Truckerfag thread /TFG/

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>when you're a busrider that likes to roleplay as a European trucker but all you know about trucking is what you read on Wikipedia and can't keep up your ruse when someone calls you out on it and then they ask you to post a picture of your truck and you panic because you know you don't have a truck to post a picture of so all you can do is ask them to post a picture of their truck instead

>>17106594
t. Busrider who bashes busriders... When does this ride end?

>>17106588
is that dude seriously walking underneath that shipping container?!?!?!

did he sleep through his OSHA

Can we chill with the intercontinental beef. Everybody here knows eurocucks are eternally jealous of America, even though we're not quite as awesome as we used to be. No need to point it out and embarrass them.

>>17106604
This is a good picture and deserving of a (you)

>>17106825
Take a closer look at the picture, dummy.

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>unloading my luggage for hometime at Petro
>Lot mostly empty because 1300
>Hear someone laying on the horn by the fuel island
>Some fucking dinosaur driving an old Pete with an oversized load flatbed, cigarette in mouth comes barreling out of the fuel line
>takes out 4-5 of those moveable reserved spot poles with his trailer because they stood between him and the highway
>drags one a quarter mile across the parking lot going about 40 mph
>See him get out screaming SHIT FUCK as he kicks it loose and just leaves it there

>>17106817
Just as soon as you post a picture of your superior euro truck, pal. Or, post a picture of your invoice from earlier today. You're always so eager to brag about your truck and gloat about these heavy loads but never post pictures like everyone else.

>>17107106
>Americans already make their lots and roads large enough to U-turn a jumbo jet on
>truckers still manage to hit shit

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>>17107378
Kek. I'm not the guy you think I am. I'm just laughing over all this shit. I'm in Nevada waiting to dump this shit and figured I'd join the shit posting.

>>17107466
Speaking of... Anyone with an Android phone know how to take smaller res images with their camera? I had to apply 1:1 image ratio and still got a 2.7MB image.

>>17107466
Where in NV? I'm driving from Mammoth CA to Idaho in August and we're taking some backroads. I assume you stick to the interstate right? Northern Nevada looks fucking desolate on street view. Like have you been near Battle Mountain or driven the Lincoln Highway? I read an article that the 50 is so empty you can drive as fast as you want.

>>17107476
No but I can tell you if you crop your image before posting it wont get turned sideways.

>>17107533
It depends on the app. My phone doesn't fix it.

It's the weekend boys!!!! Who ready to party??!?!!

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beep beep!

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>>17106571
I'm a western regional guy and I drive almost all the highways, interstates and state roads here. That picture I shared is in western Nevada by Reno. A lot of it is very desolate, and you won't see much but dirt hills and sage brush. Do you mean Mammoth Lakes on 395? If you're wanting to explore I'd take 6 starting in Bishop to 375 and see Extra Terrestrial Highway, like the town of Rachel and Alamo. Then go up 93 through Ely and those small in between towns. You could get back on 80 and go west to Winnemucca (which would go through Battle Mountain) or stay on 93 northbound through Wells, NV to Twin Falls, ID. Really, the prettiest sights going into Idaho from Nevada is 95. You'll drop right into Boise that way after going on some Idaho State roads from the highway. I have only driven 50 when a part of 95 was shut down and detoured to Fallon. But otherwise, yeah, not much out there.

Pic related, it's 95 in Idaho

>>17107525
>>17107863
Or stay 395 to Carson City and ride Lincoln Highway into Fallon and start the adventuring there. While most of Nevada is bare and boring, there are some sights you won't see anywhere else. Which part of Idaho are you ending up in?

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>>17107863
>>17107923
Yes, we are departing mammoth lakes on the 395 and driving into King Hill, ID. Google maps has us taking 395 > 167> 359 > 95 > 361 > 50 > I-80 > 93. That right there is 10 hours. I'm not trying to sightsee, I'm looking for path of least resistance.

Welp, finished loading, only to find that my trailers landing gear is fucked, and i have a nail in one of my tires. Looks like I'm spending at least the next couple of hours at the shipper, everyone else left already. Yo ho ho, the o/o life's for me.

>>17108016
Oh okay. Yeah, Google will give you the absolute fastest route I'm sure. Speaking of Hawthorne, since you'll be going through there, I swear that's the inspiration for the BOS bunkers in New Vegas. I mean, they look the exact same and it's right next to an army ammunition depo.

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>MFW the codriver/swamper on the vac truck working on site is grinding the transmission gears of their newish Peterbilt down to a fine, mirror smooth polish by being rammy and impatient when shifting

>>17108241
I never understood that. It takes no pressure to shift gears. If you take the time and patience to learn proper shifting you'll turn it into a thoughtless habit. Give that goyim an autoshift

>>17108241
Shiny polished gears just like dat chrome bumper he scratched up yesterday.

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>>17107735
Wew.

Been signed on to my company one year now. Got a bonus, a raise, and a full weekend off.

>>17108288
Everyone knows you gotta train a brand new transmission. It stops grinding after it learns.

>>17108369
Lmao

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I saw this.

Is it possible to get a trucking job for only weekends and evenings?

>>17106594
Nice pic of your truck.

LMAO!

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>>17109197
Unlike you, I actually have my own truck that I can take a picture of. You won't post a picture because you know you ride a bus.

>>17109128
Day cab position that runs at those times, maybe. It's not a part time side gig sort of thing.

>>17109251
Nice hexadecimal filename. What forum did you steal it from.

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>>17109251
K

>>17109391
The bus driver let you go all the way up to the front of the bus to take that?

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>>17109128
Good one.
>>17109382
>hexadecimal
>it's clearly numeric

>>17106817
Busrider elitism is the cancer killing /o/.

>Scania a best bus

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>>17109415
He even let me go all the way up to the top floor too. Everyweekend he lets me do it.

>>17109451
Gotta be the best bus rider? Kek

>>17109251
Your short bus is a peterbuilt! Plus the driver let you take a pic of his steering wheel.

>>17109707
>he called my truck a bus so I'll call his truck a bus. Sure showed him I did.
I know the typical trucker isn't renowned for their intellect but you could at least try like a little bit.

>>17109829
K shortbusrider

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Tesla Semi Truck tease from Musk at Ted Talk.

>>17110186
What if I told you the truck makes 2400hp and 2850 ft/lbs of torque. Just hypothetically.

>>17110209
can it go more than 300 miles with 80k and not need an 8 hour recharge?

>>17110209

Yeah but is there a flame from her stacks and is the smoke blowing black as coal?

>>17106817
t. busrider accusing busrider of being a busrider

>>17109128
We have about 5 guys that do just that, they are either retired or ex-truckers who still enjoy hitting the road on weekends/whenever. They mostly go repo/rescue trucks then run loads until they want to go home, or fill in for us daycabbers when we take vacation.

>>17110186
Mr. "pretend I'm a nigger on the internet" Michael will probably be put in a Tesla truck, as they are a great fit for his type of work and Pepsi can flaunt how green they are.

Ran a pneumatic tanker all last week but it sucked so i told them to fuck off. Finally set in a comfy ass 2016 kennworth 880 end dump

>>17110744
I can see that going incredibly well.
especially since i think 60% of the fleet is penske rentals cause the normal trucks have been flogged to death.
"oh i know lets let these monkeys get their dick beaters on our new multi billion dollar truck!"
the universe would rupture before that happens.
its a great idea for local deliveries. but the thing better be 100% fully automated beforehand or the quality of driver would need to skyrocket at those jobs.

>>17110744
why would a man pretend to be a nigger

>>17110942
shhhhh don't question it just let it happen

hi guys. I start my first trucking job Monday. I'm in a 2015 Western Star daycab eith a DD15 and 18 speed. how fucked am I?

>>17111014
Doing what?

>>17111045
probably driving a truck

>>17109117
thsts a big trailer for you

Allie quit trucking. She's doing some meme RV adventure now with her boy boyfriend. Someone shoot me. My whole
Life has been a lie

>>17110911
>local delivery routes
>fully automated

I don't know if you understand how delivery routes work.

>>17111492
Gladly. Let's schedule a meetup and I'll shoot you between the eyes

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>go to pick up truck
>truck already picked up
Wat do?

>>17110744
They would actually work for a job like mine. But our fleet is already like 15 years old so who the fuck knows if they would actually spend the money.

And fwiw, you fags were the ones who said I was black, not me.

>>17110942
Because I'm Irish and Russian and would be pasty as fuck if I were a NEET like the rest of 4chan. However, I tend to spend time outside in the sun and became a bronze god so when I posted a pic with my hands in it or some shit, everybody started telling me I was black.

>>17110911
Pretty much. I'm waiting to see how many Penske tractors we will have by the end of this summer. Last summer (the busiest time when there are no spare trucks) about 20% of out fleet was Penskes because they refuse to upgrade.

>>17111505
Lel this is also true because most local delivery routes are also part sales. FedEx or UPS would be better for an automated system than something like my job.

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>mfw i see a straight truck or someone says they are restricted to autos only

>>17111757
>tfw FL lets people test for their CDL in autos and doesn't even put a restriction on them
What a joke. Whenever I hear that somebody can't even drive a 10spd, I talk so much shit to them.

>>17111724
>irish
>russian
>implying there's a difference from being a nigger subhuman
You have to go back.

>>17111857
To where? I'm a mutt of like every shitty Yuro country that sent people to America. They will have to chop me up into a dozen pieces and send em to each country.

>>17111774
Wait. What? That isn't safe at all. First mountain they find they're screwed if they don't know what they're doing.

>>17111898
>FL
>mountains

But yeah, it's ridiculous. There have been so many times where the boss needs a random driver to grab one of the 40' trailers with a T800 and driver comes back like "I can't drive stick". Wtf. I tell him just to give me that shit instead, I'll get it done.

And then for awhile he was convinced he would teach everybody to drive stick and quickly gave up.

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>>17111704
The state of those rims is triggering me.

Your druck all fixed up? :DDD

>>17111492
>Bought brand new medium sized RV
>Patreon link in latest video
Surprise surprise.

>>17110186
If it doesn't have a long nose setup then I'm out.

>>17111920
>Can't drive stick
The Chronicles of Ridic. I saw an ad for a """""trucking school""""" posted somewhere a while back that boasted an automatic, single drive axle, day cab truck with a rear window, and a 26' flatdeck trailer to maximize the odds of someone passing the road test.

>>17111128
Oh, he fucked.

>>17111724
>Because I'm Irish and Russian

So the rumors are true, you really are a nigger

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Just an FYI for those of you that didn't get the memo: this thread is for tractor trailer drivers ONLY. Don't come in here with your meme box trucks, meme dump trucks, meme tow trucks, or any other meme straight truck. You aren't about the 18 wheeler long haul life so GTFO

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>>17112387
Beep beep! Special delivery!

>>17109829
>>17109878
Will you two just fuck already? Christ.

how often do you guys adjust your slack adjusters

>>17112387
Can I be a trucker?

>>17113015
If a Mexican who can hardly speak any English can become a trucker than you can probably do it also.

>>17112972
Red pill me on basic truck pms

>tfw buddy who is a kennworth mechanic ask me what type of engine is in my truck
>tell him "a big ole diesel"

>>17112972
If they're auto slack adjusters, never. Check them out every few weeks to see they're still in good position by pulling on them. If they're fucked, gotta get them replaced.

I had a trailer once I had to adjust. It's real easy. But after I adjusted I never checked them. I got a new trailer about two weeks later.

>>17111920
Oh yeah. I forgot... And it's dumb that it's a restriction in the first place. They should do as Germany does and learn a standard transmission to get your license then drive auto later if you prefer. At least you understand how to make one move and stop afterwards.

>>17113201
Industry pressure is against you though. By limiting the amount of people that can drive by requiring manual trans skills you also limit the amount of barely trained monkeys you can enslave.

>>17113201
In IL where I got my CDL, you have to take the test in a manual truck and double clutch. Some states are like that, others will let you test in an auto truck but give you a restriction, and then places like FL let you test in pretty much anything with a trailer. They will let you test in our bay trucks which are automatic with 4x2 tractors, a single axle trailer, and backup cams (they are 46' trailers tho so long for bay trailers). They would let you test in the tiny pup trailers too with a 4x2 auto tractor.

>>17113289
I mean it is switching over and will be like cars too where autos are rare in the US, but I think they should at least have restrictions (for cars and trucks) if they can't into manuél.

>>17113382
Right. In Utah, you just get a restriction. But it does seem like everyone is adapting to auto because of better fuel economy. Plus, it takes 1/4 less skill to operate a tractor-trailer that way. More ragheads to throw in trucks with less training.

>>17113289
I mean, you're not wrong... It's really upsetting to hear of all the "driver shortages" that's a total lie. I totally believe it's all for a way to lower market demand and lowering wages. Half of these mega carriers face racketeering lawsuits almost every year and no one cares. Trucking has turned into something else than what I imagined it would be like in yesteryears.

>>17112972
Once a year, right before CVSA week.

>>17113637
When is that? First week of June?

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Check 'em

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>>17114051
You got me beat by a mile

>tfw never stop for scales

How bad will this catch up to me someday? Surely i can say i didn't see it right?

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>>17114144
Thats okay. I'll still check those dubs.

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>>17114166
Oh he dead.

>A little ass to ass action between my maymay straight truck and a tanker from yesterday

>>17114051
>>17114144
>All them quattros

>>17112972
I try to check them every couple of weeks. Adjust them as needed.

>>17113637
>CVSA blitz week
>TFW our shop is maybe a mile from the local scales
Just bypass my shit up senpai.

>>17107617
Download LeafPic and crop

>>17114946
Nah

>>17114957
It's less work than your post asking how in the first place

Just violated my logs by 3 minutes, I sure hope the fucks in Michigan appreciate these bananas.

>>17114982
I never asked how though. I couldn't care less

>>17114982
Alright... Time for a trip code since I'm getting confused with every other anon... Lame ass name, but I've no other nick name

>Back from 10 days of glorious hometime
>Get 1.15/mi out of FL to WI
>Calibrated all my Right Weighs
>Scored a free dorm fridge, 32" TV and crock pot from mom
>Stocked up on camera shit
>Got bank accounts moved back to FL from MO
>Got to give the family a ride, scared the hell out of my mom grabbing gears
>Niece is in love with my rig got to take her to school in it a few times
>Got to tour my state for a few days

It's weird growing up in a tourist state, then leaving for two years and coming back to do tourist shit.

I still hate them.

>>17115083
I'm sure you'll fit right in with all the other attention whores no problem

>>17115130
You're goddamn right

>>17115116
That's kind of adorable, really.

>>17114166

Don't drive through Virginia or into Florida on US17, I95 or I75, they have two check stations one after the other, the first is an ag check for produce or meat or juice, second is weight and you will get called into both. I've seen guys get yanked for blowing them

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>>17114144
>>17114051

Quads get.

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>>17115116
>leasefag
>floridafag
dumber by the minute

It only took a week on my own and I got whacked by one of my ratchet straps. Damn thing gave me a fat lip, but I'm lucky it didn't do anything worse. Also, anyone know how bad Goshen, IN is to drive in/through? Got a delivery there Monday.

>>17112972
Thats a certified mechanics job.

>>17115083
faggot

>>17115497
wait until an overcenter binder flies back and nearly knocks you the fuck out.

>>17115569
https://youtu.be/7rJuSi5fEfc

>>17115693
Das nice actually. Wonder if it's any good after a few years of abuse.

>>17115194
That ag checkpoint just into FL on I-75, that one always confuses me because there are a bunch of signs saying "ALL trucks and trailers must stop" and I've gone thru it in a Penske truck a couple times and with a U-Haul trailer a million times.

Also now if you going down into the Keys, right when you get into Key Largo they have a Dept of Agriculture checkpoint because of that screw worm and they are inspecting hard over there. Anybody with a pet in the car coming back North to the mainland is supposed to stop.

>>17115693
Not gonna save you when it doesnt quite lock into place and you release the handle, then it kicks back and takes your teeth with it.

>>17115130
>>17115557

>>17115937
>t. know it all supertrucker with a big fat gut being barely held back by a big ass rodeo style belt buckle

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5600km this week

>have guy shadowing me this week
>teaching how to drive in the mountains
>load fert in BC for Saskatchewan
>driving through bum fuck Northern Manitoba to our reload
>guy never wears seat belt
>left turn to stay on highway
>cvse guy sitting there
>I drive by and he gets pulled over

I was gonna tell him I was outa there and he was on his own but I found a place to pull over. The guy didn't say anything about his seat belt but I'm sure he noticed. Gave him side of the road inspection of sorts but he got fucking lucky. because he said it was his first time being stopped. I kept telling him to put the damn thing on but he just laughed at me.

>>17116013
K

>>17115970
An attention whore with thin skin, I can already tell this is gonna be good

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>you will never drive a turbine-powered snowplow

Why even live?

>>17116182
Tried being a faggot and replying with kissy emojis. Was disappoint when nothing replied.

>>17116099
I never wear mine in the truck. Always in the car but not in the truck. Odd because I feel naked without one in the car.

You're also dealing with rural canuck cops so maybe that is different than the Broward County Sheriff (See: COPS the tv show).

>>17114166
this.

I run pretty much every scale, I'm not even running outlaw I just don't feel like dealing with their bullshit. I have the prepass deluxe model and if it's a prepass site it usually bypasses me but not always. Either way I rool through like the scale or inspection station doesn't even exist. Will anyone actually pull me over for running a scale? What do they do?

>>17116496
If they pull you over and you pass inspection and your weight is legal, I think it's just a smallish fine for failing to report to the scales. If you bypass the station and then fail a roadside inspection you're probably fucked.

>>17116394
You didn't try being a faggot before at all, but now you are doing it perfectly right.

>>17116099
I just recently started driving for a towing company. It absolutely blows my mind, just how many of our drivers don't wear seatbelts. Surely tow truck drivers of all people know what happens to unrestrained occupants in an accident.

>>17115497
Check Gallops on US20 and hwy15 just north of Goshen, it's gotta be one of the best truck stops ever. They have two or three of everything.

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When I turn on the heat in the bunk, it smells like maple syrup for a few minutes.
Volvo masterrace?

Or do I have a tumor?

>>17116904
Someone's spilled maple syrup on the heater somewhere. My old car did that with oil after I spilled some in the engine bay.

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>banana loads
Somehow I ended up with two extra skids of bananas. The shoestrings that hold together food supply in this country blow my mind.

>>17116904
It was made in Canada.

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We straight faggin nyc today

>>17116727
Yeah. But then again it's not a safe job and you have to be a special kind of crazy to do it.

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So what's the speed limit and general speed of koalatrucks and kiwitrucks anyway? Are certain road train configurations limited to lower speed by law or by weight?

>>17117419
What do you do when a Garmin does that?? I was getting those no truck routes in Baltimore but it doesn't offer a reroute. Just accept or cancel.

>>17119757
Accept and look for those signs they put on the side of the road.

>>17119209
Road trains and PBS vehicles are 90km/h all others are 100km/h

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>tfw no jingle truck

>>17120261
So what's a PBS vehicle? Is it always a straight truck with a pup trailer or a semi truck with two pup trailers?

And at what configuration do road trains start? Is a B-double already a road train, or does it need two full size semi trailers or a B-triple for a road train?

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>>17120443
Put simply, Performance Based Standards are a set of hoops to jump through and and another set of fees to pay so you can use 30 meter long road trains in selected urban areas.


Pic related is a PBS vehicle, notice it actually has Long Vehicle signs on it instead of Road Train. Apparently the bureaucrats thought that joe public would freak out if they saw a road train in an urban environment.

Various sized B-Doubles 19meters, 23meters, 25/26meters, Road trains 32meters, 36.5meters 53.5meters. For most states, Western Australia gives no fucks and has no log book laws and generally length limits are bigger for road trains as long as the axle group weights are correct.

A B-double has a fifth wheel built onto the end of the first trailer (two articulation points, excluding the PBS pseudo b-double), a Road train uses a converter dolly attached to the end of the semi trailer via a ringfeder hitch (three or more articulation points).

Fuck these weight laws are bull shit 85,000 pounds isnt shit and im hauling based on percentage

>>17120681
Also PBS isn't just for using two semi trailers in an urban environment, It can be used to allow higher mass limits with a straight truck and dog trailer.

>>17117781
This statement is entirely true. First thing I was told when I got hired was that at some point someone will at least clip you with their wing mirror while you're working on the side of the highway. It's happened at least once to everyone in the company.

>>17120183
How can they not just avoid those roads completely. That is the point of GPS isnt it

>>17120334
Too bad everything but the trucks around there look like shit.

Mario727perez

If you have snap add this guy funny trucker O/O

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Too bad I'm dyslexic.

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First one of the year where you at pepsi

>>17120681
Great deal of information, thanks m8, but I still feel like my questions weren't answered directly. Are there configurations for PBSs other than short single road train or straight truck with pup? Is a B-double considered a road train or not?

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>gotta strap down load
>raining like Katrina
>windier than trucker after Country Pride beans
>straps twisting in wind
>load is complete bullshit, overloaded and stacked up
>trailer sitting too high, have to crank it down
>crank handle shears off of landing gear
>mfw

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>>17122190
Yee boi

>>17123092
It can be any configuration of vehicle for PBS. It allows higher mass limits while ensuring the vehicle will not be a major interference on the road.

Performance Based Standards (PBS) is a national heavy vehicle scheme designed to offer the heavy vehicle industry the potential to achieve higher productivity and safety through innovative and optimised vehicle design.
https://www.nhvr.gov.au/road-access/performance-based-standards/pbs-vehicle-standards

A b-double isnt considered a road train and is mostly allowed on nearly all major road networks and feeder roads that lead to industrial estates while a roadtrain is mainly restricted to rural areas outside a 100km radius of a major city.

>>17119757
Accept and keep rolling, the bridge clearnaces are all bullshit and no truck roads are just roads interswcting a truck route

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>>17123423
Forgot to namefag shit nigga

>>17106571
what do they even do with 53ers in a port? those things dont fit on ships, do they?

>>17120681
>A B-double has a fifth wheel built onto the end of the first trailer (two articulation points, excluding the PBS pseudo b-double), a Road train uses a converter dolly attached to the end of the semi trailer via a ringfeder hitch (three or more articulation points).

Do you have a diagram explaining all that?

>>17123444
> TFW driving a truck where trucks are not meant to go
> TFW running over pedestrians
> TFW the local government hates truckers and cars in general
> TFW have to keep checking the mudguards for cyclists caught in them
> TFW too stupid to use a trip

>>17123722
Local delivery, laws dont apply to me

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Bro, I'm from New York. Did I tell you that I live in New York?

I also suck a wicked cock, bro. You don't even know dude. Suck the Italian right out of Mario Batali's fat face. Suck the hipsters right out of Bed-Stuy.

>>17123735
> I actually unironically believe I'm above the law
> I live in the worst city in the world for driving
> Literally even Mogadishu is better for trucks
> I'm an elitist fuck about it
> I don't use a trip

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>>17123719
Not him but I'll try to explain it to you. A B-double has a semi trailer behind the tractor where the load carrying attachment is shortened and there's an attachment point for a second semi trailer on the back of the first semi trailer.

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>>17123874
Trucks with a semi trailer and a hitch for an unarticulated center axle trailer are also called B-doubles because the resulting cargo volume is similar, but they're far less common.

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>>17123879
Theoretically you could line up as many B-double trailers as you wanted behind one another, but realistically only B-doubles and B-triples (two B-double trailers followed by a regular semi trailer) are used. I don't know if it's because of legislative reasons or load distribution reasons or stability reasons (trucks with a lot of articulation points will start to show behavior of an oscillating wave from above which some configurations apparently are more suitable to suppress than others).

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>>17123889
Now for road trains. Even though all very long trucks with multiple trailers are called road trains by the general populace, in Australia only long trucks consisting only of semi trailers carry the term road train. These work without any sort of special B-double trailers or anything. You simply hook up a semi trailer to your tractor like you would anywhere else in the world, and then you hook up a one, two or three axle dolly behind it which contains the attachment point for another semi trailer.

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>>17123906
Once again these exist as double road trains or triple road trains. Different states and territories in Australia allow different configurations. The emptier ones in the west and north generally allow longer trucks than the more built up states and territories in the southeast.

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>>17123914
However, because B-doubles, B-triples and different lengths of road trains aren't confusing enough, carriers started wildly mixing up configurations in states and territories that permit such trucks.

The nomenclature follows roughly the following pattern for unusual combinations: A for a semi trailer, B for a B-double trailer, you just name them from front to back leaving out the last one because it's always a semi trailer, and then you name the overall count.

Therefore A is a B-double. B is a B-triple. C is a double road train. D is an AB-triple. E is a BAB-quad. F is an ABB-quad. G is a triple road train. H is an AAB or 2AB-quad.

K is a special configuration run on private roads by a particular mining company. You will not see it on public roads.

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>>17123931
A few American states and Canadian provinces also allow longer combinations. In Canada B-doubles are permitted and in both countries you will sometimes see combinations based on a double road train. In full road train configuration (two long semi trailers) they're called turnpike doubles, and in a configuration with a shorter second trailer, as seen in the photo, they're called Rocky Mountain doubles.

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>>17123944
And finally Europe also has its own long combinations. They've been in a thing in Sweden and Finland for many decades, and other countries like the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have relatively recently permitted them or are currently testing them for road worthiness.

The common configurations in Europe are the B-double, the alternative B-double, the Rocky Mountain double and a configuration using a straight truck (straights truck with short center axle trailers are relatively common to begin with) with a dolly and semi trailer hooked up to it, as pictured.

Sweden is currently testing B-triples for lumber transports.

>>17123931
Why mix in the B-trailers semi-randomly, though?

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>>17124234
I'm really going out on a limb here because I'm neither Australian nor a professional trucker, but from my point of view it's either got to do with the specific length limits of particular states and provinces (for example a double road train not reaching the length limit an AB-triple would reach) or the favorable axle groupings, load distributions and road handling of certain combinations over others.

As far as I understand it combinations with B-trailers are very stable and evenly weight distributed, but on the other hand B-trailers can only used as B-trailers, you can't switch around a B-trailer and an A-trailer. If you have a road train on the other hand you can rearrange the A-trailers in any way you like depending on the drops and pickups on your route. Also I imagine road trains are easier to tow out of a bog if you can disconnect the A-trailers with dollies one by one, something that's impossible with B-trailers. Because road trains weigh 60 to 130 tons, and when they're bogged they're fucking bogged. I imagine it's far easier to tow them out bit by bit than all at once.

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>>17124343
Another benefit of road trains is that if they're flatbeds (which a lot of them are in the outback so they can transport the greatest variety of cargo) they can run as a train in one direction and then get stacked when empty to make the run back home easier and more fuel efficient. A lot of towns will have a ramp for stacking and unstacking road trains.

>Get quarterly bonus
>Haven't paid much attention to them
>Look at bank account
>Bonus check was 5x what I was expecting
>Ask about it at the office today
>"Nope that's right. We bumped a couple up this year, and you've been doing well for the last 4 quarters so you qualify for this extra bonus. As long as you don't disqualify yourself, every quarterly bonus will be about that amount, assuming you get similar miles."
>Bought a PS4 and putting the rest into house work
Feels good senpai

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>fucking bananas
Bananas ruined my weekend.
Shipper loses bananas, have to wait to get loaded.
Shipper loads too many bananas, cause mass confusion at receiver, have to wait extra long to get unloaded.
Late for next pickup, have to wait to get loaded.
Receiver closed by the time I get there this morning. Have to come back tomorrow.
Will cause me to miss load to home.

Fuck bananas.

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>Be me, Oilfag
>Driving to job yesterday
>On logging haul road
>Doing speed limit for road
>Hit crazy patch of washboard
>Onomatopoeia!
>Break shock mount on drive axle
>Bend airbag levelling valve
>Airbag system deflates to nothing
>Fan hub mount bolts break
>Weld on mount for burner cracks
>Fan rubbing on shroud from being loose while driving
>Drive back from job doing 50 km/h on highway due to fan grinding at higher speeds, with no air suspension
>MFW
Lord take me now.

>>17124462
>Bought a PS4 with good boy points
Mommy's little angel.

>>17124816
Hey at least he gets to spend his money on things he actually likes. Unlike you who has to give your money away to your mistress and cuck children.

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>>17107106
>>17123190
>>17124816
>SHIT FUCK: the poasts
good greentexts br/o/s

>>17124910
I just don't see how anyone has time to play games in their truck. I average between 3300-3500 miles a week, almost always drop and hook, all I have time for is driving and sleeping. I spend about an hour a night that I spend watching something on my laptop while I eat dinner, and that's it.

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>>17124910
>A so salty
I wasn't seriously calling him down, crabby patty, I was just busting internet chops. And I'll have you know that Jamal and T'Shawn help take care of paying for their kids.

>>17124910
>he
Forgot to delete your name, bud.

>>17124816
Made me giggle
>>17125102
Keks, that ain't me. You lot oughta know by now I'm not that much of an ass.

>>17125468
>that ain't me
Suuure buddy.

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@17125560(You)

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>>17125565
Anyone can do a photoshop. It ain't hard or anything you dunce.

>>17125575
>caring enough about 4chin to photoshop a name

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Why are straight trucks with drawbar trailers so unpopular in the US anyway?

>>17125614
Because they're a pain in the ass to maneuver and less practical than regular doubles.

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>>17125648
>drawbar combo
>one articulation point, easy to reverse
>maybe two articulation points if you have a trailer with an articulated drawbar axle at the front, difficult to reverse

>doubles
>three articulation points, impossible to reverse without constantly unhooking shit

Also swap bodies are a lot more popular in Europe for skipping the loading and unloading or for fitting your truck for different cargo types.

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>>17125662
This is one of two photos I've ever seen of a drawbar combination in North America. The other one was a mover's truck.

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>>17125672
Technically car haulers count as drawbar combos though since the hookup point isn't a fifth wheel and is behind the prime mover axles.

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GUYS I NEED HELP

I HIT A FIRE HYDRANT BY MISTAKE

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO REPLACE THEM?

>>17125825
A million dollars.

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>>17125825
About tree fidy

>>17125825
350,000,000 won

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Why haven't you done this yet?

>>17123423
Why don't they update their bridge heights??

>>17126083
>>17125929
>>17125892
Based on these low and high estimates, I conclude that the actual cost will be $ 117.000.001,11

>>17126097
because piss jugs are fun

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>>17126097
I'm having a hard time fitting it on the exhaust

>>17125672
Gravel trucks are usually drawbar though

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How much are you all bringing home after gas? Should I give up my desk job?

anyone familiar with celadon? what's their problem?

i work for a fairly large 3PL and everyone hates celadon. the customers, the employees, even the procurement staff who contract them. it feels like they are in business simply by existing, if that makes any sense. the false promise of trucks but they seem to not exist

>>17125672
I've been seeing a ton of these lately. I saw one just yesterday.

>>17126708
About tree fiddy

>>17126708
A million dollars.

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>>17125825
Probably costs more than you're worth to your employer.

>>17126922

Celadon't

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This is why I use the shower shitters.

Fucken grubs the traveling public are.

Going to a place tomorrow where i know the trailer skirts won't pass since the driveway is really fucking high

What do

>>17126922
My trainer worked at Celadon close to 30 years ago. He worked at Covenant at first, then they got bought by Celadon. He said it immediately became a total clusterfuck, and at one point drove home on his own accord because they had kept him out for 4+ weeks when they knew full well that he had a doctors appointment, which he had to keep rescheduling due to their fucking about. They got pissy when he did that and he told them to fuck right off, and shortly after that he came to work at Skyline and hasn't left since.

Sounds like it's still a massive shitshow all around.

>>17106594
>this thread isn't euro truck simulator discussion ???

>>17128699
>tfw ETS2 can never replicate the lack of sleep we get as drivers when some girl is tryin to hang out til 1am but we gotta be up at 4am to work
Or something like that. I know cuckshedders have a terrible sleep schedule too.

>tfw can't go through cdl training just yet
>playing ATS instead
I feel like I can stand outside the trucker circle and be okay.

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I found myself a hot date to ride with me

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>>17123967
I guess it's only New Zealand that uses these particular combinations?

6x4 or 8x4 Load carrying truck with a trailer attached with a drawbar

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>>17129098

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>>17129098
Germany recently permitted them up to 24m alongside B-doubles and the straight truck dolly semi trailer combination I posted up to 25.25m, but I'm yet to see them in traffic. Also fewer axles because so far the weight limit for long trucks is still the same as far semi trucks, 40t

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>>17129144
Visual comparison to the other configuration.

>>17129098
You're wrong. They are commonly used in Finland and Sweden. In Finland the weight limit is 76 metric tonnes with nine axles
Pic related. It's what I drive.

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>>17129204
This pic

>>17129208
O nice, but how do you unload the truck into the dock|?

>>17129212
You leave the trailer there and reverse truck into the dock. It's that simple

>>17129212
Drop the rear trailer in a dock, bring the other one to another dock. Or I think they normally have those little yard trucks too where you just drop the trailer wherever and they deal with it. That's how it is at our manufacturing plant 45min up the road. Never even have to bump docks there, just drop the trailer and they will move it.

>>17129226
I've never seen that someone would leave the trailer to those yard trucks. Usually the driver reverses the trailer to a dock all by himself.
And as you can see, we use swap bodies on the truck. So the driver can just swap the body and the trailer and start driving again.

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>tfw my entire day is just damage control for everybody else's mistakes
Starting to piss me off. Driver fucked up real bad and now the boss wants me to try and fix it and it's gonna turn a 10min stop into an hour or more. I'm going to half ass it.

>>17129373
Then quit diabetes man

>>17129469
Good cuck. Feel that burn.

>>17129397
Honestly. I need to get on the fuel truck
>other dude running my area yesterday
>two Marriott hotels next to eachother, a Courtyard and Residence
>the orders are normally quite different
>dude delivers Residence order to Courtyard
>now I have actual Courtyard today after they got a ton of shit they don't need or sell
>they want me to go see what Courtyard actually needs and just bring that in, then go to Residence with the rest
>I know Courtyard is going to want me to pick up a ton of BS they don't normally carry too, but not doin it
So idk, I'm gonna bring a few juices into one and then a few water to the other and bring the rest back and then next week salesman can deal with all that other shit
>but first, at Dollar General with big order
>of course they have credits like always
>have been bitching at salesman the past couple weeks because he never writes them up properly and doesn't leave them in crates or boxes so they are sorted and easy to take out and put in the truck
>shopping cart full of loose bottles, I aint touching that shit

>>17129092
What is that?

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>have indian curry for dinner last night
>this is pretty good desu
>wake up this morning
>have to poo
>doesnt feel right to do it in toilet
>hold it and continue with day
>walking along a little later on
>feeling comes on strong
>loo.exe not found
>poo in street behind dumpster
>developing strong opinions on dog shit pakistan
>cricket seems like an interesting game
>mfw
what is happening to me chaps?

>>17117419
Oh fug they opened the new bridge?

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Am I the only one that pushes these things in with his feet?

>>17129799
You're turning canadian

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>>17130016
>Durning Ganadian :DDD
A fate worse than deaf.

>Barefoot driving
My nigga. Max comfort in the summer.

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Holy FUCK do split-axle trailers suck so goddamn much

>>17130236
You're completely right, but opposite

>>17130086
max comf, & max control. My downshift blips are so clunky when I'm wearing boots. Can't feel shit

>>17129469
Damn bro, what did she do to you?

>>17130016
>these things

Are those your brake buttons?

>>17125614
Someone couldn't resist that number plate, could they?

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>>17130381
Yeah.

I wouldn't normally have went for the chrome, but the last driver had good taste cause these things are really solid

>>17129658
The door to my reefer unit, it started falling off this morning when i was doing 80

>>17129942
Yessir

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Gotta love the hurry up and wait game

>>17130414
Hard to cobble together custom plates in Europe if they're restricted in format or have to contain the district code or year of manufacture. You have to take what you can get, even if it's just HAY.

>>17131406
Where is this? Looks nice.

Do you guys blaze chronic all day? I would. Does you employer drug test you randomly?

>>17131438
I wish it was possible to just blaze all day. It would be just like when I delivered pizzas but with a 401k. That was the best job ever.

>>17129799
But pooing outside is ace.

N-no indi

>>17131429
You can have whatever plate you want of the same year, though, at least in the UK. So that was probably picked up off ebay.

You can have whatever the fuck you want as a custom plate, so long as it's not a forbidden combination or already in use.
Saw a merc with VIDYA a few months back, for example.

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>>17131690
Yeah, but the real custom ones in the UK are expensive as shit, hundreds to thousands of pounds.

German custom plates are very restricted in format (district code, one or two letters, one to four digits) but any one of them is something like a 20 bucks single time fee as long as it's not taken.

I just got a parking ticket for parking on a dead end street where I was told i could wait until my appointment.
FUCKING WALMART
REEEEEE

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>>17132130
>showing up early for walmart
You should know better by now

>>17132130
Whenever in question, put out your cones. You're now a broke down vehicle waiting on your company service vehicle.

>>17126120

fucking kek how did people miss this

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Superfresh

>>17132224
Not sure what I could have said to try to convince the copper i broke down on a dead end street.

>>17132130
Were there no parking signs?

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>>17132315
>not smelling your waifu on a daily basis

>>17132939
Wat car is this?

>>17132980
2015+ Mustang

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>>17132980
My bus

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>>17131438
That was just east of Golden BC. I smoke weed on my home time because Canadia is truly the land of the free but I don't touch it during the week.

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>>17133074
Dude weed

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Also, you guys ever seen a prius pick up?
Only in California folks.

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>>17133169
ENHANCE

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>>17133183

>>17132673
Yes

>>17133169
>280

Of course it's in SF.

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>1am delivery
>Arrive at 10pm, figured why not
>They actually unload me 3 hours early

Anyone know if the pages the transflo app uploads are in black and white like in the preview or if they go in color?

How often do you fags lie about your appointment times?
I deal with about 100 trucks a day and almost all of them lie about it, mainly the fucking Mexicans.

>>17133417
To explain, I just delivered 2 separate loads to one destination and stupidly forgot to check before I left if both bols were signed. Only one was signed so I took pictures of both and moved them to my laptop and copy pasted the signature from the one onto the other using paint. It looks good in black and white but pretty obvious in color.

Can't wait for summer, I miss the smell of steaming urine on the hot pavement.

>>17133417
>>17133460
Scrub. That's worse than just leaving it be and uploading it. But the app uploads exactly as you see the preview.

>>17133485
Fucking sent that shit. We'll see if it flies.

>>17133518
Doubt any office employee will even bat an eye at it.

>>17133442
Mexicans never lie.

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This is a real horse that won't let me out of my truck

>>17134395
Horses are asshats.

>>17134395
Offer it an apple

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>>17134395
blast it with piss

>>17134395
Throw a glue stick at it and tell it "you're next"

How many motorcyclists have you run over?

>>17134395
I once was parked on the street in Riverside, I think, Cali. Woke up to all this commotion. Peeked out the curtains and I was surrounded by a herd of 12-15 donkeys and people chasing them.

>>17135478
A CFI truck nearly sandwiched a Ford Taurus between his trailer and mine yesterday. Dude either wasn't paying attention or just gave literally zero fucks when he switched lanes out of the blue.

My brakes smoke every time I go to slow down or stop. How can I prevent my small truck from bursting into flames? It probably doesn't help that the entire undercarriage is coated in mud that has dried now.

>>17135587
Obviously, don't ever slow down or stop. Have you ever seen Speed? You're Sandra Bullock now.

>>17131704
>Yeah, but the real custom ones in the UK are expensive as shit, hundreds to thousands of pounds.
Only if it's already in use and you have to buy it off the previous owner.
Otherwise, you can get them fairly cheap if you're being original, but it's a tax on vain cunts.

>>17131704
>>17135946
Although if you don't want a legal plate, you just go down to Halfords and pay a few quid for a fake one that you just stick over the real ones for photos. Illegal for road use, but you generally take them off once you're done anyway.

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Not a trucker, but I would love to know how the hell these work

>>17136794
You push the clutch down, move the lever select the gear you want, then let the clutch back out

(It's a regular-ish 5 speed with an air-shifted 2-speed slapped on the back)

>>17136794
There's a switch on the side of the shift lever that switches between the low gear set (1-4) and the high gear set (5-8), and there's an additional switch on the side of the lever knob that splits the gears into lo and hi, if you need that extra reduction.

>>17136794
It's three transmissions in one; there's the main 5-speed which works like the one in your car (except that it's unsynchronized), and the range and splitter boxes behind.

The range shifter turns gears 1-4 into 5-8 (Lo is only used in low range). You shift normally from Lo to 4, and then flip the range lever to high before shifting to 5, which is the same gear as 1

The splitter then divides each gear into a high and low split. When starting with a very heavy load, you start in Lo-L, split up to Lo-H, then split down while shifting to 1-L, and so on.

From Lo-L to 8-H, you get the 18 speeds.

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This dude hates hooking up air lines so much he has his wageslaves back the brakes off on every trailer.

>KW goes to the shop
>'We've got this other truck for you to drive'
>Just vacated, hasn't been cleared out yet
>It's a catastrophe
Front suspension sounds like I'm hitting a Geo every time I hit a bump.

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Why are southern drivers such shit?

>>17134395

You have to have sex with it to show dominance.

Teach my your secrets. For the life of me I cannot shift through the first 4 gears without bouncing around like a kid on crack. The higher gears I have no problem with, I can do that a lot smoother, but the low end is just fucked.

Any tips for a newbie?

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>>17138255
Betcha it's that cuck oilfag's wife.

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>>17138603
I wish my wife was that cool with side action.

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>>17138544
>TFW essentially everyone is southern to me

>>17138594
Big thing is to be not be in such a rush to row through the gears and be gentle with the throttle, both applying and coming off it to make the shift, since there is so much torque available in the lower gears.

new allie knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQn311TPcq8

>>17138594
L2float

>>17138802
Man I would destroy that.

>>17138802
got quite the raqq on her too

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>>17135478
Just one so far.

>>17139069

I would, but I need to be able to double clutch for my drive test.

>>17139398
Having the knowledge to double clutch is important too, don't listen to the fucks who say floating is the only way to shift well.

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>>17139530
Second.

>>17106571
where can I start with a trucking gig without the special cdl? I just need to make money right now, so I can't pay for certification, there are some groups offering free 2 week training but they are off season right now.
where do you go after you have your license? is there a trucker union hall, fairs, company interviews, emails, what?

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>>17138594
You just need to give it barely any fuel at all. Like so little its almost pointless. It's easy to get the RPMs way too high on 1-5. Those first gears are just to get the thing rolling. You shouldnt get much higher than 6 or 7 mph.

It's also easier if you can start in 2nd or 3rd because that 2 or 3 less gears to cycle through when starting.

>>17138594
Start in 2nd if you're in a class. You can start in 3rd with an empty trailer, even on some inclines.

For the shift into 3rd and then 4th, literally do not touch the gas pedal, just double clutch shift. If you do that just right, the truck won't heave.

Getting into 5th, and even 6th, you only need to hit like 700RPM, maybe 800-900 depending on the truck.

In the '15 Cascadia at Roehl (10-speed stick), I didn't get above 600RPM until I was shifting from 6th into 7th.

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>>17140112
>ten speed
>not using an 18 speed
its like you dont even want to drive a truck.

GIT ORF MUHH TURBAH!!

>>17138594
Yea, if your empty you start rolling in 6th gear. If you're loaded you start in 5th. Learn to ease off the clutch slow you fag.

>>17140945
>Learn to wear out the clutch faster you fag
FTFY

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lmao

>>17142317