Truckerfag Thread - /TFG/

First for Prime: DRIVEN BY THE BEST™

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>>17031575
Second for robots suck

>>17031585
Why are you quoting me. Why are you wearing girl jeans. Why is your picture upside down.

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>tfw you will never drive a huge ameritruck pulling chassis doubles for containers or swap bodies with 60 tonnes permissible weight in Scandinavia

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>>17031596
Pic isn't upside down, I took a weeknd trip to Argentina.

And fuck you, I like these jeans.

>>17031609
When did you become a white guy

>>17031609
Comfy jeans are the best Desu, almost too warm to wear them any.ore though

https://youtu.be/CGP8t3prH-o

>>17031609
>TFW I have basically the exact same pair of outdoor ready slippers

Bruh, you gotta shrink them cuffs in your jeans. 2" at max.

daily reminder tesla is going to make our roads great again, truckerwagecucks BTFO

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>>17031647
>Is just upset that he didn't get referenced in the OP greentext

>>17031603
Why would you want to do that when there are superior Euro trucks available?

>>17031626
Some time last week.

>>17031633
Yeah mang, I need to get moar pairs that fit like this and actually look good. Hard to find comfy jeans that aren't all baggy and look like crap.

I wear shorts at work all week but hate wearing shorts outside of work, even with FL heat. And basketball shorts make people look like bums in public.

>>17031640
Had em rolled because I was walking around with no shoes. Too lazy to roll em back down over the slippers for quick trip to Dunkin

>>17031647
I <3 lobbyists

>>17031652
>getting baited by an impersonator
>thinking the real prez/o/ would participate in the life failure general

>>17031674
Not enough sleeper space. You can fit a bathroom, a kitchen and a motorcycle garage in an ameritruck so that you don't have to share public bathrooms with Romanians anymore.

>>17031677
As peasant as it sounds at first, I buy all my jeans from Costco. 15 to 17 bucks, they're pretty decent quality, and have Costco's any time, any reason, receiptless return policy.

>>17031689
>Assuming assumptions

>>17031726
>being replaced by a calculator

>>17031703
I got some sleeper space 4u bby

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>>17031768
>tfw not qt enough to fake gay marry into the US and go team trucking as the femboi half of the team

>>17031779
>fake gay marry into the US
US doesn't recognise gay marriage, though. Good luck getting immigration to understand it.

The UK does, though. So does canada, IIRC. Although canada will just take truck drivers without issue anyway.

>>17031838
lets pray to god that trump will change that soon

>>17031838
I thought it's a state issue. How the hell can the feds decide whether or not they recognize things that aren't any of their business?

>>17031893
Keep voting democrat and nothing will be a state issue anymore

>>17031908
>implying they're not both the same shit

>>17031921
This is true. I don't think the "Big Federal Gov't vs Small State Gov't" has actually been a thing in a long time. It's no longer about political ideas when it comes to the left, but instead whether or not you think gay black trannies should be able to marry bisexual asian hermaphrodites or not.

>>17032009
I actually meant the Dems and Reps. They're both neoliberal corporate cucks, except that one wants to ban leftie speech and one wants to ban rightie speech.

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Would putting Styrofoam under a microwave or audio speakers help with bumps and vibrations? What if I ratchet strapped it to like a 1.5 inch block of Styrofoam?

Serious replies only. I will severely injure anyone who decides to clown around. Thx.

>>17032067
There's this rubbery stuff they make for this exact purpose. Forget exactly what it was called though

>>17032088
Word?

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>>17031753
When they build a flawless and inexpensive robot that will get a truck through two foot deep mud and snow on temporary logging and oilfield roads, mount and adjust the full sets of tire chains that are absolutely required for offroad use, correctly spot the truck on worksites that are not standardized in any way, shape, or form, attach the correct temporary piping on non standardized wellheads and pipeline tie-ins, correctly configure the flow path, prime and operate the pressure pumping equipment to fill lines and safely pressure test the piping, analyze the current state of the well to determine possible and correct pump rates and whether it is safe to ignite the burner or not based on said well status, safely ignite the burner and control the air/fuel ratio based on the type of fluid that is being heated, make correct, safe on the fly adjustments to the fluid temperature and burner controls based on fluid type, burner performance, weather conditions and downhole pressures or vacuum, know when to stop the burner to cool it down properly with the remaining amount of fluid, write out an accurate ticket and reverse the whole process to get the equipment back to town safe and in one piece, I'll be worried about my job becoming automated.

>>17032067
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001THXRP8/ref=mp_s_a_1_2/147-8784323-4819614?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1492379412&amp;sr=8-2&amp;pi=SL75_QL70&amp;keywords=anti+vibration+rubber

>>17032116
Quality post

>>17032139
Oh perfect. Have you tried this?

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Repostan'

How does time off work? Some forums and sites I've checked say before a year you'll probably get 1-2 days off every three weeks* , but it goes up slightly past a year since that's the magic number.
What do you guys even do with your money? I
know you essentially have to make trucking your life when you go OTR on a single or heavier, assuming you don't have a carrier that gets you home nightly.
If you're home less than half a week a month, you probably save it. Right? What do you do with it if you have nothing to really do with so little home time? Assuming you even own a home instead of doing the hotel game.
I'm heavily looking into truckan' since I'm not easily disturbed by much and long road hours, shitty pay the first year other fun commodities with trucking don't bother me since it's just the industry. Intending to go hazmat/tanker up in the northern border where it's nice and cold and icy and shitty. I want it to suck. Probably would like to unload my own freight.

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>>17032242
Every company has different hometime policies. Generally the more cpm they pay, the less home time.

>>17032202
Thanks, and no I haven't, just giving some suggestions, although in the Q&A, someone refers to using it under an air compressor, so it might be a bit too heavy duty for your purposes.

>>17032292
Triggered indeed

>>17032242
Depends entirely on the company/account.
I've done home every weekend, home every other weekend, and the standard 3 out-3 in. and some companies count a day as 24 hours, so if you get home Friday at noon, they expect you back Monday at noon. Others do calendar days, so if you got home Friday at noon, you'd be expected back Tuesday morning.

>>17032116
Nice buzzword festival, but you're just doing what educated people tell you to. Don't try to make your job sound like something it's not, the gullible kids of /o/ will think it requires an education or a moderate level of skill. It doesn't.

>>17032430
>>17032292
Thanks for the reply. Here's your unironic (you)
Do you shitpost on /o/ from a sleeper laptop or do you phonepost?

>>17032462
No, he's pretty right on that one, there are large amounts of things that robots will have difficulty doing until we achieve sentient AI with full human-like flexibility. And that's at least 400+ years off for the common folk.

>>17032335
Yeah. Looks like its rated for 800lbs per pad.

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>>17032462
>You're just following orders man, but I'm different! I'm a hep cat, daddio, I don't let the man tell me what to do!

You, of course are a different breed, a decision maker, a mover and shaker, that's why you're shitposting on an imageboard, fishing for (You)s.

>>17032462
Not my fault you lack self awareness to see you're projecting.

>>17032509
The vast majority of trucking jobs are point A to B, most of which will be done by self driving trucks in a decade. Maybe rolling around in the mud can't be performed by calculators yet, but the job market will be so saturated with truckers vying for the same positions that they might as well be.
>>17032542
Nice selfie.
I'm self employed.

>>17032563
How many dicks a day do you suck?

Good money?

I was thinking about becoming self employed too.

>>17032563
>buttmad 4chan poster thinks he knows enough about autonomous technology and the transport industry to make statements as bold as "most of which will be done by self driving trucks in a decade"
i wonder why airliners still have pilots...

>self employed
literally means "i do basic bitch cash in hand work and its horribly inconsistent", so mowing lawns, or removing malware off a family members computer, or sucking dick in a truck stop
lmao

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>>17032563
>Nice selfie
Zozzle.

>>17032563
>self employed
>intentionally vague
>I don't want to admit that I am a lease operator

So I'm 20, quickly heading towards 21, and nothing I've ever tried in life worked out, no matter how much effort I put in. Thinking about becoming a trucker (US) because nobody loves me anyway so I'll be alone regardless of whether I'm in a home or a truck cab.

Fucking love semi trucks, don't mind driving for hours and hours, only thing so far that has kept me from being 100% serious about this is I feel like truckers will be replaced with automated vehicles in under 20 years.

Advice? Comments?

>>17033104
i plan on being dead in twenty years so no real loss for me.

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>>17032067

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Got my two years, so been looking for a better paying jerb. Haven't found any amazing gigs yet, my top two choices so far are
Crete, they got the contract at my local Walmart DC and since I want to end up at Walmart maybe already working at a DC will get my foot in the door more. Unfortunately Crete doesn't seem to be hiring at that location at the moment but I've heard decent things about them and would mind going otr until I can get on there.
The other option is to go to Prime or Scheinder and switch to flatbed or tanker since that's mostly what's in Houston. Do 6 months or so and try to get something better then. Wagoneers is hiring dedicated flatbed between Houston and Edmonton, and that sounds pretty dope.
Or I could stay at my comfy but low paying reefer job.
Wat do?

>>17033146
U better stop m8

>>17033222
You first

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>>17032683
>i wonder why airliners still have pilots...
Simple answer, marketing. Most Non-passenger jets are self-piloted. A pilot is required for passenger planes. Idiot.
>self employed literally means "i do basic bitch cash in hand work and its horribly inconsistent"
Maybe to you. Bill Gates, Elon Musk and every other business mogul who built their empire from the ground up would disagree. But i'm sure you're right, as internet access and a keyboard qualifies you as the expert on all things business.
>>17032785
Nope. I was the first to post it. Alphonse steals all of my hilarious quips, I've lost count. He's obsessed with me, as are y/o/u.
>>17033046
kek
no, but I have worked in the oil patch.

>>17031603
>tfw you will never drive a Scania T730 Longline in America, annoying all the American'ts with your superior V8 engine and European efficiency

>>17033247
>I'm just like Bill Gates and Elon Musk guys! Honest! Hey, wait up!

>>17033254
>seriously thinking that any americans give a fuck about uncomfortable, awkward looking european junk

>>17033247
Nice sources for your claims you have there.

>>17031609
kek i thought you were black

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>>17033247
>Simple answer, marketing. Most Non-passenger jets are self-piloted. A pilot is required for passenger planes. Idiot.

I legitimately can't tell if you're trolling or legitimately this retarded.

Actually, no. I know for a fact that you're trolling, but I can't tell if you're actually retarded or not

9/11 tricked me into replying

>>17033202
>put in 2 years
>top choices are starter companies
The fuck are you smoking?

>>17033493
>>17033493
I'm open to suggestions. I'm really at a complete loss as to who the next level carriers are.
What's a non starter company that trains in flatbed or tanker?
Crete seems pretty legit, it's like a .14cpm raise if I pull reefer for them, plus the Walmart connection.

>>17033482
You have the legs and entertainment unit of a 60 year old woman.

>>17033202
After I go a quarter million, I'm applying for Ashley. Shit seems legit.

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>>17033474
It's not about the color of your skin.

>>17033482
Was going to say this. Trains still have conductors and those Amazon planes still have pilots behind the yoke.

>>17033653
>It's not about the color of your skin.
Thats exactly what a nigger would say, you fucking dirty nigger.

>>17033639
I suppose you would know, is 60yo pussy the only type you can catch?

>>17033247
>Most Non-passenger jets are self-piloted
like fighter jets? pretty sure they have pilots too

>Elon Musk
lmao, elon musk is "self employed", not the founder and ceo of a billion dollar company

>literally this mad because he mows lawns for spare change
Rolmao

>daily trucking thread
this board couldn't possibly get more reddit

>>17033700
been around longer than you

>>17033671
Shave your legs first, ma'am.

>>17033639
Aw, thank you!

The whole house is interwar, so I've been trying to keep some congruity throughout the interior decorating and overall style of the building. I'm really happy you like the way it turned out!

>>17033577
Take a drive around your home town and look for trucking companies and businesses with trucks around. If you see a few trucks and they're based close to you, give them a call. Small companies tend to treat their drivers better

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How is the sound system on trucks in general? About the same quality as cars? Worse? Better?

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okay guys. I'm the guy from a few threads ago that applied at Lowes and was immediately offered a position but at a hilariously low pay. I've convinced my fiancée that I'm going to have to do a year or two of OTR before anyone is ever going to take me on for a decent local position that isn't LTL. what are the highest paying companies that will take new drivers? I've got an awesome reference from my instructor and racked up the lowest amount of any of his students, ever, on the final CDL test. I'd really like to do flatbed and don't want to be on a team. other than that I'm not gonna be picky, I just want to put away some money so that my future wife and I can live an okay life. any suggestions? thanks in advance.

>>17033668
never mind that gross mess on the left but who's the blonde?

>>17034136
Where do you live, again?

>>17034155
Lone Tree, CO. Just south of Denver. There are a couple places looking for local drivers in North Denver but they're far enough away that I would spend 3 hours a day commuting in this overcrowded shitshow and at that point I'd rather just do OTR or at least regional, anyway.

>>17034167
I think System is your best bet for OTR flatbed in that area. For local/regional you'll have to do some digging, but System should keep you out west enough for you to be able to talk up drivers from those kinds of companies at shippers in the area.

>>17034275
>>17034167
edit: I just got off their website, and they're advertising CO regional. Might be something to look into.

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>>17034124
Some are on par with a decent stock car system, some are pretty low rent.

A couple of Peterbilt 389s I drove in the past had factory subwoofers built in.

>>17034147
A celebrity codriver, basically. She's a stunt driver and driver trainer, as well as having a bunch of other automotive related skills and training.

http://tiffanysusan.com/tiffany-susan-resume/

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I know it would infrastructure intensive. Yet why aren't we doing this in metro areas?

would cut diesel emission pollution and save money for trucking in the long run.

>>17034316
Reminds me of the old bus system in Vancouver.

>>17034289
well shit. I'd seen their trucks before but never remembered the name. I'm going to give them a call tomorrow. thank you.

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>>17034316

If you build that, you might as well build some tracks underneath it and have a much better and more efficient mode of transportation.

>>17034337
The thing is it can retract the wire coat hanger and do local deliveries off the grid.

>>17034337
Definitely much more efficient, but better? Better is subjective.

As just one example, the kind of monocrop factory farming which sustains modern cities requires millions and millions of acres of spread, for crops which are harvested only 1-3 times per year. To service every field with a branch line that only gets used a few times a year would certainly be possible, but would it be better? f4t

>drinking with two kennworth mechanics yesterday
>say they fucking hate truckers
>new trucks will brick themselves if the oil filter isn't lined up properly

>>17034316
Same reason we don't have trolleys anymore. Diesel engine manufacturers have better lobbyists.

We could have been generating carbon neutral, low pollutant diesel alternatives like DME as a waste product of LFTR nuclear power since the 1960s and avoided every oil and nuclear crisis since then, but we don't live in a rational system. We live in a world bought by the highest bidder.

>>17034571
>DME
Dried Malt Extract

>>17034571
>We live in a world bought by the highest bidder.
Thanks USA!

>>17034316
Nobody is wiling to foot the cost of infrastructure.

>>17034584
Dimethyl Ether. Dump it straight into an egr engine and it has lower emissions than an engine with DPF and SCR.

>>17034588
It's a far older system than America. We've just put it behind different curtains than most.

>>17034591
Neither did anyone want to pay for the interstate highway system, but the military industrial complex saw a use for it, so here we are.

>>17034591
but more than willing to complain about the state of it

>>17031726
>jeans from Costco

They stopped selling the proper faded jeans. Now they have Chinese jeans in California Gold Rush blue.

They suck and fit about 2 inches long. The faded ones fit a bit long too but at least weren't some damned hipster unused color.

>>17034316
Over height loads.

>>17033794
Live in Houston, there's tons of hazmat tanker, flatbed, and mexican intermodal shits. All the ones I've talked want some experience in their particular type of trucking. I've found two van companies, one J. Rayl is set up around taking your 34s at home, which I'm not interested in and the other 7 Hills hauls carpet between Atlanta and Houston, seems decent enough but are based around 34s at home as well.

>>17034322
>old
Still in use today; much quieter and cleaner than running the diesel engines. It's actually quite impressive that the buses can be quieter than most cars.

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>>17033254
Actually the fuel efficiency isn't even that much better, if at all, because American trucks can be a lot more aerodynamic with their snouts, also the lower permissible weights are negated by the higher speeds. Europe is electronically limited to 56 mph. Americans go 60 or 62 or sometimes 65 when they're in a hurry or empty.

>>17035209
You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

Pulling triples here in Aus longhaul with a v8 Scania is about 1km per litre whereas a Kenny T90x is about 600m per litre. Fucking huge difference. Yes you have the aerodynamics but the engines are hugely hugely superior. The only reason more companies don't use v8's is because they more expensive to rebuild. Also credit where it's due the Kenny's and and W-Stars and such seem to fair better in the bush.

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>>17035248
>T90x
Found your problem, they're actually brick shaped. What's the fuel economy look like for a T609?

Trucks in Europe average between 32 and 40 l/100km; that's 2.5 to 3 km/l or 5.9 to 7.4 mpg American, pretty much in line with the more aerodynamic American trucks as far as I know. Not counting the antiquated brick noses of course.

>>17035248
1.3km/L is what our drivers get with ISXe5.

>>17034634
Complaining doesn't cost money.

>>17034627
>the military

there you go.

>>17031893
>>17031908
>>17032009
>>17031921
Is the USA one country or 50something? Fucking decide.

>>17035557
Since this is the truckin' thread, I think the worst thing about states having their own laws has to be the inconsistencies in traffic laws and regulations when there is so much traffic across state lines.

But honestly driving through the Western US might as well be like driving through Yurop since you are in a new juristiction every few hundred miles.

>>17035557
It's a federation. Sorry if that concept is too complicated for your tiny foreigner brain to wrap itself around. I guess that's why monarchies were so popular in Europe; doesn't require any thinking.

>>17035685
So, it's 50something countries?

You can't have it both ways. Choose one.

>>17035721
It's like the EU nigger

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>>17034974
Let me know if you find anything good. I live near Houston and have one year otr experience. My plan is to stay at my company another year then hopefully be able to find something where I can get more hometime or better pay. Like you my goal is also to drive for Walmart.

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>>17035722
So, 50something countries with their own government, elections, military, laws, and autonomy?

>>17035782
Actually that's not far off.
>Own government.
Yep, we have state governments
>elections
Yep, we have elections for those state governing people
>Military
Yep, we have state National Guard divisions
>Laws
Yep, states have autonomy to enact their own laws
>Autonomy
To a degree, sure.

Oh BTW we had a national speed limit at one point. It didn't work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

>>17035788
>Oh BTW we had a national speed limit at one point. It didn't work:
It did work. But then we decided to steal oil from sand niggers because going fast is better.

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@17035852

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Hello bros. So today, this worthless piece of shit decides to pull out in front of me. What annoys me is that he definitely saw me, he just made the conscious decision to say fuck you, you're going to brake hard and wait behind me for the rest of this road.

so I am going to report him to his company. what are some things I can complain to the hot line number that will get him fired?

>>17035879
>You should tell his company that a whiny little bitch on a motorcycle is being passive aggressive after an interaction he had on the road with a vehicle 40 times larger than said motorcycle

>>17035879
You go around him as you are on a motorbike and stop being a whinging cunt.

>>17035873
Sorry you are so meta.

>>17035879
What proof did you have that he definitely saw you speed up on a spec in the distance.

Or are you just a scrub rider?

>>17035879
Get fucked, you stupid cunt.

>>17035879
>gsxr
>bar end mirror
>one aftermarket lever
>scared of filtering

I bet you are one shit rider.

>>17035879
420 WO is his fleet number?

YOLO BLAZE IT NIGGER SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY

>>17035879
Using a phone while driving is illegal. Even when stopped at lights.

>>17031483

I'm Primefag 1 I was here when the other one was still in high school.

Back is doing a little better dropped in Jax today can walk now. Just taking it easy, got some birthday nomz yesterday so it wasn't all bad.

>>17035924
What's wrong with bar end mirrors?

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I live, I die, I shitpost again.

>>17035607
>>17035788

Fucking Oregon. The one (1) {uno} [I] state in the fucking country that requires a fucking trip plan before entering. Just
join IFTA like the other states you fucking jackasses. But no, Oregon has to be a special fucking snowflake, so the one time a year I go there is a pain in the ass.

>>17032242

Typically its one day per week out for most companies.

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We Western Star now bois

>>17036316
Noice

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>>17036075
Trip plan? Wut? Is that like the fucking FAA and flight plans?

>>17036839
You have to say where and when you will be going and what roads you will be using. IDK what you're supposed to write if you only have a load in but not out. Instead of paying them quarterly thru IFTA you have to prepay before you b enter the state. I think if you go there regularly you can get some kind of registration to pay quarterly. If anyone here drives there they can correct me.

>>17036930
I've never heard of this, and drove through Oregon twice weekly. Presumably dispatch took care of it. The only weird thing I've had to deal with in Oregon is the extra code for fuelling.

>>17036930
Maybe people should just refuse loads into Oregon until they buck their ideas up. I'm sure a bit of starvation would make them pick a system to use.

>>17036979
Oregon is cancer for laws and law enforcement. the only time it may be topped is some of california's libtard restrictions on breathing air and all their hyperrestrictive bullshit.

>it's a bunch of truckers with a combined sub-100 IQ talking about how states should run their governments episode

That's states rights stuff sure stings when it's on the other foot, huh? Stick to your day job you mongs. Public policy isn't your thing.

>>17034136
>>17034289
>>17034335

me again. I sent in an application last night and then called their recruiter this morning. I told her that I was after the Colorado regional route since there was nowhere to specify on the application, and the way she talked she practically made it sound like I already had the job and went through the whole orientation/training process with me. she also said I'd have to be okay with being out for up to two weeks at a time which was longer than I expected for regional, but I told her that I would need time off for my wedding in October and she was fine with it.

so she said starting pay once I'm on my own after up to 5 weeks of training would be 44 cents per mile. since this whole pay type is really different to what I'm used to, is there any rule of thumb or something to calculate exactly what kind of monthly or annual salary this might turn into, on average? I know they also said they offer tarping, loading/unloading pay etc. as well.

>>17037071
youre right. public policy requires and even lower iq and a much higher level of narcissism.

>>17037071
yeah these guys are pretty stupid as evident by the responses to >>17035879

i probably wont be posting here again lol. retards working retard jobs, as they should be

>>17037113
I've been here longer, so i don't often say this newfag meme but that post completely BTFO that sour grape

>>17037091
44cpm is good starter pay.

To get a rough idea of your average pay, ask them how many miles their drivers get per week, then subtract 500 from that figure. Multiply it by cpm and that's what a mediocre (not bad) week will look like. For the first year, just assume every week will be mediocre. It won't, but it's better to be conservative until you have a better feel for what you'll be earning.

>>17037505
I think what I've picked up on forums and shit is around 2500-3000 miles per week? does that sound about right?

on a completely unrelated note - would I be stupid to try to make the jump to being an owner-operator sooner, rather than later? like within the next couple years. I worked at Peterbilt for a couple years and I'm fully capable of doing PMs and some light to moderate repairs, and also have a good contact I met there that does side work at home for like $60/hr if I need bigger jobs done.

I have incredibly bad OCD and I know I'm probably never going to get the truck I want working for a company but I think I'd also like the better sense of freedom that would come with working for myself.

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I ride eternal, all shiny and chrome.

>>17037741
I went o/o after a little under 2 years, idk why anyone would want to stay a company cuck any longer than you have to.

>>17037999
and rust

>>17037999
>removing steps to polish
Thats next level.
I just complained that it was too hard to get to, the boss bought me a 12v mini buff and a cordless drill with multiple sizes of buff balls.
Sometimes being a whinger pays off.

>>17037999
Unfuck your controls, fuck.

>>17038025
how much did you spend on your first truck (and trailer if applicable) if you don't mind my asking?

>>17038034
About tree fiddy

>>17037741
>>17038025
to add to this, what kind of work would be best for an o/o that wanted to stay local or maybe be gone a couple nights a week? would flatbedding still be a good option?

>>17038090
Sucking dicks at your local truckstop.

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>>17038026
Yeah, it could use some strategic paint. Rims are getting done at a polishing outfit, then it'll be painting.

>>17038027
Those balls are breddy handy. We have a motley collection of Mothers mag/aluminum polish, polish and buffing pads, shammy cloths, and acid wash.

>>17038028
Wat. They're all straight and in the correct positions. It was just the angle in that one shot.

>>17038097
not really my thing. I'll leave that to the experts such as yourself. I'd have to give truckstop blowjobs a bad rap.

>>17038025
I'm more content with having an easy job than a better paying one. I don't want to get paid to have headaches, I'll let someone else deal with all that, I'm fine just driving.

>>17038108
hate to*

>>17038132
I'd probably look at it that way if I were single. I'll be married soon and while I'm excited to get out and start driving I don't want to spend the rest of my life working around someone else's schedule. we like to take impromptu mini-vacations and I was lucky to be able to get away with that at my last job but I know that's not gonna be the case when I'm driving for a company.

>>17038100
frac pump truck, I'm assuming? or a conventional workover?

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>>17038301
Good guess. She's a hot oiler.

5k psi triplex pump with a 5 million btu/h burner for heating up fluids and pumping downhole to melt naturally occurring wax deposits that gum up pumpjacks.

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>>17036022
What's the details my man? Someplace good I hope.

>>17034275
I make more than the System guy I talked to at the last shipper. And hes been working for 4 years there.

>>17038436
but what's your home time look like?

>>17038451
Abysmal. That system guy did say he goes home regularly.

Any got opinions on these companies?

7 Hills Transport

Poly Trucking

K and B

Glendenning Brothers Inc

Oakley

Coal City Cob

>>17038408
Local steel mill running rebar across the Indiana region. Home daily, good hourly pay, and no tarping. Strapping down loads isn't too bad.

>>17038572
what are you making per hour?

Made a rookie-tier mistake and ripped a door off a trailer today. Made it out with both ankles intact tho kek

>>17038408
What in the god blessed fuck am I looking at here?

>>17038408
must be one of those new ethanol powered rigs

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How was your day fellow wagecucks?
Nice and "productive" like mine I hope.
Greeting from best coast.

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>>17038682
Good m8. Went fishing off the back of my skateboard in the Hudson

>>17033104
Are you me from 6 months ago?

>>17038034
I got a good deal, $127k for a new vulva, will be about $160k with interest. $8k for a used dry van in decent condition, maybe another $2k in repairs.

>>17038132
Lel. I take every other week off, it's pretty chill. And i don't have dispatchers breathing down my neck.

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iPhone is supposed to hook up to the truck and become our e-log now. I'm sure that will all work perfectly!

>>17038843
>I take every other week off
There are much better career choices you could've made if time off is that important to you.
>And i don't have dispatchers breathing down my neck.
Yeah me neither

>>17038034
$7500 on the truck (bought it on ebay) and $13500 for the trailer (bought it from the company I leased to)

>>17038090
Flatbed works fine if you live off I80 between Illinois and Pennsylvania. I could swing home nightly on either side of southern Michigan if I wanted to without really trying on spot market freight breaking $3/mi.

>>17038523
Coal City Cob had some fucking sweet 379s when I was a greenhorn. A little older than this one, they looked a bit like an Area Transport truck, but with that same sexy brown CCC is known for.

>>17038595
I believe that's a bolt on squirrel mod on a corn farm.

>>17038928
>$7500
Are you missing a zero there?

>>17038934
you can buy all kinds of neat shit for under 25k
there's a fucking tridrive k100 dump truck here on craigslist for 13k, it's crazy

>>17038934
You gotta ask him how much he had to spend to keep the wheels on

Is 7th gear okay for driving around truck stops

>>17038908
Ok then, list some of these illustrious careers.

>>17039133
Pretty much anything above an entry level position
>pays $170k for a truck that only makes money when it moves and wastes money when it doesn't
>proceeds to move as little as possible
On second thought, maybe trucking is the best you could do. People get into trucking for numerous reasons, poor decision making skills is as good a one as any

>>17039174
>$170k
only if its new, you can get a damn good rig for ~50k now. add your own trailer (~20k for good used one) and you're still under 100k.
granted, the insurance/payments will fuck your ass, but still.

>>17039034
Pfft. Rookie. If you're not getting the top cog I don't know what to tell ya.

>>17039226
what does insurance look like on a tractor-trailer? what do O/Os do for health care and stuff?

>>17039335
well atm I'm paying 700 for my tractor/mo and I outright bought the trailer. insurance is a real bitch.
anyone else care to weigh in? I haven't been doing this for too long.

>>17039352
$700 in insurance?

>>17039365
insurance and payments both are in there. it's like 10 years old so that's lowered. guys driving old rigs like cabovers or brand new shit probably get fucked ever harder.
hey oilfag, imagine how much halliburton has to pay in insurance for one of those fucking c500 vibe trucks. jesus.

>>17039379
gotcha. and are you the same one that paid $127k for the Volvo?

>>17039403
no I am not.

>>17039408
Okay. I was gonna say. That seemed surprisingly cheap.

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>>17036316

What happened to your Volvo? That was fairy new IIRC. Seems a little early for fleet rotation.

>>17038523

The only one on the list I recgonize is Poly Trucking. They're kinda unique in that they're a branch of a huge plastics conglomerate and mostly haul their own product. Poly will use brokered loads fairly often to get trucks back to their manufacturing plants.

Last I heard of them they bought into the Intertrashional Prostar meme and tons of their drivers were quitting due to the nonstop breakdowns and their shitty pay policies regarding those situations.

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>>17039379
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Yeah, I bet all of the big service companies hemorrhage money on insurance between all the young, new CDL holders they crank out internally, and inexperienced drivers they hire when the industry is flat out.

I'm in mechanical engineering, but would a CDL look good on my resume if I want to work in a heavy industry setting?

>>17039539
hey, I wanna be a mechanical engineer! what does it take, anon? to answer your question, maybe. also wouldn't hurt to get some qual with heavy equipment too, show competence with the field

>>17039539
Just wait til you drop out and become one of us!

What's the shittiest, toughest, hardest most excruciatingly painful trucking job that pays the most? iceroad trucking? I want pay and I want to suffer for it.

>>17039706
oilfield or mining, usually

>>17039421
Vulva was 2016. A different driver got that so we can rotate out our 2014 freightshakers

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>Pepsifag was the shooter all along
>He's going back to work
>They cornered him at pepsi

>>17039551
>what does it take, anon?
Four profoundly unpleasant years in university, and then another four moderately unpleasant years at work to become a professional engineer.

>>17039681
I'm already also a stationary engineer and an emergency medical responder so I've got lots of options when that happens

>>17039706

Bull hauling has got to be up there.

>>17039884
Any agricultural job, really. Trucking grain at harvest time would be pretty shit too.

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>>17039706
Oilfield, mining and logging are all pretty rough and tumble, and pay highly as a result.

Ice road hauling isn't nearly as dangerous or exciting as the show makes it out to be.

Profitable to be sure, but the few ads I have seen posted want at least 5+ years of real winter driving experience and usually a couple years of b-train experience or tri-tri / tri-quad tanker experience, so not easy to get into.

Get pulled into scale, inside drive tire was flat. How did they know?

Cuck patrol OOIDA made a shitty video full of lies trying to stop the inevitable speed limiter mandate now that they have been thoroughly BTFO on ELDs. I'm all for both, just so I can listen to supertruckers bitch and moan, it doesn't affect me. I drive 55 on a highway with an 80MPH speed limit, and laugh when trucks get stuck behind me trying to get around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdZnQNEInSE

>>17040056
You know, more expensive freight affects everyone, right?

>>17039955
How did you not?

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Jeez, it's been a rookie day. I forgot about timezones and started my clock too early wasting time on my 14, then went full retard following my GPS thru Birmingham and took 65 north instead of 59 north, then at some point after Birmingham a tire went down and i got put out of service at a scale which is when I finally realized I wasnt where I was supposed to be. Now I'm waiting on a tire, about 60 miles out of route with a load of bananas that's going to be at least 10 hours late. If you're passing thru Ardmore, TN swing by the scale and kill me please.

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>>17040375
whiney?

>>17040354
It was fine when I started today. It looked fine but I'm guessing I didn't check hard enough when I took my break. It didn't blow, just lost air. What might have I noticed while I was driving?

>>17040392
Probably nothing, desu. Which is why I stop the truck every 5-7 minutes and check every tire. Only way to be sure.

>>17038585
A nice $21.79/hr with overtime

>>17041222
Chinese pepsi overtime?

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/health/babies-crying-health-study-warwick-university-1.4052932

>>17039781
Bruh. I watched that video and immediately regretted it. Shit was fucked up. Why the old man???

>>17041263
Lel nah Chinese Pepsi OT means once you go over 40hrs, you basically make $6/hr.

>>17041513
>Bruh. I watched that video and immediately regretted it. Shit was fucked up. Why the old man???
Ask your brethren why.
Go forth and heal them with your cans of diabeetus.

>>17039174
And yet it's working out for me. I was exaggerating a little, I'll be driving more in a couple months once freight picks up. Right now brokers aren't paying jack, so I'm doing the minimum amount i need to pay off my bills.

>>17039419
Vulva here, $2680 per month for the truck and $10k a year for insurance because I'm under 25

What the hell is going on in Atlanta?

I pray to God I don't have to go there anytime soon. I can't imagine the traffic.

>>17039335
$364/mo for cargo, and $140/mo for bobtail. I'm sure OOIDA has some healtcare options.

>>17040397
My fucking sides.

>>17039706
Dry van for Swift

>>17042008
>pays the most

>>17041775
The whole city is finally falling in on itself from all the mass its accumulated. Pretty soon there will be a black hole where Atlanta once stood and, even though passing over the event horizon traps light and slows time itself, you will still be able to get through more quickly than you could right now.

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>>17042008
>Is the toughest

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daily reminder that dry van is easy mode """""trucking""""" and anyone that actively hauls them hasnt worked a hard day in their life

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>>17041775
>it's a "more lanes will solve our traffic problem" episode

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lel

>>17042315
daily reminder that anything except for flatbed and hazmat is degenerate

>>17042404
i figured at least being a neck breaker would count, damn

>>17042415
Show me a picture i may allow it. Thx.

>>17042359
Someone got mad.

>>17042404
>laughingtanker.jpg

>>17042151
That was beautiful.

>>17042359
BACK IN YOUR CAGE U UGLY ASOCIAL BEAST.

>>17042456
>>17042151
Samefagging

>>17042404
Daily reminder that car carrying is the supreme industry.

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>>17042488
(the eleventh letter of the English alphabet)

https://youtu.be/chLZIOCE2Tc

Jeremy Clarkson Motorworld video on Australia - skip to 17:00 for the trucks - he interviews the first guy to build a road train.

>>17041697
did you put any money down on the Vulva? and do you pay insurance monthly or do you have to pay a certain period upfront?

I remember someone telling me once that truck financing was way different from car financing. he said some shit like the max loan term is 24 months, and you have to start out making bigger payments and they get smaller over time. it sounded stupid as fuck. if that a total load of bullshit?

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can someone make a nigger trucker starter pack?

>>17043250
Why don't you?

>>17043210
Yea that sounds wrong. I didn't have a down payment but that's pretty rare. It's a 5 year loan at I think 3.9%, same amount every month. I paid $10k up front for truck, cargo, and general liability insurance.

>>17042824
Get an adblocker b4 u give us all a virus

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Who has the sexiest rigs and why is it Farmer's Oil?

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>>17041222
Hey that's pretty good. You finally made it balam. Going through hell and lepers was worth it.

>>17041263
Nah, more like slapping my wallet with some Benjamin's overtime

>>17042404
>going through bullshit only to make 2 cents more
>End up carrying hair spray anyway

>>17044524
How demoralizing must it be rollin down the freeway with hairspray. You're just an enabler for thousands of bad hairdos.

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>>17043662
What's a good Adblock for mobile? Please help not even him but the cancer is killing me.

>>17044669
Get uBlock for Firefox. You have to go in and download individual filter lists you want after install for it to do anything tho.

Self destructing cookies and decentraleyes help with targeted advertising and redirects

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>>17043826
Wew lad. Looks good. Needs a chrome moose bumper.

>TFW the temperature dropped hard over night and the plumbing on the truck froze up because my coworker didn't drain it properly

>>17044669
>Shitposting on a mobile browser

Bruh.

If you have an Android phone, get the Clover app off of F-Droid and you will never look back.

>>17044669
If you've rooted your phone AdAway is the best, gets rid of ads through your entire phone.

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>>17044669
What the cuck >>17044693 said.
Clover is GOAT.

>>17044669
Oh by the way sorry I should say get "uBlock Origin." That is different than regular uBlock. Dev jumped shipped to origin awhile ago.

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>>17044687
>>17044693
>>17044703
>>17044709
>>17044772
Thanks friends you'll save my brain from many tumors, mobile is the platform I haven't found a good adblocker for.

You guys ever pick up a hooker (seriously)?


How do you relieve sexual tension if not?


Do you guys own your own truck?


Hoe much do you spend a year on gas/maintenance and how much are your gross earnings?

Is it worth it to become a trucker, Slowly growing more and more stressed until you become a serial killer?


How do you stay focused on the road that long? I get bored after driving more then 2 hours

>>17044875
No.

I meditate on the Psalms.

$0 on gas. Gross about $1100 per week rn.

Go flatbed. They get outside a bit.

Have a good imagination, listen to podcasts and music, have a reason you're actually out here doing this to yourself. Overeating is helpful too.

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>>17044875
No.

Masturbation to images of hairy milfs with saggy naturals.

No.

Zero on gas/maintenance since I am a company driver.

I was a serial killer before hand, so its just made my habit easier and more convienent.

The three Cs. Caffeine, Cocaine and Country/Western.

What's your favorite pickle park?

>>17045182
whichever one your dad is hanging out at.

I saw some neat trailer configurations today I'd never seen before in Utah. Double bull haulers, double reefers, and a triple flatbed. I don't usually come out west so I don't know how common stuff like that is here

>>17044875
My boss would be pretty pissed off at me if I put gas in the truck

>>17043250
There'd never be a CB in that list.

How much do truckers today actually use CBs?

>>17045193
So you're a goth.

>>17045386
As in talking, not much unless they're running together. Me and my old trainer were running up 81 telling jokes back and forth to pass the time.

Most of the time it's just on and listening for hazards or backups.

>>17045461
sorry man.

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>>17043250
Someone must have saved Bepis' pic from that thread a couple months ago when we were posting daily carries, AKA empty your filthy pockets and post a picture of it

His involved Newports and fishing tackle if I recall

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>>17045281
>not owning your own truck to put gas in

>>17045636
Which one?

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>>17045812
Zoz. My favorite part of that image is the idea of needing two separate graphing calculators for edc.

>>17042359
We have a sign where every driver has to slide their tandems back and lock them before they get a BOL. Why do they always get mad and storm out? They're empty trailers.

>>17045904
I wonder how the rest of the world loads trucks with fixed axles. Must be magic.

>>17042404

Daily reminder that skateboarders who drive on super singles are glorified dry-van haulers.

Daily reminder that truckers who can only haul 36 Tonnes are just a glorified man in a white van.

Daily reminder that 95% of the posters in this thread pissed into a bottle or jug today.

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>>17045999

Trips of truth confirm

Daily reminder that all of us commercial drivers—truckers, bus drivers, taxi drivers, couriers—are in it together. Let's look out for each other and all get home safe.

>>17046201
No. I've had too many illiterate taxi drivers almost slam into my fuel tanks to respect them.

>>17046909
You're the reason the world hates so much.

>>17045999
DELET

are truckers homosexuals?

>>17046138
Which is really weird because only about half of the posters are actual truckers

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>>17047719
anyone remember Jizzus?

>>17047726
rip

>>17047726
Indeed
imgur.com/Uf6uN6m

>>17047657
>>17047719
I'm not a trucker, so not a homo.

>>17046138
I prefer to piss by dumpsters behind stops.

>>17046138
I just piss on the side of the road.

>>17047818
You drive a truck, so that makes you a trucker. Just because you don't have the freedom to sleep in a cuckbox everynight, doesn't invalidate you my melanin enhanced diabeetus slinger friend.

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Why didn't anyone tell me how comfy hourly is? I'm getting paid just to sit here and listen to steelworker's banter while they unload

>>17045904
>>17045970

Some places require you to slide the tandem because their parking lots are so tight to get into a spot without hitting another trailer with your trailer overhang you have to slide them all the way back. I've been in a few like that, I've had loading docks in New York that I had to slide the tandem halfway through backing in to avoid hitting the 359 to the right of me with my trailer overhang.

>>17048094
Because 95% of the posters here are cucks per mile and can't stand the thought at some of us do get paid in a sane and rational manner.

What's pulling a tanker like?

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>>17048419

Depends on how they're set up internally.

With fluid there is a sloshing effect that happens when the tank is not full so the fluid has room to move from one end to the other when the truck is going up or down a hill, that changes the handling and weight distribution of the truck.

It also happens during cornering, wherein the fluid sloshes back and forth to the sides of the trailer, and if a driver carries too much speed into the corner, that weight shift can help to cause a roll over.

You really notice the weight on up hill or down hill grades; the fluid shifts backwards and all of a sudden you don't have as much traction on the drives, or it shifts forwards and it feels like you gained a bunch of weight.

Some tanks have baffles that lessen the sloshing effect, but it never gets rid of it completely.

Daily reminder that 95% of the posters in this thread pissed into a bottle or jug today.

>>17048556
Crazy to think that tank trailers without baffles are still being produced and used.

>>17047832
Nope. Not a trucker. I just drive a truck at work.

And I fucking hate stupid people. Nobody seems to realize that I have other stops besides their one store. I need to switch to a new route because a good number of my stops that used to be quick and easy are now run by lazy retards. Churro place ain't gettin his delivery this week. He can waste somebody else's time.

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>driving
>enter weight station
>get flagged
>go inside with papers
>guy says lets go look at your trailer
>nervousness intensifies
>points at tire
>2 studs broke off
>guys says I can't leave until its fixed
>no ticket

pic is after tires removed, I didn't lose my tires

Did I dodge a bullet?

>>17048761
Not entirely. "Let's go look at your trailer" is DOT slang for give the dude a handy so he won't have to give you a ticket.

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>>17048695
From what I read online, food grade tankers are required to be built without baffles since they make it harder to clean them out properly.

>>17048761
You should've argued with him that you still had 80% of the studs left.

>>17048860
Slightly off topic, but the worst part about flatbedding is how much more creative one has to get to safely hide the trophies one takes from lot lizards, runaways and drifters.

>>17048556
>sloshing effect

I was once told a story about that. I'm not sure who it was actually about, but it's one of those things you get told by your family at some point. I think it was my dad relating a tale his sister's husband was told by a friend?
Anyway. This guy was a trucker, hauling tanker trailers about. One night, the police stopped him after following him for a while. He apparently got pulled over fairly often by bored coppers for bullshit reasons, so this time he decided to take his revenge. They stopped in front of him, so he came to a halt, fairly sharply, right behind them. Load sloshed forwards as he stopped, then back, and then forwards again, smashing him into the back of their car. "Sorry guv, it was the load" Was the excuse. Apparently more than once.

>>17048711
>Churro place ain't gettin his delivery this week. He can waste somebody else's time.
Details, man!

>>17048938
> Hiding them
> Not proudly displaying them as the trophies they are
> Not having at least one shrunken head on each CB aerial

>>17048556
What's the day to day like?
Are the runs longer or shorter?
How long does loading/unloading take?

>>17049061
Well, sudden stopping will cause it to put more load on the tractor brakes since the weight shifts forward suddenly. I have never in all my days see a bolice officer try to stop someone by pulling in front of them, that being said.

>>17049074
My limited tanker experience is all oilfield based, so the specifics would be a lot different than otr tanker work.

Loading and offloading a 30m3 (7900 gallon) load of fluid will probably take around 45 minutes to an hour and ten, depending on how much hose has to be hooked up, and how fast the pump moving the fluid can go.

New job hauling a tanker (never driven one before) mostly hauling concrete powder and fly ash pay is 30% of load did i goof

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>>17049269
A lot of bulk hauling pays that way.

When I hauled frac sand I was getting something like 26% of the tractor earnings, which worked out to $34/hr straight time.

Do you know what the loads pay? Did they tell you what that percentile averages out to?

>>17048094
>>17048330
$25/hr loading/unloading/detention/breakdown pay, even though you average waay more when "cuck per mile"ing. on top of 90% drop&hook and 100% no-touch, I think it's cute when busriders try to insult company drivers while I'm making almost 3x the national average with no education and sitting on my ass all day every day.

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>>17049560
t. cuckedpermile trainer
Well yeah anyone will earn if they spend 70 hours at their job. You're nothing more than a glorified security guard. Talk to me when you can sleep in your bed every night and your social life isn't in shambles.

>>17049137
>I have never in all my days see a bolice officer try to stop someone by pulling in front of them, that being said.
I think it was more a 'pass and indicate them to pull over' due to the lack of rearview, and a cranky trucker.

>>17049577
Flatbed work can have it's downsides. Like for this job I have to be in to work anywhere from 2-4am to make these early deliveries. From what I heard, it's not good to make the steel union wait.

>>17049615
Aww too tough for you? Why don't you go ahead and quit like that pussy Gundam?
>Gundumb: B-But I'm not getting the same miles I was promised. That's why I left r-really! I-It's not because I was a limp-wristed fuccboi that couldn't handle the pressure!
Flatbed is a man's job kiddo.

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Ahhhhhh...just like I envisioned it.

r/oddlysatisfying

>>17050025
Did you even secure the front before you ran the corners over? Looks like that's going to be all over the place.

You really should be pulling the corners under the front so they don't catch extreme amounts of air.

>>17050034
Yeah I actually have two tarps strapped down holding the front down that you can't see.

I've got two 6' eye-to-the-sky coils. They are too big for my steel tarp, and my lumber tarp just barely works. I dunno this looks awful but I've been at this shipper too long.

I drove for a bit then fixed the parts that were ballooning with some rope.

>>17050025
>Literally an abomination

https://youtu.be/lsL9Vmksv1Q

>>17050094
Do u even read bro?

I don't have something nice and symmetrical like lumber.

Anyway, I'm overweight on my trailer axle and have to go back. The mistake I made was not using the lumber tarp "end flap" as an aerodynamic ramp. I've got that flap on the backside instead. So round #2 should be better.

>>17048711
>. I just drive a truck at work
That makes you a trucker who gets to go home every night.

>>17035263
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>>17050115
No. Put the flap on the back of the coil under the chains against the coil, and hook the sides together over the chains. Then take the straight end of the tarp, and pull it as far forward as you can and hook it to the trailer tight. Tuck the sides under flat, then use a chain or strap to fix a 4x4 on the front of the tarp a foot or two back from the leading edge to keep air and water from getting under it. Secure the d-rings front to back on both sides, and throw a few ropes over the slope to reduce tarp movement.

Okay I'll try that.

Here's the best part. 24k lbs coils and chains are NOT allowed per company policy.

Also, no bungees at the front or end of load. Only these pieces of yellow rope they give you.

I hate this shipper. Rules are dumb. Forklift guy is dumb. Secretary is stupid. I worked all day today for no money.

anyone in here ever run for Decker? they offered me a pretty decent flatbed gig. System also offered me a job but they can't start me until late June. Decker pays a little less but seems to have better home time on paper.

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how mad does this make you guys?

>>17050615
Pretty mad. That resolution is disgustingly low.

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>>17050708

>>17050615
She's punching abover her weight with that guy. He must have some severe self esteem issues.

>>17050439
And that shit is why I bailed at Roehl. Working 14 hrs every day, usually at minimum 2hrs of tarping, but still getting the same paycheck as I was here at Skyline. I'm actually making more here at Skyline now. That said, if I ever were to go O/O, I'd go flatbed, assuming that would be a league ahead of just sticking with Skyline and pulling their trailers around.

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Psshh 14 hours is just whats on duty. Think of the off duty work.

I'm leaving Prime when my contract is up. I make okay money, but they work you way too hard for what you get.

>>17051331
I nostalgia'd hard when I saw that Alf shirt. I miss that perverted alien.

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New bread when?

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>>17051399
Bost it up. You earned the right by getting those sweet dubs, my dude.

>>17051490
>trusting a nigger to do things correctly

You know he gonna dun goof it, right?

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>>17051526
I dunno, 2001, Life After Death and Operation Doomsday are pretty good albums.