/TFG/ - Truckerfag General: flooded in edition

Fuck Louisiana

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>>17142584
It is bretty shitty tbqhwy. Went to New Orleans once years ago and it was a shithole. And that was before Katrina, I can't even imagine the place after that.

admit it

>>17142648
>implying the purge didn't improve nawlins considerably

>>17142744
I inb4'd you, allie

>'99 Ninja 250 project bike near me for $650
Tempts me.
In other news
>Loaner truck has so many intake leaks it sounds like a fire truck siren every time the turbo spools up

>>17142317
>Inb4 Allie knight
Daily reminder to report blatant attempts to derail the thread with spam.

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>>17142951
Yeah they all fucking moved to Houston and Dallas and shitted Texas up.

>>17143234
>inciting discussion about a well known internet trucker on an internet forum about trucking
>spam

Id love to know what kind of personality defect you have IRL that causes you to be this assmad.

>>17143222
Just buy my Ninja 250 for $1200. It's an 05 with 7k miles. Has sonic springs in the forks with 15wt fork oil (sprung for a 190-200lb rider) and brand new front and rear tires.

The only bad part is that the title has an odometer discrepancy and that the fairings are off becaues I am a retard and don't know how to put them back on

>>17143273
Ain't got $1200 at this time but where you at?

>>17143273
>190-200 pound rider
Well that excludes every trucker on this board.

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>>17142317
In a course today b/o/yos while our guru mechanic shreds our truck apart to redo the """""CVIP""""" that a third party shop did on the Kenworth. Fuckers didn't even take the front wheels off, to highlight the kind of quality service they provided.

>>17143471
Forgot to namefag.

>>17143306
massachusetts

>>17143601
Keks I'm in TN so that'd probably cost me a lot more in gas to pick up.

>Be Primefag
>10 days of vacation
>come back out
>not even halfway through the week and already over 3000 in revenue
>Nestle live load in Green Gay
>dude next to me has an overage of Naan bread
>I have 2 cases of it now in my truck
>loaded tonight for ALA-BAAMMMAA!!
>currently fatassing the Iron Skillet in Muncie IN

Feels good to be back. Any of you faggots wanna meet me in Bonneville in August for Raceweek? I got two guys already going out there with me. There will be

>land speed record cars
>jet powered cars (maybe)
>alcohol
>gambling
>bomb ass Mexican food at the Salt Flats Cafe in the Sinclair outside of the salt flats

free to come just show up and don't hit nothin

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>>17144320
Forgot to add
>of the 3000 in revenue only keep 500 to to op costs

>>17144320
> Free naan bread
What kind? Peshwari, garlic, or plain?

I'm like two more rush hours away from buying a pound of weed and delivering pizza.

>>17144995
Lel if you work the weed right the money will be better. That shit's the best when you have like 5 people who grab ounces and sell and you get a pound or two a week just dealing with those few people. Make like $50 on each ounce or like $100 on the QP, and you really only have to do a couple deals a day to clear an extra $1000+ cash for the week.

>>17142951
Houston got pretty terrible tho from what I hear.

>>17145020

You are the niggest

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>>17145148
That's some real world shit. And the niggest would be if I were trying to make $200 on every ounce. Never buy drugs from niggers. White hippie kids are the best for weed and party drugs and Mexicans are best for raw powda.

Who else shitposting Trucker Path??

>>17143474
It was a worthwhile post before you mentioned that.

>>17145020
>things only a nigger knows

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>>17145172
kek. thought i was the only one

>>17145495
>>17145172
Am I missing something? Will they love me because I sleep in an actual bed at night?

Reminder this faggot @17145495 already got his image removed by the mod.
Always remember to report illegal content and spamming.

>>17144811

doesn't say but I taste garlic so it's probably that. I'll make sandwiches and soup with it all week I reckon.

>>17144646

t. butt-furious company cpm bitch

stay derriere-distraught

Does anyone ever usr their trailer brakes? I don't

>>17145663
>NO FUN ALLOWED
I mean 2 Allieposts per thread isn't going to kill anybody

>>17145810
Like parking breaks or the johnson bar deal? Because I don't even set the trailer brakes anymore when I park since my trailer had that clogged line and they took a minute to release.

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>>17145483
(Acknowledgement Of Post).

>>17145810
Only when unpinning.

>>17145682
>Not making butter chicken or curries
It's like you don't even want to be East Indian.

Naan is breddy good though tbqhtfg, especially the garlic or cheese varieties.

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Do you niggers have separate ac units in your bunks? My truck has this heavy ass air conditioner in my bunk that I think has its own batteries and it blows freezing air all night without the engine running, I love it. But my truck is in the shop and my master set me up in a loaner truck that doesn't have the bunk ac unit. Then today I started noticing most trucks I see don't have a separate ac unit. So what, am I supposed to open all the windows and sleep like I'm at fucking boy scouts camp sweaty and covered in bugs? Or am I supposed to just idle the engine all night just to keep the ac running?

>>17146448
just idle the engine faggot.

>>17146464
It's auto start stop. My first night in this heap of shit I couldn't even get the bunk fan to blow air unless the key was half turned and auto stop start was turned off. Ended up somehow draining the battery with just a fan blowing outside air and had to get jump started in the morning. I'm thinking maybe if I go to sleep with all my lights and my headlights on it will drain my batteries, thus causing the truck to start itself up again all night to keep a charge, thus creating cold air.

>>17146448
>>17146499
Need details idjit. What year/make/model of truck? Does it have an APU?

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>>17146646
Prolapse, most likely 2015. I don't think it has an ap unit. On the passenger side where my AP air intake was it's just another key entry door like on the driver's side. But there's some kind of machine in there, I think it's a heater.

This is what my temp console looks like.

>>17146711
Well then if there's no APU bolted to the frame behind the cabin, then it has no APU. What you're talking about is probably a bunk heater. So yeah in that case you'd have to have the truck running for A/C. Now, some newer trucks, like the Freightliner Cascadia, have a 'smart idle' feature that'll fire up the engine automatically as needed. See if there's a sticker on the dash about it. Of course, a Prolapse is a totally different truck, but I've heard they've got a similar system.

>>17146737
Yes there is some sort of "smart idle" system. It fires up the engine when the battery gets too low to keep the battery from dying. That's why I was thinking about keeping all my driving lights and headlights turned on all night. They'll drain the battery, engine will kick on to recharge battery, and wa la. Cold air.

>>17146790
Yep. I'd leave the headlamps off as a matter of courtesy, the auxiliary lights will drain it quickly enough. And the word you're looking for there is 'voilà.' Kek

>>17146790
>Wa la
>Wa
>La

Jesus creeping shit.

>>17146818
>>17146866
brush up on your ja/ck/

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>'75 Honda 500cc project bike also for $600 in my area
Hnng

>>17146974
Turn it into a cafe racer and post it on /dbt/, then sit back and watch the (you's) flow in.

>>17146974
Just saw a Skyline Pete. U in Pompano jeezy?

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>>17148630
Keks I am in a loaner Pete today but I'm in TN. This truck is a disaster.

Anyone have any tips on how to turn my truck into a boat? I may need to if Indiana turns into the next great lake.

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>>17146790
>wa la

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Morning my dudes. Just another day in oil gountry :DDDD

>>17146974
That's sweet. You should get it.

>receiver tells me it's going to be 6 hours to get unloaded but maybe they'll get done faster
Kill me now

>>17149785
You get extra pay for that, or are you boned?

>>17149798
I'm not sure, Ill request detention but I'm guessing if there telling me a rough time frame it wouldn't kick in until past their estimate. The bad part is I'm heading home after this and instead of getting there early afternoon it's probably going to be late evening

I haven't done a pre-trip in 4 months

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>>17149965
ISHYGDDT

>>17149863
That sucks.

>>17149013
Plenty of caulk and a second layer of weather stripping. 110% guaranteed.

>>17150250
>prey
lost

>>17149965
>Turn key
>Engine turns over

Pretrip: done

Seriously though I do a pretrip every morning but it takes less than 3 minutes. I turn on my headlights and flashers, make sure everything light works, thump all my tires, and make sure nobody disconnected my airlines or pulled the latch to unhook my trailer or tandems. I actually pop the hood to check my oil level and look at the engine about once a month.

I have never washed my truck

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Fukkin called it.

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/celadon-investigation-class-action-suit-follow/

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>>17150250
>Cincinnati bengals

Enddump daddy here
>somehow bend tarp up yeaterday
>in different truck today
>going down highway
>fucking rope snaps
>see ir coming off the right

I hate manuel tarps so fucking much

>>17146963
Are you a chef at wendy's?

>>17150843
>he thinks a circular inspection is a pre-trip

>>17150843
Fuck pre trips i like killing trucks

>>17150843
>check under the hood once a month

jesus creeping shit.

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>>17149513
It fuckin' is and I want it, but that would be really irresponsible of me to throw down $600 on a project I'll only touch on the weekends. I got other stuff to do with that money… it pains me. Here's the other project bike in my area. Also $600.
>>17149965
I do a good one before rolling out at the beginning of the week, and when I get home for the week. In between, I just check lights + tires + coupling + fluids and eyeball the engine bay/suspension.
>>17150843
Pop the hood a bit more often than that, you should.
>>17150960
Neither have I. Skyline does it every weekend. Kek.
>>17151192
Well played Celadon't
>>17151240
wut

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>>17150843
Pretty much same. But I have to check my oil every other day because Detroit 60 series runs off of it. Never check my release though. But I put tension on it when I park.

Also, goddamn Pajeet. Get it together.

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>can't see the trailer number from the mirror
Who thought this was a good idea?

>>17151535
Why is this an issue?

>>17149785
>truck that arrived hours after me are now leaving
reeeeeeeeee

>>17151264
Lel when I drive those shitty ass old 1997 Internationals we have, I'm always hoping they have a bad oil leak or some shit so I can seize the engine on those fuckers.

But I don't do much of a pre-trip either as long as I have the same truck. I make sure my tires have air, check the lights, and check oil levels every week or two depending on the tractor.

>>17151494
Nice thing about big diesel engines tho, even if you burn a quart of oil a day, you still have like a week between "Full" and "Add".

>>17151674
Yeah I drop a gallon or so in every couple weeks. Nothing too bad.

>>17151761
Good try bitch, now plz go

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>when you go shopping at Iowa 80 and then can't remember where you parked

>>17149513
What's this wrecked axle business in the op.

>>17151880
Across the street at the pilot because I get free WiFi there.

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>>17152026
Going out to a job on a logging haul road last weekend, I hit some bad washboard and broke a shock mount on one of the drive axles, which bent the air suspension valve shut, deflating the air bags more and more with each bump.

The increased pounding of the road before I could slow down enough, with no air suspension broke a couple of bolts on the fan hub, causing the fan to rub against the shroud if I went any faster than 50 km/h.

I use shower credits just to poop

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>>17152709
>not posting the better version

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I got a serious question for ya'll: do you need a CDL to drive just the cab part of a truck? Seems like a comfy way to tour the country.

>>17152951
If that's genuinely a serious question, then you're seriously retarded. An actual idiot wouldn't be dumb enough to ask such an idiotic question.

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>>17145164
>tfw buy $175 half ounces from a 60 year old boomer and they always invite me to stay for dinner

how do you guys tell between a straight 6 or a v8 i can't tell what engine i have on my 2012 durastar. all i know it's made by international directly

>>17151494
My S60 was up to 6 gallons a day the week it let go. Bumped the fuel economy average on my IFTA up 0.7mpg.

>>17151535
The head mechanic that wanted your dumb ass to get out and see if the air lines were still there once in a while.

>>17151664
Just piss in the sump.

>>17153222
If it was made after 1980 it's an I6.

I play on my phone so much when I drive I accidentally hit the back button to downshift sometimes

>>17153762
#justautomatictruckdriverthings

>>17154443
Except I have a manual 10 speed...

Fresh cdl school graduate here, so i tried trucking but i'm not sure i'm cut out for it, after being with my company for a few weeks and getting around 55/275 hours of training i've had issues with driving around dense traffic and paying attention to the qualcomm+rand mcnally gps/mirrors/signage/traffic/mirrors/etc. plus missing exits and shit as well as a shitload of near misses hitting four wheelers.

I scared my trainer a lot and decided to quit my company dealing with a 2000 mile bus ride home from indiana->california, i just feel like a dangerous as fuck driver...

>>17153222
V8s have a deep rumble that penetrates through the floor and makes you moist.
I6 is everything that doesn't.

>>17154479
Then you are genuinely retarded.

>>17155387
You're just now figuring this out...?

>>17153093
>175 half oz
either you live in a shitty place for buying green or you're getting ripped the fuck off. I get a half for 110 Canada bucks

>>17155687
Of what?

I haven't even bought anything in forever, but $160-$180 is normally straight for some dispensary grade if you aren't in a medical state. And like 10 years ago before everybody started legalizing it, people would be charging $400+ for that one batch that is the cream of the crop but that shit was stupid.

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>>17155387
>>17155675

>>17155864
110 will get me a half oz of dispensary grade weed from bc in Manitoba and in bc I can get it even cheaper. When I finished high school I had a guy who would sell me basically medicinal grade shit for 160 an oz

>>17155997
You don't have many niggers in Canada. Or Nancy Reagan

>>17155997
Must be a location thing. It'd about 160-200 for a 1/2 of good shit where I live.

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>>17156040
no Niggers but more bucket heads than you could possibly imagine

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We shaking freight again
>estimate for the swap was $5500
>total was $10,500
>jewed them down to $8900
>still had to go to a dealer to get the ECM reprogrammed
Looks like I've got some 70 hour weeks coming up to dig me out of that $13,900 hole.

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>>17156219
They're our regional blend of nigger.

>MFW unsurprisingly the new truck got delayed again till late next week

>>17155387

Please
Remember
I'm
Missouri
Educated

I
Need
Counseling

>>17145968

Chicken and butter isn't vegan tho.

Found a really cool Mom and Pop truck stop. I-65, The Tennessean Truck Stop it's just before you hit Alabama. Always has parking and the buffet is legit.

Also the lady who owns the Iowa 80 died two days ago. ;___;

>>17156807
Is that the one that blasts channel 19 for 100 air miles with "nanner-nanner-nanner puddin'", or was that in Kentucky?

>>17156784
Neat, so what became of the truck's guts? Same tranny + new engine? Rebuilt engine?

>>17156807
>Chicken and butter
Mm. I thought the veganism was a part of that fun with namefaggery before you became a proper tripfag, like being friends with lots of Muslims.

>>17156784
Good to hear you're finally back on the road.
>13,900 Freedom Currencies
What is the extra 5k from, above the swap? The tow and all the incidentals?

>>17156880
>>17156996
New motor, same trans. Extra was wrapped up in new hoses and a clutch, and shuffling around parts between motors and getting the wiring harness straightened out. Old motor is sitting on a cradle ready to get hauled back to ZF's work on Monday.

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>tfw they assign the lazy eyed alcoholic to do a DOT on your trailer
>he tries to upsell you on bullshit that has nothing to do with a DOT inspection

Somethings wrong with the AC in my truck, I keep complaining to my cumknee about it, and over the past 2 months, 2 terminal-enrolled knuckle dragging grease monkies, a TA service center, and finally even a fucking dealership have all "tried" and failed to fix it.
What's a way I can ruin, or at least incapacitate, this piece of shit without it being so obviously deliberate that I'd get fired, so they'll have to put me in a new truck?
Someone recommended putting DEF in the fuel tank but that would be clearly my fault. I've been trying to grind down my reverse gear but that's not working, or it's at least taking too long.

>>17158596
Cut the driveshaft hanger bolts. Once it lets go at speed there won't be any evidence left.

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>>17158933
Criminal scum.

Went to The Keg for supper tonight because I'm taking my reset away from home. Prime rib, lobster and 3 beers for 86 dollars. Sometimes it's nice to eat like a king when you work like a dog, ie. a sand nigger.

>>17142317
looks like the backyard every time it rains in the house i bought recently.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/traffic/interstate-15-open-after-fatal-head-on-collision-near-lamb/

>Please be that smug cunt.

>>17159309
Which one, the vegan nerd with a bad back, or the Nazi that still lives with his mom and doesn't know how to secure a load?

>>17159530
Why not both?

>>17160117
cause we aren't allowed nice things.
>>17158933
i feel this may be too drastic an option..and has a very high chance of grenadeing a fully loaded truck on a road i drive on..couldnt we just break some lines on the ac? or just add some Freon?

>>17159309
> Car driver killed
> Truck driver has minor injuries, not hospitalised
Daily reminder to car drivers that trucks will turn you into a fucking pancake with a speed differential.

>>17161452
Regular old braindead cagers just don't think "Oh hey that truck probably weighs 30 tons laden, better give him heaps of space to haul that motherfucker up if he needs to"
>Pulls out in front of freighter and sits on 20mph

It boggles my fucking mind.

>>17161465
Pancakes gonna pancake, apparently.

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>>17161470
>Anon, trucks sometimes don't even feel a collision with a car at low speeds
>>That's absurd, of course they can, how could they not?
>They're huge, heavy and cars are not huge and not heavy
>>That's just wrong, I'll bet that's just stories spread by truckers to avoid court cases or something
>No, this is just simple physics

Their face when.

>>17161486
Show people the article linked, and the youtube footage of a eurotruck pushing a small car along sideways because it got caught in the blind spot after trying to get too close. Or the ameritruck dragging a car caught in the trailer for miles.

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>>17161498
http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/01/19/341499445780462014/640x360_MP4_341499445780462014.mp4

>>17161486
I wonder how many things I've hit and not even known it.

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>>17161486
This retarded driver... did I mention he's retarded?

Well he was turning out of a parking lot and hit a parked car so bad that he spun it around 90deg in the spot, and it ended up hitting another car that got pushed slightly into one more car. So he fucked up 3 parked cars. They were on the driver's side of his trailer when he did it too and he drove away.

But even not being retarded, it is true. Cars get crumpled so easily that when this Pilot got rekt I never even felt it but I had my window down and heard the metal crunching so I stopped.

>>17158933

Thats complicated. Just tie a piece of rope around the main air/electrical line bundle and leave it near the drive shaft. If it gets sucked in at highway speeds shafts are known to suck wires all the way from the engine. Unless its some really expensive unit, its an easy way to write a truck off, the cost to even have someone redo the airlines kills it.

>>17161486
Some truck driver clipped and killed a lady with his trailer and there was a huge media frenzy about it because the driver left the scene claiming that he had no idea he even hit anyone. People were calling him a liar

>>17161163
Don't add freon, add oil. Nothing throws A/C techs through a loop like a gallon of compressor oil in the system.

>>17155687
>>17155864
Top tier shit in the Louisiana boonies, so yeah it's a hell of a deal in my case.

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Murrica!!!

>>17163069
Go in the water and cool off. Or are you unable to swim?

>>17163107
I'm wearing jeans and I don't want to get them wet

>tfw Pepsi is actually a good swimmer and played water polo in HS

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>>17163117
>Jeans on the beach
Peppu, y u do dis?

>>17162210
I mean, we've all dragged and subsequently killed a person or two with our trailers over a span of fifteen to twenty miles, right guys?

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>>17161498

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>>17161498
>it's the year 2017 and American trucks STILL don't have side underride protection mandated on them

>>17163661
Hell, you could even combine it with improved aerodynamics these days.

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>>17163666
Ground effect just like F1 in the 80s.

>>17163666
Wat

If someone were to buy a retired company truck, where would they have to go to get the speed and idle limiters removed? Do you have to go to a dealership, or one of those diesel doctors?

>>17163107
Niggers don't know how to swim

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>>17163069
That looks so crowded. Look at the how near vacant this Australian beach is.

I mean you only have to dodge the dingos, snakes, bird eating spiders, stingrays, irukandji and man o war jelly fish to enjoy the beach.

>>17164313
any shop or dealership. its a setting on the computer.

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>>17163217
Air show

>>17165033
Once again, it's the air show so everybody there is watchin planes.

i want the honest truth, how hard is to receive and maintain endorsements?

the number of times i get fucked in 3PL by drivers who aren't endorsed in this and that is crazy

>>17156827

Kentucky. I never heard any of that on the way down.

>>17159530

back is fine now, but I am a total vegan nerd so you get two out of three, not bad.

>tfw got comfy hook and book Walmart run and a date with a redhead vegan nerdess with nice tits afterward

>tfw probably won't get laid

I LOVE YPI GUAS MAN. IA ALAOVE YOU ALL

WE DONT SAY IT ENOIGH

>>17166467
If you really meant it, you wouldn't complain about toungue punching my fartbox.

>>17165366
20 bucks and a multiple choice quiz?

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I have been trapped behind these dumb fucks for the last hour

>>17143273
Where in Mass? I'm looking to buy one.

>>17163069
>All those people in the water with their shirts on

kek

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>tfw delivery at 9am
>dispatch tells me they don't have a loading dock
>this is going to be interesting.jpg
>get there
>no loading dock just like they said
>i dont have a liftgate
>they dont have a forklift
>got 8 pallets with 20x 15kg boxes on each
>i ask them how they want to do this
>they tell me they are just going to break down the pallets and unload the boxes one by one
>tell them ok have fun
>mfw sitting in my cuckshed shitposting on 4chan and 40 mins later they still arent halfway done and one of them just left for some reason

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>tfw start at 3, done by noon
ezpz

Do you guys ever feel pathetic when thinking about how much more weight Australian truckers tow?

>>17167913
not as pathetic as Australians must feel thinking about how much better America is

Jesus Christ, driving in Laredo is like those Russian/Indian dash board cam videos. Half of the cars are held together with bailing wire and they treat traffic signals/signs/lines as sort of recommendations

>>17168179
Lel come to Miami

>>17156784
Is your truck automatic? I've always wanted to be a trucker but have 0 interest in shifting gears, and yes I know how to drive a manual.

How did lumping become a thing? Why do I have to pay your employees to unload your freight for you?

>>17169462
Because of how pathetic America is. So much shit in USA is an added extra, when in 1st world countries it is a standard.

>>17169585
>he thinks he's a first world country but he doesn't even understand how a free market works
Lumpers aren't employees. What's pathetic is how quick not-Americans are to try to compare themselves to America, meanwhile, we forget other countries exist because of how irrelevant they are

>>17169831
This reminds me of those America-hate threads where Europeans have to purposely hold back all the asinine laws and regulations they are plagued with to not seem like complete cucks.

>mfw bunch of euros are hating on the USA in a thread
>mfw one of them accidentally slips out that they arent allowed to idle in their country because of environmental regulations

>>17169831
Subpar? More like efficient. No point in wasting time teaching kids information they don't need.
>Europe's spark notes
>used to be known for its art, culture, food, etc, is now a Muslim country
>Australia's spark notes
>kangaroos
World Geography made easy

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Think I saw my old motor for the last time today. Turbo looked borked. Shop is still trying to figure out why my cruise isn't working.

>>17164313
A dealership. On the off chance that the ECM is password protected a shop will make 3-5 guesses and give up. A dealership can bypass and reset the password.

>>17165366
Everything but hazmat takes 10 minutes and $20.

>>17168787
Yep. They make everything through 18 speeds available in automatic. Got a new back box and clutch on it and now it's smooth as butter.

>you have to go through three years of schooling to be a truck driver in germany
fuck that shit

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>>17165010

>Drove with differntial lock on for a day 1/2
>Worried that I fucked something up

Hold me.

>tfw home every weekend. Have whole weekend off and still earn more than an American cuckbox driver

MUH FREEDOM'S
>not even in the top 5
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

LMAO

USA is just an Orwellian nightmare.

>>17170090
Kek.

I forgot about Spark Notes. I told my junior year Lit teacher how I haven't actually read a book in years because of Spark Notes and she was so sad.

>>17170418
How many tight turns did you make? Worst thing is maybe you wore out the tires a bit.
>drivin Jeep in the snow
>4wd high wit dem locked diffs
>pull into dry parking garage
>make tight turn
>SCREECH!!!!

>>17170091
>drives an automatic truck
>ginger bear
>feline enthusiast
110% lady proof

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This cock blanket rolled his shit into a ditch. He was ahead of me at the island and pulled up. Got out and started walking in. There wasn't really much I could do. I just watched it.
Tried to pull him out
Because I'm the coolest person in he world but it wouldn't budge.

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>>17170494
And Texas sucks. I hate my life.

>>17170494
If he had super singles like The Best™ he would be out of there in no time.

>>17170503
Texas is awesome, except for Houston, El Paso, and everything on I35.
I recently took a dedicated position going back and forth between Laredo and OKC, I very quickly realized why they couldn't keep drivers on that lane.
>you mean I'll make more and get more home time? Wow what a great deal

>>17170494
A for effort but he's sitting on his tanks. he's fucked.

>>17170456

Not many. All interstate from Nogalez to Arvada, Co. Pulled off into a rest area twice and a truckstop once for fuel.

>>17170494
This is the guy who calls dry van drivers "door swingers" and thinks he's hot shit because he spent 10 minutes fiddling with some straps

>>17167470
>Franklin, MA

You fucking faggot someone from /o/ lives down the road from me and I didn't know about it?

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Boys I did 750 miles today and now I'm waiting on a 800 tomorrow appointment 10 miles away. Walked down to the local brewery and feeling pretty fine!
I bet TF knows exactly where I am
>>17170551
Fuck ypu, doorswinger

>>17170494
Inb4 you get sued for helping out a fellow American

>the tanks weren't ruptured until he tried to pull me out the ditch

>>17170849
Nice sissy legs

>>17170937
>t. jealous door swinging cpm-cuck that literally can't afford to stop and take a piss, let alone lounge around

>>17170937
Fuck ypu, doorswinger

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>>17170503
You suck fucking fagget

>>17170849
I want to cum on those legs.

>>17153222
2012 durastar will either be maxxforce or more likely a dt460.

>>17170849
Those are some pretty girly legs.

>Daily reminder that people paid cents per mile are literally scum of the earth, and deserve awful working conditions

>dispatch promised receiver I'd be there this morning.
>In Portland.
>From Birmingham.
>Loaded out Friday morning.
>2600mi in 38hrs because that's what Google maps said it'd take.

>>17170996
>>17171003
More like hose connector, who gets paid to shower twice daily.

Owing a gun is a right, but having proper and quality medical care is a privilege.

>>17171377
Why cant you just drive for 38hrs? Google says it is able to be done.

t. Dispatch

>>17170849
are you gay or something? why the fuck do you keep posting your feminine ass legs here. it's making us uncomfortable

>>17170503
is it just two straps holding that ladder/stair stepper thing down?

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>>17168179
Just wait until Texas gets rid of yearly inspections next year.

>>17170521
Are y'all hiring? I'd do that in a heartbeat

>>17171679
>he doesn't realise trucking is a gay man's job

Why do you think there are so many male truck drivers?

>>17171670
Pretty much what I go through with her once or twice a week. Fucked up thing is the company has a policy that they schedule for 50mph. That works out to 68mph. Not achievable in a truck capped at 70.

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Spotted this in Pennsylvania. They get away with this but if we have incorrect spacing on our straps we get fined.

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>>17171829
>being a cuckedpermiles loser
>expecting to be treated like a real human hourly employee
Back to the cuckshed you go.

>>17171657
You missed >>>/pol/ by a longshot.

>>17171862
Flatbed cowboy. I don't do cpm. They can't afford me.

>>17170503
>strapping over the rub rail
Absolutely disgusting.

>>17171883
>implying he's wrong

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how dumb is it to buy a truck with not a whole lot of experience? I just started driving last summer but have a lot of connections in my area and think I'd be able to do okay as an o/o.

and on a semi-related note does anyone know anything about glider kits going away? I know there are always some rumors going around but someone was trying to tell me that they're making it so that now you can't buy one unless you bought one last year, and next year they'll have to meet 2011 emissions standards or something. I can't find a single thing confirming or really even hinting toward this and I'm guessing he's just being a stupid fuck, but can anyone confirm?

>>17171679
mostly I do it to make insecure faggots like you uncomfortable

>>17172343
>semi-related note
kys pls

Seriously, though, glider kits have been "going away" for the past 6 years, and what people fail to realize is that if you buy any truck it will be grandfathered in and you'll be able to get it registered and go anywhere except California.

As far as the whole boondoggle goes, it really depends on the individual. I've known guys who are killing it and making six figure incomes, and I know guys who blew their life savings, lost the house and had to go back to working at Prime or something. At the very least in this industry, you always got that fallback.

>>17172343
Companies like Swift, Knight, Celadon, and Werner are struggling to stay afloat, what makes you think it'd be a good idea to jump into that scene? O/Os keep complaining about cheap freight taking muh jobs meanwhile the companies are losing money to, I just wonder how it's possible that no one is making money

The Driver shortage is a myth.

>>17172493
>semi-related note
I didn't even realize I did that. I'm sorry. I'll go

>>17172693
Put on the dunce cap too.

>>17172516
with the advent of amazon and all the bargain bin online ordering the demand for in store items at box stores and the like have dropped drastically

guess what swift,knight,celadon and werner have as their big clients.

however if you are flatbed or tanker or deliver components to factories you literally have no idea why these drivers are crying so hard.

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post yfw no kenworth

>>17172689
This

If they paid well, they would have heaps of drivers. But no one wants to put 70+ hours in a week for a bit over minimum wage.

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>>17172818
Kek.

>tfw first day of new e-loga
It syncs up with the truck so mostly just have to pre-trip the tractor and trailer and forget about it. Main upside is no more logs if I work over 12hrs. Downside is I can't even idle the truck on my 30 or it counts as driving. But the whole rule that you have to take the 30 before you hit 8hrs, that doesn't count anymore since the logs prove we weren't driving the whole first 8hrs. I could take my 30 11hrs into my shift.

>>17173042
>Downside is I can't even idle the truck on my 30 or it counts as driving.
That's pants on head retarded
>But the whole rule that you have to take the 30 before you hit 8hrs, that doesn't count anymore since the logs prove we weren't driving the whole first 8hrs. I could take my 30 11hrs into my shift.
The 8 hour works like the 14, not the 11, in that it's constantly draining from the time you start. If you start your PTI at 0800, you have to take a 30 minute break at our before 1600, it doesn't matter if you drove 7¾ hours or 1.

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>>17171902
It's a fully boxed and rated rub rail home slice. My kingpin will fall off before the rubrail gives.

>>17173321
Idk, Pepsi claims it's different. We still have to take the 30 if we work over 12hrs but I guess for short haul since we aren't driving that whole 8hrs, it doesn't matter.

Sounds strange to me too and they will probably backpedal on it after the first DOT audit.

This shitty as automatic t880 licks dick have to "manually" shift it or it revs way to high

>Got shitty load in a border town near New Mexico
>Its produce and the load belongs to a broker
>Guy wants me to be their by 19:00
>It's 3:23 where I am and at least a 5 1/2 hour drive in my cuckshed
>Tell him I wont be there until 08:00
>He just says go there at 06:00 in the morning to get loaded
>Wait nearby and start my clock to head in that morning
>Place isn't open
>They don't open until 10am
>There goes my day
>Finally check in
>They tell me tl go wait in a lot down the street
>Wait there for two hours before I start calling
>They said theyll call me when ready
>Broker is now blowing up phone
>Tells me I need to jump on it and hes been calling over there all morning
>I tell him that they're working on it
>He fucks off for a bit and another 2 hours pass
>Growing really impatient now
>Broker calls back now saying that my dispatcher is an idiot and trying to start a fight
>Tell him that I will go back myself and hung up
>Get to office and find out that they never had a broker call them
>Nobody told them I wasn't coming yesterday
>They canceled the load that same morning and never bothered telling me
>Broker gets me another load
>I actually get loaded and leave
>Decide to call ahead to the receivers to check the details
>Broker set the appointments the following morning as I'm 1,300 miles away
>Call him up and he tells me that the shipper makes appointments
>Call his bullshit
>Dispatch decides to rip his lying ass a new one
>I end up making my own appointments with Sams and tell the broker to fuck off
>Delivered it and found out the same morning that my dispatcher was fired
>Broker recorded their argument and complained to my company
>They bought his shitty story even though the broker is a compulsively lying douchebag

Brokers are the true scum of the earth and my company is shit. I need a different job.

>>17171690
It sure is. Literally 3 times required securement for its weight. And before you say it's long enough to require 3 straps. It isn't. Look at the actual wheelbase of said ladder not the overhang.

In the off chance was wrong though.
Yeah I just don't care. It road 1200 miles without moving an inch

>>17173505
Just seems like a shitty way to tie it down. Looks like all vertical pressure. I would have something on the ends too

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>post yfw scale is closed

>>17169462
Why do you have to pay the waitress extra to deliver your food to the table?
Why do you have to pay the pizza guy extra to deliver the pizza?
Why do you have to pay the taxi driver extra to not kidnap you?

>>17169902
>asinine laws and regulations they are plagued with
Tell me again why you should be legally allowed to marry your cousin?

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>>17173623

>>17173655
You don't. You reward for excellent service.

>>17173655
>Why do you have to pay the waitress extra to deliver your food to the table?
You don't
>Why do you have to pay the pizza guy extra to deliver the pizza?
You don't
Lumpers aren't employees to begin with. The entire point of a lumper is that they don't work there.

3rd week of percentage pay so far not bad at all except for the fact that rock quarrys close at fucking 430

>>17173689
>The entire point of a lumper is that they don't work there
So why are they on the premises? Can any itinerant fucktard just waltz into a loading bay and demand money to unload trucks badly?

>>17173997
Lumpers don't have to make minimum wage, they don't have to have health insurance or worker's comp, no union, etc
It's a great deal for the receiver. All they have to do is own the dock.

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>>17173623
mfw

>>17174016
But if they're not employees, how do you make sure they don't wander off with the stock or equipment?

Here in the first world, there are full-time employees with minimum wage, free healthcare, state pension, union membership, company pension, and strong labour laws.

>>17174032
>But if they're not employees, how do you make sure they don't wander off with the stock or equipment?
I don't know, not my problem. Some lumpers own their own equipment, so even if you wanted to unload it yourself, you couldn't.
>Here in the first world, there are full-time employees with minimum wage, free healthcare, state pension, union membership, company pension, and strong labour laws.
We have all that too but we also have a free market and our companies have the freedom to choose whether or not they want to buy into all that stuff. If you can get your product unloaded without having to pay employees to do it and have all the stuff associated with having employees, you reduce your operation costs and maximize profits. It's a free market. But hey, we only have the strongest economy and largest GDP in the world so what do we know

>>17172343
Even with 2+ years experience a first year O/O is going to struggle to gross $100k, and with your lack of experience you're going to end up throwing $25k+ at insurance alone vs $10k or so for a more experienced driver. On top of the $10-20k a new used truck is going to suck down getting buttoned up in the first year, plus a conservative $35k you're going to blow on fuel, if you're ok with making $0.25/mi net profit or less (truck payment and IFTA aside), go for it.

>>17173458
Has nothing to do with sucking in the rails and everything to do with Swift getting spooked in a crossover and ripping the straps off your trailer instead of just scuffing the DOT tape.

>>17173463
>listening to pepsi instead of just reading the regulations
Good luck on the roadside.

>>17173477
Sounds like the clutch spring pockets are shot.

>>17173494
Was the broker from florida? He sounds familiar.

>>17174199
Right, and all these expensive start up costs are why leasing a truck is such a good idea that you should do instead.

>>17174072
>strongest economy
LMAO!

>>17174826
>195 countries in the world
>USA alone accounts for 25% of the global economy
>entirety of EU makes about 18%
I just now realized why everyone calls it "yuropoor"

Is in between the side extenders a good place to store load bars? I've seen some people with them put there, y'know, with the load bar extended holding itself in place, but I'm paranoid it might slip or something and fall.

>>17174199
I try not to work over 12hrs anyway. If I really do hit 12hrs for some crazy reason, I will be back at the yard by then.

>>17174875
Nice growth you have there.

LMAO!
Ameridumbs

>>17174875
13% of that is from one state. California.

Really makes you think, huh.

>>17175113
Calexit when.

>>17175113
Not really, considering it's the most populated state, and second largest of the continental states. It's 12% of the population, so 13% of the economy is expected.
Why does the EU have twice as many citizens as the US but a smaller economy?

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>>17175180
>>17174875

Keep fuckin'em up the butt, better than the shit on TV; these arguments I swear.

>>17175180
The EU is full of poor countries like Poland and Italy. Cut it down to the major economies, and you have a GDP per population similar or greater than the US.
The MAJOR problem is that we ripped the shit out of our industrial base twice in the space of a few decades, then set fire to everything and lost half of the continent to communism for 50 years.
Imagine if all the major american cities were nuked, and then the west coast seceded for a few decades. Your economy would be dead after that.
On top of all that, it's only recently that continental Europe hasn't had a major war every few decades to kill off all the excess population, so we're now paying for an ageing population.

>>17175180
Why cant the USA economy have just as much, if not more growth than the eurozone economy? Especially considering it has twice the population?

>its another ignorance is strength display by the USA episode

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>flyover cucks only see Cali in a good light when they brag about its prosperity to yuropoors
Calexit when?

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Lots of aesthetic work on the Kenworth in the last couple of days.

Sanded down and repainted the burner with high temp paint, painted the bottom of the tank, and polished a bunch of the chrome and aluminum.

Drive rims are supposed to be getting done by machine in the next couple of days.

>>17174390

>Not doing a lease purchase

It's like you don't want to be Driven By The Best (tm)

>>17169462

Cliffnotes version.

Back in the glory days, the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) ruled that grocers couldn't charge drivers to unload their freight. The grocers all got together and agreed to terminate their lumpers, but at the last minute made them all independent contractors and at the same time defunded the ICC, which is essentially what FMCSA is today. These guys all kept their jobs and went O/O in the lumper world and when you would show up to unload they would gather around your truck and bid on a rate to unload you.

Some places still do a watered-down version of this, I went to a Giant where they had lumpers assigned to doors and the lumpers would make you an offer on your unload rate and you could haggle with them. Since I Drive For The Best(tm) we don't pay lumpers The Best(tm) does.

The more you know.

>>17172343
My company uses gliders exclusively. Way easier and more reliable than DErP equipped models. As far as I've heard it's not down to the manufacturing date of the cab, chassis, etc. it's all about the drivetrain and when it was built.

>89,000 pounds
>scale lady old cunt says to go dump some off

This is bullshit fuck these cheap ass play doh tier roads

>>17172768
Not really. Swift picked up flatbed so I'm seeing a lot of stuff we haul going down by .25-30cpm.

>>17174946
It's marginally legal and can break the fairings. Strapped to the frame or catwalk with marked WLL straps, or in a load lock caddy are the safest and most legal options.

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Manlet savior came in the mail today

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I guess my main discharge line was the one leaking under the cab. It finally blew so I walked to freightliner and picked up a new one.

>>17176128
I'd like to blow your discharge line, bby ;)

>>17173494
Oh, so a slightly easier than usual produce load then. Carry on.

>>17176146
HANDS OFF!

He is mine. I'm the only one allowed to suck his chode.

>>17176128
Just retire it. It's trying to tell you that it has had enough of this world.

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>>17176214
kek, after dumping $14k into the thing, I don't think he's going to give up on it over a $14 length of hose

>>17176211
It's not a chode. There's a whole inch difference between the length and girth.

>>17176214
Just put a motor in it, m8. It's got years of abuse to come.

>>17176233
It was 2 hoses and a fitting. $161

>>17176249
I guess that's what happens when you buy oem

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>>17173623
>implying I wasn't going to run the scale anyway

I always weigh my loads on the CAT scale so it's legal and still run the DOT scales. Come get me pig faggot. I'm legal and this truck is in prime condition.

>>17176089
The fuck is that

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>>17176233
>No visible legs
Who are you, and what have you done with Freon?

>>17176128
>>17176249
Wew lad, hopefully it's smooth sailing from now on with the ol' Pussy-Wagon.

>>17176314
Make sure to refer to the scale officers as "pig-faggots" to their faces, to set the tone of the interaction.

>>17176089
What truck is this?

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>>17173623
>tfw drive by scales early enough to never worry about the 50k load of rebar haphazardly strapped down or the shoddy trailers I haul

>>17176287
Steel braided lines are spendy.

>>17176239
Diff rebuild next month.

Cap this post.

>>17176635
Probably. Wrecker left the axles in the rain and the first shop put them in the wrong diffs.

>>17176239
>It's not a chode. There's a whole inch difference between the length and girth
We need proof.

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>>17176645
Why not just buy a new truck like EF?
Don't you make like a million a year or something?

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>>17176645
>>17176635
Just don't let ZF near them.

>MFW this truck will look like shit again by this time next year if my mentor is left to his own devices

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>>17176334
Unfortunately I'm not nude 24/7...disappointing, I know

>>17176755
bc if he bought a new truck his fuckbuddy wouldnt of made 7% commission on parts and labor

>>17176649
Cum see for yourself, big boi :^)

>>17176755
New truck, new problems.

>>17176809
I don't think she's getting any closer to my truck than an invoice for the next year or so.

>>17176834
3.5% commission on parts + $14/hr, iirc

>>17176895
>3.5% commission on parts + $14/hr, iirc
And some free pussyfulls of cum.

>mfw I have less then 7 weeks to get my CDL before Ontario has mandatory driving classes
>I haven't taken a trailer down the road yet and my shifting is sloppy

wew. I'm hoping I can fudge the rules and get this shit done with a short pintle hitch trailer with air brakes. That I can managed fine. Having to jam a 45 foot trailer behind the only tractor I have available won't be so easy.

Thanks, Ontario

>>17177110
>I haven't taken a trailer down the road yet and my shifting is sloppy
You went to a school that starts you out on a bobtail!?

>>17177163

No, I'm learning as I go since I can drive a straight truck and bobtail by my self. On July 1st Ontario is instituting mandatory driver training at 3rd party driving schools before you can do anything. Before, all you had to do was pass the written test, drive with a person who's had their full license for at least 5 years, and take the road test in a year. Can't do that anymore.

>>17176325
A fifth wheel hook i use it to tarp loads though

>>17176334
T880

Bumpin

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Why do people back in? It just cracks me up.

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>>17142317
Anyone here a Garbage Dump Trucker Driver???

What is/was it like?

>>17179307
I'm pretty sure that the alcoholic who works for waste management and drives into ditches all the time still lurks here

>>17179256
so we dont have to back out.

>>17179256
When you back it in, you know whats behind you.

>>17174199

No, from commiefornia.

>>17179394
>>17179411
I remember when I was new

>>17179586
You still are, you cocksure fucking retard.

>>17179597
Nah m8. I've been rolling since '16.

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>>17179615

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>>17179615
you started in 16? i figured youd been out longer. shit ive been out longer than you. fuck i think whiney has been out longer than you..

>>17180001
Everyone has. He's actually the newest driver on the board, and he's so goddamned he fucks something up pretty much every week.

>>17180001
What ever happened to whiney? Did dht convert him??

I've gotten like four lifetimes of experience in the two weeks I've been solo

>>17180021
I think he's been out murdering hookers and pretending to be a good boy.

>>17163745
Trailer skirts.

>>17180232
But those never showed verifiable aerodynamic benefits in testing. That's why California had to mandate them on the basis of road spay reduction.

>>17180528
And yet they're appearing on eurotrucks all over.

>>17180528
Back when I was with Roehl, I pulled a curtainside with skirts this one time. The best part was being able to pop a squat and take a piss underneath.

This is what they meant by "spray reduction", right?

>>17180600
They've already got pig disgusting underride protection. Cover that shit up. Eurotrucks don't even go fast enough for aero to matter.

>>17180717
Probably.

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Why don't people understand how to park. Maybe I should do a workshop on the weekends for these scrubs

Is Old Dominion a horrible company? I used to see a lot more of them last decade

>>17180861
It's terminal work. They have a lot of shit drivers.

>>17180021
He's masturbating to Japanese cartoon porn featuring a robot pop singer modelled after a teenage girl as I type this.

In one week i have hauled a pneumatic tanker and reefer as well as drove a dump truck and end dump

>>17180960
I do that and drive and shit post all at the same time, so that's no excuse

>>17177163
Yes. You should Learn shifting first and concentrate on it. Instead of trying to learn shifting and lane positioing/turning at The same time.

>>17179256
They have skills. Unlike the prime example.

>>17182155
t. literally a wimpy baby

anyone here /local/?

>>17182903
/aroundtownclown/ represent

>>17182265
K

No wonder american drivers are so shit

>>17182155
No, it's best to learn all of the aspects of driving from the beginning, rather than separately and having to mix them together later on. That way you don't build up any bad habits before starting with trailers - like turning from the curb lane and taking out a pole. It's easier to adjust to not having a trailer than it is the opposite.

>>17183108
No

>>17180861
>>17180880
My old neighbor in IL worked for them forever and he said it was a decent gig. ~$25/hr, 50hrs a week, doesn't lift shit, Mon-Fri. If I stayed up there I would be askin him to put in the good word for me.

>>17183108
Must be the reason why fatal truck crashes invoving only the truck are much higher on average in USA. Due to the inadequate training and exerience piloting a heavy vechicle.

>>17183108
So you can just jump straight into a roadtrain with a gross weight of 200 T O N N E S and be fine to learn according to your retarded statement.

>>17183607
>200 tonnes
>Roadtrain
>Don't run over the abos
Australian (Convicted Criminal) Detected.

>>17179307

I watched a garbage truck back up somewhere, set his parking brake and get out.

the truck was still in reverse

>>17183607
If you think that's at all what he said, you're the retard.
Shifting is fucking easy as shit in the first place and shouldn't take more than a day to learn. Takes a bit to master it, but you can learn the basic mechanics in a yard somewhere.
Meanwhile, in the trailer department, you start off with an empty trailer and the wheels forward. After you've learned how to control a combination vehicle, you start getting into loaded trailers, tandem placement, and doubles.

Or, if you insist on learning how to shift on a straight truck, which serves really no purpose at all, you'd still be in a yard running through 2~6, so you might as well have a trailer already anyway.
And if you think anyone needs fucking training on driving around in the city in a bobtail, then you must be shilling for some 12 week CDL school

>>17183615
How does a truck stay in reverse once you set the parking brake

>>17183661
Presumably it was an automatic. Either that or the clutch was glassed.

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Guys, guys. I got a bunch of 3s today.