/TFG/ Truckerfag thread

>>17314914
Truckerfag needs to make his bumper match all along.

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>>17314997
>"Buh, but muh empeegees!"
SMDHTBQHFAM

Who ready for national trucker appreciation day?

>>17315006
i got a hat last time. made me happy that somone thought enough about me to give me a hat. then angry that i was only worth a fucking hat.

>tfw no new ak pics

>>17315186
>AK pics
Wat.

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>>17315186

>>17314997
Once I get a new hood, sure, but it hasn't fallen off yet.

>>17315085
I got a hat and a mug. Gave the mug to ZF and got the hat unwearably dirty in a week.

>>17315578
>Hood hasn't fallen off yet
Give it about three weeks.

>>17315610
I've already given it 4 years.

>>17315624
It shows.

Fucking grandpas stuck in a traffic jam bickering, one says if ooida scheduled a this winter, they could have the feds wrapped around their finger in a week, other grandpa says ooida are a bunch of sissies that aren't capable of shit and they know it.
Who's right?

>>17316077
2nd gramps

>>17314997

fpbp

>>17315006

I got a big assed bag of fruit I tore the fuck up. Lasted me a whole week, was good stuff in there too. I had oranges, tangerines, apples, a whole stalk of bananas and some mixed nuts. Some toiletries also. Was a good week, and all the receivers had something for us, one was a Nestle that gave everyone unlimited flavored bottled water take as much as you want

>>17316077

2nd gramps

>Be Primefag
>Tyson pickup in Monett
>Open appt but sales and FM keep asking for ETA
>"When I get there"
>get shower at the terminal, laundry done, some stuff for CVSA rape week
>get empty trailer
>they have new skirts but dumb asses at the trailer shop fresh out of high school or something put the same fucking skirt on both sides
>slide the tandem all the way forward
>CRUNCH
>sure enough, tires hit the skirts
>look around the yard there's like 15 other trailers like this
>crank handle holder missing
>fucking RightWeigh air line hanging and pissing air all over the place

Good thing I'm meticulous on my inspections

>head to Tyson
>sure enough stay until 2am
>am now halfway to 90 and weekend dispatch actually called to see if I would make the appointment time and I'm 330mi away with 12hr to make it

Inspection blitz should be fun at night, been starting my days around 1pm past few weeks

>>17316257
> Fruit
They're pushing the vitamins thing pretty hard with you, aren't they?

Bepis soon to be fishing with McNuggets

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Asked in the last thread but didn't get anything. What should I expect for inspection blitz? Will all the scales and inspection stations be open and working hard 24/7 or should I expect to be randomly pulled over and given a roadside inspection? What are the chances of getting inspected and what can I do to reduce my chance of being inspected? My truck and logs are fine I just have bad anxiety and police can trigger a panic attack. It says this on my medical certificate.

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FLASH YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS AT ME ONE MORE TIME WHEN I'M MERGING BACK INTO THE RIGHT LANE I FUCKING DARE YOU

>>17317383
If it's another trucker, they're letting you know your trailer has cleared their tractor, and you are clear to safely merge, fucksauce.

>>17317482
That's the thing I fucking know when I'm clear and safe fuck them

>>17317482
This. Very useful when setup as roadtrain as mirrors are deceiving over the long distance.

>>17317383
A pussy who drives an auto needs a gun.

>>17317572
Just because you are clear and safe doesn't mean the truck you passed is alright with you swerving your fat ass a few inches in front of their nose.

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Not dead yet, just been all over the middle of BFE Indiana and Ohio
>tfw only poon available is a small landwhale

>>17317364
>What should I expect for inspection blitz?
Bears wall to wall.

>Will all the scales and inspection stations be open and working hard 24/7 or should I expect to be randomly pulled over and given a roadside inspection?
Some states run out of inspection stations and convert rest areas into scales with portables ands 1-12 officers. They're just as happy to do random roadside inspections for infractions like cracked windshields, torn mudflaps, non-functioning lights, crossing the fog line, etc

>What are the chances of getting inspected and what can I do to reduce my chance of being inspected?
They're doing an inspection every few seconds nation-wide this week. If they got that number down to one per second they still wouldnt inspect 1,000,000 trucks, so your odds are under 20%. Recent stickers from clean level I inspections will help get you a wave through at a scale, but the best way to avoid an inspection is to stay off the road.

>My truck and logs are fine I just have bad anxiety and police can trigger a panic attack. It says this on my medical certificate.
The CVSA officers throwing on a badge for the week might take sympathy on a special snowflake with a doctor's note, but the highway patrol and DOT aren't going to let that shit slide. Expect a cab search and pat-down on top of your level I.

>>17317482
Steering wheel holders flash their high beams. Truckers dim their low beams.

>>17317694
>BFE
>Indiana and Ohio
Bruh, you can't go 30 miles without hitting a town in those states. You're abusing BFE and deserve a mouthful of rancid whale pissflaps for it.

Just want to say, thanks for everything you guys do. I couldn't do it, and you guys are the reason why the Western world functions. God bless, you dirty, greasy weirdos.

>>17317743
I wanna know where you've been in these states because I get sent out to the middle of nowhere to a bridge crossing a 3 inch deep creek, that just happens to be 5 hours away from the shop.

>6 hours from receiver
>doesn't deliver until Monday afternoon
>North ft worth, only place to place to park is the forever full pilot since truckers path ruined Cabelas or like 90 miles away in Terrell
Uggghh i guess I'll go finger fuck some guns until cabelas kicks me out

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So what are the most bullshit aspects of the job?

Not sure if I should keep on keeping on in welding/fabrication or if I should stack up some money to go to trucking school. I feel like my personality might be suited to trucking more but I'm not sure at all.

>>17318029
keep on welding,like plumbing its a skill that cant be properly replaced, and if you want to branch out look into diesel mechanic work. youll get all the fun of driving trucks and better pay.

>>17317743
>Steering wheel holders flash their high beams. Truckers dim their low beams
Only in dumbistan where you have 4 ways going when ascending/descending a range. That is the dumbest thing ever.

>>17318164
Welding is already done much better by robots. SAW welding is a classic example.

>>17318207
It's a requirement in many states if you're more than 10 mph slower than the speed limit. Not surprised the steering wheel holder and fendirror user didn't know that.

>>17318320
Yeah. Only in dumbistan. Not surprised that dumbistanians are far too retarded to know how to drive properly and identify potential hazards.

Tell me more about your dumbistan fendirrors.

>>17318320
You just be a good set of pants now and be quiet.

>>17314914
Guy at the Petro gave me a free 32oz Diet Coke last night

>>17317743
>cab search and pat-down
For real? Fuck that shit. I'll always take off cvsa as long as I drive.

>>17318427
Imagine being so insecure that you have to constantly try to belittle other people.
What a pathetic life, being driven purely by the hatred of a country who's so superior to you that they forget you even exist.

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>>17318939
You'll get yours, traitor.

>>17318246
>le robot meme
Only good in some very precise contexts where the job is always the same.
In the vast majority of fabrication situations robots are essentially useless, even SAW

>>17318246
>robots
Read the OP post. Robots are gay.

>>17319408
Robots reproduce asexually, jackass

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What was she thinking when she decided to quit her job at Jim Palmer trucking and pursue a YouTube career making shitty videos of herself and her boyfriend traveling the country via some shitty RV? Given the amount of time she has been there and some of the behind-the-scenes promotions she has done for that trucking company, I imagine her pay was half decent and she would have been financially comfortable moving forward. Not to mention all the side work she has done for those driverless/automated trucking research firms

>>17319507
You're a sexual jackass.

>>17319528
she was thinking i want to be paid for talking and fucking around with my boyfriend instead of sitting in a truck for 14 hours a day driving and shilling for a company who has no interest in me outside of promos.

>>17319117
I should have taken off since I get paid vacation now. Starting next year I'll start taking off every cvsa week for my vacation, now is the perfect time of year to travel around in my new four wheeler too.

>>17319244
>country who's so superior
LMAO!

youre a laughing stock

>>17319941
Good luck with that. They're pushing for 4 a year now.

>>17320000
A laughing stock with the world's largest economy, the world's most significant influence, and the world's most powerful military.
Your country is a nothing and you'll probably be speaking Arabic in ten years.

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>>17319528
>have a dream
>work hard
>achieve dream
I rolled my eyes at Allie as much has everyone else, but she set a goal and accomplished it while managing to convince a bunch of weirdos to semi fund it. 10/10 if you ask me.

Gives me hope that I can avoid turning into a crusty thems was the days supertrucker fuck.

>>17320174
The sooner you accept that you'll never anime to anything, the better. Hope is for presidents and dreams are for people who are sleeping.

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>>17320270
>you'll never anime to anything

>>17320174
lol what dream was that? Affording a $250k rv at the age of 40?

>>17320017
Califonia has the economy. The rest of you are welfare dependant.

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>>17320270
>>17320296
>TFW you'll never get to ride an armored, tankbuster equipped monobike on the surface of Venus

I wish I could anime to something.

>>17320296
WHITE POWER!

>>17320000
Checked, quads don't lie.

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>>17320270
>>17320304
Lawl, stay fucked paycheck to paycheck fags

>>17320445
Now that's some projection. Whoever said anything about living paycheck to paycheck? I'm saving up and I'm retiring early. Call us in 30 years when you finally give up on your impossible dreams but realized it too late and no longer have time to enjoy life because you wasted it on trying to do the impossible. I'll have all day to listen while I drink tea on the porch of my house in the country.

>>17320445
>his dream is to work for 20 years to afford a second hand motorhome

kek

>>17320016
Four days of vacation a year? I think I get a week now and if I stay another year or two it goes to two weeks. I'll have to check.

>>17320481
> Motorhome
Worst of both worlds between hotel and camping.

> Clean your own room
> Carry everything everywhere
> Can't enjoy the drive
> Need to drag another vehicle or run an uneconomical pigfat SUV to tow your room
> Have to clean your own toilet
> Have to empty your own toilet
> Can't just park anywhere
> See the country, 55MPH all the way, fuel stop by fuel stop.
> Insulated away from the experiences you're there to experience

I'll just stick with taking holiday time from my job and going on road trips between booked hotel rooms.

>>17320712
>Four days of vacation a year
>if I stay another year or two it goes to two weeks
Jesus fuck. I get four weeks a year by law, with an additional two weeks if I work public holidays to get overtime and a day's holiday back.

What's weaker, your labour laws or your beer?

>>17320481
The american dream is to work 2 jobs just to stay above the poverty line

>>17320476
You're gonna get cancer and die from it.

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>tfw clients transfer hose is a leaky sonofabitch

I'm just gonna go back into the cab and use the rear camera to monitor the transfer.

>>17321490
What liquid

>>17321445
All the more reason to enjoy life as it is and live in the moment. Why bother wasting time and exhausting effort chasing your "dreams" if you could get cancer tomorrow and be dead in a week? You could die in a car wreck tonight. Jesus could come back in 5 minutes, so why do anything?

>>17321504
Asphalt/Bitumen 380f/193°c

>>17321522
Was hauling rock to a plant last month, i have yet to meet people as big as faggots as asphalt workers but to be fair that is a super shit job

>>17321547
Yeah the plant operators and crews are buttfuck backwards and retarded. It might be a worldwide phenomenon.

Its an easy job hauling the liquid into plants and out to sprayers, just can get messy if your aren't careful.

>>17321517
>Jesus could come back in 5 minutes
I think the world getting hit by another extinction evet sized meteor is far more likely.

>>17321629
Not in the next 5 minutes. They can predict that shit coming months or years in advance. Can't see Jesus from the Hubble

>>17317673

Says the faggot who likes jerking off their vehicle.

Sorry we're not cock hungry like you.

>>17321692
>autofags are this insecure and threatened by a manual

>>17321660
Thus proves jesus isnt real.

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>>17321925
Oh, looks like somebody's in their first semester of college.
A lot of people go through that phase, it's part of being a rebellious young adult. You'll understand when you're older.

>>17321992
K

Better not upset the invisible sky wizard who wants no harm to come to his creations.

Allah Ackbar

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>>17322036
>b-but what if I live a wholesome and fulfilling life while bettering myself and the people around me for nothing!?

>>17322076
I suck dicks

>>17322076
t. Christian terrorist spreading fear and loathing

>>17322124
Eternal suffering for you will be sex with women forever.

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Should I clean my truck for inspection week. My cab is an absolute mess.

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>>17322651
You find the best pics

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>>17322662

>>17322651
>when Mohammad molests you for the 5th time today

>>17322651
No. Leave piss bottles, shitbags and cumrags in plain view or in a place where they would need to handle them to do proper cab inspection.

>>17322760
So they really look in your cab?

>tfw had 4 DAYS OFF in a row
>finally have to go back to work tomorrow
>still up at 12:05am, just made dinner
>gonna get 3hrs of sleep

>>17319254
Bring it fggt

>>17322767
They have every right to and can do without a warrant.

>>17319254
You don't smoke your own product, dude.
You know what I'm sayin.

>>17318207
It's an immediate indication of a large difference in speed for people who may not be paying complete attention. Someone smacking into the back of your truck means your load is late.

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>>17322960
>>17322876
>>17322813
>Being all up on that fat old fuck Coca Cola's dick this much

It's like you don't even want to be a part of Generation Next.

>>17323142
You gotta be very retarded to not know that trucks are slow on inclines and declines. They deserve to run into the back of a truck.

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>But when I G.O.A.L, I can't find them.

>>17323659
But the truck doesn't deserve to be run into, bus rider

>>17323902
Dumb Americans need ro run into trucks, maybe they will learn to drive properly then. Steering wheel attendant.

>>17323902
I bet you don't even use choked king pins.

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>>17322651
Clean the front part and take a shower so they'll think you have your shit together and will wave you through. But if they pull you in and dare to open the curtain to the sleeper berth it needs to look as much like pic related as possible.

https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph55ff4c43a8b3b

Why don't you have a toolkit in your truck?

>>17324010
Steering wheel holder is the worst "insult" that only morons use.
Yeah, I hold the steering wheel. That's how you steer almost every wheeled vehicle. If you didn't attend the wheel, you'd go in a straight line until you hit something.
And another thing, bus rider, rider of buses, the hazards work both ways. 4 wheelers put their hazards on when driving under the limit to make them more noticeable as well. This is something that any trucker would know but apparently I have to spell it out for you since you don't know how to drive.

>>17324056
Because Fleet.

I thought about it for little shit but my truck gets used by other people and it would disappear. Plus the lawyers for these companies don't want drivers going anywhere near the trucks with tools like that.

>>17324086
This only happens in dumbistan. Dusmistanian. You know this as you are a resident of said dumbistan.
And you spelled it out as you are a dumbistan resident who doesnt know how to drive.

>>17324086
Bus rider is the worst "insult" that only morons use.
Yeah, we get it. You ride the short bus and have a fascination with it. If you didn't ride the bus you wouldn't get to your special school to read the books about the big trucks.

>>17324086
I wonder why ypu don't see this 4ways flashing on the autobahn unless the vehicle is stopped/broken down? Its a much bigger differential in speeds there. Maybe it is because we actually know how to drive. Unlike resident of the USA who need shiny flashy things to keep their minimal mental capacity aware of the task they are doing.

>>17324086
I'm glad you admit to being a steering wheel attendant. You certainly aren't an operator.

>>17324147
Sure thing, "steering wheel operator"

>>17324151
You can operate a steering wheel. I'm glad you can at least do that. But you still arent an operator.

Sure is supertrucker in here.

>>17324161
>tfw no smartwheel so cant even operate steering wheel, only turn it

FML

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>>17314914
Am here, soon to be running teams.

>Driver I met in Hutchins has same Shure load heading to Wheeling, IL
>Meet up at consignee evening before delivery
>Go to Asian market with food court
>Power level hidden but I am in heaven
>Legit ass Udon, Ramen, Tempura, etc.
>He sees an Chinese girl he's sure is "giving him the eye"
>Absolutely stunning with a petite figure
>He goes up to her in the market area and asks what candy is best here
>Not 5 minutes later he has her number and she's driving us back to our trucks in a Mercedes C Class
>AND SHE BOUGHT HIM A BOTTLE OF STRAWBERRY SAKE

A-at least I got some Japanese candy, r-right?

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I-465 is such a fun place to deliver to

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>>17324349
>team
Naw

How mad would you be if you had a delivery that doesn't have a loading dock and you had to help them break down the pallets to unload the boxes individually off your truck because your dispatch didn't give you a liftgate?

>>17324768
I wouldn't be mad, I just wouldn't do it.
I go to some stores where they use a bigger forklift to put a smaller forklift in the trailer and load the pallets that way.

>>17324768
I've had the Amish use 20 people to unload 40,000lbs of sheet metal by hand before. After I got my straps and tarps put away I joined in for the last quarter of the load. It's just going to help me get unloaded faster.

>just rolled a stop sign
>trooper at a corner
>im also overweight

He must have been sleeping

>receive dispatch
>address and phone number for shipper are wrong, have to use Google
>doesn't provide any information about the type of delivery, have to call to figure it out, and the chick on the phone wants to give me attitude for calling
>it's a live load scheduled for 2300
>due 900 miles away for 8am live unload the day after tomorrow
>I got up at 6am to make a delivery this morning
>dispatch expects me to take my ten hour break from 10am to 8pm, after having been awake for only 4 hours, drive 3 hours to the shipper, and then drive all night in order to be on time
What's an acceptable level on incompetence to put up with? Because this seems like an unacceptable amount of incompetence.

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>>17325298
Suck it up pussy

>>17324768
>arrive at receiver with load of lumber
>no dock, no ramp
>only a pallet jack and forklift to unload a reefer
>41,000lbs of fucking lumber
>me and one other guy have to move shit to the back for the forklift
Fucking California. Glad I left the industry for local work.

>>17325298
Par for the course, door-swinger.

>>17325455
>lumber
>reefer
Toppest kek dispatching.

>>17324349
Yee boi my friend used to work at that Shure place. Got some dank headphones that fell off the back of a truck. That's my old hood.

>>17325455
You're supposed to pick up the pallet jack with the forklift and drop the bitch on the truck so you can move em to the back. If you could get under the shit with the pallet jack and turn it...

>>17325602
If you think lumber is bad, twice they had me take a dozen spindles of steel wire. There is no way to secure spindles in a reefer, so they were sitting upright on rubber mats the whole way with absolutely nothing preventing them falling over, or flying through the front wall and tractor if I hit the brakes hard enough.

No regrets leaving.

>>17325842
Precisely what we did. Still a bitch to do because the wheels constantly get stuck in the floor. Also each "pallet" is about 1500 lbs.

>>17325842
That area is fucking nice, was that ABF warehouse abandoned when you were there?

>>17321992
Werner Heisenberg quote about God.

Wasn't he the one who got the critical mass calculation for an a-bomb wrong by several orders of magnitude and screwed over the Nazi's chances at getting one first? If he thinks he sees God, it might just be a mouse.

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I can never tell if my dispatcher is fucking with me but I usually assume he is. apparently this time he wasn't, today was my third day of driving truck in my life (aside from my CDL course) and I hauled a 13' wide rooftop unit on a lowboy lol

>>17318207
Another reason why USA trucking is for sissies.

hey truckerfags, i got a question for you. why is it that my delivery drivers always need a day to deliver my load even though the place they picked it up from is only 45 mins away from where they are delivering it? (me)

it's like they dont pick it up until the night before, sleep all night, and then deliver it in the morning.

kinda annoying

>>17326305
Please indulge us and tell us what hearty and hale nation of truckers you come from?

>>17326285

Dude, protip with any job. Your boss isn't your friend. Just shut the fuck up, say "Yes, I can do that", ask relevant questions. I can tell by the texts that that guy is already sick of your shit.

>>17326498
lol just because your boss doesn't like you doesn't mean I can't joke around with mine

>>17326520

My boss loves me. Because I'm not a fag.

>>17326526
But you said he isn't your friend?

>>17326540

Yeah. He's my boss. My dad isn't my friend, but he likes me.

>>17326551
K. Well I'm glad you think you can pick apart a relationship by one screenshot but I'm not too worried about it and will probably continue to joke around with him. I'm sorry that upsets you so much.

>>17326563

It's your 3rd day OTJ. Just keep my advice in mind. This isn't McDonald's.

>>17326585
I work for a company with ~45 employees. Everyone fucks with everyone. He sends me my jobs via text and I usually respond with some random shit so that he knows I got it. And I've worked here for a month, it's just my third day driving.

>get next load
>reload out of the same location i delivered
>gets me home for my best friends funeral
>picks up tomorrow at noon
>these people notoriously take forever
>pretty good chance I will dodge half of blitz week
>running nights too

How bad is blitz week at night? I usually get started around 2pm these days and run until 5am-ish

>>17326608
sorry about your friend. I was doing the same thing a couple weeks ago. 0/10 do not recommend

>>17326399
Tell is about how you sit on the side of the highway waiting for someone to rescue you from a flat tyre.

I just change the fucking thing myself.

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Anyone here ever drove a twin stick? at work Ive saw a few old macks DM and R models and well as B models that have a main and auxillary shifter and was wondering how do you shift one? do you double clutch for the auxillary one as well? cam you leave it in either high or low as you drive and change when you want to?

>>17326838
High/low is just range change.

>>17326846
do you have to double clutch for it though?

>>17326858
If you want. Just the same as driving a modern box, except it has an air assisted range change.

>>17326399
not a sissyboi trucking one obviously

>>17326399
He's one of those kids who doesn't actually drive a truck, but has nolifed on /o/ long enough to learn how to troll

How can someone not make an embarassment of thenselves if wanting to go to a truck driving school for a class a cdl? backing with a trailer seems hard as fuck from watching videos and id be scared the first time i know. Also is it hard to get the hang of double clutching? For backing up slowly do you guys ever slip your clutch so it wont go as fast (aka holdbthe clutch at the biting point some so it half moves) if bot how do you back up real slowly?

ive only drove a stick car a few times and at first stalled a lot but got better but id worry about taking classes because id probably make an embarassment of myself because backing with a trailer and double clutching sounds hard. would i stand any chance if ive only realy drove automatic cars and still im not a master of backing into places

Best cleaning solution for your cab GO

>>17326898
Just accept the embarrassment I am 6mo deep and still experiencing it every day

>>17314914

Do you guys actually use your CB's?

I've had one set up at my house for a month or two hoping to pick up chatter from the near by freeway, but I think my antenna isn't set up right or I'm just too far.

Considering installing it in my daily driver, but not sure if it would be worth the effort.

>>17326919
okay lol

but how do you creep around when moving a truck? do you slip the clutch like where you ease off the clutch just a little until you are barely movibg but dont let off it all the way?

also had you drove manual cars before trucking

>>17326898
first of all if you're signing up to get your CDL they're probably expecting you to be absolutely clueless. reversing isn't bad once you learn the dynamics of a trailer but you'll spend a lot of time practicing it in a driving school. big trucks make lots of torque and will idle themselves around with the clutch all the way out even with no throttle and I don't think I've ever needed to back slower than the truck moves itself at with the clutch out. double clutching isn't hard but not many experienced drivers do it because they shift without touching the clutch at all (it's called floating gears). that brings me to my next point. driving a semi truck with a non-synchronized transmission with anywhere from 7 to 18 gears is absolutely nothing like driving a passenger car with a manual. it does not matter how good you are or aren't at it because they're not the same. it's a little more work but it's not difficult.

>>17326916
I don't. Mine has a protective layer.

>>17326936
are hill starts hard like in a gas burner car thats manual? like as long as you start out in 1st or low even with a load will just letting off the clutch have you going foward?

>>17326926
Creeping is really easy because gears 1 2 3 and 4 will only get you to like 5mph. You can creep at 2mph in 1st and never touch the clutch.

Yeah I have driven manual in a car. It's a different kind of transmission system though. You don't have to feather in a semi.

>>17326953
Shame

>>17326916
I just use Meguiars all-purpose interior cleaner from Walmart with micro fibers, Stoners Invisible Glass for windows and gauges. for the floor I vacuum the loose shit out with a shopvac, then scrub with a brush and soapy water, shopvac again and then spray with the Meguiars and let it dry.

>>17326890
Oh sweet summer child.

>>17326916
Blast it with piss

>>17320724
We have Trump, you have Merkel.

>>17326965
if you're on a hill with a load, you let the clutch out until you feel it engage enough to hold the truck from rolling back, then you move your right foot from brake to throttle and go. it's easy. but if you're loaded idling with no throttle probably won't actually get you moving forward uphill.

On the CDL test do any of you know if they allow you to pop it in neutral at stop signs or redlights? i not should i downshift to 3rd and hold the clutch in halfway with the brake pressed down? its an 8ll trans

>>17326953
>of dust

I know your type

>>17326965
Just push the pedal on the right down and truck will just sort itself out.

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>mfw they still haven't fixed the road on I55 in Blytheville, AR south of the 62MM

>>17325857
To tip them you'd have to shift the COG so far over you'd have at least two wheels off the ground.

>>17326344
If you're using an LTL carrier they're probably picking it up on the way back to the terminal, crossdocking it, putting it on another trailer, then shipping it out in the morning. My minimum truck order on 45 miles is $700, so if you aren't paying that, don't expect a direct shipment.

>>17326916
Floor
>shopvac
>409 with cotton terry rag
>olive oil on a clean rag when it's dry

Glass
>stoners with paper towels
>buff in stick deoderant for anti-fog

Dash
>parts brush for dust
>stoners for everything else

Seats and curtains
>fine steel wire brush
>simple green

Cats
>boar bristle brush

How easy is it to make $50-75k/year in the US with a CDL, if I'm only willing to spend up to 3 weeks away from home at a time? I'm getting real sick of my office job.

I have previous oilfield experience and have driven everything under the sun short of a full tractor trailer, but never had a CDL. Enforcement was, uh, a little lax in the field I was in at the time.

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>>17326991
Leave it in gear at ALL TIMES.

>>17326977
I just bought that Stoner glass cleaner. Don't see the Meguirs but I did buy a scrub. I have a shop vac but a brush is a good idea.

>tfw at Joplin Petro and buying everything

>>17327199
Oh snap son I'm about to load up on all that now.

I got that 00 steel wool for windows. Its amazing.

>>17326925
Mine is on all day, but you're not going to pick up much with any 8w off the shelf setup.

>>17326991
You have to keep it in gear for the test. It's 15-30 minutes. Don't be a bitch.

>>17327220
You should have that income and hometime by the third year.

>>17327229
>#00
Bruh, I said #0000. You're going to miss a ton of resin without it.

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whats it like driving a rig in Europe?

>>17327302
You get shot and car jacked by Muslims at every stop

>>17326172
I just had to look exactly where it was, saw it's by Palwaukee Airport. There used to be this """Massage""" parlor right there before they got shut down for prostitution.

Did you come from I-94 or what? Because anything east of there is really nice like Glenview and Wilmerte and that's all "North Shore" rich Jews. Wheeling itself is a bit more blue collar families but some of the newer areas in that city are nice.

What's up with the ABF warehouse? It's just empty? Because suprisingly that area (N and NW Suburbs) and their little manufacturing areas were one of the few places that have held up well while everybody else is overseas. There are a lot of big companies based there like Walgreens in Deerfield and then Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates a little west and the industrial areas in Elk Grove, Palatine, and Wheeling keep going. Chicago would have killed them off with taxes, but those suburban cities were smart and realize how much it brings to their city so they did everything to keep them from moving out.

>>17324137
OBSESSED

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>>17327266
Oh rly I'll exchange it rite quick.

Can you think of any flatbed stuff I might want while I'm at this Joplin Petro?

I got plenty of v boards and tarp guards. I got a red oversize flag already...

Someone told me to get these floor hooks once but at 25.99 each I don't know if its worth it.

>>17327266
Isnt 00 coarser than 0000 so it would actually do better but could possible leave faint scratches

>>17327308
So like USA but with niggers?

One of our dispatchers got the boot today. dunno what the reason is but it could have to do with the push he tried to put on some of us.... asked me earlier to try and get from Winnipeg to Vancouver in a day and a half... that ain't gonna happen.

>>17327313
With free health care.

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>>17327220
Cleared $51k in my first full year and I didn't run that hard. But this was a dedicated with Swift that paid .42cpm and had weekly/quarterly bonuses.

So it's certainly possible under the right circumstances.

>>17327225
Fuck I love that place, there's so much useless shit to buy. Almost picked up another guitar there for the hell of it.

>>17327310
Nah, I came straight up from the I-55. The entirety of that area felt upper middle class, nice houses plus qt Asians. The ABF place looked like it was abandoned for years, the guy at Shure told me no one wants to buy it since there's rotting fuel tanks underground there, and the factory across the street also closed down. All that was really left was Handifoil and a YRC terminal on that street.

>>17327435
I'm getting sucked in by all the memey stuff they have

>>17327427
Yeah great me too, not American. You're still fucking O B S E S S E D loser

>>17327371
Pick up some T/J/datsun combo hooks. I always carry at least 4 for cars and machines with holes too small for my D-rings. Buy my D-rings at farm stores for half the price along with clevis pins for my chains.

If you've got the right kind of trailer for those plates they're great, but you can probably pick up 10 of them at a tarp shop for $200.

Only thing I really recommend buying there is some Breezeway window screens. Everything else is stupid overpriced low quality shit.

>>17327413
It's coarser and that's the problem since the objective is to polish the glass.

>>17327478
I bet the collection of fidget spinner there is massive, I'll be passing through there tomorrow too.

>>17327524
Ah man ill just miss you.

What are those spinners? I see them sold at random gas stations. They have big signs up bragging that they have them

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>>17327476
That airport right there, maybe like 15 years ago was really going downhill but then it got bought out and that area seemed decent. I mean it's been like 5 years since I have been over there.

But yeah, I mean pretty much everything North and Northwest of the city but south and east of Waukegan and Rockford are pretty nice. Ranges from middle class blue collar families up to rich asses. There are some nice areas west of the city too, but that's where it changes quick because you can be driving thru a shithole in Cicero and then be in some wealthy area in Oak Lawn or wherever within a few minutes.

>>17327568
Git gud

>>17327609
>diet Coke
>Niggerports
>autism wheel

Goddamn boi goddamn. You are going to come down with aspergers syndrome if u don't simmer down. Slow ur roll

>>17327509
Ya I've had so much truck stop stuff break or be useless from the start. I try to shop at hardware stores and stuff as much as I can.

I had to settle for 000. 0000 was sold out.

The Breezeway screens are really worth it? I can't find a good pic of what they look like installed.

Your chains have D rings?? I'm confused.

>>17327609
$12.99 says you picked that fidget spinner up at a Pilot

>>17327609
>cigs
>diet coke

Are you depressed? Do you hate yourself? Why are you killing yourself Bepis?

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making some burrito salads tonight b/o/ys
gonna be tasty as fuggg

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>>17327723
Nope, 7-11. They were like the first plave to start sellin em.

>>17327724
Kek. It's mostly that I really don't want to live to be 85.

>>17327507
No one mentioned euro/usa. Sorry retard.

>>17327568
>tfw we'll never have a proper Truckerfag meet

Those spinners are the newest craze amongst all the 8th graders, same as the hoverboard phase but cheaper and more autistic.

>>17327609
I've seen that kind of stuff when I was in Columbus with a buddy of mine. One minute it's upper middle class homes, the next we're passing the Crack House Church (disbanded). But whoever bought out the area did a good job, the airport was bustling with single prop airplanes and there was a lot of nice landscaping.

Why you got an autism spinner though?

>>17327846
lrn2read virgin

>>17327225
Thats an expensive version of a gatorade bottle.

>>17327308
OBSESSED

>>17327856
Down here the neighborhoods change quick too, at least around my house. I'm in this neightborhood with $250k-400k houses, then a few blocks east and it's $1mil+ homes, a few blocks west and you're in the hood.

But out west it's a big sprawl of middle to upper class homes if you go by like Weston and Pembroke Pines. Depends on the size of the metro area. Most mid-size cities like Columbus will be like that where 30min outside of the city and it's rural, but once you get inside that suburban and urban radius, it can change quick. The South and West suburbs of Chicago are a little different from the North and Northwest, you can go from kinda hood to upper middle class to blue collar to a nice subdivision fairly quick. That whole NW area, aside from a few shitty apartment complexes, you really do have to travel a bit to find anywhere that you would feel unsafe driving through. But even in that city Wheeling, actually not far from Shure, there are a couple apartments where you wouldn't want to leave your car unlocked overnight. Wannabe Latin Kings and shit.

And the spinners, I bought one as a joke and they were actually kinda entertaining.

>>17327509
But the glass is already polished. It just needs cleaning.

>>17327976
I hear south Chicago ain't great, but I never got the "lock your doors" vibe from Wheeling. Even met up with another weeb that sold me a stock IS300 bumper, he wasn't sketchy so hopefully that's a testament to the rest of the people around there.

I kinda wanted to play with a fidget spinner but I miraculously held back my autism.

>>17327754
>burrito salads
IT'S A TACO

REEEEEEEE

>>17327876
OBSESSED WITH VIRGINS

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>>17328024
No, never anything like driving where you would feel unsafe. But if you look here, these Piper Lane apts are kinda shitty and I think some are gov't subsidized. Knew a girl who lived in there (she had a Misfits tramp stamp and it was really distracting when you tryin to put it in from behind). Not many nigs anywhere, but lots of Mexicans and the second gen ones love to pretend to be gangstas sometimes. If you parked your car there overnight and forgot to lock it, shit would definitely go missing. I lived in Rolling Meadows which was like 15min SW od there and most of the city is middle class aside from 2 apt complexes. You look at the police blotter for the city and literally 90% of the crimes are people with Hispanic names at addresses off Algonquin Road.

Just buy the spinner. They're not bad, something to do in traffic if I'm trying not to smoke another cig.

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>>17327715
You just trim them to the size of your model's window, then slip it on top of the glass and roll it up. Looks like pretty much every picture of them. They're good for hot nights with a slight breeze where rolling the windows down is enough, but it keeps bugs and birds out.

I meant D-ring shackles. Pic related.

>>17328017
Glass needs a good polish at least every fall. Rain-X won't sink into the pores of the glass if they're full of tree sap, resin, and bug guts. #0000 gets down into them pretty well.

>>17328070
Went through training with a kid named Ike who lived off Cicero. Every time he went home the truck got a window smashed.

>>17328144
Yeah Cicero is fun. My best friend was from Berwyn. It's kinda fucked because a lot of that west and south side was hard working blue collar white people. Some of them are still there, but the neighborhood around them is turning to hell.

>>17326953
Of dust, semen, and sorrow.

What's it like being away from home all the time? What do you guys eat? I do cross country road trips all the time where I'll drive in 24 hour shifts, and when I stop at truck stops for gas, there are always guys there no matter what time.

>>17328333
>What's it like being away from home all the time?
Sometimes I go days at a time without talking to another person, so it's basically the same as when I lived at home.

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>>17326916
Real talk follows:

The trifecta of sprays; Mothers for the dash, Windex for glass and Spray Nine for cleaning up grime. Never direct spray dash shine onto your dash since it'll just jack your windows up with the inevitable overspray.

Best thing you can do to keep your floors and pedals clean is to A, get a blowgun kit and cut it into your driver seat supply, and B, go to Wal-Mart and buy a cheap pair of easy to slip on shoes, and use those exclusively in the truck for driving.

My outdoor shoes get taken off on the step, and go right into a simple wash basin I use as a boot bin, and I have a pair of slip on Airwalks for the summer and driving slippers for the winter.

>>17327302
Effete.

>>17327421
Yeah, that's a fair distance.

>>17327609
Please tell me that fidget spinner belongs to a niece or nephew that forgot it after a visit with Uncle Bepis.

>>17327754
Those don't exist.

>>17328354
This.

>>17328497
Is there not something to be said for the weight of a good heavy boot helping push the pedals down a bit? Driving in shoes always feels like running down a carpeted hallway barefoot.

>>17328497
That's a good idea. I track in so much dirt being flatbed. Those Keens sandals look pretty comfy to drive in. Might make those my indoor shoes.

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>>17328545
I personally prefer having the sensitivity of light or even no footwear while driving. When I was hauling sand I did some bare foot driving during the summer, and it was heavenly.

>>17328546
>Keen sandals
Yeah, they'd breathe pretty well; keep your feet cool and dry.

>MFW the picker operator told me to make his day

>>17328301
The holy trinity of dash protection.

>>17324349
what was the store, h mart?

>>17324349
Cucked again.

>>17327199
How do you get stoners to work? They just sit on the couch around here.

>>17328816
Offer them invisible glass.

>>17328497
I learnt to use two sets of shoes/boots real quick when I started hauling liquid asphalt. I also grab a heap of big rags from the workshop and use them to cover my floor mats, just have to blow them off with the air gun then and keeps the floor clean without needing to use products on it.

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>>17328497
>Those don't exist.
krycek we all know why you work with black oil
this is why chris carter filmed you hosers
>I want to believe in burrito salads

>>17326595
off course you know best what is appropriate but i sure as fuck know that your responses are not professional. you can be friendly and nice to converse with whilst still always being to the point, you know?
the total lack of non-informational responses in the texts you showed make me side with >>17326585. (but again, it might be a very unprofessional company you work with. you know best.)
Protip: your boss hired you because he believes in your capabilities. don't throw that trust away by undermining yourself. As long as you are not overly confident there is no reason to assume he makes you do things you are not capable of. (and if so, its on him).

>>17329581
Dodged the three scales I had to cross today.

>>17329613
Not him. Bit I just reply with "K". Its meta and he doesnt know im memeing on him.

What are "backloads"?

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>>17329327
>MFW
The Ganadian Governmend gadegorically denies the egisdense of sendiend blag oil in ids derridories :DDDDDD

>>17327199
>>mfw they still haven't fixed the road on I55 in Blytheville, AR south of the 62MM
lmao welcome to my life

I just cruise in the hammer lane for 4 miles, not my fault they built the road wrong

>>17329685
It's a load a dedicated driver does outside his specialization, to get back to that freight

>>17329685
I'd upload a photo, but this is a safe for work board.

>>17329685
Fiction because a load is a load no matter where it's going. Still, the idea seems to have caught on with owner-ops and fleet managers that a backhaul/backload is cheap freight that you take a loss on in order to get you back towards your base or better freight lanes where you start making money again. Problem is this shits on freight rates everywhere and is poor business practices anyway but has become the norm as all the big players vie to see who can go bankrupt first and take a bunch of little guys with them.

>>17326987
>you have Merkel.
No I fucking don't. We're divorcing that bitch.

Any page I can check to see which medication is allowed by the DOT? I might be needing to take SSRIs soon

What happened to Gundam? He get busted again for posting loli on blue boards?

>>17330039
You should be straight. And I think with that stuff, it's actually your doctor who gives you the Y/N, not the DOT.

>>17329952
The concept of a backhaul is much older than a megacarrier. Back before deregulation truck companies were normally smaller than 5 trucks, and had one or two customers they had contracts with in their home town, and they'd deliver that load then deadhead back to the shipper for their next load. Some contracts explicitly outlined exclusive use of equipment on a round trip, but it was the norm to turn and burn regardless because the odds of finding a return load from 800 miles away were abysmal up until the fax machine became mainstream. Backhauls were advertised as gravy on top of what you were already making, so after deregulation they paid accordingly on freight with no deadlines. Even if a load only paid $0.50/mi that'd be enough to cover fuel, maintenance, and a steak dinner every night on top of the rate you'd already earned on your outbound load that paid for that going both ways. It's a bit of an antiquated concept in a world of OTR spot market load boards, but there are still tens of thousands of trucks running on the old dedicated customer model glad to take $0.75/mi home that still gets them back to base before their next load on Thursday.

Got two weigh scales in the next 90 minutes I wonder how rekt I'm going to be

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Should I be worried about my HEST light coming on? Never seen it before and I dun want to burn to death rolling down I69

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>>17330165
Make sure you got your backup logs and eld instructions handy or you'll get shut down.

>>17330372
4mi here we go

>>17330433
CLOSED HAHAHAHAHA

>>17330176
Now I'm getting engine derate yet no lights are on, even the HEST went out

send help

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

IM NOT EVEN A TRUCK DRIVER AND IM LOSING MY MIND TO THE INCOMPETENCY OF DISPATCH AND THE DRIVER

>dispatch calls me telling me they are going to deliver today because it's the last free day at the airport
>I say ok, you're literally calling me after our delivery hours but whatever I'll stay late by myself to make this happen
>I call driver to see when he's going to be here
>driver tells me we should just schedule for tomorrow morning instead
>I say uhhh okay that's fine, but you do know that today is the la-
>hangs up
>okay.jpg
>two minutes later frantic dispatch calls me telling me that they have to deliver today
>I said wtf ok then deliver it today ffs
>mfw the storage fee is only like $55 for one day
>call driver again to see what's up
>no answer
>call dispatch
>no answer

Well guess I'm going home then. Fuck all of these people

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>THE FUTURE
>I CREATED IT
>AND IT'S REAL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zFOdQYmTrk
>DON'T U UNDERSTAND?!

Steps:
1) put a microwaved tortilla in a bowl
2) overfill it with burrito components
3) add value by not wrapping it

>>17330046
If I recall correctly, his mobile carrier has their entire IP range banned from posting.

>>17330670
post picture of the dash

>>17330670
Hit the ECU with a hammer.

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Where did the into-trucker info sticky go? asking for a friend: i suck dicks and have been offline for fucking months so bleh.

>>17331133
We stopped posting it cause nobody fucking read it anyways

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Would it be realistic to hope with proper planning and rest that I could pull off a 1,247.5 mile trip in one go with a Uhaul? I don't want to stop for a night if at all possible.

>>17331302
That's only an 18 hour trip. You could cannonball it if you wanted to

>>17331302
With enough methamphetamines anything is possible.

>>17331317
It's all fun and games until you enter psychosis and start seeing shadow people

Any euros here that do transnational routes, how do you scout the route ahead for weight, height limits and other regional restrictions? I don't want to end up stranded in the Balkans next month.

>>17331302
>2000 km / 1242 mi
>120 km/h / 74.5 mph
>16h40
Doable.

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>>17331439
>>17331317
>>17331316
>tfw google maps is saying it's 19
>it's from MN to NY

>>17331302
You'll probably want to kill yourself halfway through.

Closing in on a scale boys. Good thing I cleaned my cab and bought paper logs yesterday. Booby trapped my sleeper w piss jugs and fap blankets just in case someone decides to get nosy.

>>17331681
Probably. But my autism won't let me leave a uhaul full of my shit in a hotel parking lot. What would be some good (legal) options to keep myself awake?

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>>17330985
>>17331099
Nevermind, is k now

>>17331740
Kek I ran one yesterday line was longish but still said open I ain't got time for that bs

>>17331302
Those seagulls are vicious

>>17330670
what is HEST

>>17332121
This is my favorite poster on this board

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Wew lads, looks like we got us a pipeline.

Just called the company and got my pta pushed out 24 hours. They said to call back tomorrow and tell them how I'm feeling. I don't think I'll be feeling to well desu.

>>17332159
High exhaust system temp. I do believe.

>>17332243
>Beautiful fucking teets
Did you compliment the drivers on how big their pipes are?

>>17331748
Just buy a lock and back it up to a wall.

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>>17332243
Wind Turbine loads in BC were pretty impressive as well. Shoulda taken a pic but here you go.

>>17331302
It's about 1400mi to my old zone from where I'm at now and I always do that trip straight through. By myself, it's normally 22-24hrs depending on traffic and how much I stop.

A couple keys I learned-
-plan out the trip so you don't hit major cities in rush hour
-if you do need to go thru a city at a time with traffic, try and route it so the rush hour is at the beginning of the trip and when you're 16hrs in you won't be in Atlanta at 5pm on a Friday
-Newports and 5hr Energy Shots
-Schedule so the end of your trip is in the morning or at least earlier in the day

I normally leave around 10am. That way, leaving from Chicago or South Florida it's after AM rush hour. Atlanta is about halfway, so I end up going thru there later in the evening and traffic is smooth. Sometimes going North, I catch the tail end of AM rush hour in Chicago but not too bad. And that same timing coming south, I hit Nashville afternoon traffic but it's still fairly early in the trip and nowhere near as bad as CHI-ATL-MIA traffic. And then I normally start to get worn out like 16-18hrs in, but with that timing it helps give me a second wind because the sun is coming up and I can stop for a quick breakfast.

When I moved down here, I had a 26' Penske International with a car hauler on back. It would do about 35mph through the Smoky Mtns and then had DPF problems the whole way. It was like 32hrs straight in that truck and I still did it.

>>17332614
My truck is on the right. Already rubbed my dick all over the load.

>>17332665
He should just cover himself in feces and sleep with the cargo.

I started driving last fall, so this summer is my first as OTR. It's starting to get hour enough in the south that I want to idle with the ac on, but I've just learned that apparently I'm a gigantic sissy baby girl who can't sleep with the truck idling. It's not the noise, I can do noise, as almost all my loads are refrigerated, but it's the vibrations that are keeping my awake. I even tried bumping the idle revs up to around 780-800 to idle smoother but it's still no good.
So my idea is maybe I'll get a foam mattress topper, a 3" in one on Amazon has good reviews and some are even from truckers, and my thinking is this will cancel out the vibrations that just resonate through the shitty innerspring mattress.
Anyone had a similar problem or have any helpful insight? Starting to slowly lose my mind from averaging 3 hours of sleep a day.

>>17332835
Why do you idle the truck?

>>17332845
>I want to idle with the ac on
Meat-grinder doesn't pay for apus.

>>17332896
Why would a super efficient meat grinder allow idling all night? Thats more expensive than an APU.

>>17332900
No one said they're efficient...

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>>17332835
Melatonin. You'll get used to it. I had a freightliner with opti idle that would turn the truck on anytime the AC needed to kick on. I'd jump out of bed 3 or 4 times a night thinking I just drove off a cliff or someone backed into me. Eventually learned to sleep thru it.

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Dude it took me 5 whole minutes to back in here cause I'm drunk af and these two still never even lifted their head

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>>17333162
lakes

>>17332896
>micro-wakes every hour and a half

Super efficient, very health. Enjoy crashing into a barrier at 62 mph

>>17332835
I've got one, but not for idling. It's nice, but it tends to slide off the mattress even with cabinets in front of the bunk. Might as well just go with a 12" foam mattress if you don't want to adjust it every 2-3 days.

>>17333162
>>17333196
>>17333231
>every day he slips deeper into the void
He's already shaving his legs and using the hair to stuff his panties.

>>17330967
tmobil is range banned from washington state to florida i think gundam uses tmobil.

>yfw gordo ran out of money at long last, got new jerb
>got hired by martin
>they all drive autos
is moving to reefer a step up from dry or is it more of a lateral move?

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>>17332835
I find that the ideal balance between vibration and fuel consumption is to idle at closer to 1000 rpm.

>>17333196
>Loose tin foil
Bruh. Dollar store/Wal-Mart small baking tins fit those things perfectly.

>No doggo in frame
Why do you hate Blood so much, Albert?

>>17333491
Gordo, y u no namefag?

>Dryvan or reefer
Its a small step up.

Question: I'm 20 and I want to get a CDL, but apparently you have to be at least 21 to get an interstate CDL that lets you go anywhere in the US; if you're under 21 you can only get an intrastate CDL that is only valid in my state. Does this mean I should just wait until I'm 21 before I do CDL training? Can't find much about this online.

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>>17333523
Honestly? I am very,VERY lazy. That and almost every post i make has a new photo in it.

>for pepsi

>>17333491
Another reason T-Mobile is fucking trash

But reefer is a small step up, you can haul more varieties of freight but live load/unload will become the norm. CPM pay is usually a tad better too.

>>17333532
Yeah wait until you're 21, unless you live in a state with good amount of local/regional freight being moved within state lines.

>>17333579
>I'm too lazy to type ElGordo##yourtriphere and then copy it to the clipboard
Bruh. How do you get up in the morning?

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>>17333657
Forklift. Usually.
Also posts are generally spontaneous and rare given the range ban. So why bother?

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My favorite directions ever
>take a left, then a right, you'll see it

didn't see it

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Posting here 'cause there isn't a QTDDTOT up at the moment.

What is this type of truck called in English?

>>17334363
Car transporter.

Looks to be an Iveco of some sort.

>>17333685
What type of dangerous animal is that, ausfag?

>>17334363
Mobile carpark.

>>17334383
Really? There is no dedicated word to describe it?
I was asking because my language has a specific word for it instead of "car transporter" or "truck that carries cars" and I was wondering if English had the same.

>>17334426
Far as I know, there isn't, but I'm not in the industry so eh.

The english language is retarded desu.

https://youtu.be/iUQuNyzNzPg

I just knew you guys were bullshitting about how bad trucking is.

>>17334497
>the fleets are finding that this package helps retain drivers

Yet no megacarrier has them as it means less cargo capacity.

>>17334363
Car hauler

>>17333489
lmao maybe I had a little too much fun

>>17333523
Even the dollar store tins end up costing more

>>17334363
Parking lot

>>17333489
Would my idea even work? Is there any noticeable reduction in vibrations?

>>17334497
>>17334572
>they haul up to 14,000lbs

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Back in farm country today.

It's been awesome since I got back to work after those five days off; done at least a job a day since last Wednesday, and most were at least ten hours plus.

>>17334834
Zoz. What does one of those joints of pipe weigh by comparison?

>>17334864
Should have got the Superior kenworth

>>17334363
>What is this type of truck called in English?
Frederick.

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>>17334925
The next one being built right now is on a Kenworth T800 chassis, so maybe I will switch to that one once it's ready.

This Western Star setup is more versatile than the other units however, since it has a higher pressure pump setup and can haul more fluid when they have 75% axle weight restrictions on in the spring and fall due to it's weight distribution.

>>17334733
Like I said, they never bothered me, so I wouldn't know, but it seems logical. Get the springs out from between you and the vibrator and you're eliminating a direct kinetic link. I'm sure you can find a study on vibration transfer through coil spring vs foam mattresses to back it up.

>>17334864
About 21,000lbs going by my gauges.

>>17334947
Hope the KW doesn't have a stock agxxx bag suspension. You'd be limping it around once a month in the mud.

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>tfw could have been done by 9:30 am but I gotta play trailer fetch for the next 4 hours

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>>17334864
ya boi, western star lyfe is the comfy life

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>>17334966
Breddy sure it'll be the stock setup. Aside from that shock mount breaking from beaucoup washboard, the Kenworth we have already has been pretty much trouble free.

The one in production is a tri drive single steer, so a little less heavy duty than this beast.

>>17335052
Yee. I wasn't a big fan before, but I now see why lots of guys in logging/oil and gas love them.

I just wish this particular set up had a sleeper, but it isn't the end of the world. It has the pump control cab for storage at least.

Another closed scale in Missouri. Looks like they're too busy inspecting other trucks to stay open

>>17334497
>>17334834
I had to go back and watch it a second time because I thought they said 40,000 at first.

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>Not sure if I truss this load

>MFW blinded by the ridiculously reflective chrome centre spokes of this Western Star steering wheel

The definition of a first world problem.

>>17335521
is that at the brake check before that big valley? I don't think I've ever stopped for that kek

Is that wiper fluid that prevents bugs from sticking really worth it?

>>17335881
Nah, just use a bulk degreaser with isopropyl as an antifreeze. Rain-x is the only product really worth putting on your windshield.

>>17336140
I got those RainX wipes yesterday. Not used em yet tho

>>17336140
And what's the best way to remove the blasted things?
Bonus points for it being plastic-safe and able to get the shits off my helmet visor.

>>17335526
Yeah, at the pullout on AB-49 out towards Girouxville. Seemed as good a time as any to take a quick shitposting break.

>>17335521
I just saw the same type of trailer with this exact same load on 70

>>17333685
That is a really cool opopotamus.

>>17336572
They're roof trusses.

Gone through 5 scales on I49 and I70. 4 were closed. 1 gave me a bypass signal.

I thought this week was supposed to be busy at the scales.

>>17335881
I'm a fan. I mean it's only a couple bucks more. It's like having Rain-X on the windshield without having to think about it and reapply. Because you know you will never remember to apply the Rain-X until after you really need it in a bad storm.