Truckerfag Thread - /TFG/

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first for shenanigans

wash your trucks, assholes

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>>16777761
you made an entire general devoted to the rarest car on the road?

>>16777857
Oh sure, I love wasting my time and money for no reason.

>>16777859
TRuckerfag. TRuck.

>>16777507

So... 'straylia?

>>16777857
>wash your trucks, assholes
Would, but company policy is only once a month. If you want it washed more often you have to make a special request with pics.

Really should be every two weeks though. Weekly like TMC requires is too often (they will bitch the driver out if it doesn't get done).

Probably calling in tomorrow

>>16777857
But mine is always shiny and chrome.

>>16778503
Only pooftahs and pommies drink tea.

I have my cdl road test on Wednesday and I'm really fucking stressed out. Any tips? I don't feel like I'm ready. I'm studying the pre trip but I'm worried about the backing. Plus I have little experience driving in streets and tomorrow I'm gonna do highway driving. I'm worried because the test is really early during rush hour traffic. How do I stay calm during the test? I really want to pass the first time

>>16778752
Reminds me of this time I was talking to this ownerop in a Peterbilt dealership and he was shilling TMC super hard, meanwhile this other guy joined the party mid convo, and when TMC-kun said something about how cool their trucks looked because the whole fleet is black and chrome, the other guy goes "Oh, do you drive for Stevens?"
The look on the TMC guy's face was priceless. It was confusion, realization, disgust, and disappointment all in a half second.

>>16778877
ONE WEIRD TRICK TO PASS YOUR EXAM THE DMV DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW

The results on the clipboard are gospel. If you murder your examiner during the exam, and turn in the clipboard in with a passing score, they are still REQUIRED to grant you your CDL

>>16778908
top kek

>>16778877
You can stay calm by hoping you don't get paired with someone in a cuckshed going through a herpes outbreak. Should work.

I started my CDL course today (yes, on a sunday). I'd never driven a truck that wasn't a 13 or 18 speed Peterbilt or Kenworth before, and never driven anything with less than 500hp. I'm stuck in a 1995 FLD shitpile with an 8 speed and a 430hp Series 60. holy shit it's so terrible. I don't know what rear end is in it but it's tapped out at 62.

with that said, I was doing traffic and highway driving on what was technically my first day BTW which seems quick?

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Black people are always the worst employees. They are lazy, loud, obnoxious, defiant, and generally don't care if they get fired or not.

But the black people in trucking are the complete opposite. Every black trucker I've gotten to know well has their shit together more than most people I know. They know exactly what they will be doing a week from now, when I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow. They always got the cleanest trucks too.

What is the deal with black people who choose the trucking career?

>>16779341
>But the black people in trucking are the complete opposite.
Dude naw

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this is the future they are selling with automation.

yet really it will just be a straight truck that has no cab. all the truck will be under the shipping container it carries. no meat bags allowed.

>>16779456
Yeah maybe once we get some non conservatives that don't hate science and technology in the government, the DOT would allow that.

In the mean time, enjoy the glorified cruise control that doesn't even work.

>>16779466
Obama's DOT wouldn't even allow Audi to sell cars with automatic adaptive high beam headlights. since the law states that cars must have a manual switch for high beams.

>>16779393
Not that anon but I've had the same experience. I don't know any blacks in trucking who don't have their shit together.

>>16779474
>since the law states
>the executive branch is now in charge of passing legislation
Dumb flyover cletus.

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>return from hometime at 1000
>weekend dispatch give me load that doesn't pick up until 0300
>oh well naptime
>wake up at 2330
>truck won't turn over
I guess idling for an hour wasn't enough before plugging all my shit in.

>>16779341
>>16779393
>>16779478
Seems like a lot of black truckers are military vets. That tends to lend itself to someone having their shit together.

>>16778877
Heavy traffic is a good thing. Means you won't have to go too fast. Should be easy.

>>16779456
>laminate flooring
too cheap for parquet?

>>16779873
True but I'm worried about rolling back, or someone merging into my blind spot. I'm also worried about my test giver being a dick and purposely putting me into a sticky situation, or saying stuff like "you're revving pretty high there, you know what you're doing son?" Stuff like that. It's really the backing I'm worried about I hope by then I'm ready

>>16780050
Don't make up scenarios in which you can fail before they've even happened. You can fake yourself out by just acting like you know what the fuck you're doing, pretend. The placebo effect of that on it's own should instill enough confidence and aptitude to at least pass the test. Stop setting yourself up for failure.

>I had a better post written but clicked off the page, so fuck you this is what you get

>>16779323
Please explain the claimed circumstances wherein you drove high horsepower trucks with heavy duty transmissions, and yet do not have your CDL.

>>16780238
Fake it till you make it, as the old saying goes.

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After leaving the truck and cleansing all my possessions with fire, I think I might be good now. Time to get home on the company dime lol.

>>16780298
Enjoy those herpes, my dude.

>>16780298
You quit and the company pays you to go home? How does that work?

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>>16779759
>stop at loves in arkansas
>pair of truckers in overalls get two twelve packs of bud and take them to the register
>get told they can't buy beer on sunday in arkansas
>queue white man chimpout (loud complaining as they leave)
>"BOUT THE DUMBEST THING I EVER HEARD OF"
>"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET IN THESE PUSSY ASS LIBERAL STATES"
>"BUT I GUESS THEY AIN'T HAPPY TIL THEY TELL EVERYONE HOW TO LIVE, HUH? OH WELL"

>>16779759
I don't know why I quoted you.

>>16780688
Nice freedoms you Amerilards have.

Also, fendirror users
https://youtu.be/N4lWeBAgjuM

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Reminder that Freightliner makes vibrating pieces of shit.

>>16778877
Give the instructor a hand job

Called in today just one of those fuck it kind of days you know

>tfw 5k tax refund coming this week

>>16781157
>the feeling when you realize that you have the government a $5,000 interest free loan

>>16780246
I have friends with some fancy "farm trucks" that taught me how to drive them

>>16781074
It is actually a nice freedoms, because the states have the rights to set their own alcohol sales, and Arkansas chooses to restrict sales on Sunday and Christmas.
Meanwhile in California, you could go to Wal-Mart at 1AM on a Sunday and buy a gallon of whiskey no problem.

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>>16781220
>tfw have my federal allowance at the right number to maximize my paycheck without owing money at the end of the year
>mfw every white trash retard says I should always make it 0 so I get the biggest income tax return for wasting
>tell them that they are giving interest free loans to the government and I'm competent enough with my money to not need some income tax check to bail me out year in and year out
>they chimp out like dogs smelling meat

>>16781384
Is that true?

I've traveled to every state and have never seen a Walmart selling real alcohol. All they sell is beer and wine. Never seen anything higher than 15%. Anything less than 75% is for trashy liberals and quitters.

>>16781417
I don't care about what your pretentious definition of "real alcohol" is but some do sell whiskey, bourbon, vodka, rum, just depends on the state.

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>>16780667
>"I habs an emerjuncee ad home please ged me derr asabb :^)"

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WEW LADS just saw a live lot lizard working the Pilot in Houston at 9:30 in the morning. Should I go back and fuck it?

>>16781410
>tips tinfoil fedora

>>16777857
No u.

Going on month 9 no wash

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How many here are homeless truckers?

>be 25
>2nd year trucking
>turn down most home time and take my weekend off aka 34 reset on the road wasting money
>maybe come home a few times a year around holidays and birthdays
>have no intentions of buying a home until I have $250K+ saved and want to quit OTR and do something local
>Only 13/48 of fucking a woman in every lower 48 though
>no hookers or lot lizards count
>mostly just drunk women though so same thing

>>16781384
Blue laws are conservative, not liberal tho.
How can you be free when you're so thoroughly manipulated you don't even know what you're voting for

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>>16781857
>month 9
>not year 9
Pleb.

Though I guess it's year 3 in this truck.

wew lads. having one of those days

>get to receiver
>wants tandems slid back
>sure thing man
>give it a few attempts, tandems staying put
>go look at them
>one is broke, stuck out
>rod snapped that pulls it in
>customer helps by holding the pin in with a rod so I can at least get wheels slid and unloaded
>call maintenance, they (eventually) give directions to a shop
>drive 40 miles of 2 lane country roads in Pennsylvania to get to this place
>not a tractor trailer shop
>call maintenance again
>oh well off to the next shop on the list
>waiting for gps navigation now

Also my fleet manager thinks its just stuck and wants me to whack it with a hammer. baka

>>16781859
Thinking about it

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>>16782066

>He didn't call the shop ahead to see if they can fix it
>Uses GPS

>>16779456
Why do you suddenly have to wear a suit shirt and polished shoes as a trucker just because the thing is driving itself?

>>16782141
That's what the companies think they want their drivers to look like.
In reality, it's jeans, stained T-shirts, and beaten to shit workboots if they're lucky.
If not, sweatpants, sports 'shoes', and a bra.

>>16782004
>you're so thoroughly manipulated
But muh freedumbs.

Americans are ingnorant as fuck, the biggest sheeple on the planet.

>>16782125
>he thinks I'd put that much effort into a job that only pays .35/mile

>>16782256
t. Steering wheel attendant

>>16781859
I'm technically homeless but head to different family members homes every 4 or 5 weeks. Trying to seriously save money this year, hope to save at least 2/3s of what I earn. Starting to read up on investment options since it does fuck all in my bank.

>>16782285
Basically.

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>>16781417
You can buy hard liquor virtually anywhere in Louisiana 24/7. Walmart, grocery stores, gas stations, I've even been in truck stops here that sell it. Gonna stop at a truckstop later that has a full bar attached to it

>>16781417
Walmart in Bedford IN has whiskey, bourbon, vodka, rum packaged by the usual suspects for each of those items. I find it ironic it's on the same aisle as the bottled water.

>>16782256
I do just because I don't like getting stuck in front of a low bridge with the nearest turn around 10 miles behind me, or driving 40 miles on Pennsylvania backroads to find out I have to go to yet another place.

>>16781417
Breddy sure the Wal-Mart in Dickinson ND sold hard liquor.

>>16782329
That bitch has a nice rack.

>>16782413

Shame about her political leanings.

>>16782415
I didn't notice anything apart from those huge mams.

You might be gay.

>>16782421

Gay for titties.

>>16782413

Those tits suck. They just big and formless and thats it. Look how much they sag already. Theyre plain sloppy. Just wait til she has kids and hits 35 - she'll be dribbling those things on the floor like fucking basketballs.

A good pair of tits doesnt need a bra to keep them from looking saggy. Theyre just nice and perky - not too big, not too small. This sad bitch has saggy tits in her 20s even with a bra on.

>>16782004
>Blue laws are conservative, not liberal tho.
And that's a very good thing. I 100% support restriction of alcohol sales.

>>16782485

Massive faggot detected

>>16782492
Okay. At any rate, I'm not some degenerate that wastes money on spicy water that's filled with empty calories. I'd vote for prohibition if I had the option.

>>16782536

So you admit youre a massive faggot then. Well that settles it, your opinions are literally invalid now. Shut the fuck up and move along.

>>16777761
>got dem digits
Sheeeeit we got a lil date planned for Wednesday and Friday she was workin late so I was chillin over there with her for awhile.

>>16777291
>suburban cook county
Fuck that hellhole. One of my good friends, his dad owns a mansion in Barrington Hills and he was telling me it's close to $40k/yr in property taxes alone.

>>16779341
Lel. That's funny.

>>16782548
You can think whatever you want. I'm not concerned about what some liberal cuck thinks in the first place. If anything, your tears only strengthens my resolve.

>>16782485
At the very least they help the mom and pop stores compete with the big stores.

>>16782621
>NEENER NEENER I CANT HEAR YOU IM RUBBER YOURE GLUE tier post

This isnt about what i think. Water is wet, and the earth isnt flat, yet just because i say those things doesnt mean they get reduced to what i think. They are simply facts and i am simply stating them. That being said, youre a fucking limpwrist faggot - thats a fact. Why you think me stating a blatantly obvious fact is considered "crying" only highlights your poor grasp of reality and the delusions you have sunken down to.

>unironically calls alcohol spicy water
>SPICY WATER

>believes alcohol should be illegal
>calls OTHER people liberal cucks

Pottery. Its no secret that trucking attracts the outcasts and losers of society, as well does 4chan - but one cant help but feel pity when encountering one of the likes of you.

>>16782485
fwiw, they're shitty old Puritan laws rather than being conservative or Republican laws.

>tfw some 8 year old kid can kill 14,000 people in CoD but god forbid he sees a boob

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>one day later
>still not a car hauler in North America
>still a mxjakdseaklsdasm in Europe

>>16782715
For starters, water isn't wet. To be wet means to be saturated with water, water can't be saturated in itself.
But more importantly, can you are least bother learning what the difference is between conservatism and liberalism? Prohibition was a conservative movement that promoted morality, and the big city liberals got pissed and repealed it later, by that progressive cuck FDR.

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>>16782256

>He actually got suckered into working for slave wages
>Hasn't left yet despite being reamed in the ass by his company and his leper co-driver kek
>.35cpm

Dude I made more than you laid up in workman's comp getting only 2/3 of my pay kek. Fucking leave that shithole already. If you don't have any priors or an accident on your DAC then why are you still there

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>>16782874
That was PAM.
All leasecucks confirmed retard.

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>>16782897

t.buttjelly cpmcuck

>>16782819

>For starters, water isn't wet.

Holy shit you insipid faggot...you have just taken stupid to a whole new level...I'm sure your 2 dad's will be proud...

>>16782944
Do they not have Google where you live? Water isn't wet. Wet is a state that only solids can be in. But that you chose to only respond to that part of my post lets me know you realized you were wrong, but you aren't a big enough man to accept your mistake and your ego is too big to just let it go, so you had to double down and desperately throw out one more ad hominem.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to put another entry in my "retards demolished in online arguments" memobook.

>>16783014
Troll-Kun rides again.

>>16782484
Massive faggot detected

>>16783014
What is the wetness factor of water?

>>16783014
>Thanks for giving me the opportunity to put another entry in my "retards demolished in online arguments" memobook.

How many special olympics gold medal entries do you have in it?

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>>16783014
>Thanks for giving me the opportunity to put another entry in my "retards demolished in online arguments" memobook.

Just really, incredibly, witheringly cringeworthy.

>>16783014
First you will have to find your crayons before writing that entry.

>>16782293
Just avoid /biz/ at all costs. It's like asking for real advice on /fit/, /g/, /out/, or any other board on this website in general.

Having my first load to NYC I'm picking up. Long Island to be specific.

Am I going to cause a scene? I have no idea what to expect. I hate huge cities so I tend to stay in the southwest and spend weekends at Vegas blowing money on slots. But my Aunt is dying and this is the quickest route towards home in Maryland.

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>>16782618
What do you have planned?

>>16782484
>I have strong opinions on the female form, mostly gleaned from pornography, yet have never intimately touched one

>>16784223
It's quite funny because although those boobs he's describing looks the best, there's not a better feeling than squishing your face between some big Mom tits after you sadly disappoint her but she loves you anyways and strokes your hair.

>Hey dispatch, I'm not cool with being in the herpes-riddled truck
>K, we'll put you in a hotel and deal with it tomorrow
>Be tomorrow
>Lol get back in that truck and run this load that's 3.5hrs from your home
>But at least we'll take that other guy off your truck and bus him home

Sucks, but the other guy wasn't cleared to drive due to his medical issue.

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So how did she get her hands on a 2016 Peterbilt? Did they give it to her for free because she's a YouTube celeb? I imagine those things must cost a pretty penny.

>>16781417
Just got home from walmart in California. Huge bottles of vodka next to the frozen pizzas and deli meat.

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>>16784401

If you're talking about the black Pete 579 she drives, breddy sure she's a company driver, not an owner operator, so she doesn't own a bolt in it, she's just assigned to it.

>>16779323
following up here. first of all it turns out this shitheap Freightshaker is actually only 370hp.

second, by show of hands, how many of you have ever parallel parked a tractor-trailer in the real world? I ask because, jesus, I'm fine with the offset backing and alley backing but good god, parallel parking is so pointless.

>>16782874
You're thinking of PAM, whom I believe is making somewhere around 22 cents per mile.

>>16784761
I do it about 20-50 times a year. It's really not that hard in the real world, but you'll usually get out of practice between the times you actually need it. It's just an offset back where you pay extra attention to your nose.

>>16784761
Parallel parking is a good skill to have, I've done it a few times. Sometimes you need to do it at small rest areas that don't have proper parking lanes, just a big shoulder to park on. I've also parallel parked while overnighting at some Walmart or Sam's Club parking lots. You want to be unobtrusive there because parking at Walmart is a privilege so you parallel park in that little nook in the corner far away from the front of the store that no four wheelers like to park in. You don't really need to have it mastered your first couple months on the road though, you should be focused on not killing anybody

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>>16784761
>Gomplaining about 370 horsepower :DDDD

Fetch the vapours, I feel I may faint!

>>16784223
>plans
Shit, I don't even know yet 100%. I have to see what goes down at work Wednesday and how tired I am. Her work schedule right now is retarded and she is there like 3pm-11pm.

But she gets off at 5pm Wed and not sure if I should go out by her but I kinda want to get her to come out my way. There is this real popular Baja restaurant that is supposed to be good and after that maybe go down by the pier and beach since it is real close. If she comes out by me, I'm def gonna bring the Scoot and make her get on the back of that so I can scare the shit out of her rippin around by the beach.

>>16784223
>>16785236
Oh and she was talking about tryin to get off work Saturday so we can go down to Wynwood in Miami for this "Art Walk" yuppie bullshit. I know that's gonna cost me an arm and a leg if it happens so I should just fuck everything up Wednesday and save money.

But damn that ass is pretty nice. Spent a lot of time lookin at it Friday when I was chillin over by her work.

>>16784221
Long island isnt a problem, as long as you're not going in the actual city

>>16785361
He's fucked for parking though. I think there's like two whole spots in the entire state.

>>16785379
Theres actually a couple rest areas. Get there early enough and youre fine

>>16785102
>>16785145
the thing that fucks my brain is that in order to point the trailer the direction I wanted it to go, I had to completely occupy the space of what would have been several other cars if I were parallel parking in a real-world scenario. so it seems a little counter-productive to me.

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>>16785236
Sounds like a good start.

The hour and a half walking tour is 60 bucks for two adults. Sounds fun to go see some sweet street art, cost aside though. The closest thing we get to that up here is tagging on train cars.

Maybe figure out a close by backup or two in case either the baja restaurant or beach excursion don't work out.

>MFW the wife and I haven't had a fully childless date in brobably two years

>>16784070
Aw, the straight truck driver thinks anyone cares about his opinion.

>>16785627
Lel we'll see if we make it to Wynwood. It will probably be over after Wednesday. I don't care if it isn't ArtWalk. There are lots of nice restaurants down there anyway but my lil bro says it's best to do it earlier before it's all nigs and college kids.

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>>16785636
I'll just have to console myself with all that money and being home every night, I guess.

Feel free to chalk this up as another "victory" for your "retards demolished in online arguments memobook" if you'd like.

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Make sure you lock your doors boys, even when you're stepping out for 5 minutes to pump gas. Some nigger sneaked into my rig and was hiding in the bunk for at least 50 miles. Scared the piss out of me driving 70 mph down the road and noticing a nigger under my blanket.

Dude turned out to be a nice nigger and I dropped him off at the next truck stop, but god damn I could have died. He said he was homeless and was just looking for some new scenery and wanted to try someplace new. Talked a bit about trucking and how to get into it. I beta'd out and gave him $100 telling him to get a DOT physical then go to some mega. He probably OD'd on meth though.

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>>16785665
>Predicting total failure before it's even happened

Wew lad. You'll never get the chance to eat some Latina pussy and ass with that mindset.

Not thread related but I browse this thread a lot. Can any of you give me some advice on this?
>>16785746

>>16785695
Lel exactly. I'm amazed she's willing to go out to dinner with me at all.

>>16785794
Get a real truck. Dodge Ram with a Cummins or don't even bother.

>>16785822
I'd like a truck that will last me more than 3 years anon.

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>>16785822
lol. here's your average 2-year-old Cummins

>>16785802
She knows white boys pay up on those first dates

>>16785672
>Leaving your truck unlocked in the lower 48
>Ever

You deserve it m8. That's how you get herpes in your truck.

>>16785672
>gave nigger that broke into ur truck $100

u have been rused.

>>16785202
HP isnt the number he should be concerned about, its all about dem torx.

>>16785236
Dont forget to brake harder than normal so dem tittays get pushed up on you.

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>>16786333
Checked. And ofc that was the whole plan.

>>16785980
I don't even know if she has been in a relationship since moving to the US.

>pic to keep it on trucker topic

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>>16787430
>implying titties aren't a trucker topic

>>16787627
Idk going on an actual date with a real girl isn't exactly a trucker topic.

If she comes home with me and then tells me I owe her $250 at the end of the night, that would be a trucker topic.

>>16779341
>But the black people in trucking are the complete opposite.
White?

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As I seen yesterday Richie the living meme is out of jail but I believe they kept his reefer for evidence.

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>>16787717

>>16787717
Who dat?

>>16787930
I don't know much about him but over the radio they called him "21 Savage"

>>16787949
https://youtu.be/gu62FmBtfNE

This guy?

>>16787930

Richie Acosta, he had an Instagram with something like 65k followers. He deleted it after he got arrested for running meth after he was caught zippy tying his tweaked out girlfriend to a chair in the back of his trailer. Cops searched the truck and found the shit. He was out of Jersey.

>>16787430
>Looking into a Bepis job in Atl doing basically the same in this pic.....
>Sounds like a stupid question but do they keep you within DOT legal limits?
>For example run 14 and off 10 and be home to get enough rest?
>Thanks in advance Bepis.... keep bepsing ;)

>Wake up
>Nine job offers in voicemail

Best one so far is from Melton doing flatbed. Pays .48cpm, fleet of mainly T680s, but they have nanny cams and 64mph governor. I'm really thinking of going with cold until I can get exactly two years so I can run with Sky.

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>>16788388
Yeah, if you somehow get stuck out there until 8:30pm, you can't clock in until 6:30am the next morning.

But that is fucked anyway. When I first started I had some weeks where DOT shit actually applied. We have to fill out logs if we work more than 12hrs and I haven't even needed to fill out a log in close to 2 years. Also since it is a 5-day work week, you can't go over 60hrs. There was one week when I first started when we were slammed over the summer and I worked 12+ hours every day so by Friday I only had like 8hrs left of the 60 and had to bring back stops around 1pm.

test

>>16788544
Fukken IP range ban finally lifted. Skyline offering me a spot as a trainer, get paid $350 per week any week that I have a trainee on board, minimum 4 weeks with a trainee, option to take alone time whenever a trainee is done, no team driving.

>>16788549
>$350 per week
instead of your cpm? bcuz the fng is driving, right?

>>16788568
I get paid the same mileage pay plus the $350 for having a trainee on board.

>>16788448
I haven't been to tfag threads in forever, what happened with your swift gig? The last update I read from you was you got a moving violation for taking a turn at 20mph, lel

>>16788568
Nope, most training operations give trainers a trainer base pay in addition to all cpm miles the truck moves. The trainee gets $70 a day or something

>>16788611
>$70/day for trainee
Jesus even a small outfit like Skyline paid me $100/day, not sure if that's changed but I'd wager my paycheck it surely hasn't gone down any.

>>16787627
I have those mudflaps on ATS. Modded in, of course, but no ameritruck would be complete without them. Had to take off the fuckhuge visor, though, because between that and the wind deflector on the front of the bonnet, I had a tiny little slice of visibility that didn't include anything closer than a quarter of a mile.
I was hitting so many cars with that on.
Much like my Eurotruck is festooned with chrome and lights and widgety things in the cab.

>>16788610
>I haven't been to tfag threads in forever, what happened with your swift gig?
He quit last month, because he'd gotten sick to death of their bullshit. Now he's looking for another truck to fill with weeb trash and cover in anime stickers.

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>>16788666
just use a different camera satan

>>16788675
He's come a long way. I remember the thread where everyone was arguing over whether he should be whineykun or whineyfag.

Does anyone have the pics of whiney saying Qualcomm won't put him on a route with a bridge too low? And the one where he got stuck in a ditch lel

>>16788688
But I want to drive from the inside! Third person camera is merely my parking drone.

>>16788689
>whether he should be whineykun or whineyfag.
I was in favour of Whiney-chan.

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>>16788549
>option to take alone time

TOP KEK let us know how that works out for you.

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>>16788699
you are aware that you can move the "seat" forward and up right?

>>16788699
>Third person camera is merely my parking drone
Unacceptable. In cab camera 24/7, learn to use your mirrors. And set parking difficulty gameplay setting to skilled parking.

>>16788767
not him but, i would do this if the trailer pivoted like a real trailer, but it dont. so i use drone cam for backing as well.

I'm starting a 4 week CDL school Monday April 3rd. I want to go directly into flatbed. What companies should I be applying for that will hire new drivers?

I already have my TWIC from previous employment.

>>16788699
>4 wheelers are afraid to go backwards even in a virtual simulation where they can't hurt anyone

>>16788742
Yes. It didn't help.

>>16788767
I can't fucking see around corners, and ameritrucks just don't fucking turn.
I have enough problems just getting the fucking long-frame tractor around the fucking corners.

I'm currently farming instead and cursing rear-steer.

>>16788942
TMC, Roehl, Melton and Maverick all hire from school and are pretty good. Boyd Bros. and Western Express also hire straight from school and are a little worse and fucking horrible, respectively.

TMC- good if you like shiny trucks
Roehl- good if you are reserved about flatbed and want the option to pull a different trailer
Melton- good if you want to stay out for 3 weeks or more (14 day minimum)
Maverick- good if you want to drive an automatic

Besides that they're all pretty much the same

>>16789004
Also stay away from Prime. Total garbage/cult tier

>>16789004
Thanks.

I've heard TMC is like boot camp and treat their drivers like slave workers. I don't want to go there.

I personally want to stay out on the road. I won't be one of those cucks that want home time every weekend.

Are there any flatbed drivers here that can estimate how many miles I would be driving a week? I assume it won't be as much as the van drivers that just drop off a trailer and pick another up. You got to wait for live load/unload then secure and tarp yourself.

Do you know which company would be more flexible with drivers who want to spend their days off on the road? Like the way I was told from my Dad who used to drive regional reefer for frozen foods, you got X days off every X days you spent on the road. For him, every 6 days he was on the road, he received 2 days of home time. Then he was free to request home time whenever he wanted. He could go out for 6 days, and spend 2 days home, or be out for 24 days and spend a week at home. It was up to him basically. Do companies still use this method of home time?

>>16788942
McElroy also is an option. I know Prime and Werner have flatbed divisions depending on where you live, too.

>>16788549
They had that IP range ban going again around here for like a month so I had to renew my pass. Fucking Mook. Then it got lifted a week or two ago, but today my personal cell IP got b& from somebody spamming so I had to funpost from my work phone. I probably could've just turned the phone on and off and been fine but still that shit is annoying because it was a 48hr ban and I couldn't appeal it and tell them to fuck off because cell IP or use the pass to get around it.

>>16789041
Shit I haven't heard of that in years. I remember my first trucking job in 99. Hardly any benefits and no paid vacation. But what I liked about it was the flexible home time. We got 1 day for every 5 out. I would work a month then take a week off at the beach. Not anymore sadly. Good luck finding a carrier these days that accumulate home time days like that. Also good luck finding a carrier that will get you the home time they advertise in their job postings. If they tell you you'll get any more than a weekend home a month, they are lying to you. You may get a day to visit when it's passing through your route or something. Also, your weekend off isn't a traditional weekend off like you get from a normal job. Your weekend off will be nothing more than your 34 reset, not an entire weekend. And the time starts ticking once you drop the cab off at the terminal. Live 4 hours from the terminal? You basically have 30 hours off.

Trucking isn't for beta people who are afraid their wife will cheat on them and need to be home every weekend. It's not for people who complain and whine a lot either.

would it be a benefit to have electric drive motors in the trailer wheels for oversized loads?

Just for low speeds to help get things going and not strain the tractor drive?

>>16789041
I know for a fact Roehl uses that method b/c I used to work there, but I can't say for the others except that I'd probably guess it's the same.

I also know Melton is "hard" on their recruits, but they just do that to weed out jackasses. I know that because my buddy tried to go to work for them and he got weeded out because he's a jackass.

As far as miles go, it varies. Your first few months you should be happy to get 1500, but you should really get to averaging 2000 to be able to make fair money.
Where I'm at now I feel like I had a bad week if I get 2200, but we're on paper logs and unlimited trucks, so I shoot for 3000

>>16789117
Just more overhead and profit for mechanic shops.

>>16789117
The gears are so low anyway. It will get the heavy load moving just fine, it will just take longer to get up to speed and hills will be a bitch.

And then you start adding electric motors and batteries, even more fuckin weight to haul.

>>16789133
How many loads do you do a week? I know tarp pay is a big consideration. I know some carriers make drivers tarp every load. That's $80 for tarp and untarping a load at Melton. 2-3 loads a week and that's a considerable amount to make up for the lack of miles.

>>16789143
If you want to get into "more money less miles" work right out of school, hit up the closest Dollar General DC and see who carries their trailers. $200 per trailer plus $250 bonus for 3 trailers a week, on top of 41 or 43 cpm. Right out of school, you can clear $1300/wk easy.

>>16789166
But there doesn't seem to be any travel in that.

I'm just looking for around $1K/week before taxes minimum. I want to get into O/O flatbed in 4-5 years so figured I should start right out the gate. Being a van driver would bore the fuck out of me driving 10+ hours a day not even being able to get out of the cab to unload trailers myself to get some fresh air and exercise.

>>16788549
>blind leading the blind

>>16789298
My dad used to have a blind friend when he was younger and they had a tandem bicycle and the blind dude would steer.

Just sayin...

>>16789592
And then he made you.

Just sayin...

>>16789143
Now I do 4 or 5 loads a week over 5 days

With Roehl I did maybe 3 or 4 over 7

>>16789719
What's the CPM and tarp pay for Roehl. They don't say on their website.

>>16789786
46.5c/mi is what they offered me, but tarp pay is garbage. $13/small tarps, $23 for the large ones. That's not per tarp, that's just what you get if you threw tarps. Also dispatch is pants-on-head retarded non-truckers that also plan your route and fuel stops for you. I had to dispute them on more than one occasion and take routes I knew for a fact where better. Do not go with Roehl.

>>16789917
Yeah that's something I don't want to get trapped into. I don't want to be micromanaged. That's why I don't want to even bother applying to TMC. I've read from drivers saying they even tell them when and were to take breaks and park for the night.

I live close to Abilene and know a lot of truckers there. They even let you plan your own route, but they aren't going to pay you an extra 50 miles because you took a 50 mile longer route, so you're really biting yourself in the foot if you try that. But they don't have dispatchers trying to control you. A friend I went to high school with works there for almost 2 years now. He says he drops off a load and dispatcher asks when he can be ready to pick up another. He looks at his time available and says tomorrow morning. They find him a load for tomorrow morning. They don't force him to take loads. They don't force him to take specific routes, specific fuel stops, when he can park for the night, etc. He's in total control of his mileage and paycheck. The only complaint he has is they have shitty trucks with no APU, inverters, etc.

But I don't want to drive van. Is there a flatbed carrier that sounds as good as Abilene?

>>16789029
i would ask her to sign my donger and take a selfy

Do you work for yourself or for a company.

I always order shipment and sell them for a higher price. People in china pay twice the price from the real price.

>>16790119
Yes.

>>16789917
>he's still salty that he couldn't shake it as a flatbedder

>>16785672
If that's a real story that is terrifying.

>>16788549
Me too. Ive been banned forever. Actually I'm just at McDonalds rn.

>>16787717
Nothing screams "USA" like a double serving of outdated technology.

>3 jobs first thing this morning
>have kid as helper
>I'm milking every job, chillin, shit posting
>trys to make me hurry up
>says we have to work for our money
>tell him you're still young one day you'll learn
>mfw I'm 22 he's 19
>proceed to milk it
>13 hour shift

I can't hold all these job offers though, what a time to have a class a lads

>>16788077
Lmao what a fucking retard meth heads are wild extremely unpredictable

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>>16787717
I wonder how it drove

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>>16789917
>the tarps were too heavy, he said

>>1678845
>thanks bepis I appreciate the reply. Gonna try to get a feel on Saturday at interview.

>>16789180
"Travel" is such a scam. It's a gimmick. It's exciting for like a week, but every state is ultimately exactly the same; the big cities suck ass and the bits in between are all boring, some are hillier than others.
Also, flatbedding and door swinging are going to be nearly identical in terms of driving, tarping and strapping are only going to take up a couple of hours of your time a week, the other 65 are going to be still driving almost as many miles.
Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar are all 100% driver unload. Dollar General is easier because you don't really have to back as hard and you just push around big shopping cart looking rolltainers. Family-Dollar-Tree trailers have 4000pcs/40000lbs of floor stacked boxes that you unload individually by hand on rollers. Both accounts run 3 trailers a week / 7 trailers in 2 weeks on average, and fresh out of school, you will not find a job that is nearly as physical or pays nearly as much. I don't know who told you tarping is exercise but they're full of it. It's just a pain in the ass compared to swinging a door.

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>>16788610
That fast turn fiasco was last summer, I think. But yeah, I quit like the other anon said because my cozy dedicated got the axe and I ended up doing regular OTR which was fucking trash.

>>16788689
It doesn't even feel like it's been that long, but here's me in a ditch.

im a company driver right now but looking for advice on becoming a owner operator?

I got a buddy who financed a W900 at the 80,000 dollar price point and the motor let go 6 weeks later. now he's in about 160k of debt. This has steered me away from financing a used truck and a new truck is out of the question. I'm thinking about getting a older truck for around 10-15k and just getting the feel for being a o/o. If the truck fucks up in any major way I won't be too tied up in it money wise and could always fix it with readily available parts. any help or advice would be great.

Thanks

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>$7.20/mi
>40 coils
Fugg. That took an hour longer than I thought it would.

>>16789117
No. If there is power on a trailer is going to be another diesel motor. Best power:weight ratio in the road.

>>16790119
I own the company, and the company owns the truck.

https://www.littleapplepost.com/2017/03/07/khp-driver-dies-from-smoke-in-kansas-wildfire/

F

>>16791343
>everyone was properly restrained
just goes to show that dumb cuck should have kept his seatbelt on!! BTFO!!

>>16785084

Top fucking KEK .22cpm outlaw companies pay more than that

>>16784761

Periodically. It's a very useful tool in the trucker toolbox. I can't tell you how many times at 2am I'm pulling into a rest area in the Northeast almost out of hours and some guy in a long-nose W900/Pete is doing the Jersey Shuffle trying to get into one of those spots and he gives up, while I just slide on in like it's nothing. It's definitely something you want to learn.

>>16785361

>Long Island

RIP you. I've picked up in the city before, watched my trainer blindside into a blind dock, literally he could not see it. Got in on the first try. This dock is made for single-axle daycabs with a 26' pup trailer we got in with a 53' reefer and Cascadia Evo. Holy shit. Fuck that god damn place.

>>16785672

>Gave a nig 100 bucks

Don't lie you got robbed

>>16787717

Glorious.

>>16788448

>Nanny cams

Fuck that. Prime tried it in 75 trucks and found it was a bigger liability than it was worth. That is an automatic disqualifier. Nanny cams and electronic nanny shit is fine if you're a newfag but after like a year of experience that shit has to go. The only reason I've put up with the Prime speed nanny and OnGuard bullshit is I have a rare truck where it actually works without going off falsely under a bridge and the OnGuard is nifty in the fog or if you wanna know how fast the guy in front of you is going.

>>16788942

TMC isn't bad but they are Nazis about keeping your shit clean, they will make you wash your truck weekly. I've seen TMC guys getting their trucks washed during torrential downpours kek

>>16790959

>every state exactly the same

Sounds like you're on a shitty route in the Northeast or something. I've gone from mountains and climbing at like 29mph to flats in one day. It's fucking gorgeous. West Virginia and Tennessee have my heart forever. Fuck fuel, that shit is awesome. Go see the country, life is too short to stay in one little town until you die man fuck that.

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>>16791272
What is the average per mile rate for flatbed loads?

That sounds breddy high, to me at least.

>>16791265

>financing anything more than 5 years old without a warranty of some kind

What the actual fuck.

Do the proper thing, be a company cuck or a lease cuck, save your money and buy the shit in cash.

>>16791360
I've been from Los Angeles to Atlanta, Philadelphia to Seattle, Houston to Green Bay, and nearly everything in between, and I'd trade it for a regional position in a heartbeat if I could find one that paid as much. I'd rather run the same 300mi road back and forth every day across Oklahoma or Kansas if it meant never having to deal with lower 48 headaches again. A sight is only exciting the first time you see it. I remember being blown away driving north up Utah I15 into Montana one winter. now I just get annoyed because I know I'll only be able to average 50mph instead of 60mph twatting around in the fucking cunting mountains. Plus 95% of the country outside of that is like the same three environments just copy/pasted.

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>>16791360
Is this you brah?

Snapped this the other day at bay 47.

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Doesn't really compare to my truck -- THE GREEN GOBLIN™

>>16791360
>>16791382
>>16791580
>>16791639
Maybe it's because I couldn't get around a 58mph primefuck in my 62mph cuckmobile today or these posts, but I'm really beginning to hate prime

>>16791795
I have a suggestion. It's because you're not The Best. And it's flooding your soul with irrational pain.

How comfy is the sleeping cabin in a truck?

t. curious guy who sees tons of trucks every day

>>16791084
>BEST

>>16792032
It gets the job done, but doesn't compare to even a cheap hotel. Still cheaper than said hotel though; also cleaner depending on the driver.

>>16792591
>implying sleeperlife isnt #comfylife

Can't beat a .5 second commute to and from work

>tfw only drove 200km today and still got paid $440

Cumpknee lyfe

>>16793357
What do?

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>tfw tryin to check the oil on a hot engine
I don't even know if this is a CAT, DD, or Cummins because it's fucking black from oil and grime

>>16791363
Every market analysis I've seen in the last 3 years says $1.90- $2.20/mi. I do $3.50/mi on all miles in a bad week.

>>16793663
>fill tube under the turbo
What could possibly go wrong?

>>16781126

I love my Freightshaker.

>>16782256

And this is why your job will always be shit.

>>16792032

If you're not a manleg, you'll find that you don't have a whole lotta room for stretching out. Its fairly cramped and the basic beds thaylt they normally place in those trucks are shit. Buy another bed as it will help a lot.

My Shaker has too many miles and they're assigning me a new one today, but I'm worried they might try to put me in an automatic. If they do, I'm thinking about going full autism and just keep repeating "I don't feel comfortable driving this truck" over and over again, refusing to sign anything, my reasoning being that I don't feel safe driving a truck that I'm not in control of the transmission.
Do you think it'll work?

>>16793910
Ha, no.

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>>16793910
Wew, not only did I get another ten speed, but I got an upgrade, too

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>>16791084
> Not demolishing utility poles
It's like you don't even try to fuck up.

>>16793910
Lol

Do you really have to shut the truck off when you get fuel?

Anyone know anything about celadon?

>>16794350
Nope.

>>16794558
They're slated as the next company to go under due to legendary financial instability.

>>16794350
No. Lots of guys leave their trucks running while fueling up in the winter in northern Canada.

>>16793719
What kind of mileage do you average per week then?

>>16794649
1500-2000. Rarely have a run over 400 miles.

Anyone know anything about the following companies? As far as if they're terrible to work for?

>Kold
>Reed National
>Fortune Transport
>Southern Refrigerated Transport
>Schaffer/Crete
>Hill Brothers Transport
>Sunset Logistics
>Burleson Carrier Company

I already saw someone posted about Melton who also offered me a position so I'm considering them too.

>>16794806
All worse than Swift

>>16794821
No u

>>16794806
>SRT
Do you want to work for Covenant?

>>16793561
Fuel

>>16791580

Nope but we have like 20 of those on our fleet. Pro-tip: that's an auto. 67 and 68 numbers are all auto. Mine is a 66 10-speed stick master race

>>16794558

Celadon't.

>>16795095
I haven't heard anything of Covenant. I'm guessing it's absolute trash?

>>16795325

On GP of all the religious propaganda on the back of their trailers that's a hell naw.

>>16795325
It's a typical major carrier. Might as well be Swift or Crete.

>>16795333
That's only Covenant, though, not the SRT as far as I know. By the way, I'm also a fan of the unapologetic religious trailers. My favorite by far is
HIS NAME IS NOT THE MAN UPSTAIRS HIS NAME IS JESUS
SPOOK WHITENER
I forget the name of the company though

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>>16794719
Sounds like I'm in the wrong line of work. Do you just take time off as needed, or do you keep yourself on somewhat of a set schedule?

All the owner ops at the place I was a company driver for when I was hauling frac sand would stay out as long as it took for a big frac job to finish up, and would stay on if there was another job right after, which could be upwards of a month or more without any home time.

>>16794806
Bruh, you still haven't accepted a position yet? I assume you are performing buffalo duties to get by at this point.

Did that outfit Bandit suggested not get back to you?

>>16793997
Good. Kenworth is most worth.

>>16796256
Usually just work Monday-Thursday. If I get bored I'll work over the weekend.

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>>16795333
>>16795436
OH those trucks. I've seen them around but usually just scoffed at the slogans.

>>16796256
Nah Andrus hasn't called yet. Literally everyone else has. I might just bite the bullet and go with Kold for now.

>>16796256
Shit I must be sick I'm seeing spots.

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>>16796481
Probably digital leprosy from Balam's codriver/part time lover.

>>16796466
I've heard Swift is best in class, maybe you should give them a try.

>TFW no qt3.14 Freightliner cabover to drive

>>16796256
What is it about these Paccar trucks that makes them such a pain in the ass to back up? Do the freightliner wheels just turn tighter?

>>16796597
roses are red
violets are blue
it takes a minute for me to crop out the ifunny logo
so you should too.

>>16794806
>Crete
I've heard nothing but good thing as far as a mega. Lots of drivers been there for awhile. Starting pay seems higher than average. Most trucks seem to be internationals though.

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>>16796980
Roses are red,
Oak trees are wood,
Directions unclear,
Did I do good?

I failed my road test today and I'm pretty pissed off. Fucked up the offset and parking royally. I knew going in I wasn't ready but I tried to stay positive anyway. Now I'm not sure whether to go back to the same school or go somewhere else. I'm not happy with how they prepared me and the fact that every guy has a different way of doing shit. Plus how we practiced isn't how the dmv had the test set up on the offset so it threw me off. I don't know what to do

What do you guys do for funposting on the road? """"unlimited""""""""""" phone plans?

>>16797063
Oh not to mention I only got two hours if sleep and waited five hour to start the fucking test. So it's been a shitty day

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>>16797029
thats not even the same logo bruh

>>16797082
>Already fucking up your sleep discipline for HOS compliance

This is why you failed.

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>>16796947
Yeah, it's something to do with the steering setup. I don't think I have ever driven a Peterbilt or Kenworth that turns really tight.

>>16797078
9.21 gigawatts of shared data between me and my wife, of which I use probably 90%.

>>16797140
That poem doesn't even rhyme part of the time.

>MFW my step son is being cyber-bullied over the way he looks.

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>>16797291
>my step son is being cyber-bullied
time for irl fites then

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Damn I forgot how much women like to talk....

Is it nice and quiet in the cucksheds?

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>>16797350
Bruh. Please tell me you weren't shitposting while on a first date.

>>16797728
What age were you when you had your first crotch dropping?

>>16790723
Is there a reason for that much space, or does that truck never make turns?

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>>16797728
Not too much.

>>16780688

>banning alcohol sells on sundays is a liberal thing and not a christcuck thing

>>16797350
bruh I already fapped two times to some amazing porn, drank two beers and listened to Beethoven's underrated 8th symphony in less than an hour. just shitposting before my 9 hour sleep. good luck and I hope you get your dick wet

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>tfw sleeping in the driver's seat for fear of the herpes threat in the sleeper

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>>16797868
>tfw sleeping in the driver's seat for fear of the herpes threat in the sleeper
sounds like a good plan

>>16777761
Do you guys ever troll Truckingtruth.com? Jesus fuck what a hugfest trucking company shill site that is. Probably lots of laffs to be had there.

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>>16797796
I started being a dad to my oldest daughter (step, technically) at 28, then had my first full blood child at 30.

>>16797797
Pure looks. Its an extended frame cab-chassis for mounting equipment, but done up to be a regular tractor.

>>16797811
Zoz. How did it go?

>>16797851
>Beat off
>Relaxing in comfy sleeper
>Drinking
>Classical music
Wew lad. That's the definition of being self actualized right there.

>>16796466
>he has to make a last second decision to work at a different garbage company because he didn't plan for his own resignation

Gee golly I did not see this coming

>>16797968
Why not just tow the small trucks with the big truck?

>>16797272
I has to wake up at 6am and couldn't sleep at all. Trust me it wasn't by choice

>>16796947
Yeah, every PACCAR I've driven has felt like it's missing a turn of steering compared to Freightliner, Volvo, etc. No idea why.

I was linked to this thread from /ADV/. Google is pretty sporadic on answers for this question. I currently pull $13 hourly as a rentacop. I'm prior service and can get my CDL stuff covered. What were your guys rough salaries first year OTR? I'm divorced and have fuck all going on socially.

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>oil pressure shits the bed driving back to the show-up
>limp the truck back, fleet mechanic works on it and rigs up a new fitment because the old one was cracked and leaking oil and causing the trucks computer to think it had no oil
>next day, driving truck around, doing jobs, truck works fine
>button up and head back towards the yard for the day and the engine light comes on, turns red, starts beeping, and the oil pressure plummets yet again


I hate this pile of shit

>>16798580
get your CDL A and then apply for an electrical lineman apprenticeship. Way better money, way more interesting, way more physically active

Unless you really like the idea of OTR- then go for that

>>16798580
Currently in first year, averaging 900-1000/wk before taxes. Not much but I think it's above average for rookies. I see some people use numbers like $28k/yr but I don't even see how that's possible

>>16798601
Thanks, I actually have some experience in construction from battalion so that's actually pretty appealing. The OTR is tempting because of my leave road trips from so cal to GA. I'm definitely going to look into that too.

>>16798605
That's what I kept seeing, 28k 55k and close to 100k. I'm not holding my breath on getting as much as you, it seems too good to be true.

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>>16798175
>he has a step child

>>16798175
>oldest daughter (step, technically)
Hows the cuck life treating you?

>>16777761
What is a reason you people will flash your blindspot spotlight at passing vehicles?
Going to close? Just checking them out?

>>16796988
I'm used to the Internationals, I'll look into them then.

>>16798204
>Last second decision

Yeah, I'm panicking that only 11 companies want to hire me.

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I have a CDL B and I'm a dump truck driver.

How do I go about upgrading to CDL A? Can I just find somebody with a semi to let me practice backing and stuff, then go take the road test at DMV?

I currently drive a tandem axle dumper and pull a trailer 1-2 days a week. Just started like a month ago. Make $19/hour but it's boring as fuck driving the same route every day (or at least until the project ends).

>PACCAR maintains a conservative workplace culture. Formal business attire is required for employees and visitors at the PACCAR headquarters. Men are required to wear business suits, as are guests to the facility. The company also requires men to shave their faces. Prior to a plant visit by Mark Piggott, the Chairman of the Board, employees will be sent home to shave so there are no beards in his presence. If an employee is caught with facial hair by the Chairman, the employee's manager will be contacted so the shaving rules are made clear. The requirement to shave is not documented in company policies, but is verbally communicated by Human Resources and upper management.

wew lads

>>16799473
Sounds like HR runs that shit hive.

>>16799451
To be more elaborate.

I'm 24 and have been working in construction since I was 19. Got tired of making $12/hour working like a dog doing road work so I told my boss I was going to quit to go to CDL school. He said hold on a minute, and told me to go get my DOT physical and get my learners permit for a CDL B. He gave me a day off to do that once I studied for the test. He then put me with one of the dump truck guys for about a month. Then he let me use a dump truck to take my road test and I got my CDL B and he promoted me to the dump truck side. Got a $8 raise but I'm still pretty miserable working here.

What should I do to get my CDL A and get OTR? I love driving, but I just can't stand being stuck in the same town my entire life going home every day to my shitty little apartment.

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#hourlylyfe

>>16799473
Sounds like USA PACCAR division is for cucks.

>>16799553
>road work
Can you move into liquid asphalt haulage with them?

>>16799513
>>16799720
>company expects its employees to dress and groom themselves like a self-respecting human being should do anyways
>busriders on an anime forum that could've never gotten a job there if they tried berate it

>>16799755
Straya PACCAR sure isnt like that. But real men don't get told like mummys little boy on how to dress and groom themselves.

>>16799773
>But real men don't get told like mummys little boy on how to dress and groom themselves.
I agree. It's sad that it's something they ought to be doing on their own already. I'd bet they have to send that memo out because of the nonwhites that dress like shit and have beards because "muh pedophile towelhead religion"

>>16799553
Im not a truckerfag but if your boss was willing to work with you like that I would hang around. Most bosses/companies would tell you to fuckoff if you hint about leaving

>>16798605
It's possible. These people are variously lazy and or morons.

is there a wiki with info for people who are interested in truck driving?

>>16799807
I didn't think about that. It's always the dirty niggers and moslems ruining it for the white man.

>>16799899
We used to have a spreadsheet, but it got lost to the sands of time.

You might as well just summon one of the primefags and get his name to put on your CDL school application so that he gets a good boy point and you get fucked in the ass.

>>16799931
i dont understand these memes, is it really hard to be a trucker? i thought they were really in demand since younger people wont do it

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>>16798904
>>16798941
>Both of us currently live with our respective parents, and have yet to experience sexual congress, yet are critical of the familial structure of others

>>16799473
It's funny that this is brought up for being so outrageous nowadays, yet was the norm at legitimate businesses not even 15 years ago.

>>16799943
ok you're new here so I'll explain to you what to do, step-by-step

1. Come on the trucker thread on a malaysian sock puppet newsletter (you already done this)

2. Ask the truckers there the following question exactly: "I want trucker how do?"

3. They will tell you to get your CDL through a community college with a good reputation and lifetime job counseling and to avoid the companies with their own CDL schools due to their dubious quality and deplorable working conditions

4. (This is the important part) You will ignore them, and get your CDL through either Swift (best in class) or Prime (>driven by the best

5. You will then be stuck in a 2 year contract, at which point your only options are to:
A: convince god, yourself and everyone that it isn't so bad and pretend you're having a good time
B: crash into something

>>16800057
I don't see any cc's here in socal with cdl programs, just all kinds of schools with meme names like American, Advance, and Premier. Anything in particular to look for?

>>16800057
ok then where do i find a list of reputable cc's with cdl whatevers

>>16800135
http://classroom.synonym.com/california-community-colleges-offer-cdl-training-12194027.html

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Bazinga!

>>16800488
>Truckerfag checking in at the security desk

>>16800057
This should be in future OP copypasta

Okay so dispatch bombarded my Qualcomm with messages because I wasn't answering so they resorted to calling my cell phone.
Like a dumbass I answered while driving and SURPRISE SURPRISE a city bike cop was behind me.

Someone please give me good news today. Cop said just to pay the fine, no point on license. Will it really? If it comes back to fuck me in the ass I'd like to have some lube ready.

>>16800488
>on time delibery

>>16800786
the only way it wont show up is if he never gave you the ticket. the company now, not only knowing that if they REALLY REALLY want to get a hold of you can call you at anytime can fire you for the same reason now too.

>>16800786
Uhh, don't know for sure but I think that carries some pretty hefty license and CSA points. You probably want to challenge that and at least get it changed to something else.

>>16800534
Top kek

>>16800786
It's amazing how often dispatch calls me. I'm like, we're elogs, you KNOW I'm driving.

>>16800073
I got mine through Premier, but it was associated with the local CC, so I also got 16 credits.

>>16800534
Where does security sell cigarettes?

>>16800168
Seems like the ones in the south only offer mechanic training.

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>tfw one stop left
>truck just cranks and won't start

Was real slow to start this morning but got going after a couple seconds at each stop today and of course right at the end it doesn't start.

Last stop is coffee grill's place a couple blocks away, too bad it didn't break down there because I wouldn't give a fuck if I had to wait 2hrs for a tow over there.

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Hey truckerfags.
How much could I make if I bought a small trailer for like sub $500 and recycled wood pallots?
How much do you get for per pallot you recycle?
I just want to start working for myself.
Like if I recycled 50 pallots a day, how much could I make without the cost of upkeep?
How long would I have to work each day?

>>16801290
So after 5.5 hours driving I need 5 hours rest?

>>16801305
Some drivers might wish it were so.

>>16801297
2 bux each. Work like a Mexican, earn like a Mexican.

>>16801611
fine by me.

>>16801657
>>16801297
You also might get arrested for stealing the pallets.

>>16784221
Heyyyyy Long island hourly cuck checking in here, long island is no problem highway 27 has 12 foot bridges but i go under them with 13 6trailers all day long, if your taking 495 than watch out for dot at exit 48, if your in the middle lane and going 70 they wont pull you in

>>16787717
Newark is cancer

>>16801665
You don't steal them, you ask if you can take them. Most businesses view them as trash.

>>16801305
Or you could drive for 33 hours and then rest for 30

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>>16802413
Yee like the firefighters

>tfw clocked out in 11:59 and narrowly avoided doing a log and getting bitched at for not taking a lunch no less than 8hrs into the shift