Truckerfag Thread

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>>16276252
>tfw work iPhone is now more than just a $600 brick phone

>>16276261
How'd you do it?

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S W I N G I T W I D E

>>16276543
Jesus. you didn't. please tell me you didn't..

Why do trucks blast past you at 85, but can't be assed to pass each other at more than 1 foot per second?

>>16276543
Was that you?

If not, pics of the truck that did.
If it WAS you, I am very disappointed in you.

>>16276585
>>16276606
Another truck knocked out over yesterday. Driving within 2 inches of it shook the ground enough to get it to fall over onto my trailer since they'd just stood it back up. The foreman was pissed at the company that put it there a month before they were supposed to (its a 12' driveway, right turn only off a one lane) so he jumped on my trailer and kicked it off my rubrail. When I left he had me just back 40' straight onto the grass median.

>>16276649
i hate it when they do that. its proof common sense is a rare commodity.

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>>16276589

Because the slow passing trucks are governed to +-62 Fruited Plains an hour, and simply can't go any faster, although it doesn't stop them from taking 27 minutes to pass another truck going 1 mph slower.

The fast and furious ones are probably owner operators.

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>TFW autocorrect keeps trimming the fag off of Oil, and I am too stupid to notice

>>16276649

The mental image of a fat angry foreman booting the bricks off your trailer in a right fury brings a smile to my face.

>>16276261

Have you figured out how to hotspot the thing and burn the data off it?

First day in the team driving portion of my training. I spent my entire ten hour break in the sleeper and don't think I slept at all. I can't imagine how anyone team drives without losing their sanity.

Do you guys shitpost while driving? Sounds cozy.

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>>16276261
das gud mane

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>>16276857
no...

>>16276722
This, and the speed limiter can't do shit against gravity when going downhill except turn off the fuel pump. Every truck I've driven was limited to either 104km/h or 115. I've hit 130 at the bottom of a small mountain right before climbing the next.

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>>16277112

That a Vorlvo?

>>16276857

Days off. Vehicular based shitposting restarts tomorrow.

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>>16277140

The trucks my previous employer had could do 120+ km/h, which was nice for passing and highway cruising.

My current employer's junk is limited to 100 km/h, right on the nose.

Feels slow man.

>>16277224
I managed to get my truck up to 67mph once on a flat stretch. It was a good day, but I haven't been able to get it up to that point since.

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>>16277160
roger dodger. 12 speed ishit. desu it's not that bad but I'd personally never buy a vulva. the interior is cheaper than a freightliner and its not particularly roomy.

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>>16277307

Looks good, at least. It could be worse though. My first assigned ride was a Pete 378 with a 36 inch sleeper. A few five weeks stretches out on the road in that thing was an education in packing wisely and cab organization.

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>>16277280

I was a swamper at times for the equipment hauler of a pipeline construction company that I laboured for ten+ years ago, and there were a few times we'd hit 145 km/h (90 mph) rocketing down hills to keep a good head of steam for the climb up the other side with a heavy ass 73000 pound Hitachi 330 on the back.

>>16277541
>145
You'd be pushing the max speed of the tires at that point, no?

>>16277498
this amuses me

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>>16277980

Probably. The hills weren't super long, so it wasn't for long periods. Either way, as you can probably guess, the driver I was helping wasn't particularly concerned with safety. We passed a car at the bottom of a hill across a two lane bridge doing a buck thirty one time. If there had been a car coming the other way at the time, we probably would have died.

>>16276833
You get used to it, helps if your codriver isn't a retard who slams on the brakes every 15 minutes.

>>16276833
Melatonin

>>16276261
Excellently done.
>>16276543
>>16276649
Sounds like just another day in a truck.
>>16276746
Looks like he may have jailbroken it, and if so then it's just a matter of turning the hotspot feature on in its regular spot in the settings app.
>>16276833
You'll sleep when the exhaustion gets to you.
>>16276857
I would but
>Driver-facing camera
>>16277498
>Face down, ASS UP

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>>16276746
Nah it won't work unless you have a regular plan with a data limit.

Hey I posted in the last thread about buying a '78 KW.
I wasn't being entirely serious, but it was an actual truck for sale. For $3k I figured it was worth a look. It ran like shit, 10 bald dry rotted tires, 8 split-rims. I'm a gas-babby so I know like shit about diesels. I opened the hood expecting to see a carburetor, only I saw the one thing that will probably give me night-terrors for the rest of my life
MECHANICAL FUEL INJECTION

So anyway, is approx $20k worth a fully-functional W900? I'm counting the cost of a new[modern] engine+tranny and 10 rims + tires. I won't buy it (can't afford that damn much), I'm just curious on the total value.

>>16279139
Mechanical fuel injection isn't anything to be afraid of.

What engine was in it? Detroit Diesel? Cummins? Cat?

Cummins and DD have stupid simple systems that last for-fucking-ever.. Cats are a bit spooky but not terrible.

>>16279139
Fyi diesel ONLY works with fuel injection.

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>>16279139
>diesel
>carbs
Yeah you might want to stick to gasomahol. Buy it and stick a tree fiddy in there.

>>16276589
Optical Illusion. It's because they're longer.

>>16279193
shhh.

Let him get a nice big Intertrashional 549

>>16279178
>>16279193
My only previous run-in with non-efi diesel was carbed military trucks working on their centennial.
>>16279166
I think it was a Cummins. It was rust colored, but still had some paint that I thought looked red.

>>16279212
I believe lots of older engines are still being made but just aren't allowed for on-highway use in the US. I know the International DT466 is manufactured for boats and generators and trucks in third world countries. I wonder if you could get a DD S60 or an old Cat engine for your """boat""" and drop it in that old KW.

>>16279223
Are you sure they were carbed? If they 100% had a carb, are you positive they were diesel?

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>>16279032

>>16279240
Preeetty sure he does't know what he's talking about. Diesel isn't volatile enough for a carb to do anything to it.

It's possible they were engines made to "diesel", that is run on gasoline or somevother fuel without a spark plug, but they wouldn't use diesel fuel.

>>16279324
Meme'in hard

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>>16279223
Cummins are usually, yellow, tan, or black. '78 would be tan (pic related) or black
Detroits are that distinctive green.
I'm pretty sure Caterpillar truck engines were either white or yellow, but I'm not as familiar with those, so I could be wrong.
IHC painted ALL their engines red, no matter who made them. It COULD have been a swap, but then again if it was rust colored, that red could have been oxide primer.
Pics, man, pics.

>>16279240
International made some start on gas, run on diesel engines, but that's '50s stuff, and mostly in tractors and construction equipment. Not in any on-highway stuff, to my knowledge.

The original M35 deuce and a half had a giant REO gas engine, which was dumped for the Hercules Multifuel diesel in the A1 or A2 revision (I can't remember which lol)

So I was looking at American truck sim on steam and somehow it has not one single review? What does that mean?

>>16279570
Too busy doing the real thing.

Also, got pulled into Safety today over bumpin uglies with that other trailer. They gave me 90 days probation and a firm paranoia of driving through tight truck stops now. I only wish it didn't happen on my second ever day of trucking.

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>>16279570
It means you're blind

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>>16279784
hmm

Guys I changed my mind backing is really hard.

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>>16280166

Practice practice practice.

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>>16280206
Be on the pad from 8-4 tomorrow.

>>16276261
???

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>>16279570
its not horrible, backing is slightly fucky.

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>>16279570

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>>16280166
>backing
>hard

Not just for you, but anyone else with trouble backing, here's some protips:
Protip: There is nothing wrong with 90+ degree jackknife angles as long as you don't hit yourself.
Protip 2: ALWAYS back in near side, roll down the window, and lean out of it looking back, don't open the door and lean out that way
Protip 3: If you are REALLY unsure, get out and look, but don't walk, JOG! Better exercise, plus takes less time for the other drivers waiting for you
Protip 4: Use the middle of the trailer tandems for aiming, they travel the tightest line while backing. If they clear, everything else will too
Protip 5: Use every bit of space you need, fuck traffic, they will wait if you force them. You have right-of-way until you're finished manoeuvring. Stopping across the entire road like a train to get out and look is perfectly fine
Protip 6: Keep as close as possible on your near-side. I've gotten my tandems within 3 inches of a trucks bumper backing in. No touch, no problem
Protip 7: If your vision isn't at least 20/30, GET GLASSES! Even though it isn't required, they help a lot when you're 70ft long. I'm 20/50 without, 20/15 with; huge difference

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>>16280524
Jesus fuck, the (lack of) ground clearance and suspension travel on those drives!

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>>16280551
>ground clearance
yeah

>>16279759
wtf

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>>16276252
How do I start a trucking job without paying for school?

I have driving experience from working at a car dealership, no CDL though. Pepsi never called me back for merchandising.

>>16281104
You'll pay. Sooner or later, you'll pay.

Carfag here, always lurk around truckerfag threads. You guys are cool

What is your guys favorite brand of truck to drive? I've always imagined Volvo's are comfy, but I wouldnt know.

How's your clutch foot feeling anons? I see a few trucks traffic and it looks like hell for them.

>>16281376
I always heard 70's Mitsi's were the mutts nuts

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>>16281361
What companies offer a contract to sign on? I just want to have stable work before I pay for it.

>>16281404
A ton of the big companies will do it. But it's really worth seeing if you can find a grant or something and just take the class beforehand. If you can find a school like mine, you can still work while taking the CDL course too. You just go in a few hours here and there until you hit the 160 and you can do your driving early in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends. And they allow you to pay as you go, so as long as you pay off the ~$2100 by the time you graduate then you are straight.

>>16281376
Lurk away, we are cool! Clutch foot is fine, the only time I use it is starting and stopping, otherwise I shift and never touch the pedal.

>>16281404
I agree with what >>16281485 said. If you can avoid the company education, you'll get better instruction, more time in the truck learning and not have a year of indentured servitude o struggle through once you get your CDL.

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>$350 to haul old brembo/GM racks 0.47mi
>to the scrapyard
Lel

>>16282364
So many wheels on that truck on the left.

>>16282453
They are on the trailer.

>>16282468
Congratulations, you're a pedantic smartass.

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Shiiieeet.

>>16282478
>mustangdrivers.jpg

>>16282478
>for those 10 seconds or less, im REeeeeeeee

>>16282453
Breddy normal for Michigan. My load was only 6000lbs so they couldn't be fucked to make the trip.

It was pretty cute that the crane grabbed a bundle of turnings and used it to clear my unloading space against its tracks like it was a giant steel wool pad.

>>16282364
Did they let you keep the money from the scrap metal too?

>>16282617
>doesn't know what happened but immediately picks someone to blame
k

>>16282885
It's pretty clear that the mustang drove under the trailer. Not even Swift could pull a trailer over a car near-side in the middle of the day.

Why must the one Loves I stop at suck? All I wanted was a shower and a nap.

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Found a pic of my grandpa the other day. We're all truckers certified badasses back in the day?

>>16283100
>were
Boy I tell ye hwut aint shit done changed on that front cept all dem goddamn Pacos and Ivans.

>>16283122
You're a diabetes delivery boy

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>hey anon we need you to help get this load delivered on time
Fuckin swaps are the worst part about being a company cuck. I wish they'd give us like $20 for the inconvenience.

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>>16283128
I had a delivery at Whole Foods today and had to wear my hoodie the whole time I was inside because Pepsi isn't allowed there. Certain stores don't even want the Pepsi truck in back and we have to take a Tropicana truck instead.

>>16283022
For future reference, beware of loves in oklahoma and north texas. They started as an oklahoma gas station. There's still a LOT without truck services. Some have truck fuel and parking with no showers.
Loves in general do not have laundry.

>>16283206
> We want your products!
> We don't want anyone to see you delivering them, though.

Elitist fucks. Pepsi should just stop bending over for them, and send you in decked out in company colours.

>>16283227
Don't forget those disasters Love's calls stores in Arkansas on I-40. Some of the few truck stops I aggressively avoid.

>>16283206

So the nu males and feminazis get triggered by fucking soda now?

>>16282865
3 tons of steel was probably around $45. They can keep it as a credit towards their account.

>>16283227
>they still call them country stores instead of truck stops
That's for a good reason.

>>16283273
Loves just has a weird passive aggressive feel towards truckers. I never get good vibes if I'm forced to stop at one.

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Remember to secure your load.

>>16283283
Are you suprised?

>>16283317
Really? It has to be more than that. A couple years ago I rolled around to a bunch of different Walgreens and picked up these old displays and it couldn't have been more than 1000lbs and we got like $40. It was all shitty steel too, no aluminum or fancy shit.

>>16283100
Well, yes but for different reasons.

Looks like your grandpa was a logger not a trucker

>>16283317
Tax purposes?

>>16283427
Steel prices tanked the last two years as oil prices dropped. Cheaper to haul steel to China and back than pay an American to do it with oil prices that low.

>>16283499
I'm guessing it was contractual. All the serial numbers were on the bill rather than the piece count. GM probably leased them to brembo on the condition they were destroyed at their own expense at the end of the lease. They were sitting in a transfer house that had nothing to do with the automotive industry, so they might have been sitting there for years. Looks like they only got used a dozen or so times.

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>>16283413
>fatal stupidity

>mfw carrying spindles of steel wire, unsecured in a reefer
>come around a corner on freeway to wall of traffic

>>16283486
what were the reasons?

>>16283654
Being a trucker actually used to be hard, believe it or not.

You had to be a pretty bad dude to be able to withstand weeks on the road with very little contact with your family, (a pay phone call every few days if anything) rough riding spring suspension trucks, no climate control, load your own freight, change your own tires, fix your own problems. It was a different job before cell phones.

>>16280551
Thank you senpai

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>>16282478

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>>16283777

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>>16283780

Weezy's fallen on hard times, senpaitachi.

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>>16283413

Did he lived?

>>16283589

Did you died?

>>16283100

Pep-Pep was straight jacked.

>TFW its -24 in One World Government temperature units (-3600.625 King Williams in Imperial, or whatever the measurement is) and I get to spend the next two weeks working outdoors on night shifts

Lord Jesus, take me now!

I saw an old cabover at a pilot in Evansville that had 4 drive axles. The front most was a lift axle, the only one. None of the drive axles steered.

If the truck had a load that warranted the need for that many tires it doesn't seem to me like it could do anything other than go in a straight line.

>>16284005
That's how I feel as a TXfag in -19 Wyoming right now. It should be illegal to be this cold. My beard literally froze.

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Here is an artist's rendition. The engine part bulged out a little. I think I've heard the term bullnose?

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>>16284665
>bullnose
liek this senpai

>>16283181
Driver shows up. Doesn't know where load is going or when it delivers, no scale ticket, no bills. Why are some people so bad at this job?

>>16283323
I dunno, most new Loves are great. Tons of room, easy parking, store is set up like every other new Loves, wifi works.

>>16284740
>Literally just pulling what the fuck ever with no paperwork
How in the actual fuck

>>16284675
That but blue, less sleeper, and more tires. He was pulling a quad axle lowboy trailer. That guy must like buying tires.

>>16284005
>Did you died?
Nope, jumped the curb onto the on-ramp that was just about to merge. Went between the back of the truck ahead of me and the sign for the on-ramp lane. Finally stopped about 150ft past the back of that truck. Traffic started moving, merged back in and continued on my way.

>>16284763
Might be pulling a ups trailer, they're a mess right now

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>>16284005
preaching brother. spent the night in Fort st john last night and woke up to this

>jug of def is frozen
>decide to thaw it in truck while i sleep
>get up from bunk to pee before bed time
>slimy liquid on floor mat and actual floor
>def on floor
>dinosaur
moral of the story kids, don't thaw your def in the truck. just get a new jug...

>>16285707
Physics 101: Liquids expand when they freeze, cracking containers if near full.

>>16284660
Oh, who cares?

Once it gets below freezing it all feels the same

>>16286116
No, absolutely not. There's a huge difference between "below freezing" and twenty below zero at 7000ft.

>>16286089
Water expands when it freezes. It is unique among liquids in that respect.

Ex trucker trash here. Had to give it up due to not being able to handle being gone for two weeks at a time. Working for minimum wage now and the poverty is killing me. Any advice on how to stop being such a homesick pussy?

>>16286897
Really, just water?
You're right, just looked it up. Water and 'a few other liquids', but doesn't specify which.

DEF is 67.5% water though, so my point still stands.

>>16287291
Just put your licence to work doing something else. Local truck driving, bus even limo. That's what I'm getting into now. Fuck long haul, seriously.

>>16287357
Water is in a hell of a lot of things, simply because a hell of a lot of things dissolve in water.
And yes, just water and 'a few other liquids'. You just THINK it's normal for things to do that because you don't encounter a lot of room-temperature liquids that aren't water-based.
I don't either, but I acquire knowledge for the sole reason that it may be useful for something someday.
And lo, it is indeed useful! Even if I'm just lecturing people on 4chan!

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>>16276252
I just got fired from my pizza job for revealing my alt right powerlevel. Will any trucking companies hire me at 18? I want to go OTR but I've heard it's 21+ pretty much. If local is all I can get, what's the market like around Baltimore?

>>16287445
>Will any trucking companies hire me at 18?
No, basically. 21 minimum for OTR because insurance.

>>16287439
Interesting how I've learned more from random people on 4chan than school ever taught me. Thanks for the explanation, senpai!

>I don't either, but I acquire knowledge for the sole reason that it may be useful for something someday.
>And lo, it is indeed useful! Even if I'm just lecturing people on 4chan!
Are you me?

>>16287445
>Revealing my alt right power level
So you're a legit racist? Also no, no one will hire you for interstate driving until you're at least 21. Don't know if it's actually law or just insurance is nuts.

>>16287462
I might be, depending on which philosopher's bullshit you swallow.

>>16287483
>So you're a legit racist?
everyone is.

>>16287485
>mfw having to explain to my friend that falling stars are not in fact falling stars

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>>16287483
The specifics of the transgression against Maryland dildocracy was a coworker, out of nowhere as the start of a conversation, said that whites have no culture and that we only have specific culture (Irish, German, etc.). I don't know if it was just him trying to trigger me but fuck if I got triggered. That then led to a discussion about race which.....

And yes I am a racist but so is everyone senpai. I'm not going to put on jackboots and stomp niggers into the pavement but race decides characteristics and some of those characteristics present in a plurality of niggers and spics are shit tier.

>>16287510
I have never seen one of those. Where I live, you have to peer carefully at a star to make sure it's actually a star, and not just an airliner.
If it moves, blinks, or starts flashing red and green lights, it's a plane.

>>16287523
>white is not a culture and only specific cultures are cultures

but that's fucking right. you idiot.

>>16287445
No trucking company will hire a racist. We're all very progressive.

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>>16287577
But it's literally not you fucking idiot LOL!
What is valid about black or native american or latin american culture then? Spics from every country under the sun claim racial pride and identity, as do corn niggers who were a bunch of warring tribes before whitey genocided them.

We as whites do have a racial culture. We work hard, we create new things, and we care about everyone; even people who hate themselves like you LOL

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Really though, I need advice on the second part of my question, will anyone hire me for local jobs with no experience? Is there a big market in Baltimore for local? Clean driving record and delivery driver experience if that counts for anything. Thanks

>>16287523
Try to collect uneployment and sue them for wrongful termination.

>>16287614
Don't you have racist frogs to post somewhere else?

>>16287614
>What is valid about black or native american or latin american culture then

n_o_t_h_i_n_g.

Those are not cultures, they're races.

Ask any hispanic person what culture they celebrate at home, and they'll tell you that they're Mexican, or Honduran, or Puerto Rican. Hispanic pride is a bullshit concept used to push the immigration agenda, because people are ignorant and it's easy.

Blacks are a little more complicated because many African-Americans (a culture) use the word black (which is a race) to describe their culture. Ask any contenential African about their heritage, and they will describe and identify with a culture different from our African-Americans.

>>16287649
God damnit I did the same thing every other faggot who says they got fired does and now I look like an ass, I got 2 write ups before hand for forgetting sodas due to ADD. So it was kind of a final straw thing. It's not illegal to terminate for political views as fucked as that is by the way.

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>>16287661
ok google whatever you say

>>16287670
Have fun collecting unemployment, welfare queen

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>>16287291
Try applying to local or regional accounts so you can be home nightly or weekly at the very least. If you absolutely have to go OTR, try and make it as comfortable as possible. For example I have my Xbox in my truck and that's how I talk to a good portion of my friends.

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>>16287647
if you can't get a job driving class 1 trucks get a job doing ltl 5ton deliveries. that's one of the jobs I had prior to getting into a big rig. i think i was making 15 bucks an hour or something but that was in Canada, the true land of freedums

>>16287750
WHY ARE TOASTERS SO FUCKING TERRIFYING!?

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We /scraphaulers/ now
Endangering your license one day at a time

This is from yesterday

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And this is from today

>>16288379
Well, at least there's some effort at load securement. That's more than most.

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>>16288400
>load securement
Oh believe me, the other driver and me banded the hell out of everything that could be banded. All you see was loose. We tried to utilize carts and stick as much shit as we could inside of it. As a cage of shorts. Driving REALLY slow on surface streets to the scrap yard five miles away.

Fucking management makes it sound easy.

>oh yeah it's just a little metal, just fork it on the truck

Well at the scrap yard the guy with the crane doesn't like pallets. Just the metal by itself.

By the way that busted up blue cart was me when I was parking one day. Lel

Who's more of the asshole? The guy talk on a headset behind me? Or me to starting a conversation thinking he was talking to me?

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I want to drive truck. WHAT COMPANY SHUD I APPLY TO

>>16288714
i do that shit to people with eardicks all the time, just to piss them off.

>>16288811
delet img

>>16288739
fuck off niggspic

>>16288739
C R England. If you go with their lease operator program you get your training for free, plus you get to be your own boss and you get a sweet discount on fuel in their network.

>>16288739
>>16289032

This is good advice.

>heading to get unloaded
>bump into another driver while fueling
>he was at this place almost 24 hours because their wheat bin is full
>i have wheat
>been here 5 hours now
>dunno when I'll get out of here
at least if i take 8 hours off it resets my day so i can still get to the port of Vancouver and reload in the night but I'll need to sleep before i can do that

>Send directions request
>Radio silence
>Send message to dispatch asking if we have directions on file and if we can park there
>"Nah no directions on file but we've been to this place probably hundreds of times, and you should be able to park there i looked it up on Google maps
>GPS route is invalid
>Place is gated
>Locked my doors as hard as I can because Trenton
Tell my waifu I love her

>>16287614
>Posting with anime pics.

Fuck off, dude. Don't make us actual racists look like weeb cucks. You deserved to be fired.

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>be non trucker nj fag this morning
>swift driver decides to pull out into tight lane, stopping traffic there
>inches slowly until left lane stops
>finally pulls out and drives for about a mile with his turn signals on
>tries to get onto garden state parkway (no trucks)
>realizes last second and swerved out of the exit lane, poor guy behind him almost gets taken out
Is the stereotype true?
Sorry about sideways iPhone pic

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>>16289820
Here it is flipped and resized, on PC now

>>16289820
Thats semi drivers anyway

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>first snow of the year
>rip off a mudflap
Of course.

>>16287453
21 minimum for OTR because it's federal law. They usually don't hire under 23-25 because of insurance.

>>16287647
>Baltimore
>local
>no experience
>racist
Yeah, nah. You'd get into a wreck and get shot in the first month.

>>16288379
>>16288391
>straps outside the rubrail
Yeah, you'll kill somebody soon.

>>16289820
Pretty much desu
Although the North East is a shit show for truckers in general.

>>16289820
Thats because NJ is a flaming pile of shit. I would rather go literally anywhere else than go to your cesspit. And nobody tells you that the highway conveniently going down the middle of the state is a parkway until you get there the first time and realize that you're totally fucked. So you either backtrack 40 miles or go 40 miles further to a useable highway, then call dispatch because you're going to be at least an hour late. Also, traffic.

>tldr: fuck your shitty state

>>16290424
I might have exaggerated some parts of that for dramatic effect. But for real, the entire NYC-NJ-Philly-Baltimore-DC area is a nightmare.

>>16290468
I agree, and I'm the guy you're replying to.
My daily commute is almost an hour each way, fucking sucks

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>>16287445
You should sue for wrongful termination and live off that until you are 25. Or spend it on college.

>>16287609
Kek'd hard

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>>16290242
Fired guy, there's a reason I grew up racist and let me tell you it wasn't my turbodildo parents.

>>16288441
Kek I remember the cart
>RIP

Ended up being at the grain elevator for 10.75 hours. Which means I reset my clock but I probably only slept like an hour or 2 of the wait so I won't be working much tonight.
/blog

>>16291172
>up at 11am, drive 10 hours, empty at midnight
>here's your next load! It's 100 miles deadhead, must arrive at 12pm, take a full break at the shipper while they load your trailer, then bust your ass at 10pm for the next two days to try to squeeze in to the delivery appointment. You won't have enough time to wipe your ass if you stop to take a shit. This is a priority load, don't fuck it up. Enjoy!

>>16291340
that sounds familiar.
>put in eta for reasonable arrival not shit holding no stop eta given by planner
"what are you doing just sleep at the shipper."
>haha no. they dont let you do that.
"totally do i seen it."
>sure you have. imma go sleep at a rest stop.
>get to shipper at 3am after a full nights sleep
>they dont even open for another 3 hours. and no overnight parking.
"what that cant be right they always let us"
>its crazy i know, its like youre full of shit or something..well, ill give you an eta to the cons when shipper opens.
"that priority load HAS to be 15 hours for there 4 hours ago!"
>shouldnt have left it till the last minute then..

grain guy, you sure you dont work for a mega cuck? cause it sounds like you work for a mega..

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>>16287660
Zozzed my rozz.

>>16287750
Jesus Whiney, we know you're into weeb shit, but that image makes me wonder if you aren't secretly a teenage girl.

>>16287778
The true north strong and paid.

>>16288714
You both should kiss.

>>16289629
Isn't your body pillow in the sleeper behind you?

>>16291172
>>16285550
My neck of the woods ish.

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>>16291690
Ain't found a body pillow of this fair lady yet. Klang klang.

>>16291690
What do you consider your neck of the woods? I'm heading to Salmon Arm rn then back to Fort St John

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>>16291838
Fort St. John is a couple hours away from where I live. You actually paid by the hour like it says on the website for your company, or is it typical hiring malarkey?

>>16291813
>Metal waist length hair
Neo Swedish (robot)women are so hot.

When would be a good time to add anti-gelling additive to my fuel tanks? It's starting to get a bit chilly up in the Midwest and northeast.

>>16291875
Ayy
Dat berserker mode tho

>>16291941

>Douchebag answer
Before it gels.

>Regular answer
In Celsius, around -15 or lower is when I would consider it.

>>16291951

She can go berserk on my dick. No disrespect.

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>>16276252
Thought you guys would get a kick out of these pics.

https://www.facebook com/code3imagesllc/photos/a.10153943223852413.1073742241.151056817412/10153943226042413/?type=3
>Four tractor trailers collided in the Interstate 65 construction zone in Sonora, Kentucky on the afternoon of 12/08/2016


Wait until you see the interior shot of the green tractor.

>>16291993
Damn they got messed up, must have been one happy tailgate train. Saw a guy who somehow lost his trailer on a 1 lane exit ramp in Baltimore, big line of traffic behind him.

Do you add the antigel before or after filling up?>>16291963

>>16292272
You have to fill up half your tank, then add it, then fill it up the rest of the way

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>>16292272

We usually just toss it in before topping up the tanks.

The relentless penetration of the thick, hard stream of fuel into the wet, welcoming tank opening should distribute the antigel pretty evenly I would figure.

So, if my roommate and I (best friends for 7 years, living together for over 5) decided to get into team trucking.

From no experience/no CDL how long does it take to get the point where we could team up together with a company we started with?

And how easy is it to get a cab that would have internet service and capabilities of hooking up an Xbox?

>>16292369
About 3 weeks to get a job, 2-6 weeks to get driving, and 2 more weeks before you're ready to kill each other.

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>>16292369

>"Roommates"

>Living together for five years

Why keep up this charade? You can safety admit that he's your lover/life partner here. Truckers are a pretty tolerant and progressive group.

>>16279123
Its just software gimped

>>16292369
3 weeks for the CDL if you find a cram course. Couple months if you take a community college course with short daily hours. Couple weeks training at a company, then a month on the road with a stranger just to make sure you aren't completely retarded. Then maybe you can team if the company has an open team gig. Apply at companies all over for a team gig with your friend while getting the CDL. Regarding internet and an Xbox, you'll probably have to do all of that yourself. And I recommend swapping the HDD for an SSD if you want to play while the other guy is driving. Vibrations can cause critical failures in HDDs and CD-ROM drives if it's bad enough.

>>16279759
So the other guy reported it or you?

>>16281376
Euro trucks are comfy as fuxk, designed with driver ergo and comfort in mind.

American trucks are price point parts bin with minimal thought into driver comfort.

>>16292450
T. Someone who hasn't been in a 'Murican truck newer than 1999

>>16292450
Have you not seen the regulations? EU law governs total length of truck. TOTAL. You know what that means? It means you're sitting on top of the engine and front axle, and the truck is only as long as it has to be to fit three axles, engine, transmission, cab, and 5th wheel. You don't get gigantic american-style sleepers. It's a shelf, with some shelves above it.

>>16288739
I heard monson hires posers

>>16292452
To be fair, most American trucks are shit. I think most people are getting a 579 or Cascadia, and they feel like 2003 pickups.

>>16292441
Good tips, bro. I was expecting a longer action plan for some reason.

>>16291875
Paid by the mile, but hourly pay after 2 hours if stuck loading/unloading. Also hourly for repairs, washing truck inside and/or out, or washing trailers inside and/or out. Certain loads we pull pay a small bonus, for example I get 120 bucks to go into bc no matter how far in I go. All in all these guys are a great company to work for imo. Because I sat for 10.75 hours yesterday even though i reset my clock I'll still be paid for sitting there.

>>16292442
Found out my teammate called it in because I was too nervous to do it. They told her if no one called it in, but the other company did, we both would get shitcanned. I felt bad after hearing that because it seems like she enjoys the job.

>>16292452
t. Someone who hasnt driven a euro truck

American trucks are shit compared to euro.

>>16292486
t. Someone who knows little about euro trucks outside of europe

>>16292502
>Paid by the mile, but hourly pay after 2 hours
Its good. I get paid hourly after 1 hour.

>>16292486
>You don't get gigantic american-style sleepers
Thats because europeans arent obese.

>>16292526
Must be nice. I personally think as soon as you stop at a shipper or receiver hourly pay should start but obviously that isn't going to happen kek

>>16292531
Yeah you're just huge cucks. The smaller the cuck shed the better eh?

>>16292348
L-lewd.

Do euros even live in them like us?

>>16292537
I get it back eventually if not more as some days I leave early. Mainly in winter as asphalt work dies off.

do american truck come with modern v8 like superior euro truck

>>16292585
No. Home every few days and get motel if held. Only sleep in while transport product.

Enjoy your live in cuck shed.

>>16292596
>V8
No because we don't live in the seventies anymore

>>16292606
>because we are cucked

FTFY>>16292616

>>16292606
>another american educated idiot

What is MODERN.

LMAO. sorry but americans gave ul on v8 as it was too hard for them

>>16292606
>because we couldn't get the same power out of them loke the euros can even with euro5 regs

LMAO

>tfw no 1000hp V8 scania

>>16292602
>not enjoying being in the truck
personally i find being in the truck cozy. my large empty house makes me moderately uneasy.

>>16292616
>>16292617
>>16292621
>>16292626
Someone got triggered.

>>16292665
Kek. You got BTFO.

>>16292678
Yeah, I got BTFO by one assblasted eurocuck spamming "LMAO" from his outdated little cabover

>>16292711
>more than one person disagrees with me

SAMEFAG!

>>16292901
its /g/ level retardation, what more can you exoect from someone with an american education

>>16291993
Can you post the images here? That site doesn't work properly. Refreshes itself indefinitely on both of my browsers.

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>>16292450
>sitting on top of the engine and front axle for that comfy ride and responsive steering
>my Yurotruk doesn't even have an apartment on on the back
>Yurosleeper is literally the size of an American trucks toolbox

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>>16292630
>yfw no 1000hp Caterpillar

>>16292606
Because we like our long nose Petes, turning radius, and don't have to sit directly on top of the engine like Yurocucks.

>>16292585
The bunk and everything is such a joke.

>>16293323
While this looks nice, what fucking purpose does a sleeper that big serve?

Why does it seem the rest areas in Michigan are always empty?

>>16293511
I know they do it on some of those big car transporters where they might drive to a car show and live in the truck there for 3+ days before leaving.

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>>16293323
>air suspended chair in air suspended cabin on top of air suspended chassis
>not comfy as fuck
Also Euros stay on the road for shorter periods at a time so they don't need to drag around half an apartment with them. Even then longer Eurotrucks do exist in Scandinavia or when regularly pulling shortened trailers (tankers, container chassis, bulk, etc). One may also opt to buy an imported Freightliner Argosy, though far less comfy than Eurotrucks.

By the way even Murrikans don't buy sleepers like these unless they live on the road full time because these things cost the same as a small house.

>>16293511
Long haul drivers can spend 2-3 weeks on the road at a time. If you're living in the truck that long, you'll want the extra space and amenities that you can fit. They can be made like smaller mobile homes with a small kitchen, toilet, shower, etc.

>>16293581
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to attach a camper trailer to a flatbed tow truck instead of spending six digits on a custom semi truck if all you're going to do is haul a garage queen to car shows every now and then?

>>16293607
You don't really want to transport $1 million cars on a flatbed across the country unless you have a paint booth at Pebble Beach.

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>>16293622
So tarps or curtainsider structures haven't been invented in your country yet?

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>>16293636
wat even the fuck is liability insurance br/o/

>>16293655
What the fuck does liability insurance have to do with whether or not you're owning a house sized semi truck?

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>>16293659
1/10 im taking the b8

it has everything to do with a car collector hiring a specialized carrier, to transport his multimillion dollar car collection, and nothing to do with putting a camper on a flatbed.

>>16293684
>regular old Corvette
>multimillion dollar
Also I was assuming that people transport their cars to shows themselves, but I guess that's too much to expect from a nation that pays another nation to mow the lawn.

>be Primefag
>finish inspection on our master race KW
>it's ready to go
>Monday go to sign the papers on it
>get acute appendicitis and have to be rushed to the hospital
>appendix removed
>spent the last week recovering
>lost the KW
>now will be forced to choose between a turned down crashcadia or an autotragic 579

fuck .____.

>>16293636
I don't think they would trust some of these cars under a tarp. I mean you posted the pic yourself. Any nice cars get transported in a trailer like >>16293659

>>16293703
Either way people don't want those cars showing up with a bunch of chips in the paint and windshield from 1500mi on the interstate at 70mph.

>>16293706
>rekt foot
>removed guts
>medically retired at 25
>sue a nigga
>proffit
>??????

>>16293729
>a bunch of chips in the paint and windshield from 1500mi on the interstate at 70mph.
Again, what is an enclosed trailer or vehicle?

>>16292450

>Get hit head on in eurotruck
>They cut the cab into a coffin shape and bury you in it

They call them coffin cabs for a reason. They aren't pulling you out of that shit.

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>>16293846

>>16293607

Nope, mostly because its illegal to use a flatbed like that though.

Believe it or not there are laws on the books that dictate how far away your attachment point for a trailer can be from your rear axle. Its just never heard of because literally everything except for flatbeds mount almost right behind or above the drive axles.

>>16283022
Loves is shit. Small ass parking lots with like 20spots and the store is just a shitty 7-11 and they're always extremely busy because big companies have their cucks fill up there.

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>>16293588

>Mon truck EU c'est magnifique!

>Literally looks like the pug of the driving world

>What are these aerodynamics?

>Hon hon hon, 12.5 inches of sleeping area is all a man needs, fat Americans with your indulgent comfort and living space

>European trucking: half a day to cross six tiny underdeveloped countries, barring forty Syrian migrants infiltrating the trailer, adding extra weight

>Mon truck c'est un real truck, ignore the fact that it has one drive axle and an automatic transmission

Seriously Europhiles, even if your """trucks""" have 10,000 horsepower, they still look like they were designed by someone that took a few too many blows to the head in their infancy.

>>16294037
Blame the ISO for making containers a standard size, and the EU for establishing total maximum length of vehicles.

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>>16293706

>Cucked by circumstance

>Cucked by employer

>Cucked by health

Bruh. You have one of those tiny thunder and rain storms that follow you around like on the cartoons?

>>16293706
please tell me you were on duty when you were diagnosed. please tell me prime at least footed the bill for that. then taking the crashcadia wouldnt feel so bad.. alternatively you could go "you faggots dropped a door on me find me a fucking new KW."

>>16294037
>from a Canuck
Topkek

>>16293846
Do you remember what we are talking about?

Tell your mom to stop eating your Ritalin and giving you Motrin instead. You need it more than her.

>>16292493
I'm in a Cascadia and it's nice. Certainly an improvement over the Columbia, and better than the Prostar I went to school in. I rode along in a T680 and it was of course much nicer. I think part of the issue is the seats. Unless I'm mistaken, Skyline upgraded the seats in this truck and a few other Cascadias. Of course this seat is a little worn after another guy put it through 330,000+ miles, so I'd like the seat cushion to be a little cushier, but it's still a great seat. Seating and control ergonomics are also great, they clearly put some time and thought into that with the Cascadia.
>>16292498
Your mileage may vary. Be warned.
>>16292518
>(You)
>>16292596
Only Scania runs V8's anymore, that I'm aware of, and I've heard DAT VALVO straight sixes still shit all over them.
Scania V8 still sounds sexy AF tho.

Regarding 'Murican versus Yuro trucks, personally I actually prefer newer Euro model cabovers. I like maneuverability and I can live small very comfortably.
>>16293607
They haul multiple cars at once, not just one. Hence the 53' enclosed car hauler trailer.
>>16293855
>Hitting anything while driving a commercial vehicle
>Ever
>>16294183
That last part. Do that, if only for the lulz.

>>16293706
Jesus Christ man...

>>16293636
Reliable Carrier's trailers have reefers to keep your cars comfy 68 degrees.

>>16293588
Dont show them that pic. As it has the same space as their sleepers and they will get upset again.

>>16293706
LMAO

>got given brand new truck
>break ankle 3 weeks later
>come back to work nearly 3 month later
>they didnt let anyone else drive it as I kept it shiny and clean
>while the truck wasn't working they fitted the APU that I bitched about not getting and fitted it out with TV, ps4 and fridge.

Gotta find those great small family owned company's.

>>16293855
Thats a cool meme. Maybe you should see that cab structual integrity is miles ahead of murrican trucks.

Do murrican trucks even have cab rollover tests?

>>16294235
Mercedes Benz still has the V8 actros, but its rather underwhelming.

Looks like we found the new replacement for 44tonnes m8

>>16294847
That's fuckin rad. What kind of truck is it?

>tfw company lets me take my truck home
>park it in the driveway, load on weekends
>haven't bought fuel for my car for several weeks
>DD a truck all the fuckin time, get paid starting from my driveway

I'm sure the neighbours will bitch eventually, but it's been over 2 years, so fuck it.

>>16294921
Nothing too flash, a KW T409. Not sure what the equivalent of that is in America.

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>>16294216
We New-Worlders have to stick together, familia.

>>16294235
>Hitting anything with a commercial vehicle
>Ever

Word to your bumper.

>Euro cabovers=The good

Have you actually driven some, or are you just speculating based on their characteristics?

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My dispatch actually helped me this time around. They got me a load to Houston in time to catch Animals as Leaders and take a 34.

Also found a nice new truck stop since the Texaco I used to go to started towing people that didn't have a contract to park in their lot.

>>16295971

>Dispatched hooked me up
Don't get used to it.

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>>16295067
Our equivalent would of been the T660, but they stopped making it this year

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>>16296011
>would of
Way to represent the industry there supertrucker.

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>-36C on location

>Working with fresh water

>Oil company trying to chintz out on heating water due to mah costs

>Freeze up issues ahoy

Muh dick.

>>16295808
I've only read about them, but I've read that the new models actually ride much nicer than old cabovers, are much less hot and noisy than old ones, and are much safer than old ones as well. Plus I just like the way they look 'cause I'm dumb.
>>16296036
>dat glowing red hot nut
The fuck is going on there?
>>16296162
That sounds magnanimously retarded. What are you doing with the water, exactly?

>>16296262
Thats a russian glow nut, lets you know that it is live. Americans dont use them.

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>>16296036
wew frend

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>>16296262
>The fuck is going on there?
bad connection between the terminal lug and the buss bar, so the current is flowing through the nut and bolt.

>>16291993
That green thing must have been a cab over.

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>>16291993
>>16293034


Sure, here's the highlights.

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>>16293034
>>16296508
Not quite.

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>>16296508
>>16293034

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>>16296508
>>16293034
The green ones next.

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>>16296508
>>16293034
>>16291993

>oh that doesn't look too bad

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>>16296527
>I'm sure the drivers fine

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>>16296531
>o-okay, well, people have walked away from worse right?

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>>16296534
>oh...

>>16296538
I don't see any blood

>>16293684
a vettte just like that burned to death 400m from my home :(

i still have nightmares

btw i live in Denmark

>>16296544
He died from eternal bleeding

>>16296544
You can't possibly think that driver didn't suffer some form of damage. Anything from broken feet/legs to internal trauma in his abdomen or busted nuts/dick/ovaries

>>16294866
Nah, Mercedes discontinued the V8 like five years ago. Didn't last long. Dem odd CAT 3408 swaps in North America and Straya doe. God bless marine engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZauzCnwu4&t=150

>>16294037
>boohoo space efficiency is bad
>the entire road network of Europe should be redesigned to accommodate the moronic turning circle of stretched semi tractors

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>>16296262

>Oilfag what do?

We're doing coiled tubing work, which is where we run a continuous string of pipe (which is spooled onto a huge hydraulically powered drum) into an oil or gas well to perform service work to the well. The string of tubing we have out here is over 18,000' long with a 2 3/8" i.d.

We're pumping the fresh water through the tubing at high rates and pressures to spin a drill bit attached to the end of the tubing, and clean out a bunch of shit in the well left over from when the well was fracced.

Here's a photo of what a smaller/shorter 1.5" id spool of tubing looks like from a previous job:

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>>16296574

>Triggered

Got em.

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>>16296576
>below zero
>water
why dont they just do oil stuff where its warm?

>>16296584
That would be too easy.

Longshot but I figured this thread to ask,

Anyone here go through the CA grapevine often? I have finals till Wednesday night and want to avoid as much traffic as I have to go through LA and Pasadena to get home, my plan is to leave at around 10pm and I should hit the grapevine around 12 am. My guess is it should be empty, but Ive never driven it at night so I'm not sure if it's going to be nothing but open road, or if its prime time for deliveries headed south. Any tips as well would be extremely helpful as well as I've only had to drive over it once in the morning headed northbound.

>>16296561
>Hardin County EMS transported the drivers to Hardin Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries

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>>16294816
I run my seat on the floor no air.
You can't argue physics. The farther away u are from an axle the less you'll feel.

And who gives a shit about bunks. I'll run a day cab and throw a piece of plywood across the seats I don't give a fuck.

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>>16296576
Work over rig pls

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>>16296829
needs more side pipes!

>>16296905
Those are called weed burners.

>>16295995
The thought never crossed my mind friend :^)

>>16296538
>that nasty-assed armrest and door pull

>>16295971
>tow a semi
How the fuck? Not like they can just release the spring brakes, or lift both sets of tandems.

>>16296591
Not sure what the 'grapevine' is, but if you're going through Pasadena the I-210 has always been the best for me - outside of rush hour it moves nicely; 40+. Many places are closed at night, so most trucks stop within 150 miles of LA and sit until morning. Car traffic would be minimal as well. Enjoy the mostly open freeway.

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>>16297364
they just lift it up and cart it off /b/ro
pic related

but srsly they just pull the driveshaft, and cage the brakes

>>16297427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0pFObW11vs
forgot link

>>16297416
>Not sure what the 'grapevine' is
I-5 leading up to the Tejon Pass just north of L.A. Used to be notoriously dangerous for trucks to descend due to length and curves but not much of an issue now with decent jakes and road improvements. I've never run it like OP proposes to since I prefer to be in L.A. the night before the delivery. IMO, he's just asking to be sitting in a traffic jam trying to run in in the morning but if he can't make it there the night before he doesn't have much choice.

>>16296829
>seat on the floor
must be nice to be a midget, driver.

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>>16297468
Ah, okay. I always liked that stretch; fuck those speed limits on the descents though - descending into Oregon is steeper and 55. There's no need to have those limits so I've always ignored them.
>descending southbound at 55, engine brake roaring at 2000rpm
>CHP sitting on the side, right next to 'Trucks 40' speed sign
>mfw he doesn't move


>>16296591
My point stands, if you're going at night after 10, traffic will be minimal. This applies pretty much anywhere. Daytime the 210 is the best direct route. During rush hour though, best route is through Mojave. Southbound start at Bakersfield, take CA-58 east until Kramer Junction. Take US-395 south until it joins I-15 south. You're now in San Bernardino.

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NO CONTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

>>16297665
>>16297672
why do people try to drive under trailers?

>>16297665
>>16297672
That's some Fast and Furious level shit
Also
>Penske truck
>>16297677
Stupidity

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>>16297471
Ask T-fag if I'm a midget

>>16297913
t. 5'10''

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>>16297913
if you were a midget wouldnt you hafta raise your seat way up tho?

>>16297952
No because then you'd have to move way forward and sit over the pedals. I have to sit as far back as i can with the seat all the way up.
t. 6'4"

>>16297913
looging breddy short beewee :DDDDDD

>>16296262
I honestly don't like the idea of sitting up that high on multiple layers of air suspension. Hit a bump at speed or tap the brakes hard, and the entire cab rocks forward and tries to buck you out the seat.

>>16296538
That doesn't look so bad. Didn't even do much damage to the legs, by the looks of things.
If he was wearing his seatbelt, anyway.

>>16296584
Because the oil in the USA that was easy to get to dried up long ago. Oil + heat = arabs, usually.

>>16296829
I always see those visors as furrowed eyebrows. Frowny trucks disapprove of your life choices.

>>16298347
>Implying ''Murican trucks aren't already the same
Only place you won't find air suspension on my Cascadia is the front axle. Obviously both rear axles have air bags, plus the cabin sits on mini air bags, then the seat.

>>16298368
Yeah, but you're not sitting directly over the axle that acts as a pivot. I've seen what happens when a eurotruck is forced to brake, and it doesn't look comfy.

>>16298347
Mines the one on the left. And it's wish my visor was bigger

>>16296563
What. Work just bought a 2016 V8 actros.

>>16296563
>dat air start

>>16296789
Two broken legs, a few broken ribs and a broken arm arent life threatening.

You could get pretty fucked up and still not have life thteatening injuries.