/tfg/ - Truckerfag Thread

Oh yeah old thread
>>16092579

>>16147491
>VIP parking lot at the Swift terminal.

Like a glove.

>stacey q rocks

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>be two weeks
>truck is still broke no one knows why
>decide fuck it, we're coming home
>company issues Comdata checks to us
>for 300 each, and the Walmart here will not authorize them
>no one at Comdata can help us
>our employer wants the two of us to hop on another truck and leave our shit here and come back for it after we have our next truck
>ithinknot.nef
>get a rental
>it's at Boston-Logan
>we can't cover the cab fare to get us there since the Comcheks dont work
>they literally rented us a car we can't get to

At this point I understand they're trying but trying doesn't pay my bills.

>mfw

So if you're reading this and you're in the area we need a ride br/o/s

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>>16148457

>>16148467
Sweet fuck what on this godforsaken rock is that?

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>>16148654
>he doesn't enjoy watching wheeler dealers

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>>16148467

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c2c_1477367340

>>16150548
What a fucking idiot

You're only supposed to text and drive during heavy traffic

>>16148693

>handshaking little gnome, the tv show

no fucking thanks

>>16148457
Fuck this tiny bellend so much. The show would be so much better if it was just based Ed fixing things, instead of this little fuckstain interjecting with "OI M8 AWZ ME CAR LOOKIN 'EN??" every two minutes.

Pizzafaggot from last thread, >>16147154 I live in a white suburb of baltimore so my rent is 750 for a 1br apartment lol. I guess I'm just being greedy, there really isn't a reason to leave this job as of yet. Might still become a trucker in a couple years and do OTR. I want a free cuckshed and the possibility of NEETing for months at a time as an o/o.

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>>16148457
the whole dealer angle is just a buzzkill.
i wish they'd gotten tony mason instead of mike brewer, and made a "pissing money away on your race car projects but feeling great anyway" show

>>16151075
project binky on youtube is what it would look like if there were two ed marches.

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>TFW Western Canada is a warm, muddier than usual muck pit full of 70% road bans on gravel/dirt roads

>TFW Every piece of equipment in the oilfield coil tubing spread I work with is so heavy that they can't make 100% registered weights, let alone 70%

>TFW Five pairs of coveralls maybe last a week at most before they are all muddy as fuck and in need of dry cleaning

TFW Guys are blowing driveline components trying to get equipment spotted, chained to the hilt

Just fuck my shit up senpai.

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Stuck in goddamned California for a reset all weekend. At least the drive in was pretty.

I am waiting for snow, it is interesting watching dumb asses try to pass my plow truck in less than forgiving conditions. Last winter I had a dipshit try to pass on a hill, he was greeted by oncoming traffic and took the shoulder on the left lane.

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Truckerfags, you might be able to relate to my van life thread since you guys live in trucks all day.
Thoughts on what I said?
Keep in mind I've got about 10k saved up. Could totally do.
>>>16152781

>>16152927
Just become a trucker and save your money forever.

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>>16152940
Was gonna live in the van, go hunting, hiking, fishing during weekends holidays
Then go to school during day.
Save up like 30k+ by time I finish school.
God Alberta Canada looks comfy.

>>16152940
Seriously.

Why would anyone shell out $10k to live in a tiny enclosed vehicle when there are literally thousands of people who will pay you to do it, and pay for your fuel and all you have to do is drive around and listen to podcasts all day

>>16152960
cause you cant leave the damn thing

>>16153051
After a while you don't want to leave.

>>16153096
After a while the days are a blur. But how are you gonna spend all your money if you dont wanna leave

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Anobody hère drive a snow plow?

>>16153187
No, but I did plow you're mom last night.

>>16153187
If I lived up north still, I know a bunch of people who do it and I would def jump on one of their trucks during the storms. Good way to make some extra xmas cash but totally depends on how the winter goes. In Chicago, you will have winters where you need to break out the plows once or twice and other years when you get a dozen big storms and can straight bank on those 36hr caffeine and cocaine fueled runs.

>>16146797
maximum comfy until you actually have to turn the steering wheel
>>16152927
see >>16152940

>>16153399
I work in the middle of nowhere and since
I have to sleep there snow or not I am still paid.

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>>16153187

Breddy good gig where I live. City workers haul sand or gravel/snow in the winter and gravel/dirt in the summer.

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>>16148467

Past the 2 week mark. I give up at this point. They did order us some new injectors so we're going to wait it out if it doesn't fix the problem we're gonna bounce. we already have confirmation from dispatch this will not be an abandonment if we leave it at the dealer.

>>16153187

no but I've thought about applying at my local township garage for a part time gig, just over holiday break.

I already have a Class B CDL with air brakes and a Fed Med card so I should be able to drive anything they got.

>>16155492
>wants to be a company cuck
>but not for a massive company with deep pockets gained from cucking drivers
>would rather get second hand cucking from someone cucked by the same company he could get cucked by
>dealing with two levels of cucks too broke to pay their bills
This is next level C U C K T R U C K I N G

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>>16155492
Stop giving us updates on this boring ass story.
Let us know if you decide to go shoot up Springfield though.

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>>16155492

>Another American small business success story

>What means DAC?

>Grit and tenacity, the hallmarks of the American trucker

Please let us know when the serious bath salts habit phase of your downward spiral begins.

Went under my bed for the first time in a year. Totally forgot I had an 8" angle grinder with a woodsaw blade. I've been cutting shit with a pruning saw all this time.

>>16155843
Don't forget that this is also coming from a guy who could be surviving off of his settlement checks for the rest of his life had he bothered to pursue them

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>>16157126

As a new driver, what's the average number of curbs I should be hitting? Because I'm pretty sure I hit like 20 alone in Houston yesterday.

>>16157200
Learn to jug handle.

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>>16157200

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>>16157200
Depends. Some spots you can't avoid it. Just try not to take any utility poles with you.

Pic unrelated. Too lazy to find the eminem pics

>>16158320

But if you're driving a bus or straight truck, they're 100% avoidable.

It's amazing how often senior drivers at the bus company bounce their buses off the curbs. You would think after 10+ years of driving experience they would know better.

>>16158360
>100% avoidable
I've had to bump curbs bobtail because of shit city planning. Better to bump a curb than kill a pole.

>>16147491
What are the different loads like to haul? Ausfag here, 3 years in and I've exclusively hauled flatbed and tautliners only. What about:
>containers
>freezers
>pantech
>dry bulk
>tankers
>tippers
Tbh I'm getting tired of dealing with these dusty as fuck, flogged old tautliners man.

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>>16158360
Straight trucks are fucked up in a different way. Normally they are fine on city streets, but I have to pull these trucks through parking lots all the time that aren't designed for anything besides cars and it's unavoidable.

>>16160150
this
I have a way harder time in an 8 pallet 4cyl than I do in the semi, because despatch excpects the 8 palleter to go in places that would be "gee that's tight" in a fucking transit van

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>>16160165
We have these 12 bay straight trucks they use for vending now and I always hated driving those things. All the main roads around here are like 6 lanes and divided so you have to pull tons of u-turns. Those fucking straight trucks have such a bad turning radius that you have to do 3-pt turns even with 4 lanes and a median worth of room.

I just got chewed out by some harpy with a desk job for not going 5 hours out of my way to swing by the west memphis terminal to get new registration which from what I was told a few days ago is good until December. I'm a little mad. I'm totally down with stopping in if my route takes me on 40 or 55 but don't expect me to head there just because I passed thru Little Rock going south.

>>16160150
Ayy. Wasn't me, though I am in the same model truck now. I ain't been to Florida in weeks.
>>16160319
Kek, Skyline keeps all the truck paperwork in a blue binder in the door. Any time something changes, it changes for the whole fleet so they just swap it all on the weekend when all the trucks are in.

>>16157200
Fug I'm in Houston now. What part? I rarely curb it here.

>>16160319
Why do you care? You get paid by the mile, right?

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>>16160346
I've seen the Skyline trucks at that place before and I think they might go somewhere else in that little industrial area right by our warehouse.

>>16160397
Not for the 260 miles out of the way.

>>16160319
she does know she could just fax that peice of paper to the nearest truckstop right? usually when shit expires in my book its faster to get it faxed or emailed.

>>16160508
She probably doesn't know how to do much more than suck dick, breathe, and use a phone to bitch at drivers.

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>>16160618
I mean is she good at sucking dick at least?

>>16160637
Probably. She sounded like an older woman so she's more than likely sucked thousands of dicks.

>>16160404
Jesus H.

I mean, I knew PTL was shit tier, but goddamn

>>16160774
This is the first time since I started 4 months ago I've been genuinely upset. Everything else that has happened been mildly annoying or even outright funny.

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This doesn't look right

>>16160997
Yeah look at those slack adjusters.

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>>16160997

That's completely normal. You always want to maintain two to three feet of slack in fan belts to allow for lash.

>>16148467
>it`s will be
jesus

Got a critical event for turning at 22mph. Now they want me to do "close quarters training."
I don't even care anymore desu. I'm getting tired of this job, I want to do something else. I'll go the way of M&M

>>16161577
I got one of them newfangled camera systems on the truck that triggers at certain events determined by Skyline. It goes off all the time and as long as I'm not being a dumbass they don't say anything about it.

>>16161577
When is your year with Swift up?

I got almost $75k in savings now after 3 years of dealing with this shitty company cuck life. Should I buy a used truck and lease on somewhere like Mercer or Landstar, or just quit and go to college for something else? Thinking of getting a meme associates degree then becoming a supervisor in a factory where I don't so shit but pretend to edit an excel sheet while spying on niggers not working.

>>16162225
That's the only thing I'm glad I don't have. I hate all these baby monitors that trigger even in the most trivial situations.

>>16162444
It's been up, I've been here a year and 7 months.

I took the knowledge test today, failed it have to wait another week to retest

Not gonna lie I'm pretty bummed out, the test was way harder than the practice tests I took

>>16162707
I honestly don't mind it. Worst that's come of it so far is it caught me texting one time, but all I got was a stern talking-to and as long as I don't do that again I'm golden, which is a good thing really. I set up a bunch of voice controls on my phone now anyway.

>>16162756
you mean the multiple choice questions or the actual out and looking at the rig test?

you gotta read the questions carefully cause they try like motherfuckers to twist the words around on you.
spend the week reading the little learners book front to back you should be fine for the next one

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>>16162636
Associates degree at least wouldn't be a bad choice. Just sucks a 2yr degree doesn't get you much in 2016.

>>16161577
Jesus. I'm so glad we don't have a ton of nanny shit. There is a GPS in case the truck disappears and that's it.

>>16162837
Yep the multiple choice question

What annoyed me is I walked in there thinking I had it, then I take the test and it was way fucking harder. Almost every question was something I hadn't seen before. I'm worried because the online tests I come across are way too easy.

>>16162842
Nursing is an associate's degree and pays as much as any typical 4 year degree out of college. And you can move up to better positions like Nurse Practitioner or Nurse Anesthetist making six figures.

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>>16162882
Ehh, it's actually limited with the 2yr degree. My mom has been an OR nurse for decades and has been in a few different management positions but kinda hit the cieling and can't move any higher without a bachelor's.

That's also a fairly recent thing too where a piece of paper means more than 30+ years of experience.

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>>16162707
We've been driving about the same amount of time, I'm at 18 months. I'm starting to get bored with it as well. But it's so easy and I can buy all sorts of dumb toys, plus I don't know what else I'd do.

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It finally happened. Damn near took off another trucks mirror backing at a truck stop. I hit it trying to pull forward because I was millimeters away from it after going forward and backwards one foot at a time because i didn't have enough space to pull out and abort or reposition myself.

Feels disappointing bruhs. Guy was pissed as hell, I'm glad he didn't try to fight me irl because i really do feel bad for it

>>16162756
>take several practice tests so many times I have the tests memorized at 110%
>take the actual test
>none of those questions were on it

Still don't have hazmat

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>>16162968
Better a mirror than a light pole

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>>16162842
>>16162949
>>16162987
Keep poastin

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>>16162834
Well that's not too bad desu. I just don't like being monitored because I get loud when playing Battlefield and/or batching one off.

>>16162950
That is word for word how I feel right now. I feel there's something better than selling my soul to the road though, who knows, maybe I'll live the millennial meme dream and die young :^)

>>16162987
pls don't jinx me nigger. The damage ended up being minimal but I was very close to ripping it off. It's just a little scratched plastic. I just feel bad for hitting his shit and it put a dent in my pride, for being a 6 month nub I thought I was doing great. Now I'll probably start being overly cautious and slow again

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>>16163001
Shit I'm 27 now so I only have like 6mos left. At least I get to sleep in my own bed (or on my couch).

>>16162992
Why? I don't have anything important to post. I'm not even a trucker.

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>>16163031
That's a good run for 6mos in. Seriously. The companies don't give a fuck about little stuff like that because it is bound to happen. I watched an Owner-Op rip off the whole passenger side front end of the tractor in the Restaurant Depot by our plant.

Just don't kill anybody and you should be fine.
>tfw boss was telling us about an old coworker who was sitting with his 4-ways on, pulled over to the side of the street waiting to turn into a crowded gas station
>guy not paying attention slammed into the back of his trailer at 50mph
>dude died a couple days later
I had never even heard that story. And this dude actually had something similar happen a few months before when lady wasn't paying attention as he was slowly turning into a parking lot and ripped the whole passenger side of her car off on his trailer.

>>16163034
RIP in peace Bepis
I'd like to go local like you, finally found a qt weeb girl to talk to and miss driving my car.

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>>16163061
>Dat Heterochromia
Muh dick

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>>16163063
It ain't so bad now that it is slow and I know what I'm doing (somewhat). I have been workin like 35-45hrs a week.

>>16163073
Didn't even notice

>>16163090
I wouldn't mind that kind of work week. What are your paychecks looking like, if I may ask?

>>16147491
he aint swift anymore.

>>16163159
Idk, it has been lighter and I'll volunteer to go do paperwork for a day a week so it ends up being 35-40hrs a week and like $900-$950 gross. If I run all 5 days and work 40-45, it's right around $1000, and then summer picks up and will be closer to $1100 and 45-50hrs a week.

I could almost always offter to work a Saturday too and they are normally short(er) days so come in 6-7hrs and end up with $1200 for the week.

But when you start, you still gotta figure everything out and will work a lot of 50-60hr weeks.

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>>16163182
Forgot pic

How difficult is it to get a local driving job as a recent cdl grad?

I've heard its almost impossible unless your license has been clean for more than three yeasrs, and even if you find a local/regional job you'll be working 60-70 hours a week. Is that true?

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>>16163194
Nah you just have to be willing to work.

>>16163199
You mean looking for a job or once you're hired?

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>>16163226
Nah I mean anybody that will hire you local, you are going to have to do some physical labor before you get something local where you are just bumpin docks.

Unless you get on a shitty $12/hr straight truck job.

>>16163260
I'm fine with that. If it pays 16 an hour, 10-15 ot I'll definitely take it. Especially if its cdl A so I can get experience. I'd actually prefer labor instead of only driving for hours on end. It just seems like almost a waste of time because no one will hire me without experience. And I really don't want to do otr

>>16163182
That's not bad at all, you're making about what I make. I'm just getting cucked 10000x harder.

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>>16163294
That's why I would never do OTR for $50k. Fuck that. Do the math and I'm getting $20-$25/hr. If you count the time you're stuck in the cuckshed at a truck stop in Wyoming, you are really making a fraction of that.

>>16163310
How much experience did you have before you got your local job and do they hire recent grads?

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>>16163338
Not shit for truck driving experience. They hire recent grads for those jobs all the time because the turnover is so high. If you aren't a pussy, the job isn't that terrible. Lots of stuff pisses me off about it but I get to work by myself all day at my own pace and I'm not stuck in a cubicle building resentments against coworkers and bosses.

>>16163310
It would be nice of I could make that here but local drivers typically get paid $14-$16/hr. with the exception of Western Refinery. I'm not sure if Jobe or Cemex pays any better to haul rocks.

>>16163353
What is it that you're doing exactly? How did you find the job?

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>>16163364
I was actually looking at Cemex reviews awhile back and they seem to be mixed. Some people love it and others have a really fucked up location and plant.

>>16163380
Deliver the Pepsi. Just make an account on CareerBuilder and Monster n shit. They will email you daily with jobs that pop up.

>>16163400
I'm looking at a listing for coke in my town...15.50/hr + 11.5¢/case


I've never worked commission, so I don't know if that's good or not.

My county has about 75,000 people in it btw

>>16163400
I've seen some people say that job is hard as fuck, isn't it you going to stores and giving them cases of soda? I don't understand what's so hard about that? Is it long hours?

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>>16163431
That doesn't sound bad at all. We get 350-650 cases a day, probably like 450 average. But no hourly, it's like $120/day plus ~15¢ per case. You should average $22-$25/hr.

>>16163471
I think I'll apply...getting tired of being cucked otr and that's about what I'm earning anyways

(autocorrect changed cucked to cycled)

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>>16163466
Lifting 30lb cases of drinks all day, dealing with asshole customers, and you have to stock coolers at some stops.

I'd rather do that than live in a cuckshed for 350 days a year.

And it's a starter job. You do it for a couple years and move onto something else. Only reason I'm still there is because I'm too lazy to start at a new company from the bottom. I clocked out at 11am today and got paid for a full day.

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>>16163338
I was 22 early this year, straight out of cdl school I landed a job at a building materials supply company. $18/hr but quickly moved to $20. Almost zero manual labor, all the materials are handled with forklift's. Really good owner that has enough connections to keep deliveries year round to keep everyone working 40 hours a week. It was a rare thing though. Only reason I got it was they had a retiring driver and the guy they originally wanted walked away from the job. All the other drivers are in their 40's telling me how shit OTR was.

Keep your eye on craigslist, it's an amazing resource imo. Roofing companies and a trench digging company were also ones that tried hiring me.

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>>16163488
Just expect to work. Only reason I get out of there in 40hrs a week is because I work smart and keep moving the whole day. Some of these new guys are lazy as shit (and dumbasses) and they are bitching that they clock out at 6pm everyday when they are on their phone half the day. I only drive like 60-70mi today, and a lot of that is the drive to and from my route so I'm in the truck for 10min, at a stop for 20min, repeat.

>>16163400
It doesn't seem too bad here, if it's anything like Jobe it'll be fine. My only concern is pay.

>>16163497
>>16163515
Are your jobs driving a cdl a truck? I really want a local job so this gives me hope. I really hate the idea of OTR. How did you get ready for the written test?

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>>16163588
Mine is Class A.

Just make sure you know the shit and don't be nervous.

>>16163588
If it makes you feel any better, it took me 5 tries to get my regular license, but then got my cdl and hazmat on first try, both written and practical

>>16163310
>stuck in the cuckshed at a truck stop in Wyoming

Better than my mom's house. Or that tiny dilapidated bedbug infested apartment that costed me almost $1000 a month that I used to call home. I kind of like living in this rolling cuckshed.

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>>16164024
Shit I moved from that house where I had the apartment and now my mom and I just rent this house together and she has been feeding me too much. Kinda nice tho.

>>16164024
Actually I'd rather live in my moms house compared to a fucking truck that isn't even mine. At least I can eat a decent meal and not be a literal cuck to a Jew making millions off of me.

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>>16162893

But then who will deliver that weight bench?

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>>16163613

>Class A

>Three axles

Zoz.

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>>16164415
You do know what a Class A covers, right?

But those tractors are awful with the 46' bay trailers. They are not meant to pull that weight but the newest Internationals they are getting have better Cummins engines in them. I'd like to get a loaded one on a 700cs day on a scale, they are probably 40k. Trailers are rated for like 36k gross.

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>>16164070

>Working for the man is bullshit, man. Like, if you work for a corporation, all you're doing is lining some fatcat's pockets, dig?

Whiny, assumedly lazy millennial detected.

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>>16164070
And have Mother Indra profit!

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>>16164444

>Triggered

Just jokes m81.

Aside from the missing paint on the door, that Kenworth looks like a much more suitable unit to deliver delicious, thirst quenching Pepsi products to hard working, fun loving Americans.

I used to deliver local freight in the small Canadian city I live in, and one of the class A drivers had an ancient single rear axle Ford L9000 as his usual ride. In the winter he could drift that thing around icy corners like nobody's business. Good times.

>>16162949
i couldn't find a job with an engineering bachelors because "lol no expeirence."

>>16164445
>refuses to be a wage slave
>lol fucking millennial

People like you are why OTR is such a blatant ripoff. You make a fucking fraction of the Jew you work for, why isn't he sleeping in his office? Why isn't he giving upon his weekend, his personal life? He's asking you to do it. Yet he gives up nothing while you give up everything. Yeah fuck that shit. At least with other trucking jobs you can go the hell home.

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>>16164738

>Assuming that I am an OTR driver and am pro OTR lifestyle

>Assuming I have a job that requires me to live in a sleeper.

You have it all screwed up brot, otr is a means to an end, not the end.

Get your twoish years in, make your bones, then find something that pays more and has you home every night.

>>16164847
Thats fucking wack bro

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>>16164701
Mech. Engineer here

This. I couldn't land shit because lolno experience.
Now I design shit, tell people how shit needs to get done, and I drive a pickup truck hauling shit around to jobsites.

At least its a nice 6 figure paycheck at the end of the year.

>>16155843
CRUCKING

I am a visitor to these truckerfag parts.

It seems to be the same 6 people yelling at each other.

>>16160143
5yrs in and only know bulk DG tankers

>>16163001
Keksimus, the interior camera is above the passenger door, pointed across the cab to the driver side. It can also be disabled entirely when the truck is parked by just punching 99999 on the login keypad. We don't even use the login functionality.
>>16163061
Last week on I-24 headed to Nashville from Chattanooga, I saw a wreck on the eastbound side as I was going west, one truck slammed into another. My best guess judging by the angles they were mated together at, the truck in front was on the shoulder, and moved into the right lane at a low speed. The rear truck slammed into the front truck's trailer so hard, the ass of the trailer was at the edge of the bed in the sleeper berth. Looked like the left side of the trailer cleaved the driver's seat nearly down the middle, too. Didn't see the driver, emergency responders were already working the scene. I'd wager that driver isn't alive any more, but if he is I very much doubt he's in one piece.
>>16163063
I keep contemplating local gigs myself, but I'm perfectly happy OTR, if I had my own truck I'd probably put a custom sleeper on it and rent out the house.

>>16165217
There's a small group of regulars, plus at least one resident bottom-tier troll. There's occasionally an actual high-tier troll that drops in to stir things up.

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>>16165592

>Not considering non tripfags

Decedent western bourgeois.

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>>16164886

Pothing nersonal kid.

O shit guise, there's a Sterling truck with a sleeper cab behind me. Only the second time I've seen one of those.

>>16165592
Shit son, I'm flattered.

>>16165592

Accurate.

Also our truck is being towed and I'm finalizing our ticket out of here.

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>>16164614
I'm in an old Int'l 8100 today. 4x2 because anything bigger wouldn't make the turns I deal with.

>>16163061
EMS here, had a guy try to put his mustang under an empty flatbed trailer a month or so ago. Alive on scene, died in the hospital a couple days later.

>>16148070
Pffff swift

>>16148278
Topkek. What is paypal?

Fucking comdata is the most useless shit. Yall faggot companies fix your own shit im not a loan officer.

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>>16151799
Dont do it. This is your 1 warning. OTR is the most shit meme on earth.

I am not kidding

I am not baiting


Litterally do anything else

>>16152643
But u like getting pulled around by the dozer yeah?

>>16152927
Dude. For 10k just buy and rv. I lived in a truck. It sucked mandingo sized cocks.

>>16153051
This. In nazi scamerica you are up 16 hours a day jewing your way around electronic logs. Its shit.

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>>16153346
And there it is.

The very next thread.

Never change.

>>16155492
Yeah. Fuck that shit and go. Hairy fucking cocksuckers. And dont feel bad. My shit was always broke. Just leave knowing this wont be the last time and layover pay is shit.

>>16155523
Local would be okay. Just dont fucking otr if u want any sort of life.

>>16157200
Jesus fuck anon! Unless you are driving over them because of traffic go hand in your mutherfucking keys before you kill someone. Wtf are you doing.

>>16167049
Why?

>>16158320
As a guy who hooked a wire and got 7 poles. Then had to fight and beat the holy piss out of an angree guy because his paperview porn went out i agree. Lol. Watch signs and 4 wheelers 2. Godspeed anon.

>>16160143
I pulled reefer in america. Not bad. Perks of kicking that bitch on -20 degrees and sweep it out in 110 degree heat when you work for a shit company. I carried a broom and would sweep it out good. Solash water all over and charge the company 10 bucks for washouts. And it wasnt steeling. Those cunts owed me a lot more.

>>16161577
The second those sensors are in just fucking quit. 4 wheeler cuts u off. Spill coffe AND get told by a machine u dont know how to drive AND get bitched at. Fuck em. Leave.

>>16162636
Just quit. Go to a votec and weld or hvac. Easy af work and dont have 4 years of cuckschool

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>>16166713

That dash reminds me of the late 80s International van trucks I drove while working at that delivery job, ironically.

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>>16162707
He drives for swift.

>>16167053

Its convenient to have when a unit gets buried, for sure, but if its that bad for equipment, its that bad for manpower as well. Absolutely miserable to work in.

>>16157200
Are you giving yourself room to hook around the corner or are you just pulling up to the line and hoping you can cut it?

Seriously man, don't be afraid to give yourself some room, it's not going to hurt the faggot in the Camry behind you.

Woke up Friday morning, went to hop out of my truck to take a piss and damn near landed on an alligator laying next to my truck.

>fuck Florida

Now off to Macon, MO. before long.

>fuck I-72

>>16147491
Why do truck companies even bother spamming California Craigslist with job ads. None of the jobs are in state they all want you to work back east for cuck wages. It's like they don't understand cost of living here.

>>16167324
not sure really. probably gonna be a lot of locals in cali now tho with the new rules for downtime
>mfw heartland let me sit in cali all the damn time
>who cares? it cheaper to have him sit
then california shows up
>so uh, we were told we had to pay you for all the downtime we made you sit in cali for so heres a token ammount.
then cali goes no, more.
>mfw getting paid by a company i no longer work for, and its more than what they paid me when i actually worked for them.

huh. well one point for cali.

>>16167324

>Its like they don't care about the cost of living for their drivers

FTFY

>>16167623
>Its like they don't care about their drivers

>>16167273

>Not taking the opportunity to fuck a lot gator

Bucket list ruined.

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>>16168104
>Not taking the opportunity to fuck a lot gator
sounds like a challenge, how do the gators feel about this?

>>16168104
>implying I didn't try to but was unsuccesful due to scheduling issues

>>16168186
>container
i dont see whats so-
>on rears
oh dear.
>old gordon truck
wellp, shoulda known better.

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Hauling a load of these. They make my truck wobbly.

>>16162968

Happens bruh. Just get out and look next time.

>>16160997

Looks normal, driver. Now get that load over there for your 2AM live unload.

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>>16168449
shift with the slosh bro

>>16168449
Oh yeah. I haul those all the goddamn time. I imagine it's still not nearly as nasty as a true tanker gets though.
>>16168474
Alright now I'm not mechanically experienced but I'mma take a stab at that pic and guess that central shaft is the crank, and that gear tooth machining on it is supposed to go all the way to the end? Also see a lot of carnage there, clutch totally exploded? I mean that's a hell of a chunk of metal bitten out of there on the lower left.

>>16168495
looks more like the starter esploded in the tranny

also the splines are supposed to stop short of the shaft end, to assist when sliding it into the engine

>top 4 gears missing
>can't trick the truck into remembering they're there
>limp it 2 miles to a walmart going 15mph
>warehouse across the street let's me drop my trailer in a dock they don't use
>wrecker shows up in 30 minutes
>get to Fyda around 2pm
>dick around waiting to get pulled in
>8pm rolls around
>go in to ask where my truck is in the queue
>"uh, sir, that's scheduled for tomorrow when the diagnostic tech clocks in"
>8am
Lel. So much for finishing my delivery tomorrow. It's stone so who gives a fuck? They wanted same day delivery, but that shit has been sitting in the ground millions of years. It can wait another 2 days.

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>forgot pic

>>16168495
>thinks input shaft teeth should go to the end
Bruh. You weren't lying about not being mechanically experienced. The bare part of the shaft is there to help with alignment during reassembly so the teeth don't get fucked sliding it in.

>>16166507
LMAO, my truck broke down and they towed it back to depot and I got a flight home the next day.

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>>16168495
the broken shit in the bottom is whats left of the spider gears from the differential, they came thru the case into the clutch housing.
never replace a single tire on an awd car

>>16168541
What does that big fucker charge for a hook?

>>16168511
Yeah figured I was off on 99% of my guessing.
>>16168532
That sucks TF. This Cascadia misses 4th all the time, sometimes it'll even miss it so many times that it just gives up and drops to 2nd. I miss driving a manual.
>>16168541
Keks, yeah. I can generally identify bits and pieces better than the average joe, but I never did have the opportunity to work on a car and really learn. I'd like to get a beater with a simple engine or a bike to toy with so I can learn now, but I'm never home of course, so I don't bother.

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I don't wanna be cucked forever, just for a year. How big of a mistake would it be to go for something with paid training, drive for a year or whatever for them then quit? Mostly just want to save up some money for a down payment ona house without having to pay california rent, or moving back in with my parents.

>>16168449

Totes, magoats. I haul a few of them every so often in one of a few body job van trucks we have set up with a bunch of chemical transfer pumps to refill other units.

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>>16168629

If you buy a house you don't have to pay California rent, but are you ready to pay California property tax?

Damned if you do or don't.

>>16168800
I'm not gonna buy a house in California. I just don't have money to move, and I'm too lazy to live out of my kia spectra for a few months.

>>16168567
>different sized tires on the same drive axle

rip in pepperoni

>>16168567
It was $303 for 30 miles loaded, 70 miles dispatched, so $4-10/mi depending on what kind of math you're using. Would have been close to triple that with the trailer.

>>16168629
>only driving the worst year of a career
>in the worst possible employment arrangement
>with the lowest income potential
Why? Do it for 5 years and you can hop into a mortgage with 20-50% equity.

Truck is finally heading into the shop. Cost clock is starting at $155 just to pull it in the bay. I'm guessing $500 minimum.

>>16170388
Houses where my friends live are like 150k for 2000 sq ft renovated in the last 10 years. Just don't think I want to drive for more than a year, and it seems like even training would pay more than where I currently am, not even counting the high cost of living.

Got a quote. Range selector went out. $1800, parts will be here this afternoon, might get out of the shop tomorrow.

>>16170719
Yeah, you'll have higher disposable income being homeless, but the rookie year is the lowest grossing, highest cost year for drivers, between acquiring equipment and learning how to just do the job correctly. The learning curve takes about 8-12 months to go from shit to passable, with mastery coming in 20-48 months. It's not unheard of to double your income in your second year.

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>enjoying bahn mi near the smoking area
>see a truck rolling up
>hear a Google yelling in the distance
>realize it's the sound of the driver talking on the phone over the sound of the engine
>300 yards away
Why do googles have to holler all the time?

>>16170889
i imagine its ingrained in.they probably talk at that level at home too.

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>>16170912
Maybe pepsi has some insight?

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>>16170474
>I'm guessing $500 minimum.
>>16170877
>Range selector went out. $1800,

welp, that escalated quickly. Good luck with all that bro

>>16171172
It's just the culture.

All of black culture is summed up in the simple concept of self-aggrandizement.
If a nigga ain't the center of attention at all times, he's a failure in his own eyes.

Best demonstrated by their hilarious attempts at being humble or apologetic.

All they can think is "wait til they see how fukken humble n shit I am they gon love me" and it comes off overdramatically acted for effect.

>>16171717
Also demonstrated any time a nigga is forced to give a compliment.

It can't be personal.

It has to be public.

It has to be more about the congratulater than the congratulatee.

"Hey AJ, this shit is tight"
vs
EYO ERRYBODY HOL UP I JUST NEEDS TO TAKE MINIT AND GIVE MA PROPS TO MA BOI AJ FO DA MOST FIRE MIXTAPE OF 2016 LET'S ALL GIVE IT UP FOR MA NIGGA AJ!

>>16171581
Was hoping it might have just been a burnt out sensor, but they're swapping out servos, diaphragms, etc. Good news is they found a $200 take off part when they couldn't find a new one, so that's free of charge. Looked pretty much new to me.

>>16171717
Slavery was a mistake.

>>16171790
No. The thirteenth amendment was a mistake.

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Looks like I might be getting toasty after I replace the lower exhaust.

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>wake up, message telling to swap loads with truck 90 mins away
>but I'm at receiver are you sure y'all don't want me to deliver first?
>swap asap
>get 10 mins from swap, anon you were supposed to deliver first, turn around
>drive 45 mins back
>anon nevermind head to swap
>you sure cause this ain't making sense
>get to swap location, driver comes over, youre empty right?
company lyfe

>>16172337
thats when you go with your gut and wait till empty. ive had that a few times personal favorite is being told to swap at 9 pm after ive been asleep for 4 hours
>but we need you to do dis on time!
shoulda thought about that one before this guy banged on my door. oh thats right, you fucked off at 6. hope you enjoy that morning meeting with the supervisor.

>get truck out of the shop
>same problem before the first stop light
Welp. Smells like another $1500.

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>>16172684
sonofabitch, i hope they fix their fuckup, you might want to keep an eye on the greasemonkey this time.

>>16170889
Bruhs it's insane. I used to cater from a deli staffed by 90% googles and we couldn't work over their volume just talking to each other. It got to a point where me and the catering coordinator began communicating through written notes because it was more efficient and our details were more accurate than trying to verbally communicate over them. They also had a tendency to all start hollering and dancing out of nowhere at the same time when we were trying to get our catering shit together and it made work impossible.

>>16173283
They didn't fuck anything up, they just didn't go deep enough into the system. They changed everything to actuate the range selector, but it looks like the whole back box is fucked.

Thoughts on YRC?

They are the returns carrier for my company and are total shit

>>16173732
Shit pay for a """""union"""""
Long hours

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I'm unironically considering moving to the U.S and trucking. I'm a freindless loser with no money or future, but unlimited patience - I can literally sit down and stare at a wall for hours on end. I'm also good at driving efficiently, getting 30mpg out of my diesel Isuzu Trooper before some asshole ran into it, and to top it all off I qualified as a mechanic in 2010, with a genuine interest in vehicles big and small meaning I know my way around most, and can easily find my way around any I don't. No crimes.

What do, anons? I assume a HGV licence in Ireland won't apply over there...

>>16152643
Canucks should get their sticks out and start buying trucks from the masters.
https://youtu.be/-LGGxp8ujxY

>>16173828
>spintires.webm

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>>16173828

>One deck of logs and little self load picker

>Tandem drive, tandem pup trailer

>Masterful

Top zoz. The reel trailers we use require a tri drive with a two axle jeep, tri axle trailer, and tandem booster on the back.

Ayy, just bought a truck, now i just have to pay off this $150,000 loan. Instead of going to work i played Factorio until 2am. Help.

>>16175008
Pics?

Day 7 of driving, and I've gotten better at turns. Probably should have realized this sooner but taking turns slowly helps. Fuck my CDL school for saying take them in 5th or 6th gear only.

>shop says they'd pull the truck in around 6am
>get up at 5am and get all my in-truck shit done
>10am
>truck still sitting in the yard
>tech assigned to it called in sick
Fug. Watching the company cucks crying about not being able to afford a hotel is fun, though. A couple has been living on a couch in the driver's lounge for 4 days with all their shit sitting in a pile by the TV. They're too lazy to walk a mile down the road to a fuckton of fast food and grocery stores so they've been eating out of a vending machine the whole time.


>>16173732
They're fucking huge. They're usually the cheapest option for LTL. You could get a competent carrier like R&L, but it costs a lot more.

>>16173813
There are tons of immigrants trucking here at bottom tier carriers. You'll have better luck getting on with a carrier in Canada, though, since their work visas are more lax.

>>16175008
Drive, loancuck, drive.

>>16175899
They wanted you taking them in 5th or 6th so you didn't fuck around with gears in a turn.

Sup /tfg/, doing my first 10,000 miles with a trainer at Prime Inc. in order to get my CDL.

This guy (my trainer) has the verbal intelligence of a 2nd grader, am I going to have to figure all this out myself? My downshifting sucks and he never let's me practice. What do anons

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>>16176104
>verbal intelligence of a 2nd grader
but apparently he can drive a truck and you cant yet.
>am I going to have to figure all this out myself?
i think thats how it works bro
>My downshifting sucks and he never let's me practice
time to get your feet wet boy
>What do
drive all day erryday

>>16176104
Prime, everyone

>16176134

>but apparently he can drive a truck and you cant yet.

Its my 3rd day bitch. If I could get this thing to myself in a parking lot somewhere and not listening to his vague grunts I'd have it down

>i think thats how it works bro

kys

>time to get your feet wet boy

ayyyyy

>>16175899
Are you an imbecile? They said to take them in 5th or 6th because that's the highest gear you can take a turn without stalling. You can be going 5 miles an hour on 5th. And if you feel stalling ride the clutch. They say this because stalling on the dmv test is an automatic fail

>>16176104
>My downshifting sucks and he never let's me practice
It's a combination of feel and timing. Put some light pressure on the shifter into the gear you're going into and as the rpms pass through the range where you can get it into the gear it'll practically feel like it sucks the shifter into the gear. Most of the time newbs try to shift too quickly and you probably are too. Relax. you can't rush the truck so no point in trying.

>>16176668
The bro

>>16176704
Thx

>>16175237
Clover crashes whenever I try to post pics, will try again at home

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>>16176378

>Bitching about the advice given


>Wannnhh! How do downshifts?!

>Make bad trainer man do good teaches!

>Dummah twainer let smawtie gweenhorn dwive truck or give wurstest ouchies!

Bruh. You sound like the steering wheel holder equivalent of a fluffy pony right now.

Tell the guy you need to be driving more, or request a new trainer from your management.

>>16175008

https://youtu.be/uHZJej98_T0

Find inspiration in this seminal trucking song.

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>>16176916
picking it up tomorrow, then have to drive to albany to get plates. My house, dealer, and dmv are as far apart as possible while still being in NY

>>16176712
thx for sayin thx bro appreciate it

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>>16177763
>I-it has a Detroit Diesel, right senpai?
looks bretty good tho

>>16177763
Does NY have a seperate DMV for commercial vehicles? In IL, you had to go to a special DMV to get anything done concerning your CDL but I'm not sure about plates n shit.

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>tfw realize I haven't looked at my tac in weeks and that I've perfected my shifting based on the sound of the engine

Feels profound

>>16178206
The one in albany, yea

>>16178327

Roadranger guru.

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Had a customer call for parts to swap auto to manual on an 07 argosy. I wasn't aware people actually drove those.

>>16179325
Canadians do. I've seen 5 this month.

>>16179325
I honestly want one cause I'm dumb.

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>>16179325

They use bodyjob versions of them as in oil country for wireline trucks up in oil country in Canada.

>>16179631

Whoops, derped that sentence right the fuck up.

>>16179325
>best in class

He's probably still making lease payments

>>16179325
who is/was bmt trucking? cmon you should know better.

Gotta go from Laredo to Georgia by tomorrow at midnight. I thought driving down here would be decent but it sucked. Not even any good radio stations down here.

>shop starts tearing apart truck at 2pm
>tech clocks out at 6pm
>new tech comes in at 10pm
>service advisor comes out at midnight
>they can't find the parts that were "ordered" 2 days ago
Fug.

>>16180055
>just cuck things

welcome back to door-swingers lounge! may i get you a cup of lukewarm water? were about to start the next round of Shitflinging!

>>16175928

> A couple has been living on a couch in the driver's lounge for 4 days with all their shit sitting in a pile by the TV

Holy shit. Pics?

You would think people would be smart enough to have some emergency money squared away, but no.

>>16179999

> what is satellite radio

nice quads tho m8

>>16180055

Is it even possible to make money as an O/O if you're a doorslammer? Or are the rates so low that you have to drive more to break even?

>>16180171
>what is satellite radio
>24 HOUR COMMERCIAL FREE MUSIC
>EXCEPT FOR ALL THESE COMMERCIALS FOR THE RADIO YOU'RE ALREADY PAYING FOR SO THEY DON'T COUNT
>HEY CHECK THESE OTHER CHANNELS THEY'RE AWESOME AND COMMERCIAL FREE LIKE THIS CHANNEL YOU'RE LISTENING TO NOW, THIS DOESN'T COUNT AS A COMMERCIAL AND IS IN NO WAY ANNOYING AS ALL FUCK
>DON'T WORRY WE'LL REMIND YOU EVERY 4 MINUTES THAT YOU'RE LISTENING TO COMMERCIAL FREE MUSIC OF COURSE THESE INTERRUPTIONS AREN'T TECHNICALLY COMMERCIALS AND COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE EVERY BIT AS IRRITATING

Nothanx, podcasts and audiobooks for me

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Is there a stipulation for placards/HazMat while hauling car batteries? I asked the shipper if I needed either of those and they told me no, which contradicts what I've read about hauling Class 8 materials.

Pretty sure I'm not supposed to be hauling this and I'm staying put until I can verify I'm legal.

>>16180279
Don't forget:

EAST BOUND AND

...acquiring signal...

WE GONNA DO

...acquiring signal...

WAY TO GO AND A

...acquiring signal...

...please check antenna...

>>16180434
You're fine.

Crete hauls them for kawasaki all the time, no hazmat required.

The shipper is responsible for supplying the proper paperwork.
If it says it's not hazmat, it's not.

>>16180458
Then I'll hit the road. I just didn't want to get reamed out for hauling something I'm not endorsed for. HazMat exceptions and regulations are all over the fucking place.

Thanks though.

>>16180434
Sometimes it's all about the packaging.

A bulk container of ammonia solution is hazmat.
The same quantity of solution in cases of a dozen spray bottles is not.

>>16180469
Always go by the paperwork. Delivery address, load temperature, hazmat, anything.
If your dispatch says otherwise get it via qualcomm before deviating from the bol.

>>16180483
That's certainly good to know. This is as close to actual HazMat as I've been.

>>16180496
BoL says it meets or is exempt from 49 CFR regulation.

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>tfw sharted in mentor's truck
>In his bunk too

>>16180743

You dead.

>>16180743
You fucking hwat m8

>>16180148
I've had about 20 cups of vending machine coffee, thx.

>>16180171
Looked like your standard retired meth couple. They got a hotel last night.

Door slammers usually run 3000-4000 miles to net what I do in 1500. They can make money, but they're working all the damn time.

>>16180434
I think it has to do with how dilute the acid is, and how modern batteries are sealed. If they were the old capped or asphalt tops it'd be a different story. Make sure you strap that shit good.

>>16180743
>SHART IN MART

>>16181267

Why do I see so many owner operators with custom 48' spread axle reefers? Those ones where the paint matches the tractor so you know they own both units.

Like, what's the benefit to having fixed axles and a trailer that's 5' shorter than the norm?

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>>16180171
Looks like they're back since they could only afford one night in a hotel.

>>16181684
Spread axles aren't common, and reefers ate usually refused over 10 years old, so O/O's usually custom order them and run them the whole 10 years. A spread axle can carry 20,000lbs per axle, where a tandem can only hold 17,000lbs per axle. 90% of reefer loads only take up 45' of space, so taking 380cu ft of seldom used space off the trailer cuts down on cooling costs, and also saves a few hundred pounds of weight. It also makes the rig easier to maneuver in tight produce markets since there is no tail swing. Top of the list for me is you never have to worry about getting the axle weights balanced since if the net weight of the cargo is legal for the rig's gross someone has to fuck up really bad to get an axle weight over the limit.

>>16181267
The pallets were only about two rows high and machine wrapped in plastic. Probably should've threw some load locks on there but it slipped my mind.

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What's the most beautiful experience you've had out on the road? Something that happened or something you saw that made you go "Damn, this is nice."

Non-/o/ related example from me:
>be on an oil rig
>shit night duty, everything breaking
>followed by watching the most gorgeous sunrise with golds and pinks and oranges while eating a crockpot roast beef

>>16180451
>>16180279
And people wonder why I buy CDs and rip them and stick them on things for offline playback.

Admittedly, I'm now using three devices for said playback because of muh autism. My car's running off a USB stick, music 'on the go' or not in the main area at work is from a dedicated MP3 player, and music in the main area at work is played from my phone, when it's my turn to abuse the speakers and shake the walls.

>>16180434
Just be careful on roundabouts; someone at work supposedly had their car demolished by a truckload of car batteries they carved up on a roundabout.

Trucking sounds more appealing now. I just put in a 9+ hour shift at work, then did some shopping, filled my car up, and sat in traffic. And now I have to go out and see people from work again, for someone's birthday meal.
Thus making it two nights in a row I don't get any time for Skyrim. Having friends is hard on my gaming schedule.
But at least I got to test out the new speakers at work properly. Ran them through a range of frequencies, and they didn't explode. Nor did the shelf fall off the wall it was glued to.

>>16176104

Prime trainers have gone downhill since I've been there a lot of them get into it for just the money.

You'll be figuring a lot of this out by yourself my trainers were good I got lucky. The only way you will ever learn how to do any of this is to take the impetus to learn to do it yourself.

And for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and all that is Noodly do not tell Wally it's an overpowered Nintendo when you go back to upgrade I've seen people get walked out the door over that lol

Tell Jay at Campus Inn the boys said hi.

>>16181989

http://www.500px.com/sugarysweet

>delivery in San Marcos TX tomorrow night at 2030
>grocery warehouse, might take an hour, might take eight
>probably no load until morning
>one truck stop nearby
Where the fuck am I gonna park in Austin/San Marcos at midnight?
Should I just bite the bullet and reserve a spot at TA New Braunfels? Or maybe it won't be so busy because weekend/Thanksgiving?

How can the piece of Louisiana shit in the next shower be shouting Cajun into his phone and showering at the same time?

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>>16182373
see >>10361919

>>16182380
samsung galaxy bro, theys waterproof and sheeeeeet

>>16182327
Yeah, I'd plan on New Braunfels if the receiver won't let you park there. Give them a call.

>>16182380
Who said he was on the phone? I heard if they stop yammering they'll suffocate with all those crawfish shells in their gullet.

>>16182444
The kicker is, I'm due home on Monday and San Marcos is only 4 hours away, so they might just send me home early. Of course they probably won't tell me until the last moment.

Ha, I was thinking something similar then it rang it I heard "helldurreauxo, it's be Louie Bob.

https://youtu.be/Bpd3D3P27_U?t=30s

>>16182380

Waterproof phones or waterproof cases.

>>16182861
God damn.

I loved the CB chatter:

"I don't believe what I just saw."

"I'm not sure I saw what I just saw."

>>16182861
Goddamn I can't find it but there's a pic of a Swift truck going down an exit ramp the wrong way, says 'Flying J's full, I'm going back to the rest area!'

>>16182327
Start calling Walmarts or Lowe's in the area. Be nice and ask if you can overnight there. If they say yes ask where you can park to be the least obtrusive. The Google maps your ass off because even though most walmarts have at least 5 entrances for cars there is usually only one for trucks and it isn't marked or in an obvious area. Just don't show up without doing your research or you're fucked.

This has saved my ass plenty of times.

>>16182861
>Wwwwwooooooooowwwwww

Should be out of here any day now. All the guts are back in the truck.

>>16183962
hang in there bud

>>16183962

do they let you sleep in the truck while it's at the shop? Like if its just sitting outside at night couldn't you just go back in the sleeper instead of getting a hotel room?

>>16184798
sometimes, the nicer places have their own showers for drivers who have to wait. it depends on whats wrong with the truck and what time of year it is. other places like in chicago, you dont want to be in the truck. or in the area after sundown.

>>16184798
Yeah, but they dropped the driveline to get the back box out, so they couldn't move it after they started tearing it down. They've got a shower, vending machines, and a customer shower. There are 5 hotels, 2 grocery stores, and more than a dozen restaurants within a mile, so it's pretty nice. Most drivers are too fat to walk anywhere, but there's a ton of food delivery, and a few taxis ads all over the driver's area. They've got oversized leather lounge charts with ottomans, so 4-8 drivers can sleep in the customer lounge overnight since it's a 24/7 shop. They only have 2-4 techs overnight, so work is slow when active shift ends, but they can tie up loose ends and get shit set up for the morning. It's a 20 bay shop, and they've got steady work with a wrecker arriving every hour or two all through the night.

>>16181795
The local mechanic here has 2 beds and 2 showers in the truckers area.

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>>16185148
then why in god's name was that couple eating out of just the vending machines

>>16185423
They were either too dumb or too lazy to du anything else. Pulling a can if vienna sausages out, I'm leaning towards too dumb, since they pumped at least $20 a day into the vending machines.

>>16185470
mindboggling. i can understand getting something like those honeybuns for breakfast each morning but for every meal? that's next-level survival incompetence

>>16185496
They have to beg their company for fuel authorization because they're too dumb to trip plan. Too dumb to eat, too, naturally.

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>>16185506
it'll be a miracle if they can survive another year

>>16185516
They've been doing this 22 years.

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>>16147491
office fag here to vent

Had a driver that lives out of her truck in my office venting, going over her routing, complaining about the business side of things and how she could fix the account, criticizing my decision making, being a general nuisance for 7

>7 h o u r s
>h
>o
>u
>r
>s

today. After nodding my head, showing empathy, agreeing with her for 6 of the 7 hours, while at the same time trying to manage the schedule, the other 22 drivers (all of which who are unloading on me because of schedule changes that are out of my control), customers and warehouse, , I reached my boiling point and started to check out. Started looking at my phone instead of paying attention, gave short answers trying to give her a hint that I was getting tired of it and all of a sudden

>"you know, you office guys just don't get it!"
>"aren't you a manager?"
>"and this is how you treat your drivers?"
>"jesus christ this is the worst company!"

what do drivers really want?
What am I missing?
Of the ones that I see, I have time for roughly 20-30 minutes of venting per driver per day which is fairly usual. But I simply can't take an entire day's worth. If I were to ride along with her and complain about my job and talked about myself for 7 hours, don't you think that would drive her insane?

I actually do care about feedback from the drivers, because I know it's shit out there. But how do I deal with a driver like this? How do I assert myself and let drivers know when it's too much without making them buttrustled?

I was thinking of just having her write down all the grievances and I would process them later. A 200 mph, one way conversation going a thousand directions at once for 7 hours is just leaves the driver frustrated, nothing resolved, and me at my boiling point

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>>16185786

Speaking from a pool of experience working at small, tight knit companies that have a lot of drivers/workers interacting and talking with one another, that kind of person in that kind of headspace is poison, and a morale killer to those around them.

No matter how skilled, competent and valuable she may be in terms of her experience and abilities (or not), if she is that unhappy with the conditions of her employment, and those conditions are unlikely to change maybe its time that she move on to greener pastures.

I would be up front with her that you have plenty of other pressing matters to deal with if she drags on that much.

>>16185516
QUALITY

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>>16185713

>What is a power cooler?

Lots of the guys I used to work with at my previous trucking job would eat out at least twice a day for every day of their 29 day hitch.

I never understood why they would waste so much money instead of spending 150 bucks on a cooler/lunch box heater and buying some groceries.

>>16185786
Have you tried being less shit?

>>16186027

>Seven hour complainer detected.

>>16185786
>>16186027
This. Have you tried doing your job properly? 99% of complaints can be summed up as 'you didn;t fix shit management broke, despite it being your job'.

>>16185786
Tell them to go to 4chan and vent their work related grievances there. Just like you did!

>>16185786
i think that she had 7 hours of free time to bitch is proof you aren't routing her properly. that being said just tell the truth, drivers arent getting the miles cause the planner is shitting on you. and the planner is getting shit on by the shippers cause of what the drivers do. and if the ball of fuck thats going on wasn't enough, we have management rubbing their dicks on it trying to "improve it" if you want it to be better, be nicer to the shipper, even if they're fucking assholes.
that is of course, if she isnt just blatantly bitching. cause really she's living out of a truck i doubt she's happy with herself and her life choices and, as we've seen they can do poor life choices for 22 years and still be alive.

i cant count the number of times ive watched an original driver from heartland loose their shit and cuss out someone at a truck stop or at a shipper and just fuck off twitching back to his truck. naturally, having the same fucking logo on my hat ive literally stepped up and had to apologize for his actions cause i know itll effect me or any future jobs i get. i get upset too but that's not an excuse to fucking cuss someone out. especially the fucking cashier who just said they were sold out of fucking cigarillos
>>16187230
please no, they'll find /pol/ and god knows whatll happen after that.

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She's had a rougher life than mine.

Finally out of the shop. Final bill was $4650 and I talked them down to $4200. Goddamn these gears are tight. Computer revved to the moon in a few gears after I picked up my trailer. Guess they've got some breaking in to do.

>>16188497
so what did they replace?

>>16188497
With those prices, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you were either in some major metropolitan city where you were charged for storage of your truck overnight as well or you were in Canada.

>>16185786
What else you think she does with her Bluetooth by her ear while driving? All of that literally prepped her for the shitpile she unleashed on you.
If there's one thing most truckers know how to do well is talk someone's ear off about abso-fucking-lutely nothing. Even better if it's Trucking/job related!

>>16188537
Back box and range selector.

>>16188883
Outside Columbus, OH. No charge for storage. $2400 was labor, so ~20 hours at a variable rate of $105-$140/hr since they bill diagnostics and general labor differently.

>>16188952
ehh who cares? You'll make it up in 4 days

>>16189478
**4 minutes

>>16189478
Too bad there aren't 4 days this week thanks to the holiday weekend.

>>16189601
***4 minutes before the truck even left the shop

Aaaand bump limit.

>>16188952
Sheesh
I got work done at a NY through way and they only charged $90/hr.

>>16189961

Why did you buy an auto?

Are all of the old Interstate trucks autos or were some sticks? You mentioned a small batch of Interstate Columbias having a drop axle.