather just do it myself. There are a few veteran dudes I don't mind when they ride along but aside from that I would rather work by myself.

>>16108217

damn, is Wordpukebot still running around in the threads?

>>16108238
ive never understood the benefits of it. forced to be up for more than 14 hours watching some idiot put his dick beaters all over your gear and vehicle and wreck your shit while he's figuring shit out sounds like a horrible idea. THEN after an arbitrary amount of time try and sleep while this dumb fuck drives. i never understood how my trainer did it. i know i felt like absolute dogshit when id fuck something up and have to wake him, really it got to the point id park for my 30 in fuel aisles in po-dunk places to avoid having to wake his ass up to un fuck whatever i did while backing. at least with the tarps i only had to help un fuck whatever the shippers did.
>>16108255
must be, and they gave him access to instagram.

>>16108292
What is the pay like? I mean if they paid the same mileage but you were getting twice as many miles per day, that would be ok to try and stack some money. But any less than that, no way in hell. I could never share that cuckshed with somebody for 24hrs a day.

>>16108315
near as i could tell you got team miles, so .48cpm he got to keep all of it and i got the weekly 400. the real benefit was getting the truck to be constantly moving so you never had downtime.

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>company fell for the International meme

Here I sit waiting for my turn in the shop. Not sure exactly what's wrong, there's a strong air leak above my front driver's airbag. It's causing the antilock brakes to come on when shifting in low and middle gears making safe driving impossible. I can only drive it with off road turned on, which seems to stop the abs hiccups. Anyone know what's up? Air is leaking from the middle of the circle in pic, starts leaking when I start driving and will continue to leak hard 10-15 mins after I shut the engine off.

>>16108315
With our company the benefits of training were the trainer didn't drive at all for a couple of weeks but still got paid for the miles the trainee did, then team miles for 3-5 weeks, and finally after the trainee got his truck his trainer got 2 cents for the miles the trainee did in his truck for three months and then 1 cent for the 3-6 month period. So if you got 3 or 4 trainees going in their own trucks at the same time it'd be a nice little pay bump.

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>tfw you're shit at managing your time

>>16107126
Who gives a fuck if your wife is Korean. Was that necessary information?

Just tell that gook bitch to get a job and stop complaining.
>She doesn't work
MAKE HER WORK

>>16109571
He may be waiting on parts for her, though.

>>16109582
parts... like a visa?

>>16109582
Oh holy fuck I'm stupid. Healthy kek, well played.

M A K E H E R W O R K

>>16109611
Or a new motor or something. I assume she's one of those new-fangled robot girls.

That, or she 'doesn't work' because her visa doesn't cover that.

>>16108141
No, but that place is a shithole, I know because they took a bunch of the shittiest people from my plant and asked them to be managers down there

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Here's how my week went

>forklifts
>nuclear aftercoolers
>sand
>stainless steel
>salt

Yep, it's just about winter freight season.

>>16105525
Iktf. I've been chatting with a cute flatbedder off a dating site, but she's swimming in so much dick she's never going to settle down.
>tfw she throws her own chains

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Oh, and ZF found me another cat. This one is around 3 weeks old so I have to stop and bottle feed her 8 times a day. Crazy seeing how fast 3 hours flies by on the road.

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>>16110517
D'aw. I deal with this little shit and his mother and sister when I'm home.

>>16110495
How did you manage to back into there?

>>16110665
nigga that shit don't even look hard, especially with a flatbed

t. Dry van driver

>>16107089
How do you land a local job making even $20 an hour in FL? I only see trash advertised on Craigslist, paying between $11-$14 an hour for pulling dry vans.

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Where are all the maymay's?

>>16110665
U wot.

>>16110983
Be willing to work and not suck at your job.

Pump truck daddy here. Having a falling out with my company they shut me down when I asked for a raise so I'm going to say I quit next week and saying I got another job offer hopefully they don't call my bluff... Fyi do not do the blazing challenge at Buffalo wild wings my ass hole is still burning despite all the bud light I been drinking

>>16111433
Nice. There's a million plebs like you who will do the job for the same money.

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Are these worth it? Any specific one I should get?

>>16110495
>stainless steel
Where'd you haul stainless from?

What are the chances of someone who just got their CDL landing a job as a lone company driver?
Every job listing I see wants 1-2 years of experience or new drivers required to run as a team with someone else.
I'm too much of a sperg to sit in the same truck with some stranger for an extended period of time.

>>16111805
Do you drive a Ford F-150 with Harley Davidson stickers all over it and the biggest niggest rims you could afford?

>>16112487
Almost all of the big companies will let you run solo, you just have to ride with a trainer for the first couple months. They often have signing bonuses and shit tho if you sign on as a team driver.

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>be one week since broke down
>still in a hotel
>down to my emergency oh shit money

i feel like I'm in an episode of the Twilight Zone.

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>>16113782
>one week out of work
>broke
jeez learn 2 emergency fund

>>16113782
why have they not put you in a new truck yet?
where is your layover pay?
why are you not on the phone right now with dispatch cursing their unborn child?

>>16113815

Did you miss the

>down to my emergency oh shit money

part? I know reading comprehension is out of reach for most people with autism

>>16113820

I actually handled that yesterday. Dispatch and Peterbilt both got tore new assholes. We haven't been able to make any money on this truck since we got on it two months ago and since it isn't ours we have decided if it's not fixed today we're letting the owner have it back, not my circus not my fucking monkeys anymore.

We have no layover pay because Prime's bullshit owner-op policies with having company drivers on the truck. So we're screwed. At least we got them to cover the hotel.

Between my faggot ass neckbeard hamplanet aspie co-driver who complains non-stop about everything and dispatch and the owner of the truck I've about had it with truck driving. My contract is up I can leave.

>>16113847
so you were in someone else truck,no layover, but they treat you like an owner op? yeah. second day should have been when you left. thats fucking bullshit.

>>16113862

Yeah well we thought we were going to make a ton of money and ended up breaking down every other week and all the weeks we ran we got shitty sub-1.00/mi loads so I've about had it with this truck they can shove it up where the sun doesn't shine.

>>16113880
well the good news is if the contracts up you can tell em to eat a bag of dicks. rent a car and go home. they arent gonna bitch you out for leaving are they?no surprise hidden fees for leaving?

>>16113894

They're already on the hook for at least six figures because of my injury.

I'd like to stay though, I've been on 4 other trucks and I made fucking bank on all of them including training. We're just in a shitty situation that I thought would work out and it didn't. I'd like to get another year or so of OTR before I leave most decent companies won't touch you until 2 years minimum.

I have no kids or family so I can stay out as long as I want.

>>16113927
so get the ball rolling on a solo company truck? if thats what you were making the money on

>>16113946

The last 4 were team trucks but after a year of this I've had enough of team driving and I might just tell everyone to kiss my ass and go solo.

>>16111805
Get the one that'll feel the most comfortable being removed from your sternum after a wreck.

>>16113980
im honestly surprised you made it a year team driving. thats incredible. id say you earned a solo truck. you wont be making the same cash tho im sorry to say. not moving 24/7 will do that.

>>16114002

I don't need to get filthy rich I just want to travel the country and stack a little money. I have next to no bills everything I own is paid for.

Forty keks
http://m.imgur.com/FjEQTPK

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>tfw they're unloading one bar at a time
>15 minutes a lift because he has to crane them to the other side of the building
>their house driver rolls in when they're down to the bottom row
>he takes the controller and pulls the bottom strip in 2 lifts because he wants to get unloaded
Thank fuck. Time to get some salt and head home.
>>16111805
They aren't called suicide knobs for nothing.

>>16112204
Valbruna Slater in Fort Wayne.

>>16113880
>people think self drivings trucks are here
>they're unaware that new trucks can't drive regardless

Hi. Wernerfag here. I'm on my third week of training OTR. I'm already strating to bug out and go crazy, how do any of you handle being stuck with another guy in a small box for so long?

>>16114089
short answer? we dont. hope he goes home for hometime and you get a hotel for a day or so by yourself. the sleeping bag helped for privacy too.

>>16114089
I just sucked it up and played video games in my free time. Welcome to trucking.

>>16114107
And by "it", of course I mean my trainer's penis every night

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>>16111805

>>16114233
Yeah, he displays the amount of intelligence expected of someone who would buy a knuckle buster

>>16114225
And a hearty kek to you, sir troll

Plz post the link with the good companies.

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I like poop and pee.

>>16116006
I'm kind of tired of it to be honest. But u gotta doo what you gotta doo.

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>>16116016
I like poop. Pee is for me.

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>>16116006
why is this dood called EF but rolls a Pete?

>>16116074

Because he used to drive this >>16116026

Why does EF still have that old FL Century? Is someone else driving it for his dad?

>>16107126
DB Schenker usa

Goto the jobs page.

Select Edwardsville IL we have an open yard driver position.

Edville is across the river from st louis. You can live in st louis or in Illinois

Pay is much better and we have basicly unlimited OT.

Shifts are 12hr. 5-5

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Finally back from a two week ban.
Also I've been out of a job for a bit over a month due to various circumstances. Thank god my company likes me and held my position for me until I could get my shit straight.

>implying anyone likes me and they just didn't hire me again because of shortage of drivers

Anywho, back to dat comfy hourly life.

>>16118017
2 weeks? I've only been banned for like a day. Can't imagine what it takes to do that.

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>>16118089
I posted the name of He who must not be named.
Tricked by /pol/ but it was an insta-ban.

>>16118098
What!? I did to but no ban. I swear these mods...

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>>16116006

That truck is rolling sex, but your stack tip choice is triggering me.

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>>16116608
it's laying in wait

>>16099498
Mexican g rides

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>>16118704
It was a lot truck. Next truck will be 295" instead of 280" and I will probably put higher stacks on too. Everytime I thought about getting bigger ones I conveniently ended up going under an 11 ft bridge.

But if I'm going to do it I'll do it right. Not just getting tips. But a full stainless exhaust with 90 degree elbows. About 4500$. I'm almost half done with this truck. I will not be buying drive tires for it. So I'm not customizing anymore.

Pic:Lincoln chrome full stainless im looking at

Day 8 in this fucking hotel and they haven't figured out I'm a truck driver.

>>16119442

dude just walk away. there's hundreds of companies out there that are 10x better than Prime

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>>16119221
side pipes bro, turned up tips for honda windows

>>16119671
That sounds awesome.

And you need a way to manually kick in the DEF or DPF of just roll coal when you take off. I know those Internationals with the DPF that has no fluid, those fumes and smoke are fucking awful when it decides it wants to do a regen.

>>16119442
youll be there till Monday then. good job. im guessing this means you're going to be waiting on peter built so you'll be sitting till probably Thursday.

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Kitten is bottle feeding properly now. She still needs a name that starts with "c". I'm thinking something truck related. Clutch and Crash are coming to mind.

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>>16121040
>needs a name that starts with "c"
Name it "cuck" after its owner.

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>>16121040
>not calling it CatFag
rolling for CTarbo, with a silent C

About to hit the casino wish me luck faggots

>>16121237
Good luck you fucking faggot

>>16121040
Cascadia

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>California
>BMW
https://youtu.be/OQgL33MlPgE
>tfw your company gives you shit about it for months afterwards
>"be gentle on the brakes"
And pancake the fucker? How about no.

>Day earlier get inspected at Dunsmiur scale
>nail in one trailer tire, flat, won't hold air
>all tire repair places closed because >Sunday
>get shutdown overnight, going to be late to deliver
>this shit happens
>told company that the reefer still worked
>"Okay, deliver, then we tell you where to pick up"
>"Set reefer lower, we repair when you get back"
>they want me to go all the way from Bakersfield, CA to Vancouver, BC like that, without getting shutdown by a scale
>mfw
>Find other indians to talk sense into company/boss in punjabi or whatever the fuck they speak
>pick up rental trailer the next day in Fresno

>>16121293

*Catscadia

>>16121394

Should have rear ended him. You would have done the world a favor by getting rid of a liberal AND a BMW driver.

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>>16121394
>having less than an 8 second following distance
Did it to yourself, supertrucker

>>16121394
>Wood materials
>In a reefer
>And not secure from sliding forward or back
>And not giving himself enough following distance
Ain't the Bimmer's fault you suck at your job.

>>16121430
I had no part in the loading process. Trailers are pre-loaded when the drivers arrive at the yard to head south. In any case, it was secured, what you see is only the very last stack. Lumber/plywood in reefers is pretty common, and it's the company's decision.

>Leave lots of room in front
>Car sees it as an invitation, fills the gap
>two others do the same
Nothing you can do about that. Some will merge less than 30ft in front.

Shit like this is why I don't drive in California anymore. Too many idiots.

>>16121040
Coal...


Also how do you litterbox in a truck.

>>16119221
Those are a lot nicer, yeah.

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>>16121040

Catworth or Catbert.

>>16121498
>it was secured
>no securement equipment in sight

Oh what should I expect from excon drivers working for indians?

>>16121661
>what you see is only the very last stack
Learn to read.

>>16121040
How about 'cat' after the engine hehe

>>16092579
what is the technical term (verb) for what a yard mule does?

is it still called shunting?

>>16121754
Why would you pay $20 to weigh a car? Just go to a free scale.

>>16121787
**is it still called shunting when you are moving trailers and not rail cars?

>>16121791
probably closest place from whoever is shipping his car.

>>16121794
Yes.

A shunt trucks job is to shunt things around the yard.

I have done this job. I did not like this job, but I had no choice, since I was new.

I no longer work there.

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>tfw gundam ignored my PM

>>16121040
CATherine.

>>16121410
This. Should have punted the fucker clean into the sliproad.

At the very least, moved to the left and gone around his ass.

>>16123020
On PSN? I answered when I woke up yesterday morning.

>>16121040
Cuntface

>>16107126
well if you want to harden the fuck up, and your relationship with your wife is strong;

http://www.jobs.net/jobs/dyncorp/en-us/search/afghanistan/title/truck-driver/?keyword=&location=

-love,

your friendly neighborhood defense guy.

>>16124299
On a scale 1-10 how tough would overseas trucking be?

>>16121040

Caterpillar

>>16121791
Gotta go to the scrap metal place instead. When you pull in, they weigh the truck, unload it all, then weigh it again when you are ready to get paid.

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>parked at 4pm
>sleepan
>suddenly airhorn
>repeatedly
>swift/central attempting to back in next to me, giving a double blast on his air horn every time he pulls up and begins to back again
>this goes on for several minutes
>once parked, he heads into the truck stop with a shower bag.
>I reset his reefer from -10 to +75
>early morning, leaving
>reefer still +75

>>16124353
Fuck him for being retarded and a shit driver, but fuck you for complaining about noise outside your cuckshed at 4pm.

>>16121040
CATcat.
Certified automatic truck cat

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>>16124353
That's fucked.

>>16124353

Dick move for messing with his reefer but I still lol'd

>>16121553
Pops right into the refrigerator cabinet.

>>16121787
>>16121794
A more common term is jockeying.

>>16124353
>I reset his reefer from -10 to +75
Wow, you're an absolute asshole. It's swift, he'll probably lose his job for that. You could have left a note on his window or something.

>>16124353
that is kind of a dick move, granted only idiots sound the horn in a public lot while backing but you ARE technically supposed to.
also not entirely your fault as he is supposed to check the readout regularly. you know during that thing called pretrip inspections.

I guess it would cause more issues than it was worth but I'm surprised reefers don't have a lock or PIN or something other than big obvious change the temp arrows. During my angsty teenage days if I'd known I could go to a big truck stop and wipe a few mil worth of shit....I'm mean I'm a big pussy so I wouldn't have done it but I would have definitely posted it on /b/

>>16124454
Spotting.
>tfw worked as a spotter

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>Arrive at yard
>APU finally fixed
>Batteries below 10v because the APU was cut off but the battery cutoff switch wasn't turned off
>It took a few hours to kill the batteries with the truck literally sitting here with nothing on

>>16125110
Trucks with APUs usually don't get new batteries when they should. They'll run flat in hours with nothing on because the APU had been hiding the symptoms for years.

>tfw viesa only

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>>16126103
>>tfw viesa only
is it a swamp cooler or electric a/c?

>>16124323
Defense environment? Fucking cake as far as job difficulty goes. You are probably restricted to a base or two, occasional convoy.

Major differences: You can die from war related incidents. Granted, if you sign on the dotted line you know what you are getting into.

Get comfortable with gravel road stretches.

Get used to being one of a handful of CDL dudes. So change your idea of brotherhood.

Past that? Fucking cake. Military bases are made to be easy on logistics. the actual Act of doing your job is no biggie. Its the culture shock for some people that is an issue.

If you are young, divorced or bored? Try it once. See if you like it. Worst case scenario? You have no living expenses and get paid more than you would normally do so. Play it right and you get your first 80k tax free overseas in a warzone if thats still a thing.

I've known a few old timers who have been doing CDL as overseas contractors in "hot" areas for like the past 10 years when I was deployed a few years back. They were sort of the epitome of a steryotype, but loved what they did and the whores they fucked. So take it as you will.

>>16121791
All CAT scales I've used have been $11.

>mfw my co-driver spends the last of our money on booze in the hotel

Going on 10 days no per-diem no breakdown pay. Someone is getting a god damn earful tomorrow and if this goes to two weeks I'm going to go drive somewhere else and sue the pants off of them for my ankle injury.

>>16126391
do you have to share a room with your drivatard?

>>16126665

I'd kill him.

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>>16126351
Hnnng. I'm young single and only driving a truck to stack cash. In fact my original intention was to drive overseas but couldn't find any up to date info on it. Being a small part of American imperialism makes my dick hard...jeez I really wanna do this.

>>16126715
take him to a truck stop and sell him for beer money

>>16126720
dont be a bitch man. Do it. Haha, worst attempt at peer pressure ever.

But seriously

Look up "Afghanistan Iraq CDL" trucker etc.

One final bit of advice. Dont fuck around, dont go there thinking your employer is your friend. You are treated as a disposable asset. Make sure your contract is tight and you are fine. Past that, here are your big names.

DyneCorp
KBR

Just keep digging, search for stories, you will find what you need. my earlier link is also good.

If you want to take a different route of risk and help burn the earth to the ground, get a job working the oil fields with your CDL.

http://www.frackingjobs.co/oilfield-vs-over-the-road-driving-jobs/
https://www.kbr.com/careers

For me. Honestly, fuck real life. I dont care for most people, I dont like most common work. I like the spaces in between, and to be on the "outside". I'll let everyone else consume what I helped make, and form their criticisms later.

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>>16126892
oil field = big badass trucks?

>>16126923
https://www.google.com/search?q=oilfield+truck&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn9_HLxZXQAhXF6SYKHdBpB1oQsAQIHA&biw=1920&bih=946

>>16126391
I'm a company Prime driver, solo. My truck has only been in the shop for longer than a day once. I got breakdown pay for it too. I'm pretty sure lease guys get breakdown pay too, so not sure why you aren't.

I remember something you said about its not your or Primes truck, someone else owns it and you drive for them? If that's true, it's the biggest fuck up, I haven't ever heard of someone being happy in that situation. You need to stop bitching to Prime about it, and bitch to the truck owner.

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>>16126923
Articulated is where it's at if you want real offroadability.

>>16124353
Oh anon.....

It's Swift. He just doesn't know any better, he didn't mean anything by it.

>>16124353
Some places train you to use the horn when you reverse, as a warning.

They do it for van drivers where I work. Nobody gives a fuck, and they just back up whenever and rely on the reverse buzzer to tell people to GTFO.
Nobody's been squashed yet.

>>16129709
Maybe. His trainer was definitely an asshole, though.

Plus, I think anyone who doesn't have enough common sense not to blow the AIR HORN in a place where people are sleeping, deserves whatever comes to them

What're your thoughts on Volvo trucks? Like the new ones from 2013-14 onward? Im driving one right now and it's quite comfy but I cannot sleep in it when the engine is running. It also seems like if I were to crash it, I would become road meat as everything's made from plastic

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Look at this sexy mother trucker.

>>16131774
I want to impregnate this man.

>>16131382
Too heavy. I've been told Volvo and Mack trucks are a few thousand pounds heavier than every other truck on the road, but to their credit: you can get a Volvo with a Detroit under the hood, and I hear they're comfy as fuck.
>>16131774
Dat beard tho. I jelly.

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Managed 5 stops today. 1 off, 4 on.

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Sneeki breeki steel load under the pallet racks.

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Sneekiest breekiest cargo of all.

>>16131774
Go away

>>16133152
Niiiiice. That's a load sasha grey would be happy with.

Those rack niggas gonna be pissed you bent their product?

>>16133158

>How'd you get these boxes here, in the cab?
>Hey wait, why are they covered in rust?

>>16131774
Looks about right. On that note I ran into someone last night who looked and acted exactly like I imagine whiney-kuhn would be.

What do O/Os do for health insurance? Do they have to pay out of pocket or what? If you're a company cuck do they offer the bare minimum policies?

I just got offered health insurance at the bus company I work for, but it's complete shit. The list of excluded coverage conditions is so long I wonder what's even the point of getting it?

>>16133715
>what's the point in getting it?

You avoid a $695 fine. Aren't you glad every American is covered?

>>16133203
Fuck their product. Racks are wobbly shit and I'm not going to fuck around with it shifting. They've got hammers at the receiver.

>>16133715
Lol. What insurance?

>>16133761

I'm already covered under my parents plan.

>>16126289
swamp

>>16131774
>obese

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>>16133158

>I want to keep my load securement equipment organized and will build racks to hold everything properly

>I will now throw everything into the jockey box as hard as I can at random and hope I can still close the door when it settles

Bruh.

Thread music.

11 days still stuck here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385ymk1PMm4

>>16135269
ok seriously? what the fuck are they doing? are they fixing the truck or not?

>>16124299
>>16126351
>>16126892
holy shit, this is legitimately tempting. Taking home 50k aussie where I am, or taking home 80k freedom bux?

I'm more likely to get hit in the eye with a fucking strap buckle than hit with an RPG, r-right?

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>can you drive on it?

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>>16135673
>bubble trouble
>dat footprint
you fucking broke it, you fix it

>>16135673
It holds air. Get moving driver.

/dispatch

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>>16135673
>inb4 driver has epic 404

>>16135673
>steer

I wouldn't drive it over 30 mph desu

>>16134987
Lel. I'm not done yet. Just ran out of wood.

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Getting new tires today

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>>16137093

>>16135673
Go for it.

Last flat I got, I continued to drive and got like 4 more stops done before the tire guy got there. Outside tire on the drive axle.

>>16133761
Fucking retarded plan. I really don't like Trump, but I want Republicans to be back in the white house before we go full cuck Yurop Jr. I don't understand how people with jobs vote dem.

>>16135673

O V E R L O A D
V
E
R
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Neat.

>be on highway
>see Semi passing a tow truck in the distance
>leave lots of space because I know this will take a while
>Truck in the left flashes left-right once in the passing lane
>then again after driving back to the right lane

Why can't everyone be as much of a bro as the average trucker?

>>16137360
I-is that a sleeper? wheres the door?

Anyone ever take loads to any Amazon warehouses in Dallas?

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I fucking hate having to come to a terminal.

>>16137696
Some are a shelf, some have a door above the driver's seat.

>>16137737
Thankfully not.

>>16137761
Anyone who likes going to a terminal is mentally ill.

>>16137791
**Terminally ill

HAHAHAHAHAHA ok sorry

>>16137360
The ever magnificent sleepover cabover.

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Seen on Facebook
inb4
>normie
>ree
>angrypepe.gif
>etc.

>>16092579

Can I become a trucker without being 'a trucker' stereotype? I literally never see truckers that aren't...truckers.

>>16137737
Never. But I was overhearing a couple local drivers talk about the Amazon warehouses a few days ago and it looks like my company is about to lose some good employees because of how bad it is there.

>>16138269
Clearly you ain't never seen my nerdy ass then.

>>16137737
Nobody has ever taken a load to that warehouse. Or at least, nobody who has has ever returned.

>>16137737
Dallas no. Arizona yes.

>>16138254
>dixiehorn.wav

>>16138254

Ain't that purdy just hanging there like that?

Well y'all stick around cause we'll be gettin' on with it here in a minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAKksqKR3pI

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Trump wins our jobs are gonna be better

>>16137922
Keked and checked

>>16138269
I stopped counting how many dakimakura I've seen riding shotgun. We've got women and queers and foreigners running trucks all over the country.

>>16138562
M A G A
A
G
A

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>That middle result
u wot

>>16139988
An audio tutorial?

>>16092579

do you need a medical card to drive with a cdl permit?

>>16140002
I would buy that, but 'malware-riddled honeypot luring music pirates with bogus keyword clouds' is more believable.

>get job offer
>dedicated route
>home weekends
>stays out of cali
>has to be in the area i live in

its Schneider.

Pepsi, what could one expect to earn with these hours and commission?

This is in a small metro area, about 75,000 people.

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>>16141742
fucking.

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Trucking companies that don't suck to drive for and GO, after almost 2 weeks of being stuck broke down I'm going to probably leave Prime. I have tanker endorsement and an ankle that works most of the time so flatbed is probably not a good idea right now.

>Want

-Hometime, I haven't had legitimate hometime vacation since January. I like to run 4 weeks on and maybe a couple days off
-Money not just peanuts
-Would consider local job in Florida but won't rule out OTR is the money is there and they will let me run to Alaska and Canada

>Do not want

-Daycab reefer
-Automatic transmission, I drive with steel-toe steel-shank boots not Victoria's Secret high heels
-Any Paccar truck with an MX13 unless it's a Kenworth T680
-I would like to stay away from Swift or any of the mega carriers
-No governed crap I want to have all of my balls

I have

-Flawless CSA and perfect driving record
-Tanker endorsement
-Valid Class A Florida CDL
-1 full year experience plus winter
-Broken ankle in February which leads me to my next question

If I go after Prime for my injury would I get blackballed from the industry? I kind of like trucking but the offer they gave me was a little more than a sign-on bonus at some carriers and I know 20 or 30 years down the road this is going to be trouble. I have days I can barely walk and I should probably lawyer up.

>mfw still here

>>16142407
they should have already paid for it. it happened on the job. you werent doing this owner op team nonsence were you?

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I shit my pants today. Thought I could hold it for 30 more miles until rest area but couldn't. I feel like I'm a true trucker now.

>>16133516
I can only grow a neckbeard though, so look for a baby faced man child at truck stops.

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Now that the Great War is over I can explain my absence from /o/

>>16143105

I actually had to pull over for my co-driver to shit.

>be in Rhode Island
>on the 195
>co-driver suddenly has to shit
>might have Crohn's he will be fine then has to shit super bad all of a sudden
>says he isn't going to make it
>find a rest stop on Trucker Path
>6 miles
>we get there and it's closed and i keep rolling
>last second i stop and pull over to the side of the road
>gamble on the restrooms actually being open
>back the truck down the on-ramp
>they aren't open
>he proceeds to go shit in the woods
>wipes his ass with leaves and napkins and shit
>continue on our delivery 10 miles away

>>16143489
I shit in some dude's unfenced back yard once.

>>16143489
At least he didn't bring it back in a bag.

Last van driver I rode with told me a story he'd been told by the driver that mentored him. Of some moron with bowel issues who demanded the van be stopped in the middle of nowhere so he could shit in a field.
And then came back with it in a carrier bag.

>>16140181
just do it all in a vm and then just delete it afterwards, thats what i do

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>>16143105
I haven't shit myself. Shit in the trashcan about 6 times though, 4 in one night, that was rough.

>>16143814
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I'm 99% certain that site is not actually an audio tutorial. It's a bogus malware site that generates keyword clouds based on search queries and adds 'free MP3 download' to it, so it'll hopefully show up in your google search.

>>16143176
Do you order 20 piece mcnuggets and demand that they be cooked fresh? If so, that was definitely you.

What are typical dumbfuck things that rookie truckers do? I don't mean laziness, but honest rookie mistakes. I'm new here btw, I've always wanted to be a trucker and I think I'm finally going to sign up for school.

>>16144604
running over utility poles, it's like trucks don't have mirrors or something.

>>16144604
Forgetting you have a trailer, poor time management, blindly following GPS, letting dispatch pressure them

>>16144088
Nah, I get the 10 piece because I'm not trying to go full hamplanet just yet.

Finally became a trucker today. And I only hit one curb.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=202_1478633746

LMAO dumbass 4 wheelers

>>16145262
>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=202_1478633746

#REKT

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Just got a temp job driving for FedEx Ground.
How much harder is it to drive a step van than driving a 15 passenger van (easy for me)? Tips for newfag?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JotcaSgLLXU
Which one was of you was this?

>>16142407
>1 year experience
Pick another starter company.

>>16144604
They run over fucking everything and can't see past the GPS on their windshield so they're always late. My biggest fuck ups were oversleeping/undersleeping and not getting parked 6+ hours before major storms.

>>16094536
Glamour and glitter, fashion AND fame?

I'm a non trucker 18 year old goy who wants to become a trucker currently driving delivery for Papa Johns. Will they hire me for local with no experience and only being 18? Should I bother getting a CDL before I'm old enough for OTR? Should I even think about leaving my current ~15.5/hr job as a pizzaboy?

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Why in the fuck?
>can't haul for shit
>can't fit it in any dock
>expensive to buy
>limited to low paying loads

Fucking americans I swear

>>16146030
If you're making $15/hr while smoking weed and eating free pizza just keep doing that.

>>16146620
>Not enjoying maximum comfy

>>16146620
>he thinks jet engines are low paying loads

>>16145471

who did you drive for when you were a company cuck?

>>16146030
Depends if your cost of living is high, $15/hr. in my city is easily liveable. I'd consider quitting trucking if such a job came up for me desu

>>16147154
Same, in a heartbeat.
Jesus, 15bux for pizza delivery. Why do anything else.

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>>16147148
Werner. RR Donnelly and Budweiser dedicated for 2 years before I went O/O in an old cabover.

>>16147221
>tfw making $150/hr delivering machines and dildos