Truckerfag thread - /TFG/

bruhs I just took the best shit of my life at this Pilot. It's like it weighed 20 pounds but didn't make any noise and just came loose like it just fell out by force of gravity. I didn't even need to wipe that's how clean it was.

>>17514080
You need to lay off the rollerdogs and subway.

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>>17513978
doge is sleep

>>17514091
no you

Did so much cocaine last weekend felt like my nose was going to fall off

>>17514123
Man, a trucker pupper sounds great. But I can hardly keep care of myself, let alone another living thing in my truck.

10 hours is too long.

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>>17514357
Start off small. Just get a truck coyote or truck bobcat and eventually work your way up.

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>tfw no K200 house.

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>>17514549
If I'm doing that, might as well go big or go home.

55mph is too slow

>>17515307
Yup

These old 8100s are trash but at least they got some power

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>>17515401
Forgot pic

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>>17514654
How many mpg does it get?

>>17515264
Zoz. Imagine the scene of an angry supertrucker hopping up on your step for a confrontation over a parking spot, only to come face to face with a seven foot long, 160 pound, territorial predator poking it's head out the open window.

>>17515410
What model year is that relic?

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It's been an unusual week. My gf got sent to a psychward 4 hours away and I been sleeping in a ditch and following the warped tour around in between her every other day one hour visits.

>>17515816
Wow what a nice blog post
Thanks for sharing

>>17515816
This feels like stale copypasta.

Anyone know what happened to allie knight? She has gone full AWOL.

>>17515816

EF? That you boi?

>>17515907

No one cares desu

>>17515911
Hey man I just wanted to let you know that your comment really hurt me. Allie Knight has been the apex of /tfg/ discussion for several months now and it's obvious that her absence is causing a disruption in our morale. even though many of us did not like her, there was a certain je ne sais quoi to her presence that put us at ease and made the melancholy of truck driving just slightly more bearable. so please don't go around saying "no one cares" when it isn't true.

>>17515922
>Apex of discussion
>One mention of her name in the past two threads
K.

>>17515922

Found the butthurt spammer. Fuck off before you get these threads banned from /o/.

You're the cancer.

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>>17515744
'96 maybe? It's a POS, but I'm not trying to come in at 4:30am just to switch tractors around everyday.

>not like it even matters if I block the numbers out

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>been waiting since 4pm yesterday for a load
ayyy

>>17516275
>"Attention" he replied as he climbed back into his 36" sleeper that he lives in because he can't afford a house because he spends 60% of his gross income on fuel
>he was seen again later that day doing 14 pullups trying to back his 244" wheelbase truck with a fixed fifth wheel into a tight spot before giving up and spending $10 on a reserved spot that one of the truck stop employees guided him into
>he then spent an hour cleaning bull shit off his polished stretched frame

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>>17516345

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>>17516010
>MFW the dash in a 1986 International 5 tonne cube van I drove ten years ago was the exact same

>>17516275
>>17516345
>Bull hauler is dressed like a cowboy supertrucker
Zoz. Highly accurate.

>>17515816
Sorry to hear it. Why the psyche ward? She couldn't handle the height constraints of the flat top sleeper any more?

why can't truckers stay in the right lane?

was stuck behind two tankers for a hour yesterday. averaging 55mph in a 70mph zone. because they couldn't maintain speed up the constant rolling hills, and they were taking both east bound lanes on the interstate.

>>17516798
Because you didn't help block the speed governor mandate.

>>17517348
It will be good to see truck fatalities go down once it is implemented.

Has anyone gotten their cdl in Massachusetts? I'm trying to find a driving school. There doesn't seem to be any community colleges that offer training.

>>17517539
>company cucks pegging the governor all day
>steer tire blows
>they have no forward inertia to add
>truck flips
>everyone is kill

>>17517539
Kek, at 55mph with retarded e-logs, truck drivers will have to start doin some real fucked up stuff to get deliveries done on time.

Somehow it will end up like prohibition where they regulate more and more and some underground shit to skirt the rules will start happening and make everything worse.

Or there will be more and more rookies and shitty drivers on the road because all the good drivers gtfo from mega carriers tryin to limit them on hours and speed and still pay them 30¢ per mile

>>17517348
Is it hard getting used to driving spread axles after driving tandems? I took a flatbed load securing class so I could regular skateboards instead of lowboys, but all of my close quarter maneuvering relies on spinning donuts. Especially backing, I've read guys on forums say they just straight up can't jack knife back into truck stops and have to find easy spots.

>>17517689
https://youtu.be/o8x9bdH-SLI

>>17517955
It just looks like such a constant massive pain in the ass. Every time I think I want to go to regular flatbeds, I watch a video like this and then I remember "oh, that's right, spread axles are fucking retarded"

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>>17517689
>>17517955
>>17518037
>tfw don't give no fucks and turn that bitch like a tandem
>tfw the shop asks why are there bald patches on the tires

>>17518089
How often do you even benefit from spreads vs tandems? I've had 47klb loads and still sit ~33.6/33.6 with some sliding. What's the thing you haul where you really NEED 40k on the back?

>>17517681
Why doesnt this happen anywhere else in the world? Is it because its a bullshit argument?

>>17518234
>Implying anywhere else in the world is even remotely interesting or important enough to gather data on

K Yurofag.

>>17518360
K ignorant fellow american. Sorry you don't know how to control a vehicle during and emergency situation without incresing the risk.

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>>17517689
It takes some getting used to. Jacknife 90 with a loaded trailer and you can crack crossbeams or break tire breads on top of rubbing the tires bald, or if you're running recaps, tear the tread right off. That being said, there's nothing easier to back than a 48' spread axle. No tailswing and being able to see over the trailer = no worries. A front lift or dump axle lets you do some crazy shit.

>>17518141
Never had to slide an axle or have a load shifted. With a 10'6" spread axle the trailer axles have their full 20,000lb weight limit. When in doubt, just center the load behind the trailer center and use that comfy 6000lb buffer. Also, if you're running partials, you can load a 20' 20,000lb load and have the whole rest of the trailer to throw on another 20,000lbs+ of freight. Put 20k to the back of a tandem and you'll never get it legal.

>>17518234
It happens literally anywhere trucks and cars share a road. A truck goes you pass, and a 4-wheeler will throw a shitfit and exaggerate.

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I wanted to eat this inside, but a deluge happened on the way inside and my clothes soaked through and I had to take them off and get dry #truckerlife

>>17516275
>8 foot tall Slavic super truckers

Please god, no. We hath sinned but we do not deserve this!

>>17517539
>speed governor mandate is passed
>elog mandate is passed
>average driver pay cuts in half
>the majority of seasoned drivers retire
>the only drivers left are immigrants and niggers
>safer roads
no.

>>17517955
>I'm too poor to install a dump valve

That being said, I'm still too lazy to alley back into truck stops

>>17518141
It has more to do with structural integrity than a need to weigh 40k lbs over the rear axles. Flats routinely haul most of their weight concentrated on a tiny footprint on the trailer (e.g. a 49k lb master coil)
To accommodate this, modern aluminum flatbed trailers are built with an arch in the frame, which straightens out when the trailer is loaded, which makes it difficult to engineer a full sliding tandem system with enough track to balance such a heavy, concentrated load.

Full steel flatbed trailers still exist, and some do indeed feature sliding tandems, but they're about 5k lbs heavier.

>>17518581
>tfw still have a steel beam trailer
>tfw still has an arch
>tfw doesn't even have a wooden deck
I really need to scrap this turd instead of putting the welder's kids through cosmetology school.

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How old are you guys? I want to know who the oldest poster here is, hopefully it's oilfag with his nifty dad memes and not me. I'm 30.

>>17518793
53

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>>17518793
>tfw I'm over 9000

>>17518793
Turning 23 in 20 days.

>>17518793
Turning 20 in 23 days.

>>17518793
I'm too old for this shit.

>>17518718
Post ginger cock

>>17518581
>>speed governor mandate is passed
>>elog mandate is passed
>>average driver pay cuts in half
>>the majority of seasoned drivers retire
>>the only drivers left are immigrants and niggers
>>safer roads

YES. Maybe then they will see the pay is shit.

>>17518793
34 metric years

>>17519036
meh. they will just import moslems to do the job.

>>17519084
He's talking about the USA though and not Eurabia

>>17519098
How ignorant are you? Moslems are already arriving here, they have been for years.

I think ours just get screened better as we dont have some dumb bitch importing them without proper checks.

>>17519119
Ours aren't "imported", they actually immigrate here legally and maintain visas.

>>17519131
We have a quota. They are imports.

>>17519131
The euro ones immigrated legally too. It's just that they weren't screened properly.

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>>17518793
>Old enough to mumble mumble, young enough to mumble mumble

I'm 33, so you're okay, youngling.

>TFW my maymays get any sort of recognition

>>17518860
Sad. Those trees didn't ask for this.

>>17518931
>"And to think, he was only two days away from retirement when that Swift truck drove off the side of the overpass and collided with Truckerfag's cab..."

>>17519041
What is that in freedom years?

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>>17517681
I wasn't kill :(

>>17519337
You didn't hit the brakes like the morons who do get kill.

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Bought a new toy, story time.

>Be Primefag
>Have been looking for a Gen2 Probe GT V6 for a while
>pic related pops up on CL for 1100 dollary doos
>get a quick run from Chobani in NY to Jacksonville to purchase the car, fix a few things and leave the next day
>Jacksonville lets me unload 4hr early, sweet
>First guy in a door, in and out in an hour
>Drop trailer in Pierson and run home
>Mom agrees to drive me to St. Pete to buy said car
>Meet up with the seller, turns out it needs a fucking laundry list of shit fixed
>Talk him down to 1000, drive it home
>Pissing coolant everywhere, no muffler
>Dodge a couple of city kittys who came after me but my mom was following me on a 2-lane double yellow road so they gave up trying to pull me over
>Realize what it needs, order said parts
>No parts houses have a water pump in stock in the whole county so had to wait for that to arrive
>Now going on 4 days, decide fuck it, what's another day, do the timing belt
>3 days and 2200 dollars later, finish it, water pump, timing belt tensioner, clutch master and slave cylinders, new radio, new lift struts for the hatch, new drive belts, coolant flush and new wipers

And it still needs a complete AC system overhaul, compressor is shot, lines are leaking. Clutch will need to be replaced, as well as the 10 year old tires. It was fun though, been 9 years since I had one, brought back good memories of my youth roasting 2nd gear on the on-ramp

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>>17519516

It cleaned up nicely though. The interior is immaculate. The seats have no tears or any kind of wear in them which is saying something for a 25 year old car, my FL has two tears in the seats and it's a 2016

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>>17519516
>>17519541

Looks good. I just bought a new to me vehicle the other day.

>Be me, Oilfag
>Have two vehicles
>Have Honda Pilot for wife and kids
>Have older GMC 1500
>Had GMC since 2009 or so, breddy reliable, around 213000 km on it
>Be last fall
>Driving to work
>Accelerating after making turn
>Loud bang and grinding noise from transmission, engine starts to free rev
>WhatTheFuck.jpg
>Still able to drive, sort of
>Have to shift down into first, and carefully walk up the gears without revving too much or it just slips/grinds
>Drinks fuel like a hog since it has to be revved high to shift
>Can't afford to fix truck or buy replacement
>Limp it back and forth to work for four months since gone out of town for two weeks at a time with brevious employer
>Get new job, home pretty much every night, decide to park truck until money situation imbroves
>use Honda, company pickup when available or get rides from coworkers
>FeelLikeSuchAMooch.exe
>Get good tax return, decide to look into fixing up GMC
>Take to transmission shop
>Tranny is kill, replacement with beefed up rebuild probably $3400 with parts and labour
>I'll get back to you on it
>Decide that it isn't worth it to spend that much on a 13 year old truck that needs a brake job, some fender work and who knows what else
>Remember an old friend had an old Dakota for sale a while back
>Get ahold of him, truck still available
>Check it out, breddy good shape for the age, basically new tires and brakes, fairly low mileage
>Selling it because they upgraded to a quadcab so don't need it any more
>Buy it off him for 3k
>Smooth sailing so far

Plz no bully /tfg/.

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>>17519818
>buys unreliable Amerishits
>craps out way too soon
>too poorfag to fix
>so decides to blow about the same amount
>on something more reliable:
>a chrysler/dodge product
you absolute madman
there's no way that will hold up in a fucking leaf
also:
>needs brake job
>has basically new brakes
wut

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>>17519516
>>17519541
>cleans up nicely
>still a beat to shit ford
so gross

>>17519860
Sorry, boorly written.

The GMC is 13 years old and needs a brake job along with some other stuff.

The Dakota has basically new brakes and tires, and requires no maintenance that I am aware of.

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>>17519891
>dakota
>well maintained
regardless of condition it will die like every other dakota
by drifting sideways into a tree
not even memeing br/o/
in your case an evergreen
or possibly a maple if you're lucky
>didn't buy a swedish vehicle
>specifically designed for fighting large ornery geese
you fucked up
>inb4 need cargo space for free spare crude oil and roadkill
get a trailer

>>17519818
>can't afford to fix old shitbox
I thought you were making bank? Or is all your money going to your cuck children and mistress?

>been hauling rock for a asphalt plant
>every time in the yard the loader tries some dumb bullshit to make me slam on my breaks
>other boss faggot always being snarky over the cb

I guess one of our old boomer drivers told him to go fuck himself one day lmao

>>17518793
Turned 23 yesterday

>>17519818
I knew you were an Australian. Your bants are too good for a Canadiacuck.

>>17518089
Why not just flip the switch to lift the rear axle? Is america that behind in terms of technology?

>>17520799
Better question is how weak are USA trailers to not handle the weight of a pivot? My tri axle with 21tonnes on it doesnt experience the problems that I have read ITT. I do it twice a week all year and have yet cause any structural damage. Yeah some more tyre wear happens. But thats about it.

>>17521114
American trailers have a hard time handling 15 tonne on a tandem setup without causing damage.

>>17513978
Why do truckers think they make good money?

>>17521159
Depends. I am a company cuck in Australia and I earnt 120k roobucks, 9 day fortnight, averaged 10hrs a day and home every night with weekends off.

But majority are general freight plebs.

>>17520799
>>17518089
>>17521114
Also, euro-trailers can handle being scrubbed around every single time the truck needs to turn around. Three axles mounted near the midpoint of the trailer means you're always gonna scrub them. They're just designed to take it, and the weight.
Thus, you can haul 4 4 T O N N E S with a two-axle tractor because most of the weight is borne by the trailer.

>>17518793
63 here.

>>17521247
It probably helps a lot too that eurocucks drive so slow

>>17521185
>120kroobuck
Translate that into real currency pls.

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>>17520127
I'm doing a lot better now with my current embloyer than I was back when the GMC broke.

With the recession in the oil and gas industry over the past two years, a lot of people either took literal pay cuts, worked less hours, or in my case at the time, got paid less because the well servicing company charged less to try and stay in the good graces of the oil companies, and every daily "job bonus" that was based off the ticket (invoice) revenue went down.

In the past three years, I went from making over 120k a year as a supervisor, down to maybe 70k when the GMC shit the bed, and am now have back up to around 100-110k a year with the new job.

>>17520398
Damn, ya got me, ya wise cunt. I'm literally wearing an Akruba bush hat and drinking a Coopers Extra Strong on the pashio right now.

>>17521185
>120k Aboshekels
What is that, like 37 cheeseburgers?

All my on duty gets logged as either
>driving ends, 15 min drop and hook, off duty for some time, driving resumes
Or
>driving ends, 15 minute loading, sleeper berth for some time, driving resumes
Is that legal? My cumknee says I'm supposed to log everything as it happens but obviously I don't want to waste my hours. I got inspected a couple times but the officers barely even looked at the logs so I don't know if that means I'm good or they just didn't pay enough attention to notice

>>17521468
If you're actually doing work, put it on line 4. Say it takes you 3 hours for a live load. Log the half hour you spent sitting in line and bumping a dock on line 4, then if you sit there with your thumb up your ass the next 2.25 hours throw that on line 1, then drop to line 4 for 15 minutes to inspect/secure/seal the trailer. If anyone asks and insists you were on duty, the bulletproof reply is "how iz i un doody ad magdonals : - D".

>>17521468
I run a shit load of "personal conveyance" company don't care

>>17521159
I made 50k last year for a 22 yo I'm sure I'm in the top 10%

>>17519516
Lol what a shitbox.

>>17521296
Trucks are limited to 55, yes, but cars go way faster. Anyone going below 60MPH in a car on the motorways is considered a danger to themselves and others, and able to be fined if they don't stay in the slow lane.

Is flying on an airplane onduty?

Does anybody here haul gravel/asphalt/aggregate shit? I'm studying these CDL questions and was wondering what a typical day is, aside from being a van-hauling cuck

>>17522919
*what a typical day is like.
Sorry, i'm just fucking out of it

>>17522919
I worked road construction, they seemed to like it. I mean, most of those guys retire doing it. From what I understand, it goes
>show up, pre-trip, drive to hotplant
>haul asphalt to site, dump or be dumped by dump man
>pull forward to clean out site/down the paving line to ensure no remaining asphalt is stuck in belly dump and scrape as needed
>repeat until Foreman tells you to suck his cock and get back to your bull prepping duties
I'm thinking of going back to the same company now that I have my CDL and some otr experience to do just that.

>>17522861
>"Here are some specific activities which are considered to be onduty time: Alltimespent at a plant, shipping / receiving facility, terminal , or other facility of a motor carrier, unless you are in your sleeper berth or have been relieved of all work related responsibilities."
Just a quick Google search is all that's needed.

>>17521304
>real currency
The Queens pound.

>>17522919
I just got loaded at a quarry.
>clock in
>get clipboard with paperwork for loads that day
>grab a donut
>pre-trip
>load up at the elevator
>head out
>put the gravel in that pile over there
>go back to the quarry
>repeat 2-8 times
>fuel the truck
>head back
>post-trip
>grab a cold slice of pizza
>turn in clipboard
>go home

>>17523088
Sounds pretty chill. I've been wanting to get my CDL and hopefully haul loads like that. I've been doing patios (im a landscaper) and majority of the time I have to go and get loads of gravel or brick. Probably not the exact same thing as trucking since i'm driving a F450, but it's something that i've been looking into.

Truckers, I really need this answered

I'm stuck in a paycheck to paycheck situation, and I'm trying to save up for a local independent cdl school (I am not interested in company sponsored training if I can avoid it)

I was considering selling my personal vehicle so I can take the cdl school (my relatives will take me to the school, the school has free dorm rooms) then of course I would begin applying for companies for company training with another driver, which I understand they will pay for your bus ticket

So my question is, will selling my personal vehicle bite me in the ass? Will I really need it since I'll be otr for my first year? I understand I can drive the rig back home with most companies, and I could use my family's vehicle for whatever I might need while home

Let me know, if I sell my truck then I can easily afford the down payment required to start school and quit my shit job at the same time

>>17523888
Also how many of you went through the company sponsored training? Do they do a decent job training? Or is it sink Or swim if your having trouble with a certain aspect?

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>>17523088
>Loaded at a quarry
>Put the gravel in that pile
>Quarry
>Gravel

How many binders did it take to securely chain the gravel to the deck?

>>17522919
I do in a end dump days go like this
>text from boss man every day at 345 tells us what we're hauling and to where
>haul said stuff to said place

Easy as hell just have to make sure you watch your suspension gauge and learn when you are at 25 tons

>>17523023
Kek I been hauling asphalt/millings for the past month and fuck does being on the road crew look like it sucks donkey dicks

>hauling asphalt one day
>back up to paver
>you just use your trailer brakes and lift bed as it pushes you
>guy signals to go forward
>uh OK
>roll from machine 25 tons of asphalt in one huge pile

Kek

>>17523929
I did the company sponsored thing. So did TF iirc. It's not the end of the world if you go that way and it does have the advantage of getting you going faster which sounds like you need to do. Just pick one of the megas like Swift or Werner and shove off.

>>17524547
I wouldn't recommend Werner for company sponsored training. I got my CDL independently, only took 2 weeks, and I joined Werner because they offer tuition reimbursement. I get a bonus every month which will total the cost of my training. However, almost everyone else in my orientation went through Roadmaster, and they said it took 4 weeks, some longer because they failed the first time, and now they're stuck in a contract with Werner so they couldn't leave if they wanted to until the contract is up, and the best part is, they were all trained and tested on autos so they have a restricted license. Good thing Werner just bought a thousand brand new automatic freightliners, right?

>>17524588
Not defending Werner but that fact is the nobody would recommend ANY starter company yet for the most part that's where you have to begin.

>automatic rant
It's where the industry is going. Deal w/it.

>>17524811
Except the discussion wasn't about starter companies now, was it? He was asking about company sponsored training, which you'd know if you worked on your reading comprehension.

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Eternal freightliner here, on an iPad with an old sd card. Thinking about crashing this thread with no survivors

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>>17525101
First time I ever backed a trailer into a bay...... woahhhhhh
This is boring I might better stuff on this card.

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>>17525141
Oh look two things that I was stupid enough to ride back than

>>17525141
>Entirely matte black
Wew lad. Did you seek death and glory on the Fury Road?

>>17525182
Zoz.

>>17524188
Dump cucks only haul the trash that wasn't good enough to put on my trailer. I've got 6"x60"x90" slabs of limestone.

>>17524547
>I did the company sponsored thing. So did TF iirc.
I paid for CDL school in cash while I was taking college courses.

>>17524588
>tuition reimbursement
How's that $100/mo working for you?

>>17525101
>>17525141
>>17525182
>This is boring I might better stuff on this card.
Post the good shit in the next 30 minutes so I can see it before it's deleted for once.

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>>17525237
>>17525246
>>17525267
>Buh, but muh sfw thread!
Won't somebody please think of the [Pure] [Anime Enthusiast] [Sleeper Inhabitants]!

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>>17525237
>>17525246
>>17525267
>>17525315
>all these thots

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>>17525339
>circumcised little penis
I used to hate you. Now I just pity you.

>>17525267
>that discharge on her trousers

>>17525237
Chipboard cuckshed. Do you still live there?

>>17525388
>i'm severely jealous of others, but try to mask it with a veil of sarcasm and cynicism

does mommy know you're not in bed yet, and still on the computer?

I did it. I was in4 an EF dump.

>>17525521
This is a sfw board asshat

>>17513978
I would just like to say that /tfg/ has some of the most lovingly crafted OPs I've ever seen
>rumspringa
I would not have put money on anyone on this East Timorese injection molding collective knowing that word

>>17525551
Aw fugg, I missed it.

>>17525589
You'd be surprised. About a quarter of my German classes in college were born amish, and a few were even still practicing, so it came up quite a bit.

Who needs ICE on the Hume when you can do Heroin on the US50
http://wreg.com/2017/07/12/fuel-truck-driver-overdosed-at-gas-station-with-vehicle-running-cleves-police-say/

>>17525214
It's $250 a month now.

Does anybody here have the backcycler in their seat? I think mine might be broken, it inflates but then it doesn't deflate by itself, I have to turn it off. Anyone know whats up with it?

>>17524240
Na. It was fun. Or the crew I worked with was a blast to be around. I mean, some days did blow. But what job doesn't have those days?
Also, did the paving operator have you move or a dumbass on the ground/screed? Picking up asphalt with a backhoe and dumping it in the paver is really unnecessary. And pisses everyone off

TEST

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Oh snap is this stupid thing working

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Better ask a meaningful question while I still can.

Do bug deflectors or sunvisors do anything? Is it just novelty items?

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>>17527874
They do help with their respective purposes, but like almost anything, lots of people get by just fine without them.

I'd definitely take the visor if I had to choose between the two.

>>17527858
Kek what did u get banned for

>>17528224
Yeah that visor seems legit. Bug deflector I dunno...

>>17528250
I dunno. I think its just a range ban. I've been range banned on and off for a year, but this last range ban has been like 2 straight months. Weird cuz I can always post on every other board. Just not /o/.

I think the only reason I can post is because I'm in Iowa roaming on some local network.

>>17526699
Wew lad. I actually would have gotten my tuition back.

>>17528282
Skip the visor and get a pass, pleb.

>>17528282
I can't post on /a/ most of the time. I don't really see what they intend to accomplish by banning all phones in random counties.

>>17528366
I don't want my credit card and real identity associated with this place. Don't trust Hiro. Plus I'm not convinced they aren't just range banning ppl specifically on boards they frequent in order to pressure them into a pass.

>>17528371
$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Phew, I'd recommend not showing up to the airport in fire resistant clothing and smelling of natural gas.

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>>17524811

fuck autotragics

>>17521159

Because some of us actually do. The vast majority don't make much and I've had my share of shit weeks but on the average I make more than most.

Trucking is like jap import modifieds. For every Type-R that is done well and has 500whp there's 40 with a D16y7, automatic and a fart cannon that tell everyone they have 500whp

For every driver in trucking that actually makes 100K a year there's 40 dry-van/general freight guys who make .31cpm and run their 70 to nothing every week.

>>17519881
>>17521691

t. busriding faggits

>>17528579
>makes 100K a year
LOL yeah gross 100K

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CHECK EM

>>17528978
checked

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You guys ever have an ac compressor blow up on you? As in, blow the clutch out of the housing?

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>>17529498
>>17529503
Nah, I don't drive a volvo.

>>17529533
Peterbilt 359. With a DD3 Detroit swap.

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>>17529628
>>17529533
Forgot pic

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>>17529628
>17529628
>>17529643

>359 with Tier 4 Detroit emissions motor

>>17529664
Hold up... The DD3 has no egr or particulate filter of any kind factory. The engine was installed after the C15 blew from a donor truck. BTW this is my dad's rig... I'm stuck in a company cuck freightshaker

>>17516275
Lies and faggotry

My auto Volvo can't even get 7.5 much less the extra 10

>>17518793
31 this month

>>17527375
Try pressing the button again. Mine always stays on

>>17529717

>359 with a post-Series 60 Detroit

Neck yourself

>>17517547

Not surprising coming from one of the states that has the least amount of truck parking and some of the worst traffic in the Northeast.

>>17529498
You ran it while it was dry and it seized.

Anyone else listen to podcasts alot?

I've been listening to Dan Carlins hardcore history

>>17530489
I listen to the brewing network, lunch meet.

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>>17529402
Completely normal. Get back on the road, driver.

>>17529717
>>17529664
>TFW every Western Star in the fleet is deleted
>TFW the DD16 game on the twin steer oiler is ridiculous

Desmogized and it feels so good.

>Be me, Oilfag
>Be today
>Still working on the 5k Western Star oiler
>Still leaving truck out in the bush and driving back and forth with pickup
>Drive out in the morning
>Silent Hill levels of fog
>Drive 40km with the hazards flashing to help improve visibility to other vehicles
>Rained last night, roads nice and dry though
>Get to first site, bang off quick job
>Go to usual reload site and fill up tanks w/ 7m3 of oil
>Have to drive further up the road to park truck at next site for tomorrow
>Come around corner doing +- 50km/h
>Road instantly goes from breddy dry to three inch deep layer of loon shit
>Coworker driving pickup ahead of oiler starts to fishtail all over the road trying to get straight
>TFW we kept a set of chains on all week in case it rained overnight while the unit was parked in a bad spot
>Even with chains on, front end is sliding around
>Chew up hill in fourth over spewing big rooster tails of mud from both drives and oversize steers
>Get to lease road turnoff
>Super slick mud and well over 90 degree turn
>Need to do three corrections to get the angle from the front end sliding
>Lease road even worse than haul road
>Chew 2km in second over
>Finally make it to site
>Oilfield fire fighting truck made it onsite already with no chains
>No mud up in fenders from having to spin
>MFW
>(Photo is from a couple of days ago when it was dry out)

>>17530489
Yup. Hardcore History, Common Sense, The Dick Show, The Adam Carolla Show, Welcome To Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead, Tannis, Black Tapes Podcast, Rabbits, Wolf 359, and the one with Mike Rowe thats name escapes me, to name a few.

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I haven't showered for 6 days.

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>>17530605
Y tho

>>17530489
I used to listen to a lot of NPR podcasts, but then I started listening to the Joe Rogan Experience and have subscribed to the podcasts of about 10% of his guests over the last 120 episodes.

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>>17518860
You ever seen some of the kids that come out of real strict vegan households? They're fucked up all to hell.

>>17525267
>underwear inside out
0/10

>>17528366
>giving Hiroshima access to your CC info

>>17530605
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s90NUW4RSJU

>>17530605
https://youtu.be/suktiBzb7o0

>>17515816
>Warped tour
You angsty child

>>17518581
Where's your leg hair?

>>17530128
Lard ass, he is trying stupidly to tell you he has a DDEC III version of the Series 60 Detriot built fromm 1992-1997, he is just too much of a steering wheel holder to understand "DD" refers to the DD13 and DD15 family of newer Detriot engines.

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I don't know why you all have a cry about finding parking spots. Its 8pm and no ones here.

>>17532406

Hows the weather in the Midwest

>>17532737
Cold in Australia. Thats the tar nigger. I know that bulge anywhere.

>>17530407
It never seized up is the thing. Usually when an ac compressor seizes from running low on refrigerant or pressured too high it'll stall and stop the clutch from engaging. I think he got a faulty compressor. It was replaced two months ago.

>>17532036
You're not wrong... I did mean DDEC 3, I just assumed all Detroit engines started from 1 to 15...because lack of any knowledge really of Detroit.

>>17530068
Right, but it's supposed to inflate then deflate. It did for the first couple of months. I think it's some sort of pressure sensor, when i push hard against it with my hand or back it completes a cycle then stops again.

>>17531248
Concentrated on my shins, mostly. Even then it isn't super dense

>>17532737
It's fucking hot as shit

>>17532765
>Notices bulge
>OwO what's this?

>>17528501
>All them flanges
Seems like good advice.

>>17533181
Not being hirsute is a blessing tbqhfam.

I know a couple of guys that have to shave every single day to be able to work in oil and gas since they it grows so fast.

>>17528579
> run their 70 to nothing every week.
Yeah, I wish. Most companies advertise 2500 miles a week and they work really hard to make sure you get 2500 miles a week. I've usually got so much god damn free time that I've thought about asking for temp work at the truck stop to make some money on the side.

>>17530706
I did something similar. JRE was one of my first as well. Branched out to Joey Diaz, Doug Stanhope, jocko willink, and a few others.
>>17530578
Yeah I'm listening to "blueprint for apocalypse" right now. Funny you mention it (hardcore history)
Also, Mike rowes podcast is "the way I heard It"
I'll check out a few of the ones you mentioned as well

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>TFW at a rodeo and Still D.R.E. comes on over the PA system

Wat.

>>17534076
>De way I eard id :DDDD
Yeah, that's the one. They're short and sweet.

Dan Carlin's stuff is really good, but it's such a long delay between episodes.

I also am a fan of Dan Carlin. Must be the length of the episodes that draws drivers to him, plus he speaks clearly so you can hear him over the engine, unlike In Our Time, which is good but the damn brits are always mumbling

>>17534755
What's your ideal podcast length? I like 3 hours because it lets me get through 3 a day and leave a little time for news and music to round things out.

First time going through NYC tomorrow. It can't be as bad as everyone says it is, right? It looks like 95 is a straight shot right through to Connecticut. Is there anything to fuck me up as long as I keep an eye out and don't accidentally take any wrong exits? Seems like a lot of the horror stories I read are about going into the city itself.

>>17535180
The longer the better, hard to find good podcasts that are long though.

>>17535183
The road is all fucked up because they can't ever shut it down to redo it, but you're not going to get lost if you stay on 95

>>17530856
I don't think the pass even lets you pay with CC#. Isn't it paypal or some other type of 3rd party bs?

>>17529498
No. Just be a man and drive a truck with no AC
>tfw I'm sweating before I even get to my first stop because the truck is 120F inside and it's been raining a lot and humid as fuck in the morning

A couple years ago the big boss of the whole region told us "There's no reason you should be driving trucks with no AC in South Florida!"

Our small format fleet is probably 40 tractors. About 12 old ass Int'ls, 15 KWs that are getting up in age, and the last 8 newer Int'ls.

The 12 old Int'ls are like 20yrs old and none have AC. The 15KWs are about 15 years old. Most of them had working AC a couple years ago, but now 2/3 don't have working AC or if it does work it doesn't blow worth a damn. The 8 newer Int'ls (newer as in <10yrs old), 2 or 3 have no AC and most of them, the AC blows at room temp on the highway.

Fleet doesn't even attempt to fix it anymore.

>>17535450
Went and checked, it's CC or bitcoin. Or to be more specific:
>We accept most major international cards (this includes bank, credit, charge, debit, and prepaid cards) and Bitcoin.

I'm 80% sure it was via 3rd party when Moot was in charge.

>>17535450
>no AC in FL

I run out of ocala. This is a human rights violation and you need to contact you senator about this affront to the Geneva convention

>>17535450
Sometimes I haul for Bepis, your whole company is a shitshow my man. Warehouses falling apart, craters in the yard, bottles and cans of soda just laying around all over the place I have to drive over 2 liters to back in a dock, pepsi trucks held together by tape and rope and the drivers are racing around running over soda like it's a nascar race. They're always very disorganized and half the time load the trailer wrong so I have to go back to have them reload for the weight to be legal. What's the issue? I haul for Dr pepper too and they are very professional and clean.

>>17535908
Funny thing is of all the beverage and beer companies around here, Pepsi has its shit together the best. Coke is a huge clusterfuck, 7-Up/Snapple is just a shitty little company and I heard them and Arizona make no money. The Miller distributor got bought out by another company (Reyes Holdings) maybe 2 years ago and everybody quit. Budweiser is the one company where I actually see the drivers stick around for more than a couple months.

>>17535662
I agree. I have one of the furthest routes and seniority so I should have a newer truck, but nobody enforces the shit and I'm not trying to come in at 4:30am to fight people over it.

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>TFW spending six hours sitting on wooden bench seats in the hot sun

It's almost as unconfortable as fifteen minutes spent sitting in a Mack, or five minutes in a Stirling.

>>17535450
>No AC
RIP in peace Pepser

>MFW Chuckwagons are breddy exciting live

>>17535180
1 to 3. In my old Volvo once the timer on the radio only went to 59.59 so if you were at 3 hours 20 mins of a hardcore history and had to turn the truck off it would revert back the first 20 mins. Super annoying.

>>17535183
95 is easy peezy. It's a lot worse at night, really dark and normally aren't any lines painted. Going south there is a fairly sharp right hander that I almost drove straight thru because I couldn't tell what I was looking at with no lines and oncoming headlights. Ignore the bridge heights. Take upper level of gwb.

Well guys it finally happened. Play Russian roulette enough times and you eventually lose.

>>17536605
You're not supposed to put foreign objects in your head, no matter what that man in Atlanta told you he'd pay you

>>17536605

Pics faggot

>>17536655
I already threw the shorts away.

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>>17536605
Di di mau! Di di mau!

Failed drug test any options? Ok yes I know DON'T DO DRUGS!, However july first came rolling around and I was at an outdoor concert in Belleville, Trooper, anyways there was a lot of people smoking and after having a few drinks I smoked a couple joints with friends. I have just received my license and had my first interview. Unfortunately they asked me too do a drug test on the spot! Today I received a call from drug test and low and behold I failed. The doctor said the cutoff was 15 ng/ml I tested positive at 30 ng/ml. I was told I would have to enter substance abuse program before I can retake test. My question is did I just Fuck up my chances at doing long haul into the US. Please refrain from slamming me as I know my mistake I am 45 so I should have known better, I just wanna know my chances in the future.

Anyone know of an easy way to keep pens at arm's length but also in one place? Preferably in a way that they don't move or fall when the truck shakes

>>17536769
Paging pepsifag. Another dindu needs your help.

>>17536856
I get the kind with the pocket clip and clip them onto my dash mat. I also keep 2 with my ligbook. Some trucks have a flap you can clip therm onto on the flip down sun visor.

>>17536856
Your ear is the best place to stash a pen. Just pop that sucker right on top.

Also, vacating the country for a week. If I get zika and die, it's been fun shitposting with you all.

Newfag question from someone getting into the industry. About what percentage of loads do you have to manually unload if you run dry van for a megacarrier? I ask because my old man has been delivering grocery local for 20 years and his back is all fucked up and I don't wanna end up like him.

>>17537224
The phrase you want to look for in they're advertising is "99% no-touch freight". I pulled a van for 2 years, and other than a poor choice to join a floor loaded dedicated account for 2 weeks, I think I only unloaded one load of beans because it was a 6 hour wait for a lumper, and tailgated a load of fiberglass and a few reefer loads with a pallet jack.

FREE PANTS SHITTERS!

http://nationalhotdogday.pilotflyingj.com/

>>17536769
Have you tried not being a filthy druggie?

>>17536856
Cargo pockets.

>>17537052
>Your ear is the best place to stash a pen.
Only if you don't wear glasses. If you do, it won't stay.

>>17536769
Good luck. It sucks. I hope you have some $$$ for all the classes.

They will probably make you go talk to a "Substance Abuse Pro" first, and the best bet is to try and convince him/her that you just got really unlucky and that was the first time you have touched any drugs since you were in high school.

That's the person who will assign you whatever BS you need to do before you can get back to work. If they think it was just an honest mistake and you aren't a full blown drug addict, hopefully you will just get a couple classes. But when it happened to me, it was 10 AA meetings and like 25hrs of these other classes for people with DUIs and it all cost around $2500 and took close to 2 months. And the lady said that was "light" and people with serious problems will get 40+ hours of classes.

Luckily it happened when I was in CDL school, so on job applications I can still answer "No" when they ask if I have ever failed a drug test while employed driving a commercial vehicle. But they almost always ask those questions on applications for driving jobs, so hopefully your current employer will still keep you around.

That being said, if I ever get a random and I know I will fail it, I will drive straight to detox instead of Concentra for the test. They will have a hard time firing you if you're in detox and you piss clean when you get out.

>>17536769
>>17538653
Also sorry just woke up and saw it was a pre-employment drug test. But sounds like it's still getting reported to DOT which sucks.

And when I failed mine, I also got caught just above the threshold. I was a pothead and quit like 6 weeks before but I guess that wasn't enough time to clear out years of THC when you smoke all day everyday.

Just make that substance abuse person believe that you really dindu nuffin and you iz a gud boi who just made a mistake this one time and hopefully you will be able to drive again in a month.

And idk how that will hurt future employment. Not sure how that failed drug test comes up when they look at your driving record (it's not on an MVR) and Pepsi still hired me so it's not impossible to get a job.

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>>17537052
Shirts with the breast pocket. Our blue button down shirts actually have a little pocket inside the pocket made to hold a pen and it's tits.

We just got some new hi-vis polo shirts and they don't have the breast pocket and it pisses me off. I can never find my pen when I need it.

And next Wednesday I took the day off because I'm driving with coffee grill up to Jacksonville. Gonna be a long drive. Just figured I should tell you guys that ;^)

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We nyc today

>>17538653
>Dr. Beper

>>17538851
Nigga we street pharmacists over here

A couple years ago my friend was in the hospital and the nurse was in there tellin him all the meds he was getting and he was like "what's that?" for each one and I was tellin him before the nurse could even answer and she was like "Oh, you're in the medical field? What do you do?"

>>17537509

>The phrase you want to look for in they're advertising is "99% no-touch freight"

I figured as much but I also thought that was just some BS the megas were advertising to not scare away new drivers just like all the other BS they tell you. I don't mind unloading with a pallet jack. Thanks for replying.

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>not driving a Vulva
>not having a pen mounted within arms reach at all times

Stop pretending to be supertruckers and get a comfy cab like mine.

>>17539247
>I don't mind unloading with a pallet jack. Thanks for replying.
Oh you will. You will.

For the most part, megas don't supply drivers with equipment like pallet jacks since they're not typically in the LTL game. That means when you get to a receiver you have to use the shitty manual pallet jack with three out of four wheels, of which two of the remaining ones are flat-spotted, and it takes continual pumping to keep it only slightly off the floor. You decide that this is total bullshit and ask the lumper service to take over but now they're mad at you and tell you to fuck off.

So now after two hours you've managed to wrestle the eight pallets off and start to break it down you find the shipper loaded the pallets with whatever came down the line in random order. Since only one product number is allowed per pallet those eight pallets rapidly become 10, then 14, then 20, 30, and so on. You don't have extra pallets on board so you have to beg, borrow, and literally steal pallets from all over the dock. Sometimes you have to break down an entire pallet to get the one fucking box in the middle on the bottom and then rebuild the pallet after you've gotten the one box.

Finally after hours you've got this shit all broken down for the receiver who eventually wanders over a couple of hours later and immediately start rejecting the pallets you've used because they're been repaired and they don't accept repaired pallets. Oddly enough it just so happens that ALL of the pallets you've used have been repaired and thus rejected so now you've got to replace all the pallets with new ones. After a couple more hours you've got this done and the receiver seems satisfied so now you merely have to wait a couple more hours for the paperwork to wend it's way through the office.

Luckily for you you've been there long enough to get a break in so now you get to drive to your next stop a mere 600 miles away and you've got just enough time to get there.

>>17539351
Volvo engines sound like a bunch of rocks are bouncing around in the cylinders

>>17539382

holy shit man... I plan to go with a lumper whenever possible but I don't mind breaking down pallets every once in a while. The thing that fills me with rage though is having to use faulty equipment. Pulling poultry up an incline on a manual pallet jack with a fucked up wheel is what I imagine hell is like.

Funny thing is I was thinking of finding a dedicated reefer account after I got the hang of driving but I obviously got a long and painful learning curve ahead of me.

>>17536856
I keep a cd organizer on my sun visor just for the pen loop. I also keep one in my clipboard

>>17539510
I think Maxxforce engines are worse

>>17538793
I find mine go missing from there whenever I bend down to grab something.

Best place for storage is the pockets of my high-vis vest, but that's only accessible if I'm wearing it.

>>17539382
>beg, borrow, and literally steal

> He doesn't routinely hoard, stash, and hide equipment

>>17539510
My engine purrs, but I don't spend a lot of time in NYC. It's almost like city driving is rough on engines.

Where do you guys piss? Seriously


Also where do cab drivers in NYC pee? I can't imagine they have time to stop and feed a meter 10 dollars to go use a public restroom several times a day.

I just realized this when I was taking a cab today

TEST

>>17540119
well boys, I think I'm back

>>17540050
>Where do you guys piss? Seriously
Bottles, truck stops, shippers, roadside, walmart parking lots.
Where do the bottles go? See above.

>Also where do cab drivers in NYC pee?
They learn to hold it like adults, and go on their breaks.

>>17539351
Or you could spend a dollar at Wal-Mart on a Penpal™ and not have to drive a shitty Volvo

>>17540050
Lol you mostly double park nd piss in allys

>>17540709
Sometimes it's fun to act like I'm checking the reefer panel and just piss under the trailer

>>17540768
You're not fooling anyone

Why do truck drivers have a hard time understanding when and how to run a regen for their after treatment systems? There's warning lights and alarms and a big flashing button. I've had this same truck in two weeks in a row where the driver simply never ran a regen and is running with the exhaust brake on at all times which prevents passive regens despite explaining very clearly not to do that. If the truck comes in with the same codes twice that are informational for "operator error "and I can make it work just fine in the shop and during a road test warranty isn't going to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

>>17539866
Maxxforce engines are absolutely worse in every possible way. Brilliant plan, let's take a marine engine, slap it in a truck, add some after treatment and call it good. Navistar can suck my ass.

>>17540394
Alright supertrucker, go back to your intertrashional

Do you have access to the trailer you are pulling?

Can you open it if you wanted?

I wonder how many of you will turn into serial murderers later in life

Got my PM done and APU fixed under warranty, cat walk is back together and they replaced my oil pan seal under warranty. Good to go for another 50K miles, or until the APU breaks again. I still need an alignment and new shocks I'm getting that done while I'm at Race Week

How is Midwest and West freight rates now, specifically refrigerated? I've had about enough of the Northeast and Race Week at Bonneville is in a month

>>17541118
You can unscrew the bolts that attach the handle to the vertical metal rods holding the doors closed. This lets you get another load in there if you have a sealed but half empty trailer, or pull out some of the cargo while maintaining plausible deniability. Natural born americans don't seem to do this as much as immigrants, especially Russians.

>>17541046
Oh well. I can also open the doors to one of the cold compartments and act like I'm digging for something in there.

Or just use the bathroom in one of the 15 stores I'm in throughout the day...

>>17541077
Isn't there a sticker on the sun visor?

Anyway the trucks are supposed to do it while driving on the highway. If they don't, there's some other problem. Sounds like you just found a special case of retarded supertrucker.

>>17541118
>>17541179
Kek. I don't see why they even seal them. If there's something real good in there, you could just pop the seal and tell your supervisor that you went into the Petro for a hot dog and 128oz soda and it was gone when you came back. Or blame it on the niggers at the shipper or receiver.

>>17541109
>projecting this hard
You wish you could drive my Pete

>>17541246
>Imblying imbligations
If it's not automatic with fendirorrs I don't even want to touch it. Radar assisted cruise and braking is also preferred.

>>17540768
Ive pissed inside a trailer several times too

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School bus is rollin

>>17538836
>>17541664
I bet it would be cool to drive sideways if it was possible.

>>17515410
man that really makes me miss the old 4700 i used to drive at my first job on the road

>>17541216
Otr works a lot differently that what you do. Some shippers will reject the whole load if the seal is broke. Then you have to deal with that bullshit.

>>17540050
Laundry detergent bottle in the sleeper for emergencies like LA stopped traffic.

Shippers, terminals, truck stops and rest areas for everything else.

Middle of nowhere? Hit a shoulder and go between the truck and trailer

>>17541148
You ever check out rates and lanes with rock muhammad? I don't care for KR, but some of his peripheral network shows have good info.

>>17541864
*rico

>>17541714
So tell them you got stopped by DOT and they wanted to count how many underage Chinese girls were in the trailer.

We have seals on the trucks in the morning, but it doesn't mean shit because the warehouse misses loading a case or two almost everyday. They use a voice pick thing to make that impossible, but I guess the warehouse dudes memorize SKUs or some shit and they can get around it. Sometimes there is an extra case on the truck too and the rest of the day I'm thinking "who did I forget to give that to?" but now since each delivery is on a pallet, I normally know that it was the warehouse and not me.

They count the whole warehouse nightly tho so hopefully it balances out. There is a guy who is there like 4 am who does it and he looks like a straight child molester. Nice enough guy but I'm not a 9 year old boy so I have no reason to worry.

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>TFW finally
done the project where we leave the oiler in the bush, and get to drive it on blacktop for the first time in a over a week and a half

>>17541834
But where do you keep your laundry detergent? In a piss jug?

>>17541406
>Automatic
>Fendirrors
>Nanny devices
The horror. The horror.

Anyone have experience with Paccar's MX-13 motors? Apparently the new Kenworth T800 oiler being built has one for a powerblant.

>>17540050
Literally anywhere in the bush. Pick an angle wherein you don't expose your cock to other people.

>Be me, Oilfag
>Be today
>Working with same rod rig crew for several weeks on project
>Aside from rig manager and driller, crew has been an ever changing cavalcade of freshly hired green guys with no oilfield experience whatsoever
>Rod rig company will literally hire anyone with a pulse and two hands
>Today's special is a big fat dude that worked at a furniture rental outlet in the maritimes before coming out west
>Heretofore referred to as Doughboy
>Doughboy is literally sweating just from carrying wrenches around, let alone running rods in/out or hammering on connections
>https://youtu.be/S8mtal34Y74
>(What working with rods on the rig floor looks like, breddy physical)
>Slow day for us, waiting on the rig to slowly pull rods
>Doughboy can barely lift the two rod wrenches after a few connections, let alone break them
>Rig manager has to keep switching him out to keep up production
>Finally get all rods pulled out, time to run them back in
>Same as before, Doughboy is sssslow and sweaty
>Hanging out on rig floor with driller
>Doughboy asks me if I could switch him out
>Pity.exe - 1 out of 1 files found
>Do maybe fifteen connections running in while he cools down
>Switch back
>Does five more connections before 62 year old driller gets mad and switches him out for good
>Looks at me and asks with no sense of irony
>Where is the bathroom?
>DumbfoundedLook.jpg
>Give wide sweep of arm
>Anywhere you like man
>Told to go shit in a bag
>HFW

You guys ever fuck a lizard?


I picked one up when I was moving from NC to NV.

Think I over-payed though

>>17541651
I've dumped inside dump bodies before.

>>17542268
>Anyone have experience with Paccar's MX-13 motors
Yes. I drive a 2016 DAFworth. But our version has the euro block and only SCR, no DPF.

From what I understand it is much better than the USA version on an uptime/reliability scale.

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Not a trucker but working on an invention to solve the piss jug issue.

I drive 2 hours to and from work and i drink water like a madman.

Those wide mouth Gatorade bottles are going to be a thing of the past!

>>17542268
If my dead alcoholic father taught me anything, it's that the best thing about The Great Outdoors™ is you can piss wherever the hell you want

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>>17542606
>DeadAlcoholicFather
Is... is that a tripfag on /out/?

Either way, that is sage wisdom.

>>17542479
>Deurinated and it feels so good

>>17541880
>So tell them you got stopped by DOT
>"oh, ok, then just show us your completed inspection report"

>>17542753
Oh man, they hated me on /out/ when I first started tripping over there. Now most of em don't care and the ones that do get pissed either blocked me or gave up bitching about it.

>>17544212
The funny thing about loose papers is that they don't seem to stay put very well with the windows down at 62mph

>damn coffee grill keepin me up way past my bedtime

>>17544408
>The funny thing about loose papers is that they don't seem to stay put very well with the windows down at 62mph
>"The funny thing about trailers with broken seals is that we don't accept them or pay for their transport"

>>17544408
Just stop.
You don't know shit about otr and seals.

>>17544444
Checked.

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>>17544999
Checked

>>17544891
Kek. Relax. I'm just saying that seals don't do shit to keep people out of trailers if they really want something. Hell, some dindu could be walking around a truck stop popping the seals on every trailer to see what's inside and you could be one of the unlucky drivers who was sleeping there when it happened.

I think I'm going to start doing that, just pop random seals at trailers I see parked at the Turnpike service stations and wherever else.

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>>17544444
Welp I'm still gonna get paid my 34¢ a mile. Not my fault the seal disappeared somewhere between here and Texarkana.

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daily reminder that eurotrucks are superior and more MANly

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>>17545581
No one could pop that Seal out of my heart.

>>17545645
>Literal memes on wheels
>Single drive axle automatic cabovers
>But muh powerful Scania engine (that is rare and for specific industrial applications)
>Styling by Volvo's little brother with Down's Syndrome
>Le sleeper, she only needs to be 35.5cm wide (takes long drag off a Gauloise)

k autodriver

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>>17545727
>muh engagement
>muh driving feels
why the fuck do you need a manual in a truck?
how do you feel when automatic eurotrucs are more comfortable, have interiors not made out of cardboard (unlike your intertrashionals) and have more power and better mpg whilst being automatic? auto is superior in a truck.

>>17545645
>yurocucks drive automatic trucks
lmao, will they ever recover?

>>17545581
You're not getting shit without a signed bol. How do you know literally nothing about trucking?

>>17545760
Looks just as shit as every truck on the market that wasn't ordered with the wood and leather package.

>>17545760

> implying anyone would ever want to live out of those tiny coffin sleepers

Nice try Ahmed.

>>17545936

This desu, get back to me in 5 years when that interior is trashed like every other company rig out there.

>>17545897
One day I'm gonna find your truck in the TA parking lot and rip the seal off just for fun.

Idk what you're so upset about. If you're an owner-op, of course you won't fuck with that seal unless there's something real good in the trailer. Otherwise as a company cuck, shit happens and it won't be the end of the world if you gotta tell your supervisor that you were doing your pre-trip and saw that shit was missing. Bring it wherever they tell you. I understand what seals are for, but they're not stopping anybody from opening the trailer if they want to see what's inside.

>>17546752
They're not there to stop anyone from getting in, they're there to see if anyone got in. Padlocks are there to keep people from getting in.

>>17546949
Enforcer locks with those fancy hidey brackets so you have to take the hinges off the barn doors cause it's easier.

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Hmmm.

>bills say 22 pallets gw 40000
>scale ticket says gvw 44200
>double check trailer, double check bills. everything checks out
Oh well. Not my problem. If they sealed it with like 1 pallet, that's on them.

>>17547054
Did he lose it, or is it under the load?

>>17547939
Under the load. He just left it hanging there, probably from Medford to Toledo.

>>17529643
Looks like a 379 to me

>>17548061
Surprised he didn't lose them. That's about par for the course with Mav

>>17541864
>>17541874

No but I'll give him a look, thanks.

I ran the Midwest for a while and know a few of the lanes up there. We have an account with the Olney, IL Walmart DC and anything that picks up with in a 600 mile radius can be delivered there in a day, we also do Nestle on the other side of St. Louis and there's a network of Cargill, Tyson and Smithfield plants we pick up from that usually pay $2/mile sometimes 3. I've never pulled out of Wisconsin for less than $2/mi and we have some accounts up there too that I ran for a while, but it has legitimately been 4 months since I touched any of that stuff so I don't know if rates have moved up or down, the last time I was there was Roger's AR at that Tyson Processing Plant and that paid about $1.80 going into Zero Mountain CS and coming out from that Tyson too. I'm optimistic about it and I'm ready for some Huhot.

>>17538877
Shut the fuck up nerd no one cares about your fiction this isnt reddit

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>>17551620
>I'm the Anlax, I speak for the chans

I'd rather read liquefied sugar merchant's blog posts about his personal life any day of the week if the alternatives are posts from a bunch of losers like yourself that do nothing but complain and contribute nothing.

Also, go fuck yourself.

(Picture related, it's essentially you)

>tfw scrap outfit here has a lease guy with a W900A and another with a 359
>W900A is big cam, 359 is a 2-stroke detroit
>see them all the time with the god-tier trucks that are fucking immaculate
>tfw still sitting here with a halliburton CDL and no job because mexicans
>realize I'll never drive something that cool
y-you too

>>17551700
>y u no going going back to back to Halli Halli?

Didn't they build a wall or something to prevent this from happening?

>>17551740
shit sucks, man. I left Halli cause my buddy up in oklahoma said he had a job for me on a friend of a friend's rig moving crew where I could run a winch truck, but the truck they had lined up blew the fucking PTO out, and since that was their one open position, now I ain't got shit.
fuck me.

>>17551682
Then you and him can both fuck off to tumblr or Facebook. The only reason he's complaining is because soda nigger is blog posting again even though he's had several warnings from the mods in the past. If he wouldn't be such a constant attention whore, there wouldn't be these stupid off topic meta shit fests.

>>17551755
That does suck. Have you tried to get on with a third party sand hauling company like 1845, or something on those lines?

>>17551620
>>17551756
>t. babies with full diapers that could use naps

>>17551780
I honestly haven't looked into sand too much - I've just read too many horror stories of "check's in the mail" and not getting paid, shit like that. I should probably look into it more though, because at this point I'm a cunt hair away from just getting a fucking construction job in one of the 7 million subdivisions they seem to be putting out here.

>>17551785
I'd rather be that than a lonely desperate attention starved manual laborer, or the faggot that defends him.
It's pathetic. If you, uh I mean, if "he" had anyone that he could talk to about his life or how his day was, if even one person in the world cared enough to listen to him, he would talk to that person instead of needing to vent it here. The rest of the thread is people truckers talking about trucking. I don't know any other truckers, well, the ones I do I don't want to talk to, so I come here because I don't have a circle of trucker friends to talk to about trucking.
What's worse is he's not even a trucker and doesn't know anything about trucking. All we get is his blog posts and shit posts, he's the one who contributes nothing.

Nigger we're truck drivers, obviously we don't have anyone to talk to irl. We're all starved for attention.

Nigger we're truck drivers, obviously we don't have anyone to talk to irl. We're all starved for attention.

>captcha ROAD Veteran

>be me, company cuck
>10 hours off to the microsecond
>qualcomm alert as alarm clock
>time to start driving driver
>company doesnt trust or respect me enough to allow me to manage my time
>thats fine with me since i have no self respect anyways
>begin to """""pre-trip""""" truck
>turn over engine immediately with no time for diagnostic routine or priming
>engage high idle
>"""""pre-trip""""" complete
>update elog since company doesnt trust me to complete paper copies cleanly and accurately
>drive for first hour
>better do a load check
>buy two big macs a large fries and two large cokes
>load check complete
>consume healthy breakfast while driving
>better take my 30
>grab two baconators and two orders of wendys five piece value nuggets
>fuel up truck, spill 45 gallons of diesel on the ground from satellite pump not clicking off
>leave mess because dont have time to clean it up
>30 completed
>consume healthy lunch while driving
>qualcomm message
>time to stop driving driver
>company doesnt trust me or respect me enough to allow me to manage time spent driving or distance travelled
>take 25 minutes to back into parking spot
>pull mustard and ketchup buttons
>begin post trip
>turn key to off position
>post trip complete
>go buy two footlong chicken subs and four cookies from subway
>consume healthy dinner
>smell pits
>rancid rotting beef smell
>not too bad yet
>shower can wait for another day or two
>fire up 45 dollar chinese tablet
>fap to milf thread on /s/
>qualcomm message
>time to sleep driver
>company doesnt trust or respect me enough to allow me to manage rest periods
>calculate cpm
>earned almost 65 dollars before taxes today
>fall asleep
>no dreams due to lack of mental stimulation

>>17552118
>backing into parking spot
>not shutting down in the fuel island for maximum efficiency
dude, you're gonna get fired.

>>17552118
>getting this triggered because you don't have any friends and even other nolifes on an anime forum don't care about you either

>>17552142
>being this salty because the green text story obviously hit a little too close to home

>>17552179
Not at all. I run dedicated hand unloaded ltl so almost zero of that applies to me. Are you sure the thing that hit close to home wasn't realizing you don't have anyone to have conversations with about your day to day life? Isn't that realization what triggered your little temper tantrum in the first place?

>>17552202
>dedicated hand load ltl
dollar general?

>>17552235
Close. Dollar Tree. Thought about DG since they get those rolltainers to just push around but the good thing about Dollar Trees is that they're almost always in big shopping center areas, easy in and easy backs. Dollar Generals are sometimes in neighborhoods and rinky dink towns and I'm too afraid of hitting a kid on a bike aga-, er uh, or something like that.

>>17552279
fair enough. I'm way too used to driving clapped out farm trucks or winch trucks to do any of that ltl shit.
>got job doing local rock bucket
>kept getting stuck because I forgot that I'm not in a 6x6 with low gears and can't just float over everything
oops

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>>17551792
Sand is breddy easy hauling, especially if it's in a belly dump or end dump as opposed to a pneumatic.

What do you want to do longer term? Running some kind of winch truck like a Texas bed would be a sweet gig.

I was considering trying to get on doing that, pumping liquid nitrogen, or running picker cranes when I got the offer to come run hot oilers at my current embloyer.

>>17552314
longer term I've been trying to save up and prepare to get licensed for crane operation in the 250t and under weight class, but that's kind of a while off. I have some (under the table) experience running cranes and it really clicked for me. it's not a bad gig being dedicated and all.
as far as driving goes, I'd prefer to stay primarily offroad since I fucking hate city hops and OTR sucks donkey dick. there's a couple bucket/mixer companies here I might go for, since those rigs are a little more what I'm used to but otherwise I don't really know.
get me the fuck out of NM.

>>17552118
110% swift teir story.

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>>17552340
Yeah, running mobile cranes would be deadly. I did it a little bit with a 45 tonne unit when I was coil tubing, and really liked it.

If for some reason hot oiling doesn't work out, I think that will be my next focus.

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>>17552118
This needs to be put somewhere for new drivers, so they can get a taste of trucking

>backing in instead of nosing in next to the scale

Unlikely

>>17552279
>dollar tree

Wernerfag/swiftfag confirmed

>hes proud of this

>>17552469
>deadly
Not only have I discovered you are Australian, you are a dirty abbo too.
Don't sleep on the road, oilcuck!

>>17552993
Sounds like you're the Werner/Swiftfag, otherwise you'd know Schneider and US Express also do Dollar Tree.

>>17553063
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Awards
Ayy lmao. Its true.

https://youtu.be/Nt0NcaxmGHo

Don't sniff petrol from a can, oilcuck!