Truckerfag Thread

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First for Pete.

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>>16323192

>Single drive axle

What is this? A Peterbilt for ants?

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>>16323228
Short trucks qtest trucks!

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>>16323351
this guy gets it

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>>16323360
I don't even know what they'd be used for in the US with their typical axle configurations and retarded obsession with wheelbase, but hey, they're adorable.

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>>16323351

>Who's ready for safe fun?

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>>16323459
when i was a kid in the 80s, they used trucks like the yellow one i posted to pull short, 25-30 foot, box vans for deliveries from the freight terminal.

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>>16323192
I'd drive it.
>>16323360
QT
I've actually seen one about this short. I believe it pulled trailer homes with a bumper hitch, had no fifth wheel.
I want a tiny cabover something fierce.

I ain't built for this weather.

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>>16323503
i found a pic

>>16323787
Dat snorkel intake

>>16323503
That's fugly

>>16323833
Just in case you have to drive through water taller than the truck...

How bad are automatics in this cold weather?

>>16323894
>Make truck water tight
>Add weights
>Submersible truck
>??????
>Profit

>>16323957
Mines a-o good, as long as I warm the engine a little. Got down to ~18 last night, which isn't midwest cold but still too cold for me. Cant wait to go to florida for xmas- new year

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So I bought a new truck and havent shown it off. Its too cold to go outside but I'll show the interior. First is the drivers seat, with my bags of pretzels and pistachios hanging out.

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>>16324212
Then the passenger seat. The water bottle didn't fit in the sidebox so I keep it up here like a pleb. Also, idk why that photo was rotated

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>>16324227
Then my sexy 2000 watt inverter mounted behind the seat, currently powering my tea kettle. Tiny midget fridge is also included.

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>>16324235
Mein Kampfy zone. Printer didn't fit where I wanted to put it so its just chilling on the seat for now next to my laptop.

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>>16324244
My microwave, just barely fits

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>>16324248
Added a plastic shelf into the closet behind passenger seat. Be impressed by my ingenuity.

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>>16324257
And my mess of a tool box. /endblog/

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>>16324314

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>>16324314
>>16324361
>likes weiners

>>16324384
xD

>>16324227
Those seats + door panels are a_e_s_t_h_e_t_i_c

>>16324212
>buying an automatic
>buying a Volvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGp9P6QvMjY

>>16324924
I drove automatic volvos for 2 years at 2 different companies before I bought my own. The only people who have a problem with automatics are old people who don't like when things change.

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>>16324975
>The only people who have a problem with automatics are old people who don't like when things change.

>25
>drove auto volvos for 1 year
>then got switched to manual freightliner
>manual significantly better experience

Volvos do have a decent interior, especially compared to freightliner.
Also enjoy your maintenance costs from shit breaking all the time. Neither Volvo I drove went 1 month without something sending it back to the shop. Not saying Freightliner is much better, but it was more often something repairable with a screwdriver.

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>>16324975

>The future>The past
>Old things=Inherently bad
>Change=Always good
>B-but muh technologies!
>Moving a lever around and pushing a foot pedal in every so often is such a chore!

Photo related. (You).

I'm sure automatics are fine if they work well. I've worked around a few old truckstars that had automatics, and couldn't care less if they shifted another manual gear after twenty plus years behind the wheel.

I would rather have a standard just because they are more fun and engaging to drive.

>>16325020
I will admit that volvos can be finicky if you're unlucky. I know 2 guys who bought volvos together, the trucks were from the same manufacturing batch. One of them was constantly in the shop while the other was totally normal. Hopefully mine will be good. Actually, I guess one of the 2 company volvos I drove was like that, had to get fuel injectors replaced twice before it hit 500,000 miles.

>>16325299
Change isn't always good, but in this case it is. Better fuel mileage, less wear on transmission, and most importantly I can drink my coffee while making a turn from a red light or stop sign. You were giving me shit, so I gave you a rebuttal, no need to be salty.

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>fucked around too hard with partials
>ended up with a delivery on Saturday and Monday
>is going to be -15F on Saturday
Fugg. That $7.6k gross will be nice to end the year, though.

>>16323459
Turpike triples and doubles, LTL, furniture hauling, etc

>>16323957
It's usually when any issues with them become catastrophic. I missed a light last night because it spent the whole green trying to get into gear.

>>16325388
>Better fuel mileage
>less wear on transmission
Citations needed. I've only seen the opposite when it comes to seasoned drivers.

Ex pump bro here life is comfy on unemployment just got my hard copy license with tanker endorsement added $95 bucks and the dumb old bitch didn't let me retake my pic when I started moving away because I didn't know there was two flashes

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>>16325388

>no need to be salty

>People on 4chan don't want to fling shit at each other like monkeys?

>B-but mah /b/!

You may be right about the wear and tear/fuel mileage, but I'd still rather have an 18 speed to row with.

>>16325429
Nothing like canvas in the cold. We have to tarp in and heat the wellhead we are working with so the valves don't freeze. Its a real joy.

>>16325429
I don't have any official sources on any of this. Less wear is because the auto never grinds gears, or shifts too low or too high. Better gas
mileage is because the auto tries to keep rpms as low as possible without chugging.

>>16325497

I'm guessing you drive on shitty roads if you're doing oil, manual might be better for that because you get a better feel for what your truck is doing. I drive on highways 99% of the time, I prefer automatic. Also depends on which auto you have, Ishift has a manual option, you change gears with buttons on the side of the selector, which is useful on hills. I've heard that some autos dont have any manual option, that would probably suck.

>>16325497
Do you use high low in every gear or just stay in high on second splitter

>>16325576
>Better gas
>mileage is because the auto tries to keep rpms as low as possible without chugging.
Lugging.
And no, it doesn't. Autos will lug the engine, especially when you start going uphill. That's one of their biggest problems. They upshift too soon, and downshift too late. Especially with Volvo's iShit transmission while engine braking, you'll find that it will let the RPM go well below 1000 before downshifting, resulting in the loss of most of your engine brake torque until it decides shift. Upshifts also skip too many gears.

>driving
>Out the corner of my eye see a car to the lane on my right
>can't see it, slow down
>nothing
>Speed up
>nothing
>absolutely sure there's a car to my right
>can't see it
>end up missing my exit because I was so sure I saw a car

>>16324314
It's not safe to use your phone to take pictures while driving.

>>16325651
Also, if you have a live fuel readout, try cruising at a specific speed at both 1100 and 1400 RPM in two different gears. The fuel burn will be almost identical. I'd rather have the extra power available if needed at a moments notice, such as a hard stop. (engine brake again)

Volvo's engine brake is very strong though, even at just 1400RPM, I did like that about them.

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>>16325665
How else are you supposed to take a pic of the weinermobile?

>>16325497
>tfw ultrashift plus MXP

18sp of automation

After I got them to program it to shift where I would shift, it gets slightly better fuel economy than me. But fresh out of the factory they like to nearly redline the first few gears when taking off at 100% throttle. When climbing ranges it sorts itself out well. But once it is in an appropriate gear I change it to manual mode just incase it wants to do something silly.

As for wear and tear. We'll just have to wait and see as the miles pile up.

>>16325656
You have 3 mirrors per side right? Set them up to eliminate your blind spots. If each mirror is aimed outward to show as little of the tractor and trailer as possible (but still a tiny bit) you won't have any blind spots to your sides. If you don't have mirrors on the hood this won't work, however.

>>16325667
>Volvo's engine brake is very strong
Nearly all euro retarders outperform american versions.

>>16325688
3 mirrors?

Do you have one of those shitty fender mirrors?

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>>16325665
>It's not safe to use your phone to take pictures while driving.
I know. That's why I pulled over and put my flashers.

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>>16325706
Maybe?

Blue is tall normal mirror and short convex mirror. Red is convex that removes the blind spots next to the cab. Green is that extra down-facing one that's useful when parking next to a curb. I've always driven with all 7 of these mirrors.

Other than the green one, they're all pretty damn useful. Would hate to not have them.

>>16325732
My truck doesn't have the green mirror but the one I trained in did. What is it for?

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>>16323459
Once upon a time, in the dark days of the 40s through the 80s, a bunch of eastern states had overall length restrictions on trucks. So, in the east, the cabover was king. Along with small engines like the Cummins 'J', 6V-53 Detroit, Mack Thermadyne, etc.

Here, have a west coast Pete.

>>16325752
>What is it for?
The answer is in that post.

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>>16325759
And so it is.

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>>16325576
>I've heard that some autos dont have any manual option, that would probably suck

>mfw the cascadia I used to drive had manual mode locked out because conway is ran by penny pinching jews

>>16325706
Those are actually pretty useful if you can adjust yours downward so you can see what's in front of your bumper

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Alright which one of you fucks is responsible for this?

>>16325576
>I don't have any official sources on any of this.
Clearly.

>Less wear is because the auto never grinds gears
Neither does a seasoned driver that knows what a clutch brake is.

>or shifts too low or too high
Revving to 2300rpm and sitting there before shifting into 3rd or 4th, then jumping between gears without skipping any speaks to the contrary.

>Better gas mileage is because the auto tries to keep rpms as low as possible without chugging.
1) no it doesn't
2) low rpms aren't where fuel economy are in a heavy diesel. It's at peak torque on the torque curve.

>>16325755
Didn't know Iowa was an Eastern state.

>>16325442
Happy to hear from you bro.

>>16323957
I was running the Rockies with an Eaton Ultrashift the last two winters without a problem. The thing to remember about automatics is that they're SEMI-automatics. You do need to participate some in what it does by anticipating situations like you would with a manual and using manual mode when necessary.

>>16325651
>They ... downshift too late.
Hasn't been my experience with the Eaton. If anything it's annoyingly touchy on the downshifts.

>>16325683
>But fresh out of the factory they like to nearly redline the first few gears when taking off at 100% throttle
With these Eatons it progressive shifts at no more than 1400 in the Low range and will allow up to 1600 in the Upper at 100 percent throttle. I don't usually go 100 percent anymore because there's no point. Feels positively glacial which is about the only thing I truly don't like about automatics. It's ok as a highway trans but totally unsuitable for in-city work

>>16325932
Uh naw I'm in a '13 with a new Eaton-Fuller 10 speed auto, and it does not progressive shift at hammer down. It roars up to about 2450 RPM and skip-shifts. It also downshifts way too late at all times and upshifts too early up hills. I drive it in manual mode 100% of the time now in order to save it from itself.

>>16325651

I think it might have been an Ishit, but I had to move one in our yard once. It started itself in 2 and as soon as I started moving it immediately jumped up to 5th with almost zero throttle input. Then I had to make a sharper turn and I think the computer went full on panic mode as it shifted through each gear back to 2nd rather then going straight there.

Absolutely pathetic

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Clearly we have had different experiences with autos.

>>16325882
>Neither does a seasoned driver that knows what a clutch brake is.

Even a seasoned driver occasionally fucks up.

>revs and then jumps between gears without skipping

Pic related. See that green band? That's where my tach stays. And it skips gears when it needs to, I rarely see 2nd gear. The only time it over revs is when I use engine brake while going downhill, it jumps to 1700 max, so I usually keep it in manual when engine braking

>No it doesnt

Yes it does.

>>16325932
>They're SEMI-automatics

This. Like I said before, mine has a manual mode. I use it when driving downhill. Uphill its usually fine, I occasionally have to kick it down a gear when going uphill, but I dont even have to switch to manual to do that, it figures it out from there and keeps the rpms higher for a while

>>16325963
Uh yah, I'm in a '15 T680 with an Eaton Ultrashift 10 speed and it's been that way since new.

>>16325845

KEK

>>16323787

>cabovers

My dick is hard now.

>>16325963
>>16326050
My next truck is going to have a DD15 with the DT12. I drove one, and they're not bad at all. The Eatons seem to be universally regarded as garbage, I'm glad I never had one.

>>16326002

Yep. That sounds exactly like the iShit that I know. Those fuckers love 5th, but shit themselves if you then need to go slower. Too many low-range gears, not enough high-range, upshifts too aggressive and downshifts too passive. Everything that makes an auto bad.

>>16325732
I don't know if it's good but I use the fuck out of the far front red mirrors. Takes getting used to but I can almost see everything just from those. I use the big straight mirrors for seeing what's behind my trailer and I barely even use the convex mirrors below the big mirror because I have to turn my head too much and I can see everything they reflect from the front hood mirrors.

To move the conversation away from the very contentious topic of transmissions, I've been sitting here in long island waiting for a door for 9 hours. I have had breakfast, dessert, a nap, lunch, dessert 2: pistachio boogaloo, and now I'm sitting here watching other people playing video games. Thank god for my unlimited data plan. I think I'll take another nap now. What are you guys up to.

>>16326150
The red ones will allow you to see closer to the front, while the convex on blue will see more detail further back. This is a much bigger issue on the right side. You really should check them all.

>>16326220
Just won a $350 porch heater grand prize at some truck stop casino Christmas party in Louisiana. All I wanted to do is put $5 in a machine and kill 30 minutes but I came on the wrong night. It was literally all old local niggers who go there every night and they were giving out a bunch of free shit as appreciation. I can't even fit it in my truck and don't even have a private porch, I had to duck out and bail.

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>>16326297
trade it for a lot lizard 4some

>>16326323
I think I met her she kept coming to me and putting $5 bills in my machine trying to seduce me and she's THICC in the most obese way imaginable. I had to leave, the whole ordeal was surreal. Maybe she just wanted me to give her a porch heater, I don't know

>>16326347
Porch heater sounds like some trailer park sexual innuendo.

Also, checking in from a 2017 International auto. I hate it.

Paperwork storage

God tier:
>Folder
>pouch on driver's seat

Mid tier:
>clipboard

shit nigger what are you doing tier:
>dashboard

>>16326723
Elder God Tier
>all over the passenger foot well

>>16325732
The red one is the rookie mirror. How do you not know how wide your truck is? Do you have spacial awareness?

t. fingerless glove wearing supertrucker

>>16325932
>With these Eatons it progressive shifts at no more than 1400 in the Low range and will allow up to 1600 in the Upper at 100 percent throttle

That has been reprogrammed to shift like that. Fresh stock ecu will rev it right out in the low box

>>16326347
Now you know why gambling is a sin

>>16326818
Doesn't matter how familiar you are with the truck when you need to check your blind spots. Every truck has them, that's what the mirrors are for. Protip: The blue mirrors won't show anything immediately beside the doors, the red ones will.

>>16327550
15 years driving and never had those front fender mirrors or the one above the passenger window. Never hit anything due to a blind spot either. Spacial awareness is key.

>>16327550
>im a shit driver with no idea where my truck is due to having a vagina: the post

Who needs all those mirrors when you drive an aerocab kenworth. The only truck where you can get sunburned on both arms.

Is it just a Kenworth thing for when I pull the parking brake it also sets the trailer brakes? If I need to air up a trailer I have to release the park brake for it to.send air to the trailer.

My old freightshaker only applies the truck brakes when using the yellow park brake and will send air to the trailer too.

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>>16325706
>>16325788
Buses always have them bent like that so they can see kids walking right in front of their bumper. I prefer to have mine angled out slightly more than the convex mirrors under the regular mirrors. Helps you see what's even further out if you are backing and turning to the passenger side.

They also help if you have a small car like a Miata or a bikerfag riding right next to the tractor. Sometimes it can be difficult to see them on the passenger side with the regular convex mirrors.

>>16327585
Or, what if instead of relying on abstract concepts like spacial awareness, you just spent 1/8th of a second to glance at a mirror to make sure you don't accidentally kill someone.

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>>16327921
I can't even see that convex on the hood in this truck because of the backup cam. I also sit real low because tryna git my lean on.

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I don't understand the hate with lot lizards.
>feels gud
>convenient
>not your wife
>usually pretty cheap
>friends of the road bubs

I'm not a trucker but I have fucked several prostitutes, 2 or 3 at rest areas.

>>16326297
>Just won a $350 porch heater grand prize at some truck stop casino Christmas party in Louisiana


I really need to become a trucker. You just can't make this shit up

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>>16328030
>no accessory rail
They pretty fucking dirty. And just look at your average trucker. I mean you may not be any cleaner or better looking, but do you really want to get in 10min after Bubba just finished?

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>>16328038
No-one needs a hotdog that powerful.

>>16327938
>tryna git my lean on
Trayvon plz go

>>16326755
You spelled homeless drifter tier wrong

>>16326723
Zooz. God tier would be having it all digital, or at least a proper filing cabinet for plebian paper copies.

>>16325845
Breddy funny grafidi :DDDD

>>16325587
Unless I am starting out in really hairy mud, or from a dead stop on an uphill grade, I will usually direct shift 1st through 4th with no splitting, then split from 5th on up.

If I am driving a lighter fixed weight unit or something with an empty trailer, I may not need to split gears at all until 8th high for highway speeds.

>>16328038
Pussy is pussy m8.

The key is to try and catch them when they first start their shift. But unless you get the girls number that's hard to do

>>16325755
Yeah but I meant the single drive axle. Double drives don't make a combination longer.

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>>16328075
Forgot to namefag it up.

>TFW I get to spend over two hours steaming out a frozen 100' long 4" id suction hose run with a steam gun in the bitter cold because my cross shift doesn't understand the concept that water can freeze.

>>16326297
Louisiana fag here, I'll take it off your hands.

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>>16328030
Milk jugs are shit tier piss bottles.

Get on my fucking level.

>>16328139
I think he had to abandon the prize so the niggers didn't lynch him

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>>16328215
>he doesn't wear a condom catheter attached to an external bladder

pleb.

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>>16328234
>he doesn't just piss and shit his seat up first thing in the morning and wallow in his shit pants for 700 nonstop miles

Casual.

>>16326723
Master tier
>clamshell clipboard

>>16328247
Fuck you sure showed me. Guess it's time to turn in the keys

>>16327921
LMAO! Do you have noob mirrors on your truck?

>>16327921
Or you waste no time due to knowing what the fuck you are doing.

Stay pleb.

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This guy is still here again today.

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>>16328451

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>>16328456

>>16328355
Am I getting bamboozled? How is it a waste of time? You have to look at the door mirror anyway, so you have to turn your head in that direction anyway. How much time does it take you to shift your eyes slightly?
But whatever, it'll be your career that gets ruined when you fuck up and merge into that little hatchback that was riding in your blind spot. Complacency is the number one cause of accidents. No one ever lost their job or killed anyone for following basic safety procedures.

>>16328474
You must be really shit to not be aware of what is around your truck.

I wonder how the australians manage to drive without these nanny aids. You never see an australian truck with that ugly shit on it.

>>16328474
>No one ever lost their job or killed anyone for following basic safety procedures.
[Citation needed]
I bet you drive wearing a hi-vis vest on too, with a hard hat on.

>>16328496
I have a better understanding of what's around my truck because I use my mirrors. It doesn't really bother me if you want to think I'm a shit driver, at the end of the day, my loads get there on time and I don't have any accidents. I bet more employers would rather hire the guy who looks in his mirrors than the one who just throws on his turn signals and hopes for the best.

Since lot lizards have been brought up: any chance in finding a Asian lot lizard?

>>16328559
NFI

Id rather employ a guy who knows what the fuck he is doing and doesnt need hand holding constantly. Plenty of losers like you who still fuck shit up with all the mirrors in the world on the truck.

>>16328628
I'd say the one who checks his mirrors knows what he's doing instead of relying on luck to not run into shit.

>>16328496
In Australia you dont just go straight into a puppy farm to drive a semi. It is a natural progression of small box truck > ridgid truck > semi trailer > road train. Usually a year or two of experience before even getting in a semi. Tends to lead to better drivers.

>>16328645
I'd say they guy who has spacial awareness and has never used noob mirrors ever has a much better understanding of what is going on around his truck.

>>16328645
>luck

M8, when you dont have nanny aids you learn better skills.

How badly do you have you convex mirrors aimed if you cant see beside the truck? No need for those fender mirrors, I know to stay the fuck away from a driver who has those, just screams of incompetence.

>>16325656
Anon I saw a wreck with a dudes arm just laying on the highway 50 ft away its always good to be safe

Best place for a dash cam?

In the middle top of windcreen or top of windscreen drivers side so it shows the drivers perspective?

Also
>using mirrors
It's like you don't bully those cunts by just starting to merge, aint no one gonna wanna argue with 44 tonnes m8.

>>16328689
A mirror can't see what's in front behind it. If you've got a little fortwo riding right next to your right steer, you won't be able to see it through the window or the door mirrors. It's called a blind spot. The fender mirror eliminates that blind spot.
But hey, why be safe when you can just rely on "spacial awareness". It won't be my career that gets ruined.

Who needs fender mirrors when you drive an aerocab kenworth, you just look out the passenger door.
They are also great as you can perv on lady drivers either side of the truck while driving.
Only problem is that you need to put sunblock on your right arm too!

>>16328711
You obvs have shit spacial awareness and no fucking idea of what traffic is around your vechicle.

But whatever. I'll keep doing the same like I have the past 15 years without incident.

I wonder how poor old EF gets by without them too. LMAO soo many shit drivers out there. Don't park next to us guys without the hand holders as it makes us nervous as fuck knowing you have no idea how big your vechicle is or the space it occupies.

>>16328722
Did you seriously make the same joke two times in a row?

>>16328744
Where? That post doesn't contain two of the same joke.

>>16328711
>what's in front behind it.

This is how braindead fender mirror users are.

>>16328711
How do you not know the fourtwo is there in the first place? Did it just magically appear? Or are you just too dumb to keep stock of what you passed/getting overtaken by?

>>16328777
He is a steering wheel attendant.

>>16328758

>>16327589
>>16328722

>>16328821
Looks like there is more than one aerocab driver here.

If a reciver can charge a late fee and they sure will of they can, why do they always refuse to pay detention when they are late to load

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>>16327587

>>16327794
I've driven a ProStar, Cascadia, t660, T680 and they all do that

>>16327794
>>16328952

Yep, that's normal. If you only want to set the tractor brakes hold the trailer knob with your thumb while pulling it.

>>16326044

>1700 max

That is a problem in the mountains and it is not overrevving if it is within normal engine parameters.

I agree that uphill, on the flats and around town they are great but those downhills are fucking atrocious.

>>16328943
You: shit driver with a litany of excuses

>>16328958
Even with the red button pushed in it still sets a trailer brakes.

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>>16327938
>backup cam
ive been thinking about these things the last couple days, it might be neato to replace the front fender mirrors with cams and add displays to the dash or console. maybe configurable displays like a "glass dash" in aircraft. pic related

thoughts anybody?


also can you guys with auto trans drift?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1URe12b_wU

ATTN:
Volvo iShift has shift memory and it tries to "learn" from its drivers over time. Company I work for gave me one with legit 240miles on it and I drove it for 500,000miles. Initially, it definitely was a finicky fuck. But by around 10k miles in, it was a dream and shifted exactly how I'd want to.
Once, while helping the shop take a tractor back to the yard, I drove another drivers Volvo and I hated it cuz it wasn't used to _my_ shift patterns etc. Spoke to the mechanic about it and he told me they reset the auto's memory each time they assign a truck to a driver for exactly this reason.

Before the volvo, I drove a 10 spd Columbia ISX and a T2000 with a 13 (I think)

>>16325882
What year is your auto, tf?

>>16325772
Yeah, older volvos have buttons on the dash for PRND and that's it. Shits horrible.

>>16328958
This.

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> this thread
>"stop using tools that will help prevent accidents you noob"
Sasuga supertrucker-san

>>16328991
Then that is very unusual. Never seen that in any truck I've driven.

>>16329060
>not gitting gud

You left out the fingerless gloves, thats the sign of a real supertrucker.

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Got my IFTA report for last month. Look at all those cosy flatlander miles.


>>16328525
Caught myself doing that the other day.

>>16328615
Nah. They're all in the massage parlors.

>>16328689
>not using your fender mirror to look around blind corners
You didn't need that second fuel tank a 4 wheeler is going to smash into anyway.

>>16328700
Whatever is in the wiper's sweep within 6" of the top of the windshield, which in a split screen means passenger side.

>>16328991
If you are australian, thats how the design rules state the park brake must work. But they have now updated them and if the truck complies to the UN ECE R13 it will only set the tractor brakes and leave the trailer on air and thats ok.

>>16328977
This is a volvo we're talking about, not a 1000hp pete. Its designed to operate on lower rpms. 1700 is too high for my truck that doesnt haul more than 45000 lbs and doesn't go off road.


>It's also worth mentioning that with the XE13 programming, the engine has a "sweet spot" that stretches from 1,050 to 1,500 rpm.

From http://m.truckinginfo.com/article/175236/test-drive-volvos-torque-magic

>>16328885
Always the other way around for me. Stop pulling a poverty wagon and the problems disappear.

>>16327794
Just put your thumb on the red button when you pull the yellow one. Even in my old K100 when you pulled the yellow knob the red and blue ones popped out, too.

>>16328977
Just pop it into manual and it'll only bitch at you when you fick up like a roody-poo.

>>16328991
Wat.

>>16329056
2005

>>16329197
Don't forget the chain-drive wallet.

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>>16329298
>>16329197

Y'all git on my level now, hear?

>Not being a modern cowboy

Bojangles.

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>>16327794

Breddy sure that's by design for all trucks; Every Kenworth, Peterbilt or Western Star I have ever driven pops both when the yellow parking brake is pulled, unless you keep the red trailer supply pushed down.

>ITT: People taking a hard stance against mirror usage, who apparently think that having more options to check sightlines somehow makes them worse drivers

Smdhtbqh fram.

I notice only american trucks use these nanny mirrors, why do you guys need so much cotton wool?

>>16329400
>somehow makes them worse drivers

It does, I had a guy who was freaked out because of no fender mirror, he didn't know where the fender was without seeing it in a mirror.

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>>16329414

Lazy bait. Anon no baka.

>>16329429

>Implying that there is some other way to see over top of the dash with a 24" centre notch drop visor and the seat slammed onto the floor and pushed all the way back like a real trucker

>Implying that there are fenders there at all that exist outside of reflections

Mind my prologues, shitlord.

>>16329414
Australians don't have a lot to hit, and their rules are more lax, so their trucks are fucking huge, and can just bash through anything in their path anyway.
Plus, 'straya is mostly desert, so the worst you're gonna hit is a couple of 'roos, or a shark in disguise as a roo.

Euro trucks are smaller, and thus don't need as many mirror mounts. A mount each side of the cab with one big mirror and one small convex one each, a mirror on the side for the blind spot, and a mirror on the front for the front blind spot so you know when you've collected a small hatchback.

Russians use a mixture of american and euro trucks, in a fucking mess of standards and trailer styles. While they retain the original mounts, I doubt they use them. Or care.

>All this shitposting about fender mirrors and spatial awareness
Ah, the skilled troll has showed up.

>>16329028
The Freightliner Supertruck concept does almost this, but instead they made the door mirrors as small as permitted, with just the convex ones there with a camera hanging beneath. There are large screens on the pillars in the cabin that display the camera feeds.
>>16329206
>5k miles for the whole month
>Still makes more than me
Volvo iJelly

>>16323187
is being a truck driver a good job?

Will I get attacked by rapefugees when I pass through Calais?

Anyone in Missouri? Shit is bad.

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>>16329671
https://youtu.be/bOkRfYHYJU8

Naw, they seem pretty chill as this video link shows.

>>16329685
You better be stopped for the night, son

>>16329685

What means bad? Weather?

>>16329710
Trying to, my man.

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>>16329730
I assume he's referring to this

>>16329733
Das it mane

>>16329733

Wow, how did so much multicolored yarn get spread across the countryside like that?

>>16329751
Kek

>>16329685
Yeah, haven't tried to drive cause holy hawt damn it looks crazy out.

>>16329685
KCMO side isn't too bad

I made it to a truck stop and got parked. Thank you YBJ. Fuck this ice.

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>>16326723
>shit nigger what are you doing tier
Ascend to my plane

>>16329819
What tier am I if I put my clipboard on the dashboard?

>>16329803
congratulations for not dying

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This truck slide straight through a curve over a small embankment and then a car ran into the back of the trailer. Sorry for rain covered windshield.

>>16329917
>>16329923
>>16329928

Thanks mate.

I'm on a 34 right now and was missing my fill of carnage

>>16329950
NP. I saw maybe 20 wrecks all together on i70 and this 2 lane road I got on when 70 east shut down.

Who uses mirrors anyway. Thats for losers. They have no use.

>>16329980
+1 like

>>16329980
I know thats not the real NWbie but I still kek'd at your reference.

He surely didnt look in a mirror when he obliterated that utility pole.

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Pic is old but gave me a giggle. Relevant given its presence in the thread lately, coupled with the winter weather.

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>>16330003
>tfw you thought no one noticed your weiner
>mfw someone did

>>16330036
That's nearly Gundam QUALITY-tier animation.

>>16330053
No. Just stop.

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>>16330050
There's something about the QUALITY from konosuba that makes it appealing.

Hint: Wine

>>16330071
I just can't get into animu anymore. Not even weeb vidya, with the exception of Gundam.

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Rate my work camp dinner.

No bully plz /g/.

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that comfy feel

>>16330123
>/g/
Let me just interject for a moment...
>>16330127
>White as the snow on the ground
I bet you vape.

>>16329685
Come and chill with me in South Kansas City, I live not far from a Flying J T-stop in a town called Peculiar.
Gas is cheap too.

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>>16330088
>I just can't get into animu anymore
Because you're not getting into the right animu. This current season was great.

>>16330187
Don't eat at the denny's though, it's shit. There's a real cozy bar just a 5 minute's walk from the lot which has real great food.

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Carnage?

I'm down.

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Half the country is covered in ice right now, meanwhile CREngland be in Arizona like

>>16330229
wat
And also why

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>>16330231
>hood mirror
What are you a casual or something?

>>16330260

I would've merged right thinking it was clear until I look at that mirror.

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>>16330236
Why?

Because England!

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>>16330273
>I would've merged right thinking it was clear until I look at that mirror.
Do you even into spatial awareness? Aren't you able to know what's around your vehicle 24/7 like a REAL trucker?
Just turn in your license already.

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>>16330260

>Rekindling the hostilities of great mirror debate of '16.

>>16330284

The dmv got me to pass despite stalling multiple times and running red lights. I don't think I was tested on spatial awareness.

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>>16330187
>>16330204

Dear gay equivalent to Penthouse,

I never thought it could happen to me...

>>16330187
KC is where I picked the load up. I'm headed east. Well I was earlier, anyway.

I picked up a trailer with a busted turn signal on either side. Neither the remaining two turn signals work and the rear lights don't flash. Call breakdown, they send up someone. He fucks around with the pigtail, gets good readings, fucks around with it again its not working. Fucks around with some fuses, check engine light comes on, fucks around with more fuses, more errors pop up. Tells me I have a bad control module. Doesn't look at trailer. Do you think I actually have a control module that was failing or are those trailer lights like Christmas lights and if one goes out they all don't work?

>>16330210
They were cleaning up the remains of a recently combusted tractor and trailer off i10 in AZ but I missed the photo op, mostly because like every cop in the county was directing traffic.

>>16329641
Australians use a mixture of American, European and Japanese trucks.

The Jap trucks are surprisingly good for construction work but can be expensive for what they are and they are a few generations behind on design. But as one slanty eyed engineers said "looks no matter, it just does job very good".

>>16330759
So Toyota and Lexus designers do Aussie trucks too?

>>16330865
Nissan UD
Mitsubishi Fuso
Hino
Isuzu

And they all look a generation behind.

>>16330759
Don't forget the new chinese medium duty trucks. Dong Feng, could you trust a truck called a DONG?

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>>16330884
>truck called DONG?
>has vagina for front emblem
not even once

>>16330943
They look like an old 90's Merc Actros, typical chinese just copy it.

>Paccar MX13
>only 8000km
>check engine light at idle after driving for 100km
>bump it up to 800rpm and it goes out
>been in to get fixed 3 times
>still does it and they seem to have no idea

>>16329666
>Ah, the skilled troll has showed up.
I've taken a break from shitposting for a while, actually.
But this new guy is bretty gud

>>16331065
Just ignore Check Engine lights. It's merely emissions related anyway. It probably even says to wait until the next service visit to get it looked at which means it isn't really important. The only warnings to pay serious attention to are the ones that say STOP ENGINE. Not like you'll have a choice about those anyway.

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Can I just not work during the holidays?

>>16331187
rubbin is racing

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>>16331196

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>>16331185
Only shows the check engine light, no LCD display. Dash looks 100% like pic related even has the two cb's, UHF and AM 27mhz.

Need the Davie tool to even see what code it is, I prefer the cummins "read the flashing lights to get code" procedure. At least you have an idea of what it is then.

>>16331233
That's exactly why I have just bought a dash cam, where do you have yours mounted.

>>16331239

I have the gopro suction mount, it's on the left side of the windshield divider.

>>16331233
Did the 4 wheeler try to blame you?

>>16331272

We didn't touch. She didn't know how to speak english.

Afterwards when she left, she cut off a semi causing his to smash his brakes. never seen so much brake smoke

>>16331233
Did you swerve to the left?
Next time just run the bitch over. It'd be her fault and you'd have her on cam anyway. If you'd hit the guy on the left then you'd be fucked.

>>16331327

I moved a little to the left but that was after she already started to swerve away. Wasn't checking to see someone not knowing what a solid white line means.

https://youtu.be/BdYDWY0XF24 The last clip is actually the same driver I almost hit earlier.

>If the US market analysts are to be believed, the world according to America is about to downsize to 13-litres. That’s all very well where the average load totals out at 40 tonnes.

>>16331185
It is an Australian T409 Kenworth MX13, euro5 (no DPF, just DEF) and its 24V. Last time it was in it had no codes stored in relation to check engine, yet it had the warning for it illuminated.

>>16330292
>american licensing

>>16330127
Don't you have privacy screen that covers the doors and windscreen?

>>16330260
>>16330284
You really got rustled by him.
Only a steering wheel attendant would be that easily baited.

>>16330341
It's well known that you roughnecks have homosexual tendencies.

>>16329641
Americans use euro trucks too, have you seen a KW K270 K370 , Peterbuilt 210 220? Pretty much just DAF's.

>>16331234
I haven't had an issue with the mx-13 in mine, had a water pump recall done.
It is so quiet in the cab compared to cummins or detroit.

>>16331852

Stop hopping curbs and driving over lot lizards and you wouldn't have the issue.

>>16331852
[ S T A N C E | W O R K S ] as fuck brah

>>16331338
You drive like an asshat, no wonder you need a hood mirror

>>16331889

Come to LA buddy.

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>>16331852

>>16331892
Been there more than you, its really not a big deal. If you CPM cucks just relaxed instead of thinking driving fast and stupid makes for more miles you would realize you make the same miles without looking like a nigger

>>16331917
You can't tell these drivers who are addicted to fendirror, it's one hell of a nasty drug.

>>16331161
>goobyskeptical.jpg

>>16331584
Yes.

>>16332485
Use it. You scare the children.

Now my autotragic has over 9000 miles on it and the check engine light has been on for 10 hours. Time to send this one on to the scrapyard in the sky.

>>16332526
Thats what happens when you dont get supertrucker 18sp ultrashift plus the 10s are utter garbage.

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>>16331602

Suck one cock and you're forever a cocksucker...

>>16331852

Hellafied gangster lean.

>>16331593

>What is trolling?

>>16332571
LMAO he was so flustered he had to mimic. Thats how you know.

>>16332521
Nah

>>16330036
>>16330071
>>16330188

Oh shiiit, i had no idea there was a new season, thanks dude

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Ayyyyyyy 40W in Texas milemarker 291 trucks crashed everywhere trucks for dayz

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Those bacon double cheese burgs at Pilot are pretty good desu senpai. Just tried one. What else is good to eat at truck stops.

>>16333431
I ate hot dogs from a QT the other day. I initially had my reservations with eating gas station food, but they were pretty good.

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>>16333431
>God tier
Dottie's burritos at Midwest Petroleum in Cuba, Mo
Tri tip burritos in that shit hole truck stop in Salinas, Ca
The old flying j breakfast burritos that came in foil

>damn I'm at loves for breakfast tier
Omlette tornados

>it's 0200 tier
Santa Fe tornados

>oh shit what are you doing tier
Chester's chicken
Flying j sausage and gravy pizza

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>>16333418
More pics incoming from Missouri.

A simple skid off the road.

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This guy apparently lost control going into a weigh station and slammed backward into the scale house.

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Ran into median and rolled.

>>16333497
>Hit the fucking scale house
Black man in 1800's America -tier fucked, he is.

>>16333500
>exit 69
That cheeky wanker.

Remember to always be aware of the weather and of possible ice. This happened on I-95 just South of Baltimore this morning, where it had been getting freezing rain for several hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ejDJqME2c

>>16333497
That DOT officer must have had the biggest smile writing that ticket

>>16333466
>Elder God tier
Lisa's truck center in moriarty NM

>>16333559
Who was driving that, Michael Bay?

>unload point 1400km away
>98km/h limited

>>16333559
RIP asphalt anon

>>16333459
QT sells red baron individual deep dish pizza cheaper than walmart somehow.

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>>16333554
lol theres one in Michigan too

>>16333466
Wtf is sausage and gravy pizza.

I'm divided on flying J pizza. At first I'm like fuck yea this is some tasty pizza and a good value. But by the time I've had a full slice I'm like this shit is disgusting tier. I think it might be way too salty even by fast food pizza standards.

>>16333938
It's breakfast pizza. They got sausage and gravy and bacon and eggs. Both look awful.

I'm with you on the pizza, it's good until you finish the last bite.

>>16333838
Is that where all the fat lot lizards live?

>>16333938
The only way I can eat that pizza is by coating it in crushed red pepper

What site do you guys use to e-file you heavy vehicle road tax?

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>>16333601
It was more of a daze.

He wasn't a "foot guy", but he though her little cop boots were cute. Sure she wasn't the prettiest and was raising some agro loser's kid by herself. But she was always easy to talk to.

She always had a story to tell about the supertrucker of the day. After yesterday's guy that was going on and on about fender mirrors, "Do you ever just meet someone and hope that they're sterile?" He had a legitimate spit-take.

Maybe then is when he should have made his move. He's been wanting to ask her to lunch or something for some time now. If she'd been at lunch with him today, she wouldn't have been...

>>16334485
Piss off wordPUKEbot

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holy shite !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5IVu3lQ88&feature=youtu.be

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>>16333459
As long as they are fresh, the hot dogs aren't too dangerous. But don't push your luck. I have had some real rugged breakfast sandwiches from Speedway around noon that were probably microwaved at 4am.

7-11s around here have some Jamaican and Hatian shit too like the beef patties you see everywhere. Cuban stuff too. Can't even pronounce the names.

>>16334925
Why exactly were those trucks not able to see? What the fuck is happening?

>>16335035
The roadway was covered with ice. This happened not a half mile from my house.

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>>16334925
fug

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>>16323187
Wait, did that crash happen in Reno, Nevada? Pic related.

How hard is it to get a trucking job running the 11 western states? I ran northeast regional for a month before going back to my regular job. I'd truck like a motherfucker if I can stay west of the Rockies.

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>>16335107
>Wait, did that crash happen in Reno, Nevada? Pic related.
No

>>16323187
>>16335107
>>16335728
>filename is not chan-type unix epoch timestamp
>filename is camera format
wait a sec is Pepsi M&Ms?

>>16335396
That'll depend on the company. We have a Western Regional, and a California Dedicated as well, but they're usually full and you have to wait for an opening. Usually that's not more than a few months wait at worst though. A good company may take a while for something to open up. Still, I'd think you should be able to turn up something before too long.

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>get to receiver with load of cardboard bales
>receiver wants weight of trailer by itself on the scale
>ok never done this before but every place has its own way of doing things
>lower landing gear and disconnect lines
>pull fifth wheel lock release lever on dash, put truck in drive and start to pull out from under trailer
>harder than usual jolt
>wtf
>stop and G.O.A.L. but see nothing
>try to pull out
>wheels spinning
>wtf
>G.O.A.L. again
>see pic
>wtf
>notice truck and trailer are on different segments of the scale
>the 56,000 trailer sunk quite a bit when it came off the fifth wheel and caught that part of the frame

I don't know why the picture came out blurry I was standing still.

>>16335764
Kek a ton of Skyline's trucks have that. I did it once in training, damn Pete took literally 2 minutes to let down the air bags. Forgot it took so long once.

>>16335779
A lot of PTL trucks have that. I wondered how it happened. Now I know.

>>16335764
>receiver wants weight of trailer by itself on the scale
How weird. And loaded too.
Not that I sit there and watch every truck go across a scale but I've never seen anybody drop a trailer on a scale. Most of the time empty and loaded weights are all that's needed.

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>>16335739
Nah. Pepsi is rumored to be a nigger. M&Ms was just some attention-whore navy butt faggot that got rekt for being too cocky. Kinda like how the new prime guy is. I can't wait to watch him crash and burn. I'm already saving images for my screenshot collage.

>>16335823
Pepsi is a black man, yo.

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>>16335832
>Pepsi is a black man
Same shit ain't it?

>>16335823
Do better than the eminem collage, that thing is a clusterfuck

Non truckerfag here, the other day I noticed a box trailer bouncing up and down when it was braking in traffic. My question is this normal or not?

>>16336091
trailer could be skipping over the ground because it's unloaded and the driver hit the brakes too hard.

IDK though, I'm not a trucker.

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>>16335823

Nah Pepsi is a mulatto or a quadroon most likely. He certainly has the nigger attitude & mindset.

> brags about stealing merch and burning data on the company phone
> shows up late to work or not at all
> posts pics of smashed-up trucks and claims that a "coworker" was responsible

Pepsi is ok by me even if he is a massive attention whore.

>>16335823

I'm sure M&Ms still lurks here, just doesn't have the balls to namefag like he did pre-accident.

The Prime guy is just your standard neet cuckshedder. Believes everything his company says and takes it in the ass like a good goy.

Primefag is a retard but at least he isn't M&M.

>>16336091
Trailer ABS. They don't work like a car with a rapid on-off application of the brakes. It's more like a one second cycle between brake applications. So when the trailer went down the brakes were applied and then the wheels locked up and the system released the brakes and the trailer went up as the weight shifted forward onto the tractor. Rinse, repeat. FWIW he was probably either unloaded or really light. It's harder to stop an unloaded truck because it's too easy to lock 'em up.

>>16331233
Hello u/MastCrasher

>>16336194
Alright, thanks for the explanation.

>>16334048
That sounds disgusting. My favorite pizza was the bbw chicken but they haven't had it in awhile. And yes the pizza tastes good until I finish a slice then all of a sudden for some reason I feel gross for eating that. Makes me feel worse than McDonald's

>>16336421
>bbw chicken
>bbw
lel

>>16336246
>>16336194
and it kicks like a horse when it happens. Feels like something's gone horribly wrong and your axles are being torn out from under you. Scared the shit out of me the first time it happened.

>>16336192
>thicc

>>16329028
>backup cam
horse piss. would get coated in dirt within 30 mins especially if on a truck/pup or truck/transfer combo

>>16336967
Could potentially be mounted on the top facing down at an angle, for example next to the top centre clearance lights. Could even be powered by the same circuit.

>>16335764
>I don't know why the picture came out blurry I was standing still.
happens when it's dark. digi cams will automatically take longer exposures and the only way to not let it get blurry is to set the camera down on something.

>>16333459
Reminder that rollerdogs are made from dead lot lizards and truckers who hit things and don't pay for the damages.

>>16335764
most of the trailers ive ever pulled either have a placard on the front under the air lines with the trailer weight empty or the paper in the box has it written
that being said ive never had to drop one like that. even at the cardboard plants. once i had to weigh my truck bobtail before picking up shredded paper bales but that was it.

>>16335764
Why drop trailer on scale? Just get gross weight, then go park trailer elsewhere and weigh truck by itself and then subtract from gross.

Damn you fender mirror users are dumb as fuck.

>"are you available to pickup a load?"
>yes
>"okay, dh 115 miles into the smack dab middle of Los Angeles for a live load. Oh, and your appointment time is in thirty minutes"
>what
>"gl hf"
At least the Hispanic gentleman on the dock was nice and understanding. He only called me a fucking retard a couple times.

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>>16337714

They don't actually tell you "good luck have fun", do they?

>>16337724
generally by the time you start cursing they've hung up.

>>16337750
They have to be trolling intentionally.

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>wake up
>trailer brakes frozen

>>16325656
I run wrecker crew and after the first weeks of snow here and all the accidents I've seen, you did the right thing. I'd rather have to tow you out of a no turn around than winch a car out from under you. I saw one where a car got hit, got rolled over and then hit the trailer tandem, breaking the slide pin, knocking the tandems out and taking their place while the bitch rolled down the road.

>>16337528
Because that's how the customer wants it done. Ain't our fault they're retarded. I've had to weigh the whole truck + loaded trailer, then unhook so they could weigh just the loaded trailer at one place. Was dumb.

>>16325656
That's the black dog, anon. You're lucky it was just a vague sense rather than a great beast running down the road towards you.
Time to take some holiday.

>>16337755
not trolling sadly. usually just incredible incompetence those jobs usually are ignored on the board until an alarm makes them blink or a supervisor mentions them.
>>16337790
>you have now learned a valuable life lesson

>>16337790
>using your trailer brakes ever in the cold

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>>16337790
>mfw I just realized I set mine last night
shit hopefully I won't have to go anywhere today

>>16337853
>>16337855
I tried hitting stuff with a hammer. I can tell it's either or both of the rear tires. Should I just drive around the parking lot?

>>16337872
hammer and waiting is all you can do without incurring serious damage

>>16337872
Did you remember to air up the trailer lines before hammering? If you're super heavy loaded you could try pulling forward and backward to see if it'll pop loose. Disclaimer: that may be an absolutely terrible idea, I'm just spitballing.

>>16335764

>Dropping a loaded trailer when the ground is wet

Shiggy. Who picked up that bill, assuming you couldn't bully yourself back under it?