Truckerfag Thread: Swift Shitpost Extravaganza

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>>16147491

>>16192914
Ayy it's Whiney

>Arrive at yard today
>Truck ain't in parking spot
>Check at the shop
>'Shit the computer said you weren't leaving til tomorrow'
>Someone forgot to change that when they assigned me a load for today
>Truck already on stands with all its oil drained
>'Gonna take us at least another hour'
>Could make it just barely on time if there's enough fuel in it and I don't stop as soon as they're done, assuming it literally only takes an hour
Fun times.

>>16192930
Oh good, I guess fucking things up isn't exclusive to my company.

New loancuck o/o from last thread here. Got to the albany dmv 15 minutes before it closed on friday, by some miracle I got it registered. Got to the truck, and 10 miles after pulled out of the lot one of the shiny not-chrome hubcaps flies off and ping-pongs between 3 cars. Lost a second one at some point but nobody flagged me down so i guess its on the side of the road somewhere

>>16192930
i like how they always wait for any maintenance to be started before giving you loads
my favorite was getting call as i get into the yard
>gordo can you deliber this to Oregon is hot ld

Uh, i just told you im in the shop for the oil change that's almost 8k overdue

>but iz hot ld,do change later

Trucks already in line,plus you pulled this on me already in cali and had me sit for a week.

>but,but iz hot ld..

hung up and started chatting with a driver who has been available for the last 3 days and has to go to Oregon for home time. so i told him of it and he said they wouldn't give it to him but wouldn't say why. also the "hot load" line always cracks me up you don't pay me anything more for hot loads, telling me just ensures i know You are getting paid more.

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>>16192908
SWIIIIIIIIFTPOOOOOOOST

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>just ate 4 rollerdogs in less than an hour

Feels like death

>>16193112
> All those phones
> All those people
> Just for some skinny short-haired white girl with no tits
Fuck I hate pop music.

>>16192908
have any of you trucker fags posted a pay stub? I never believe the money you guys say you make because my uncle was a trucker until recently and I know damn well he wasn't making that much money, especially considering how long you are gone for.

>>16193490
Perhaps your uncle was just stupid?

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>>16193490
Garbagefag used to post his all the time.

>>16193055
>hot load
For company cucks that usually just means the load planner forgot about the load until the deadline, so it has to move before anything else before they start incurring service failure fines.

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>>16193608
>WAT Trucking LLC

Jesus fuck, I leave for 2 years and this shit actually happens?

What the shit man.

>>16193608
So that's a week worth of loads? Just curios. I know pay/loads fluctuate.

>>16193684
It happened in 2012.

>>16193716
Yeah, Monday-Friday pretty much.

>>16193894
WELP. Shows how much I know haha.

Or how much I remember. Fuck.

Whats going to happen when the self-driving trucks take over?

>thought current load had delivery time for 1pm tomorrow
>just noticed it's 01:00 and not 13:00

Rip in pieces sleep cycle

>>16193933
Drivers will spend every week sitting in the shop waiting for emissions and driver assist technologies to be repaired.

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>feels New Mexican, man

>>16192908
>my own pers/o/nal blog

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>>16194364
You seem upset

>>16193933
Basic income and reparations

Been bobtailing from Georgia to Mississippi and when I go to use the brakes I have to almost push them damn near to the floor. What does this mean, and how fucked am I?

>>16193608
>planner fuck up
yeah that is usually the case. my dispatcher at the time was notorious for making us take already going to fail runs cause im pretty sure he was banging the planner. then he would get on our case for the fuck ups and do write ups and what not. so glad i worked there before the mandatory loads.
>>16194815
it means you should slow down cause you dont have brakes anymore.

>>16193005
Still made it on time so it wasn't that big of a fuck up.
>>16193055
Skyline ain't never been that dumb.
>>16193112
>>16193467
I'd still hit it.
>>16193391
I had 1.5 earlier. I don't know why I subject myself to this.
>>16193490
See >>16193553
>>16194054
I know that feel all too well.
>>16194370
10/10
>>16194815
What are slack adjusters?

>>16192908
tfw i make more money than all of you driving my van

>>16194893
>What are slack adjusters
Aren't those my DM's bosses?

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/o/ newfag here.

>JUN 2016
>Leave army
>Goto PAM Transport
>Army sponsored Stevens Transport is shit
>CR England and Swift worse
>Have CDL for 3 months now
>Refuse to back into *most* truck stop parking spots unless easy
>First attempt at a 70° with little space in a while
>Smash dudes mirror
>Fuck
>Only incident
>Some weeks I get low as fuck miles
>17.5 cpm
>Highest pay 1200
>Every other check 300-400 bucks
>Don't know much CB lingo
>No body uses CB anyway

Trucking is ok. I want to goto Quest Global, k ow someone there, slow week is 700 bucks, most weeks 100-1200, good weeks top at 1400. Going to be fun having to pay back 6000 for my tuition. PAM fucking sucks tho.

Is that mirror going on my DAC report?

>>16195537

if you're worried about DAC just apply at companies that don't use it. Plenty of medium & small trucking outfits that don't use it (DAC is a paid service)

>>16195871
This is helpful. I'm aiming to go work for my neighbors small outfit next year and I was worried that was gonna fuck me.

He said to either buy a truck or I can use an empty one he has. I kinda want to buy something with a CAT powerplant.

Im about to send a email to this recruiter for >knight about trucking
what should i ask her
[spoiler]>implying i will be told the truth[/spoiler]

>>16193608
>WAT Trucking LLC... kek

>>16196521
100% of what they tell you and agree to on the phone will be a lie to get you on a bus to the orientation. they will then hem and haw untill you agree to the terms they set. so..ask for tits i guess.

>>16193391
One for each chin?

>>16193490
I'd post mine, but I work for a small famitly owned company and they just print mine out with a laserjet on standard A4 paper. Looks dodgy af when you apply for a loan.

>>16194893
>What are slack adjusters?
Havent murrican trucks realized this is the 21st century and auto slack adjusters exist.

>>16197210
Far as I'm aware all modern 'Murican trucks have self-adjusting slack adjusters, but they can still fuck up.

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>>16196188
>CAT powerplant
CAT engine a best

>>16198045
I wish modern engine bays were that simple.

>>16196188
You dented one car. It's not like you took down a utility pole or anything.

>>16198091
>shit ton of hard fuel lines shaking all over the place
Nothx.

In other news, transmission shifts smooth as glad now. No more hesitation, dozen attempts to revmatch a gear, slamming into gears on upshift or downshift, and no more getting stuck in 6th. Only complaint is that my fuel economy is down about 20%, possibly from all the contact the gear teeth are making.

>>16200111
Just sand those off and it should stop.

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>>16197210

Automatic doesn't mean immune to failure, meathead.

>>16199490
Fair point, and I feel the same. I just wish modern engine bays didn't have a gorillion goddamn wires going everywhere.
>>16200111
Is this a net improvement?
>>16200445
And weld the diff, too.

>School bus crash in Chattanooga
>Rumor is 6 kids dead
>All elementary-aged
>'Speed may be a factor'
>Photo of the scene is bus on its passenger side, slammed roof-first into a tree and bent like a boomerang
Goddammit I know that dumb fuck was driving 15 over at least. All the bus drivers in East Tennessee drive like goddamn lunatics, I know this from experience.

>>16193608

>WAT trucking LLC

Maximum keks

>be primefag
>get back to main terminal
>truck is magically fixed
>it sat for three weeks over bad fuel
>fucking bad god damn fuel
>proceed to roast the dealer over the situation
>realize keys for my car are still with the truck and its gone
>key being overnighted here
>now in line for our own cuckshed

>working retail
>guy who works Pepsi delivers shows up
>talks about his hours
>get how much he makes an hour out of him

Said 16.85 an hour, does that sound about right? I might just drop what I'm doing and go work that shit.

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>>16200897

>Work retail or drive a truck locally, getting exercise and a change of scenery

Even if it pays the same, it sounds like a better deal than being a sales cuck.

>>16200911
>sales cuck

I do store shelf stocking, I unload general goods and move them to the shelf 4 days a week for 9.50 an hour.

Ranging from shit like shampoo, womens pads, medical supplies to bikes and grills. I also end up assembling the bikes and grills.

The work is fucking easy. I consider any job I work 40 hours a week fucking a cake walk after working 90+ hour shifts.

>>16200897
It's not great pay to be a route delivery person, and usually they jam pack your day so fucking full you work extra hours. But it's better than sitting in retail all day. I left the office job life a few years ago to work outdoors. I make less money, but I was never going to be rich either way, so I'd rather have slightly less stuff and be happy.

>>16200924
>90+ hour shifts
Where the FUCK were you working before?

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>>16200930
US Navy deployments in a Helicopter squadron. 7 days, no off time 5am to 7pm, 3 to 6 months straight.

On shore 6am to 7pm Monday through Friday. Made about 30k a year with COLA.

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>>16200897
Yeah sounds about right. In better markets like here in CA SF Bay it's around $20-21.
It's back breaking work tho. I turned that down to make a little bit more with half as much work in my current job.

>>16200936
Figured it was military-related

>>16200960
Yup, been in this position for about three months. So many grumpy people around me who hate they have to work 40 sometimes 45 hours a week. I'm literally the happiest fucking person in this store.

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>>16200685

Bus driver anon here, this is so true desu senpai.

Some of my coworkers are fucking retarded and should not be allowed to operate any kind of vehicle, let alone a school bus.

Naturally it's the black female drivers that are the absolute worst, we have 3 of them and it's amazing that they haven't killed anyone yet.

> tfw one of them backed a new trip bus into a telephone pole and smashed a mirror

>>16200967
Yeah I bet it's a cake walk for ya

So I might sign on with Prime in the near future.

They have this $100 "enrollment fee" that I'd have to pay.

I'm wondering if there's a way around it.

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>>16200989
>willfully paying to be a cuck in a cuckshed
Now I've heard it all.

>>16200989
Don't.
>>16200975
Buses should have nanny devices for turns and accel/braking, much moreso than us truckers.

>>16201003
Should I say that to the recruiter?

>>16201071
>Don't
pay the fee or drive for Prime?

>>16201094
Look into PAM. They've got newer cucksheds, and they're automatics!
t. PAM cuck

>>16201133
>automatics!
but driving a manual is f fun , right guys?
cute anime girl jpg

>>16200975
i thought it was mandatory to not back in any situation for school bus. like they designed schoolbus parking just for this.

>>16200989
LOl NEVER pay for a job EVER. In ANY industry. No real company makes you pay them to do your job. I didn't think people actually fell for this shit.

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>>16200989
Wew lad, usually it's them paying you a bonus for getting cucked.


ALSO
Got my first Level 1 Inspection today. I centered my tandems at the 40' mark instead of centering it at the rear axle, so they pulled me in for inspection. They gave me a warning but other than that I passed.

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>>16200924

Pepsifag would be the (black guy?) to ask about the nitty gritty of delivering cases of refreshing, delicious Pepsi products to hard working, fun loving Americans, but if you can make more money, and not be surrounded by lazy, miserable fucks all day long, I'd say do it.

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Why the fuck does anyone become a trucker when we have automation literally here already.
Godammit u wage slaves will do anything but adapt to a new world and get a better job.

https://youtu.be/5pt03KRUiVc

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>>16201547

Memes.jpg

>>16201446
Where at?

What do you guys think about "Ice Road Truckers"?

>>16200632
>100% failure rate

You're a mong.

>>16201547
>right into the side of a truck

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>>16202354

I'll mong le your cock.

>>16201642
San Bernardino going up the I15. God damn Commiefornia man.

>>16202757
Lel. I used to live off the 210.

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>>16202757
no snow , great weather wats not to like?
took the 41 south from fresno to the coast , real nice at the coast

>>16202895
>truck overturning winds 3 months a year
Santa Annas a shit.

We inspection now

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>>16202788
Did you like it here? Seems like a nightmare of smug people and egregious cost of living.

>>16202895
Other than the fact that Commiefornia has a bunch of meme laws, bad drivers, hate for truckers, self entitled babies, undertow in every beach, smog, smug, constant wildfires and more trailer parks than houses, nothing I guess.

inb4 muh Silicon Valley!

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> The driver in the fatal school bus crash near Chattanooga, Tennessee, was traveling "well above the posted speed limit of 30 mph" when he lost control of the bus Monday, swerving off the roadway, according to an arrest affidavit.


> Driver Johnthony Walker "lost control of the bus and swerved off of the roadway to the right, striking an elevated driveway and mailbox, swerved to the left and began to overturn, striking a telephone pole and a tree," the affidavit says.


> At least five children were killed in the crash, school officials said.

D I N D U N U F F I N

>>16200989

Covers your hotel stay for orientation I believe.

They don't need to do it though. Prime gets a huge tax break for every person that sets foot on that dormitory (because that's what it is, a dorm) and that tax break is well over the cost of bringing that employee in and housing them for a few days.

They get the break even if the new hire fails a drug test or is on prescription meds that their recruiter said were okay to drive on but they get to their physical and are told to go home. I've seen it happen several times over 1/3 of all the people they bring in go home in the same week and Robert Low still gets a tax break for ALL of them.

To answer your question, it's not a bad outfit and their training program is okay. I don't think there's a way around that. If you get here in the next week come find me I'm in between trucks.

>>16203110
Penis?

>>16203158
Goddammit of course he was. Ignorant fuck.
>>16203228
Keks. Got pulled into the weigh station in Georgia. Need to get a new fire extinguisher. Good otherwise.

>>16203158
>them red eyes

>>16203154
I left when I was 18 and I've never been back.

>>16203158
Fucking racist driveways and telephone poles.

>>16202895
>great weather
Either harsh beating sun that'll kill you if you spend too long in it, baking dry heat, or rain so heavy it'll knock you down and flay your skin from your bones?

Fucking americans have no idea of what good weather is. Gentle sunshine, light rain, nothing outright trying to kill you. You have to be flat-out stupid to be killed by british weather.
And that includes 'living in the scottish highlands'. Nobody smart chooses to live there.

>>16203385
he's still in shock. probably wont get out of jail either. i imagine he's on suicide watch too.

>>16203415
Good, this place is a dumpster fire.

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This guy gets high.

Just started with a small outfit. 8 drivers total for a dedicated set. Running foam and plastic containers. Home weekends, paid %24 of load (company) and local only. Only part that sucks is paper logs and hand unloading of a shitton of boxes onto pallets. Maybe I'll start losing weight.

Owner ops, did you buy your truck with own money or through a lease purchase option?

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>>16203771
why not a standard dock height trailer? what am i missing here?

>>16203166

mmkay. Do you know what kind of drug tests I'd be doing? It shouldn't be an issue, but the hair test scares me a little bit.

>>16204234
hair and piss test usually. dont think they are doing blood samples yet due to cost.

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>mfw last load until home time
>mfw it's a live unload

>>16204081

because it's probably loads that require a higher ceiling height and shippers/recievers on this run dont' require dock height trailers

>>16204081

The trailer hauls potato chips. That means it's 60% empty when completely loaded. If they make the trailer floor lower, then can fit a couple more layers of chip cases per skid.

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>>16204994
>load of empty beer cans
>whatcha haulin?
>sailboat fuel
>isn't that hazmat?

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You lads ever work out of Louisiana? This whole state is fucking weird but I really like it.

I'm studying for the cdl written test now but I honesty think i wasting my time. I feel like I'm not going to find a job unless it's otr. I have two careless driving tickets from two years ago and an accident, but no points now. I asked Schneider they said I won't be eligible for five years. I've been stressed out since then.

All I want is a decent paying job so I can move out and get my shit together. Why is everything so fucking rigged it's bullshit

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>>16205309

>TFW oxygen is a key component of fires and explosions

Finally got to experience that 44tons meme. Fuck GP for giving us a heavy-ass load with no scales for 70 miles. We t-called it though so tough shit to whoever has to haul it down to Laredo lol

>>16200897
big box store employee here, in a sales position we get between $14-15, department managers get $17+

>>16200924
our overnight stockers get the same

>Any road construction workers beg your company to buy East Mfg trailers so I can get called back from this layoff pls

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>TFW instead of alternating 15 day hitches between night and day shifts, I get to do three of nights in a row due to scheduling issues with crews

>TFW children are literally unable to be quiet until the age of 12

>TFW my wife's attempts to keep them quiet are louder than the noise she is trying to stop

>TFW I relish some time on the road, away from home

I never thought I would miss living in a 36" Unibilt cucksket, but here we are.

>>16207206
>having your wife's son
>having a wife
There's your problem right there you fucking normie.

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>>16200897
That's kinda low for a driver but it varies by location. I average like $22-$25 an hour. That $16.85 is closer to straight truck pay. I guess if you are getting 55hrs a week the OT will make for a decent check.

>>16200911
Retail is just so fucked. Especially as a shift manager. Unless you are lined up to be a store manager, gtfo of that place.

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>>16202349
I'd fuck that girl

>>16200897
>>16207622
You gotta ask around too. Most drivers like us work on salary plus commission. But the Coke plant nearby switched to straight hourly (like $22/hr) about 2 years ago. Lots of drivers loved it at first, but now word on the street is they barely get any OT. If they worked 35hrs by Wed, they will give em a short day Thurs and tell them to stay home Friday.

>>16207678
>If they worked 35hrs by Wed, they will give em a short day Thurs and tell them to stay home Friday.
Ah, 'flexible working'.

That's working out fairly well for me; I can go home when the job's done, or at 2PM; whichever is sooner.
Previously, my overtime rate kicked in at the 37.5 hours/week point, but negotiations with the union meant I lost my overtime rate and any increased pay on saturdays for a higher hourly rate.
Considering I work mon-fri and work 30-40 hours a week 90% of the year, I got a good deal there.

Pump bro here just got shit canned qhaya my next gig lads? Thinking fed ex for that sweet 5k sign on bonus

>>16207921
Maximum keks. I knew it was only a matter of time. You sound too much like a fucking mongoloid to be capable of holding a job for long.

>>16208197
Kek yeah I'm only 22 so kind of bull shitted my way into that job anyway not going to lie caught me by surprise, just went and picked up my tanker endorsement and saw a job paying. .58 cpm what is considered good I been hourly all my life

I can't afford CDL school.

How do I get a job as a parcel/courier driver?

Do I just wait until UPS or FedEx hires seasonal drivers and hope they hire me then keep me after?

I really hate being stuck inside a building for long hours. I'm an /out/ guy. I was a driver helper for a water company over the Summer delivering those water jugs to offices and stuff and I loved it. We listened to music, talked about foot ball, stopped at Food Lion for lunch, was smoking while working, on our phones. It didn't even feel like a job. I asked about driving for them when the temp project was over but they require CDL I'm assuming because of the weight of all the water puts it over legal limits.

Is there anything else I can do? These seasonal driver positions at UPS and FedEX say they require a year of driving experience. Could I do pizza delivery or newspaper or something?

Pepsi. Do the drivers that drive box trucks delivering to stores require CDL? I had an opportunity to be a box truck driver for Coca-Cola through a temp agency but I told the truth saying I had no experience driving box trucks. I should have lied.

At the dmv about to take my permit test. I've been here for an hour and a half and still have a ways to go. I'm about to fall asleep. Not looking good boys

>>16208534
You could start working in the warehouse and constantly ask for driver position openings.

Go for a commission based job rather than hourly. If you're hourly, enjoy working 12+ hour shifts 5 days a week and be fired for being even 5 minutes off schedule. Commission based, you basically have your route and you get it done on your own schedule. If you want to take 12 hours wasting time, then you aren't getting paid extra. Best to get it done ASAP. Might not be as great as hourly because of all the over time pay, but you have more freedom. I know a guy that makes ~$45K doing local delivery. Usually leaves for work around 5:30-6:00 int he morning. Starts his delivery around 7:00AM and is done by noon or a litter later if he's running extra deliveries for somebody who called out. He enjoys his work/life balance and I'm sure his family does too. His wife is a nurse, so combined they do pretty well with 2 kids.

>>16208576
Lmao you just described my girlfriends dad. Pretty easy job, he loves it and wants me to apply when I can

Are you cucks working on Thanksgiving?

>>16208817
Hell no. But gotta come back Fri morning and then come in on Saturday to make up for it.

>>16208534

Bus drivers are in huge demand all over the country. I drive for a large bus company and do shuttles for a local community college during the week. On weekends I drive charter trips (pub crawls, weddings, football games, etc).

I get anywhere from $13.55/hr to $17/hr (my company has like 5 or 6 different pay rates for different kinds of work). Not bad for work where you literally just hold a steering wheel.

I get around 50-70 hours a week, no OT tho.

>>16207921
What you do?

>>16208817
I got home this morning around 01:30 and I'm off until Monday.

>>16208817
Company gives us thanks givings and Christmas so no. It's been really slow so no deliveries today. Just waking around bull shitting trying to kill 8 hours

>>16208889
They are hiring at least one in Chattanooga.

>>16208938
Bust my ass all summer for these ungrateful cunts, and was late a couple of times. Just picked up my tanker next is hazmat and hopefully start being a suicide jockey

>>16209278
>driving a fuel tanker while pissing dirty
Yeah that's sure to go over well.

>>16209367
I been clean from weed for 2 months now just been doing coke every weekend kek

>>16209413
Yeah I remember when I decided to do something like that because weed stays in your system for a month but opiates are gone after a couple days.

It didn't turn out well.

>>16205368
Yeah, it's weird from border to border.

>>16205416
Stop driving like a shithead and wait 5 years. MVRs go back 7 years, so if you fuck up again that's how long you have to wait.

>>16209512
Why not kek just got a job offer for a end dump already told me to go in on Friday

>>16209771
Have fun young one. Maybe one day you will learn a lesson the hard way.

>>16205416
Sounds about right. When you become an adult, you often have to face the consequences for your past choices. Just like pumpbruh will soon find out.

Just keep applying anyway, somebody will give you a shot. But the main issue is the insurance companies care about your record more than the truckin company and it costs them money.

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Anyone here doing flatbed for Prime? How's it working for you? I'm doing PSD with a flatbed driver and this seems way better than door swinging.

Guy said he made 55k his first year company. I kinda don't believe him.

What're your guys thoughts on floating vs double clutching? I was taught the latter but I'm still new to this so I'm not sure.

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>>16209951

Git gud at double clutching first, then worry about floating later, that way you have a good base since floating gears smoothly is a skill that takes a lot of practice.

Personally, I often float up in gears, and double clutch on the way down, especially when coming to a stop, but you'll figure out what works for you and the truck you're in.

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>>16207527

>Others are able to have intimate relationships and lead normal lives, and this upsets me

Sorry for my normalcy brot.

>6 dead now in the Chattanooga bus crash
Fuck

>>16210323
Maybe school districts/bus contractors will get their shit together.

>>16210333
>Dean is worth impossibidillion dollars
I don't see it changing until a homeless schizophrenic crashes a bus full of orphans into a nunnery.

>>16209951
I never double clutch ever aways float and rev match

>>16209816
Haha I will how much does Pepsi and coca play they are hiring around me and I'm pretty confident I will land any job o pay for now

>>16210060
Enjoy getting cucked.

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>>16210451

Enjoy your crippling, life long loneliness.

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>>16210715
I'd rather that than be a cuck.

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>>16210333

Highly unlikely for several reasons.

Extreme shortage of drivers means that oftentimes contractors are forced to hire less-than-ideal applicants. I see this all the time, we hire complete morons that shouldn't be driving anything and 2 days out of training they're given the keys to a brand new $100K Bluebird school bus and entrusted with the safety of 60 kids.

The school bus contract business is very cuttthroat with razor thin profit margins. The trend is going towards mega companies that have dozens of terminals scattered across entire regions. Quality suffers when they're always looking for ways to cut costs.

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>>16209895

Check out Maverick, Melton or System Transport, all 3 are better than Prime.

>>16210939
Thanks. Capped. Stuck here for a year but trying to leave after.

>>16206533
Sorry but Trout River is the best price point trailer we can find.

>>16209951
Double clutch on grades and float on the flat

>>16211410
Nah cunt.
Clutch out float in on downgrades and ice.
Float otherwise.

>>16211425
>ice
Fuck that noise, I love my warm winters.

>>16211425
Just trying to make it easy for him, might be a bit much for a noob. I usually clutch out even on the flat as the box in my truck has been abused and the cogs don't like to play nice.

>>16211442
Sorry, can't hear you over the cavernous echoes from your huge gaping vaguna.

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>>16206533
>East mfg
kek
K-line trailers are best trailers

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>2017-1
>not having a tri-drive
are you fucks even trying
>>16207678
>international
good god
>>16209951
double clutch then float, doesn't really matter a fuck of a lot though as long as one works good for you

>>16211476
What pissy little load does that trialer handle

>>16211495
You should try a twin steer tri drive, could barely turn the fucken thing around on a 6 lane highway.

>>16211501
a fuckin lot of aggregate. ~34 tons on the transfer

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>>16211507
>highway
triggered

>>16211514
>34 tons
What is that like 20 tonne

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>>16211525
not sure senpai but its a fuck of a lot heavier than the 53'

>>16211521
Asphalt work nigga, I'm glad I don't drive that thing everyday.

>>16211543
Usually body tipper trucks with trailers do hold and extra 10 or so ton/nes more

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>>16211544
to each their own m8. i love being out in the bush every day and all the off roading makes you feel like a total badass. trucks are the nicest out there too. none of that international/freightshaker bullshit. all totally decked out kenworths/peterbilts/western stars
>>16211547
yes, hence the 2 extra axles. running dump can be a fucking pain in the ass though
>paving/under grinder
kill me

>>16211576
I drive liquid asphalt tankers now mostly and with that I pretty much cover the eastern half of australia, some times you drive 500km on dirt to get to a hill that they are spray sealing so when it rains the locals can get up it.

>>16211525
30.91 tonnnnees.

>>16211928
no

>>16211525
2,000 pounds (907.18474 kg)

>>16211943
kek 2 ton isnt even 1 tonne, murricans and their need for big numbers, cause bigger is better

>>16211936
You're right. It's 30.84428116 tonnnnnneees.

I done goofed on my conversion the first time.

>>16211955
no

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>>16211962
thought you might say that.

>>16211973
The short ton is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18474 kg), that is most commonly used in the United States where it is known simply as the ton

>>16211951
nah they don't round in 10's so that 2000lbs is only 1 ton, makes no fucken sense.

>>16211985
>makes no fucken sense
Thats's why NASA uses metric, cant get to space with imperial. It's just ass backwards.

>>16207678
I'd settle for that, I live in Dallas. What all would be involved with getting a position like this?

I'm 29 and in better shape then most.

>>16212241
>google dallas pepsi distribution center
>locate phone number
>hyperventilate at the thought of speaking to another human being
>control austism
>make call
>ask "hey wassup le'shaniqua-deshuan, got any jewbs drivan den dere twucks?'

>>16212504
>projecting this hard

It's obvious to tell who the neck beard mouth breather is here.

>>16212513
ok m8, sorry. But anon must be mentally challenged to not know how to make a phone call

>>16212513
topkek

Did I hurt your feelings, maybe you should try reddit.

>>16212520
>make a phone call directly in
>ask to be hired

Yup that sure works great. Let's ignore the application, the references, the interview, the secondary call to come back for another "interview".

I get you are a neet, but theirs more then "lol I called for a job kek, hire me plox".

faggot.

>>16212531
>projecting this hard

I made a phone call, got told to come in. Had a job the next day.

>>16212536
>telling lies on the internet
grt b8 m8, dnt b l8, or u m9t h8.

>>16212537
Sorry you don't understand how the world works.

>>16212537
>projecting some more

LMAO, sorry you don't know how to job search effectively.

>>16212241
I'm sure there is some PepsiCareers site, but I found the listing on some CareerBuilder type site.

>>16210447
Depends on location.

>page 6
How are all ya cuckshedders doin on this holiday?

>>16213607
We're all drunk, how else do you think we cope with our poor life choices?

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>>16213607
>Holiday
not in Canada bruh. Was downtown Vancouver yesterday picking up a load of pellets from the shipping port. Headed east to probably Calgary today(i hope). Bit of snow on the road going through the mountains so far today but I have a feeling it won't be the last I see.

>>16213669
forgot my name kek

>>16204284

I didn't have the hair test

>>16211495

>Western Star

C U C K S H E D
U
C
K
S
H
E
D

>>16213719
The cuckshed for the drivers who don't even have a real shed to go home to so they take pride in their cuckshed instead.

>>16213719
>>16213766

I dont have any experience with western star, only freightliner and volvo. Are they that nice?

>>16213781
They're maid my Daimler (Freightliner) and are the custom rolling cucksheds of the cuckshed world. You don't just buy one off the lot, you order them built however you want.

>>16213799
Made by*

Idk, if you want to dump the money into it I'm sure you could have something close to a Rolls Royce made to tow 53' trailers.

Pumo bro here getting hammered on Malibu with the roommates just received two new job offers since yesterday running another pump truck for a company or delivering bricks off a flatbed with a donkey lift attached what to do what to do/blog

>>16214102
>what to do
die in a dumpster fire, we can hope

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russian truckstop

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>>16214445

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>>16214365
Meet me at loves faggot I'm going to fuk u up

>>16214445
>>16214451
It's bizarre seeing American and European trucks together like that.

Thanks, russianbro.

>>16195537

>Smashed some dude's mirror

That's nothing, really. Leave PAM and go elsewhere once you hit 6 months. 17cpm is cuck-level.

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Anybody here drive for werner?

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>>16213719
>cat c15
>cuckshed
surely you are not serious

>>16215099
I did 4 years ago.

>>16215099
I did two years ago