Thread 28522465

I finished my day with about 30 seconds left on my clock when I finally had it in the hole and my brakes pulled in neutral. Cut it way tf too close.

>>28522465 (OP)
Y do u guys never use yard move? You are in my way doin the 4 1/2 mph crawl around the lot, I got shit to do

>>28522743
1) I’ve been told my ELD will switch me to Drive status if I go over 5 mph, so Yard Move is pointless. I’ll try it out on my next opportunity… once I get a new tandem tire.
2) I typically go whatever speed limit is for the yard.

>>28522743
>>28522787
IME, companies differ in how they implement Yard Move. Company I'm with currently has their system set up such that any movement at all will bump you to the Drive line unless you're in YM in which case you can go up to 25 kph before you get put onto Drive.

>>28522465 (OP)
How often do truck tires blow out? I always see blown out tires on the side of the interstate but never a car pulled over or abandoned there so I assume it's from big rigs.

>>28522843
Blowouts are common on big rigs because the tires are under a lot of pressure, since they’re filled to 90-110 psi and are usually under a lot of weight from the freight being carried. So any tire damage that isn’t caught during a pre-trip inspection or happens on the road will result in a blowout.
Most blowouts should be noticeable to an attentive driver and a responsible driver will pull over immediately in a safe manner; those who don’t notice the blowout and/or continue driving will cause the blown tire(s) to disintegrate even further, creating more hazards on the road.

>>28522787
I think your company is lying to you, have you ever tried using yard move? You can do it at the end of a 10 reset and it will be inconsequential if it doesn't work.
>>28522843
Blowouts happen less often than recaps falling off. Anytime you see a flat piece of tread laying on the road it came unglued and got left behind, but if its shredded yea the fucker blowed up

>>28522916
>have you ever tried using yard move?

>I’ll try it out on my next opportunity

>>28522465 (OP)
I'm going to be super contrarian and state that I don't like long nose Peterbilts. I work on a farm that has a handful of them. They are mostly pre def trucks. Boss man decided to try Kenworth for me. My absolute favorite part of it is the Jake brake. It's a big lever on the steering column opposite the turn signal lever. No searching through a dozen switches on the dash.

>>28522937
I find PACCAR differences generally benign in that they're different but not usually better/worse just different. Volvo/Mack otoh is another story. Basically a Mack is Volvo they ruined to be different with dumb shit like control stalks made such that you have to reach around behind the steering wheel to use them, windshield washer nozzles that spray top and bottom but miss the middle, (but at least it hits the windshield instead of just being pumped over the side like a PACCAR does), and so on.

>>28522988
I really dont like the button shifters, at least on frieghtliners the shifter is on the steering column, the buttons feel like negative ergonomics

>>28523006
Oh yeah. That. Apparently they thought their I-shift was so superior that you'd never have to to anything but put it in Drive. I mean, who would ever need to hold a gear or do a manual up or down shift while hitting bumps? At least Mack did get that one right by moving the panel to the top of the dash instead of the bottom. Apparently there's a lever type shifter that goes on the side of the seat to facilitate manual selection but no accountant has ever optioned a fleet truck with one.

>>28523020
They're not even good buttons neither, they got that squish to em like a cheap calculator, half the time I cant even trust that the press went through the system or I have to look down at the panel cause none of em have any kind of grooving to tell you without looking what button you're touchin

>>28523026
>pull up in front of trailer
>look at panel to select Reverse
>push R
>look in mirror
>give it a little fuel to start backing
>fucker goes forward
>God dammit!
I feel your pain

>>28522743
I don't have yard move on my ELD as a status I can select. I also can't do personal conveyance. All I can do is creep under 6mph in off duty if I'm totally fucked which I had to do today to finish creeping into a parking spot and not be illegal. Also got a bitchy email from logs because I didn't have time to log a post-trip inspection.

I pushed literally as hard as I could today.

>>28522937
I like peterbilt because a big fucker like me (6'7 and 300+) can fit in the drivers seat comfortably.

>>28523075
As regards the post trip, you can be On-Duty as long as you want. It's just that your reset won't start until you go to Off/Sleeper status.

>>28523075
Whatever company you're pullin for is fuckin you huge time bro, yard move isn't a loophole some elds find out about, it's a legal way to operate your vehicle as stated by the federal government. Theres no reason you shouldn't be able to do so UNLESS they hire a bunch of fuckin retards who abuse it and thus ruined it for everyone
Remember how they treat you and who you're expected to work with, those will be good red flags to look out for in any future jobs

I hate South Carolina so god damn much. It’s the Indiana of the South, regarding road quality.

>>28523154
I hate the south because of the niggers, Charlotte was the only place the crackheads weren't scared of the 6 D cell maglite
They were scared of the 32 fl oz dark orange piss bottle though so keep your trucker WMDs handy

>>28523272
How about 1 gallon piss jugs?

>>28522465 (OP)
Sorry b/o/ys, I was never a real trucker because I slept in a real bed every night, but now I drive a golf cart with a tool box in the back.

OP greases my fifth wheel

>>28522787
>>28522916
Yard Move works for me – just need to select whether I’m at the shipper/consignee/terminal/drop yard first. Was still in Yard Move at 10 mph. Didn’t try to go any faster because that’s the speed limit at the terminal.

>>28523584
Throwing a gallon bottle of fluid is tough, the 32 oz gatorade is enough to soak a gutter cruiser but light enough to lob underhand out an open door

>>28523020
>try to change radio station without looking
>accidentally shift into reverse

>>28523272
wow very edgy

Trucking for a couple of months made me realize how spoiled I was, being from and living in Atlanta metro my entire life.
I’m not used to two-lane freeways.

>>28524109
this is the kind of content I come to 4chins for

>>28523107
I have figured out they're a shit company already but they're a mega and this is my first year so I expected plenty of growing pains and bullshit getting into it. I learned today their dispatch office is full of the most incompetent goddamn retards imaginable from the top to the bottom and I'll have to treat them as such moving forward if I want to be successful. They have literally wasted so much of my time this week that I barely managed 2000 miles when if I had been able to actually fucking drive for all the time I had to spend waiting on them or compensating for them being retarded I could've had 2500-2700 instead.

The driving and even the backing really isn't that hard, nor is navigating and trip planning. But dealing with dispatch is going to drive me to drink. They're all just as green as I am which doesn't speak well to employee retention for this company, and if this keeps up I'm leaving the second my contract is up for greener pastures. And all this for not even forty cents a mile.

>>28524194
Fuck Atlanta to death, we need to resurrect Sherman so he can burn it down to the goddamn ground again. I'd rather deliver to a hundred fucked up grocery stores with lots tighter than a nuns cunt than ever drive through that shithole on anything other than the highway ever again.
>>28524060
For me, it's the piss bucket. I keep a five gallon bucket in the truck to piss in (or shit if necessary although that hasn't happened yet) and at any given time I have anywhere between one and three gallons of piss ready to be dumped on somebody. Normally I dump it in the grass if I'm somewhere nice, but if the clerks in the store are a bunch of rude uppity 'iggers or 'pics I'll dump that shit right out the drivers door in the parking lot before I pull off early in the morning.

>>28522843
it's usually just cheap retreads peeling. blowouts are rare since most truckfags thump the tires before a ride.

>>28524373
>Fuck Atlanta to death
I get it. I’m glad I’m based from here, doing OTR, so I don’t have any local deliveries, here.
>>28524430
I use a 3/4” breaker bar for thumping – got it from my previous job because it arrived at the store without a label and anything that comes from the DC without a barcode gets thrown out, so I figured I would take it, since I was planning on getting my CDL.

Wish we could get food delivered to the terminal

>>28524442
I spent probably 40 - 50% of my time OTR in Atlanta and the deep south, despite being based out of PITTSBURGH, they never seemed to have any fuckin work besides move this trailer over here then bobtail back.
Atlanta is the worst cause traffic sucks (niggers), the people always have a fuckin attitude (niggers), and the fucking radio only plays soundcloud tier rap slop shit (niggers).
If I ever have to fucking go to the south ever again, Lord willing, it be with a rifle in my hands, hate in my heart and consequences well out of my mind
also lol trying to ban me cause racism, tranny jannies wouldnt last a second on the CB that shits like a golden age black ops lobby

>>28525666
at a previous company you could have it delivered to the gate and swipe your card to get in and out, idk if that works for you but its better than eatin at their "cafe"

>>28525799
Probably has to put of with some stupid shit like I did going into an Autobahn terminal one day. There's no gate guard but they do have some incomprehensible fuck in India monitoring it with cameras and you have to get him to open the gate. I should have just left.

>>28525833
whenever i come to a gate like that i just hold the badge to the camera let that scum read it, dont bother talkin and dont bother turnin the radio down he aint gonna say anything of value anyway

how come there's no money in trucking anymore? is it all the pajeets they imported driving down rates?

>>28525959
You didnt specialize, I'm coming up on 2 years in the industry and I make 6 figures.
It's never too late to specialize and it's not too late to make another retard post about how poor truckers are, they take the same effort but we know which one you're gonna choose.

I never understood why some truckers leave their hazards on while they’re inside the traffic jam. You usually turn them on as you’re approaching slowed/stopped traffic, to warn the traffic behind you, and turn it off once everyone around you has stopped or slowed down.

Had my first real close call today. Was pushing hard trying to get a hot load delivered, kept going when I was tired, figured an energy drink and blasting the AC would keep me going. Had a microsleep episode and lost consciousness for about a second. Thankfully came too again still in my lane even with traffic on both sides of me. Scared the absolute shit out of me, stopped at the closest truck stop and took a nap for an hour and a half before continuing.

On the plus side the dock I'm delivering at has an 'igress that's a midget so that's pretty hilarious.

>>28527673
half the time ive got my windows down and the radio up and i just forget, the other half its stop and go and i dont want to be constantly reaching for the button

>>28527850
your CDL is your career bruther, if you fuck up trying to make dispatch's bonus bigger, they wont have your back and you will be out of a job and potentially in prison for the rest of your life.
I got to every delivery I was issued early or on time unless natural phenomenon prevented it, do you know how many times i was asked about that in future job interviews? not fuckin once mate. employers do not care you show up late, they care if you have shit on your record.
ALWAYS remind dispatch that they arent the one driving a 80000 lbs vehicle, they arent the ones who's career is at stake, and most of all THEY ARE NOT YOUR BOSS.

>>28528032
>be me
>wannabe big rig chad
>drop CDL “wisdom” on /o/ like anyone gives a fuck
>Indian dude at truck stop breathes my air
>REEEEE so hard my CB blows a fuse
>mfw my hate’s the only thing logging miles

>>28528043
>t. dispatch

I’m suspicious that safety acts like they actually care about you, compared to dispatch.

>>28528043
>be me
>actual big rig chad
>tell rookies they will need to look out for themselves first and foremost
>dumb nigger in the thread tries to be snarky
>laugh to myself and crack another beer
>mfw my hate is unchanged and im enjoying myself quite a lot

>>28528127
your “chad” rig’s weaker than a blown clutch, and that red dot’s still mogging your racist ass at the pump lol

>28528140
Seething shitskin detected
>>28528080
Company has a CSA score overall so you not fucking up is beneficial to them. Dispatch are just greedy retarded 'iggers and don't care.

>>28528151
rookie-tier takes, that shitskin owns your kike ass worse than dispatch’s logbook

its becoming very obvious that this thread is being farmed for nefarious profits, do not reply to their nonsense bait posts and they will return to their EV shill thread, unless they wanna talk about the tesla semi, which would be an interesting change of pace.

>>28528208
maybe he should’ve been nicer to EF for a change of pace

>>28522743

Because it's an on-duty move and retards don't know how to run their clocks they think they're gaming the system by doing that and in the time it takes for them to ELD crawl to their space I've already hit my door, turned my paperwork in and gone to sleep or started gaming on my ROG Ally.

On drop and hook walmart I can usually swap trailers and make it back to the gate to leave before they get to where they're going. I had one of those morons yell at me over the radio they were doing it in a truck stop and I passed them and stole the last spot out from under them lol

>>28527850
I had to do a CDL drive full of microsleeps for four and a half hours with no option to sleep because of my employer, and then put in 10 hours of construction work.

My fleet manager hasn’t called me about continuing to do pop up for Walmart, so I’m assuming they don’t need my help, anymore. Home break ends tonight and hopefully the shop has completed the full service maintenance on my tractor and APU. I don’t want to have to leave any later than I need to be, so that I can stop early enough to have a parking space tomorrow evening at whichever truck stop I’ll end up at.

>>28528314
you have a bad job, it will catch up with you and youll have only your "work ethic" and pride to blame

>>28528208
Edison does it better than tesla

>>28528341
Yeah, it's a bad job. I'm only here cause of the money.
>work ethic and pride
Shit no, man. I'm just trying to avoid getting yelled at or written up

So, the logic with the interstate system is, North-South freeways are odd-numbered and East-West freeways are even numbered, while bypasses (starting with an even number) and terminating branch-offs (starting with an odd number) are triple numbered corresponding to one of the interstates.
The number for each interstate goes to a higher number as the farther north and east you go – I-5 being the westernmost N-S interstate and I-95 being the easternmost N-S interstate; I-10 being the southernmost E-W interstate and I-90 being the northernmost E-W interstate.

With that logic in mind, my question is…
Why in the fuck is I-99 (PA-NY) BEFORE I-95?

>>28529181
All the other suitable numbers from 71-97 were already in use, and the dickhead PA congressman who was chair of the transportation committee at the time wanted his pet road to have a cool number rather than be 981 or 379 or whatever.

God damn truck needing more preventative maintenance is ruining my chances of rocking out to Black Sabbath, in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, on the road.

Where's ethan at, he hasn't tried to tell us how proud he failed to follow the line of his car gps and fucked something up in a couple weeks.

>>28531030
I think he still posts here, but is keeping a lower profile. Some of the posts I’ve seen itt seem similar to his typing style, but I’m sure not all of those posts are actually his.

On another note, my fifth wheel is fucked up on the day I was supposed to get back on the road. Home is nice, but I enjoy traveling.

>>28531030
Busy trying to wrangle the mexicans building his glorified pole barn on blighted swampland without ending up with another brown stepson

>>28531076
>blighted swampland
Idk if he’s actually from there but Clearfield, PA is a rather nice mountain town.

>>28526043
What did you specialize in?

>>28531131
Take a few guesses, however this company is just a step in my ladder and even though I like being employed here, I (and everyone else who's not obsessed with suckin their bosses dick should) would drop it in an instant if I found something better. Another company in the area pays better but they need an opening first and after gas I'm not really sure so I'll have to keep looking.

Yard dogs that like to leave the landing gear set like 5" higher than it needs to be can go fuck themselves straight to death btw. I swear they do that shit for a laugh. Thankfully caught it before I fucked my fairings up backing in. Also finding out my company reimburses for paid parking has been a game changer, I can run my clock down to nearly nothing now without a care in the world.

>>28531921
Could be worse, the jockeys at a lot I was frequenting would crank them down and half the time I'd have to chase one down cause I couldnt even fit my fuckin wheels under the damn thing.
Companies usually have some way of paying for parking, the one i worked for wouldn't directly reimburse but since they paid for all the fuel i got the free points to spend on parking spots

>>28531076
POLE BARN

The bean counter is back to using his trip code.
Interesting…

>>28532436
I can’t believe they let me near this shit b/o/is. This is way more fun than holding a steering wheel.

>>28533082
You were never "welcome" here but now that you're not even a driver, just fuckin leave, I can at least laugh at ethan you aren't amusing

Watched a sand 'igger get towed out of the pilot I'm parked in for the night, retard refused to move the truck. Cop had to ask him to get out of it so they could tow it and he only got out after being threatened with being arrested and taken to jail. Fucking hilarious, don't park in paid spots if you didn't pay.

Also I've dumped 12 gallons of piss in truck stop parking lots this month so far. The winner today got a cool two and a half gallons of fetid urine for having stale hotdog buns and taking 15 minutes out of my 30 to find my receipt and print it out.

why do i leak cum when im shitting if i dont jack off for 6 days

>>28533318
I feel ya. I had a bed to sleep in every night, not a trucker.

Even the lady at the oasis on the Turnpike was surprised when I gave her my CDL for the discount on lunch like “You’re too well groomed to be a trucker!” And I was like “Yea well I drive a daycab!”

>nabbing the last parking spot at a Flying J at 11pm
I know spots open every hour or so, but still… still compliant.

>>28524366
>not even forty cents a mile.
Dude, get the fuck outta there, even Swift pays more than that for otr.
Seriously, at most stay like six months then get a dedicated gig somewhere. I'm green as fuck and landed a dedicated gig for $1/mile with $250/day minimum. If I can get that on no experience and a recommendation from my trainer you can get something a lot better than what you've got with a few months and a clean record.
You want to stay with that company to pay off your tuition, but do the math on how much more you could be making, it'll more than make up for having to pay off the company school.

>>28533782
I'm sticking it out for a year to pay off my tuition yeah, and thankfully by the end of it I'll be making about 60cpm but I am not joking my rate right now is 42cpm and that's getting 2200-2800 miles a week in a truck governed at 64mph. They are making a fucking killing off of me. When this year is up I'm applying to a real OTR company and jumping ship the day after my contract is up. They're honestly not terrible for being a starter company other than the pay. It is quite literally the lowest in the industry for a mega carrier. But they only piss test and they gave me a job when all the rest wouldn't so I figure fuck it I'll stick it out for 'em for a year. They let me idle the truck as much as I want and haven't said one word about it and it's new equipment in good condition.

I'm well aware a real company for a driver with experience would be up around the 65-85cpm range for OTR and their trucks could do 75 bare minimum on top of that. Just is what it is getting started, gotta pay my dues.

>>28534710
And it's only 42cpm because everyone got a raise about a month ago. Otherwise it would have literally been 35cpm.

I can’t say I’ve become more confident in my backing, after driving solo for over 3 months, but it is a lot easier to correct any mistakes I might make as I’m backing, compared to my first month driving.

>>28533373
We heavy operating over here

>tfw you trade ELDs for VFDs

Hey truckers,
What do I need to know to drive a truck with a four speed and a two speed rear end? It has a hydraulic thingy too. I can drive a stick. Is it necessary to use all the steps?

>>28535055
That's good, worst thing you can be is overconfident.
If you come to a spot that you dont think you can fit in, try a few times and if you cant figure it out try another spot, dont be like some of the retards here who think curbs and dirt are just bumpier parts of the road.

I get Smokey & The Bandit vibes whenever I’m assigned a beer load.
Gotta haul ass ‘fore the sheriff catches me… in a speed-restricted company truck.

>>28536386
I still think it's funny that you can't have alcohol in the cab of a cmv unless you're hauling it and it's on the BOL in which case it's totally fine so long as it's not open. As we all know, nobody in the history of trucking has ever enjoyed a cold beer in the sleeper bunk on their 34 and if they did it certainly wasn't while it was idling. Just like all truck drivers never ever smoke weed and you definitely never smell it in the air late at night in the back row of the parking lot at truck stops.

In other news, I made 2600 miles this week as a noob in a 62mph limited truck. Feeling pretty good about it. Theoretically 3000 should be possible but realistically it would require a lot of luck to pull off.

>>28536637
When I was OTR I cracked beers like I was hunting them to extinction, I distinctly remember one of my stops in alabama I pull into town and walk for like half an hour to various stores until I finally ask one of the ladies if this is a sober town. She said "no theres plenty of moonshiners but they only deal within their own, if you want beer it's the next exit 10 miles up" and it basically ruined my weekend cause no way was I doin the 4 1/2mph crawl up the highway

>>28522465 (OP)
question for truckers. tried searching this on reddit because I was curious, but the responses are massive fags (as expected).

How do you feel about cars drafting behind you? If I find a truck going +5 or +10 the speed limit, I can happily draft them for hours.

No, I don't mean tailgating. It's usually about 3-5 car lengths behind when using adaptive cruise control. It's much safer for me because NPC drivers can see your truck clearly and are more apt to pass both of us instead of just actually tailgating my ass for 5 minutes for no fucking reason. Also the gas mileage is incredible.

>>28536710
As a night driver, go fuck yourself, especially if you've got LED headlights. Those fuckers just tear my night vision to shit, it's even worse now that I'm pulling tanks cause retards still think they're getting some benefit but all it's really doing is making me pissy

>>28536845
>As a night driver, go fuck yourself
I don't do it at night because by then all the NPCs and soccer moms are home, and I can just cruise at +15mph.

>it's even worse now that I'm pulling tanks cause retards still think they're getting some benefit
there is a small mpg benefit, but mainly the advantage is that NPCs see truck and assume it means slow and immediately pass, instead of flying up on my ass and tailgating me on the fucking freeway. This is a regular occurrence because the average person is retarded.

>>28536710
If you're doing it safely and you don't have blindingly bright headlights, I really don't give a shit. Worst case ontario you fuck up and hit my DOT bumper and tear your car to shit and I get to take an hour long break on the side of the road to talk to the cops and tell them you're dumb before I pull off without a care in the world.

I really don't pay much attention to who is directly behind me unless I'm trying to change lanes. In most states if you rear end somebody it's entirely your fault no matter what they did unless you've got them on video intentionally brake checking you like an asshole multiple times before it happens.

It’s disgusting what people do in truck stop bathrooms. Like, shitting? Shameful. Some of us like to make cum murals on the walls without others smelling up the whole place!

>>28537485
Every time I take a shit at a truck stop (which is about once every three days) I put some toilet paper over the automatic sensor so it doesn't flush it down and I very carefully put all my used toilet paper and wet wipes towards the front of the bowl so the turd is on full display for the next person that comes in. I'll even wait in there for a while to make sure someone doesn't come in right after me so I never get found out. Since I shit so infrequently it's always a gigantic fucking turd staring back at them.

I also found where someone had written in the dust on a warehouse wall "kike (my companies name)" and I laughed so fucking hard I nearly pissed. Wish I had taken a picture to post here.

>reefer truck parks next to me
Doesn’t really matter – my reset is almost over.

16 gallons of piss dumped in parking lots so far this month. Going for 20 before it's over.

>>28538662
Get to drinking.

Having to wait in the staging lot before getting unloaded makes me want to climb into the now-unsealed trailer and grab a beer.

>>28538099
If it's a newer reefer that's well maintained I really don't give a shit. If it's an old clapped out hunk of shit that's louder than fuck I start considering pulling their fifth wheel release arm.

Just got done blasting a load in the sleeper bunk while I'm waiting on my trailer to get loaded. Thinking about taking a nap now since I already ate lunch earlier.

Con is taking forever to start this unload, all because some nigger guard didn’t want to do his job, last night, and told everybody the brewery was closed – my appointment was 1am.
Oh well, after this I’m going to go fuck with Ethan.

>>28531030
Quick run down? Clicked on this thread by accident but I know Ethan, give me the drama.

>>28539601
notruck fags mad bc he likes his job and is successfully making money off of his job (that he likes) and rightfully showing off to internet strangers

>>28539645
Not to mention they try to point out anything they think is wrong with the house he’s having built… like they know anything about carpentry and construction.

I don't mind Ethan and I'm happy for him that he makes decent money and has a family and a home, but to be fair, he does do a lot to stir up the shitters when he does reply to them and he should know by now that hatin ass nibbas gon' hate every time they get the chance.

Also, my back is fucking killing me and I blame I-69 through Oklahoma. That highway is a piece of fucking shit. Maybe if they open another 50 weed dispensaries on it they'll make enough in tax revenue to begin to unfuck it. Also big shout out to Georgia for being the worst goddamn state to run in in the south and that's saying a lot when Louisiana does everything it can to suck.

how many attempts did it take you to get your cdl the first time?

>>28539601
If you are familiar with the concept of a "super trucker" then you already know him, alternatively you could label him a victim of the dunning Kruger effect. He is a prideful man who believes himself to be the prime example of a big rig operator, however his exploits and boasts prove him to be +/- average at best. This applies to his entire life, but that does not stop him from proclaiming everything he has is gold and everything you have is shit, and he will move goalposts until he is satisfied you have chased him around his words enough.
TL;DR hes just some guy with an ego and a leg up on life from all the work his previous generations did

>>28540286
I was given a very gracious tester who passed me on my first try, I personally wouldnt have passed me but a lot of the learning comes after you get the CDL so if you dont get it first try theres nothin to be ashamed of, keep your head up and learn why you failed, a barely passing grade still gets you a CDL. Just make sure you make up for it and learn when you're workin

>>28540286
I’ve only failed once, during my driving test – tandem tire rubbed against the median curb as I was pulling out of my first intersection of the main road and that was an automatic failure. A quick lesson from my instructor back at the school helped me figure out how to navigate through that intersection when traffic is involved, which is part of the reason why I hit the curb. I was able to pass my driving test, after that.

>>28540286
I got mine the first attempt. It's really not that hard, just pay attention and give a fuck. In other news I just blew a trailer tire and am gonna be waiting a few hours to get this shit resolved. Big shout out to the douche that hit one of my triangles and nearly broke it, I hope he blows a steer on a narrow bridge over deep water.

>>28540888
>con’s shop only removed the nails puncturing the tandem tires since there are no air leaks
>have to wait for a third-party to pick up maintenance order for tractor tire

Is there a lower form of life than port trucker?

>>28541416
Aren't the containers going to DCs in the metropolis area of the port? Why are the trucks sleepers rather than daycabs? Is it just that there are more sleeper cabs on the bottom end of the used truck market?

>>28541416
Brown people.

>>28541440
> Aren't the containers going to DCs in the metropolis area of the port?
Yes.
>Why are the trucks sleepers rather than daycabs?
I’ve long pondered that question.

>>28541440
>>28541458
I’m assuming not all intermodal drivers strictly do intermodal runs.

>>28540286
5. The first 2 I just COULD NOT for the life of me get the swtup for the offset back decent. The 3rd the truck wouldn't go into gear and they blamed me for it. 4th botched the road test because I was too focused on my speed and failed to yield on a ramp.
Persistance paid off though. Felt like the biggest moron in the world every time but I kept at it. Been truggin 2 years now and still loving it.

>>28540286
One girl at my CDL school kept failing her tests. She started school right before Christmas; I started and finished school at the beginning of January and February – they finally told her to fuck off in April.

>>28541498
My school had a guy like that, early 20s mexican guy who was obviously a stoner. Been retrying tests for 5 whole months but they kept letting him try. He tried right after my final successful test and left after failing again cursing out the examiner and blaming them for his fuckups.

>>28541416
I went to one (1) rail yard in my entire career and it was such a negative experience that I intentionally left my TWIC card at home and whenever dispatch tried sending me some fuckfuck intermodal load I'd tell him I forgot my card at home gotta give me something else.

I’m starting to wonder if I had fucked up my opportunity to start doing longer runs, back in May, because I didn’t know how recaps worked. I had decided an assigned load from New York to Iowa would have caused me to run out of time on my 70, but if I had taken it, I would have gotten 8 hours back, the next day, and 10 hours the following day, which would have allowed me to deliver the load on time and start my 34, there. Instead, I insisted that I couldn’t do it and I’ve been stuck driving on the east coast, ever since.

>>28541538
Opportunities come and go, keep your eyes forward and push your limits and something will open up for ya

Man, driving on PA-286 is fun as fuck! I would have even more fun if I drove my car here.

>backing onto trailer
>get trailer lip onto 5th wheel
>stop for a second
>slowly release brake
>CREEP MODE ABORTED
>slam into the kingpin at mach 3
I fucking hate Freightliner.

>>28542956
Fortunately for me, Kenworth doesn’t have a Creep Mode – it just creeps automatically when you have it in gear and release the brakes.

>>28543003
There are certainly things I miss with my old KW. The truck not having a mind of its own is one of them. I turn lane keep assist off and it still jerks me towards the shoulder at times. And if I have to rewind my audiobook because the oversensitive LDW steps all over my audio one more time I'm gonna start snipping wires.

>>28542956
>>28543059
literally why would any sane operator buy a new truck? i get normie karens that want the latest spyware in their 2026 4runner jeep mallcrawler, but if you are trained to be inside a cab for 8+ hour days everyday for weeks, id want the most basic truck with minimal nannie helpers

>>28543105
Company driver

>>28543105
The radar that keeps you a set distance behind someone is pretty nice. The auto braking can get annoying when it malfunctions though. Also I'm finally gonna get to take some home time so I'm pretty stoked on that. Can't wait to see my kid and ignore my ex.

Got a ticket today after a can of paint exploded in the sun, and the explosion disrupted the strap and knocked over 2 more cans of paint into the road. Ticket was for "unsecured load."

The load was perfectly secured. It was a manufacturing defect in the can that caused the issue. Is there something I can do to fight this? I will lose my job if I don't win this in court and there aren't many jobs for me where I'm at.

>>28543558
Hire a lawyer for the area it happened in that specializes in traffic tickets or cdl tickets. You'll spend about as much as you would on the ticket and you won't get points on your record. I recommend hiring the one with the most semitic last name that you can find.

Also, I just narced on like 40 dudes that parked in reserved spots at the pilot I'm stopped at for the night that didn't pay for a reservation. I'm going to eat my dinner and watch the show unfold. Fuck all of them to death, they're all tar black 'iggers and stinky 'pics anyways.

>>28543059
All the "safety features" are on their own fuses, no need to cut wires just pull em out
>>28543105
>>28543490
I like the radar cause I can know exactly how fast the guy ahead of me is going and that's about where the praise ends cause everything else is to annoy the driver
>>28543795
Based keep up the good work, let those filth sleep on the ramps. I'd suggest if you own an apple product to install the ICEblock app and report your stopping point ~30 minutes before you get there, I guarantee there wont be anyone parked at the fuel island and plenty of spots will have opened up.

Finally on my home time, as soon as I go back on duty I'm taking my truck straight to the terminal to get the AC serviced because it's barely working. I'll take layover pay for a couple days while I'm in the drivers lounge on my console.

>>28544002
>just pull em out
Daimler got wise to this and put the LDW and ACC on the same fuse to discourage people pulling it. I rather like ACC so I'm hesitant to pull it even if LDW annoys me.

Nothing like a hot, beautiful day for your APU to fucking die on your reset.

Nothing like not getting the layover pay you're entitled to and not getting your receipts for tools and parking reimbursed even after fucking weeks. They gave me half rate on my layover, and between everything the company I'm working for owes me about 450$ and really it's more like 650$. I've already called everyone I can call without going full nuclear option and going way over their heads. If I hadn't literally just started this job and it wasn't my first job in trucking I'd have already been screaming obscenities down the phone line by now. I'll take getting fucked on a lot of things but playing with my money is a good way to piss me the fuck off.

If anyone has any suggestions for good OTR companies I'm all ears, because the very fucking second I have enough experience to get on somewhere else whether they do tuition reimbursement or not I'm fucking done with this shitheap. I'm already going to name, shame, and flame them after I leave and it is only the most threadbare sense of professionalism that keeps me from doing it now.

>>28544706
>not getting your receipts for tools and parking reimbursed
Oh yeah, that happened to me with load straps – I had no choice but to leave the ones I’m supposed to hold onto because the receiving office was closed at the con, so I needed to get new straps for a live beer load. Spent $70 on a pair, attached the receipt to the job envelope, on the company app, after the delivery; my upcoming paystub is showing they’re defusing the reimbursement.
I’m refusing the next live load assignment I receive, if I’m out of load straps.

>>28544728
I just realized the pallet had shifted while I was driving – the bulkhead on the left started falling when I was removing the straps, at the con.
Hmmm… I need to be more careful when getting on and off ramps. Kinda tough to do when you’ve grown up with having nice, straight on and off ramps, in your area. These cloverleaf interchanges are somewhat annoying, especially in eastern Virginia.

>>28544706
I'm with Heyl and no complaints here. Pays decent, reimbursements are timely same with layover/breakdown pay. Lot of waiting tho since its reefer.

>>28544908
I'm fine with waiting if I can wait in the truck at least most of the time so I can just do a split sleeper and spend a couple hours on my xbox. I'll look into them, thank you for the recommendation.

>>28544728
About 120$ of it is parking, and if they're not gonna reimburse for when I have to pay for parking that's fine I'll just run from midnight to 2pm at the latest so I can always find a spot. But not reimbursing me for a grease gun, grease, gloves, and other tools necessary for the job is just 'igger shit and has me extremely pissed. Imagine if I hadn't brought another 200$ worth of tools with me that I already had from before starting this job. Overall they're a great company to work for when it comes to getting miles but any time they owe you one red hot fucking nickel they're going to make you fight for it and give the most bullshit excuses ever as to why it hasn't happened yet. It's my own fault for not being able to pass a hair test and not getting on with a real company. The second I have enough experience to get something else lined up I'm out and I'm shitting on them as hard as possible in every single forum I can find.

>>28545388
>i'm shitting on them as hard as possible in every single forum I can find.
People already know cr england sucks bro

>>28540286
I failed my first road test, passed the second.
>missed a downshift coming into an intersection turn and couldn't get the fucking thing into a gear, had to stop and start over (impeding traffic, auto fail)
>had me keep going
>was making a left turn, couldn't see the outside curb due to snow and hit the curb with the right side steer (auto fail)
Retested a week later and had no issues.

>>28545470
CR England let a trainee get assraped by their mentor and got sued for millions because of it, this company sucks but it's not nearly that bad.

Found a picture of Ethan.

>moved to 4x4 schedule, 4 days on road 4 day at home
>They assign a new guy that hired on for 4x4 to drive the truck on my days off
>forgor to take the def jug I piss in home with me
>pee bottles big no-no for this carrier
>call and apologize, tell him it's for medical reasons and I always usually take it home and blah blah
>tell him he can ignore it or chuck it in a dumpster
>says he'll dispose of it
>praying he doesn't rat me out

>>28546002
I don't know how anyone stays married doing OTR, I was divorced before I even got started so it's never been an issue. I just have hoes in different area codes.

>>28524109
KEK
What has been seen cannot be unseen

>>28546088
Find out what car he commutes in and threaten to pour it through his door seals if he narcs

>>28546088
Everybody's all high and mighty about piss bottles right up until it's 0100 and they've got a half-mile round trip to the can. Especially in pouring rain or a strong snowstorm. He'd probably be the worst form of hypocrite to make an issue of it so he likely won't. Just don't make a habit of it. Nobody like cleaning up somebody else's piss bottles all the time.

>>28547250
Real, corporate are smoking crack if they think I'm gonna get out of the truck, walk across the lot, go in the store to piss and then come all the way back when it's even 1 degree lower than 65. I'm pissin in the bottle and holdin it in the sleeping bag til its cold

>>28541416
Lurker here. What's bad about it?

>start peeing in bottle
>bottle fills up
>pee is not done
D:

>>28547614
Use the DEF tank.

The APU (alternator) isn’t going to get repaired until next weekend. It probably won’t be a problem during my 10-hour resets, compared to having to do a 4-day reset, now, to get on Walmart’s schedule (which wasn’t so bad, given how cooler it has gotten).
Having fully-charged batteries will allow the APU to run the air compressor for 40 minutes before they need to be recharged again, if I ever need to run the a/c, but I probably won’t have to use it after driving with the a/c on.

>>28546002
Kek

>>28547881
I’ve never been so excited to get back to work, before.

>>28547881
I just idle my truck constantly. It only turns off for fueling, whenever I do a thorough pretrip, at the gate of delivery places that make you turn it off, or if I'm getting out of the truck on my reset or hometime. I've hit 280 hours of idling in a month before. Fuck the bonus cpm I want that bitch cold enough to hang meat in it 24/7/365. Literally won't work for a company that won't let me idle like that and the one time the shop re-enabled it on my truck after servicing one of the sensors mysteriously broke and a fuse burned out about two days later.

>>28549862
My truck will shut itself off after 5 minutes, if I don’t hit the fuel or brake pedal.
Since its temperature sensor is reading over 90° outside, right now, it’s staying on. I’ll probably shut it off once it’s time to sleep in one or two hours.

>>28549943
>>28549862
If you run the idle up it usually doesnt shut off on it's own, alternatively you could run the PTO but I've seen guys get turbo fucked for doing that trick

>>28550037
I'm thinking about making a little machine that just presses the pedal a millimeter or two every four minutes and thirty seconds and selling it for like sixty bucks to everyone at a dogshit company that uses idlesmart. The truth is they could just disable a sensor and the truck would idle until it ran out of diesel but most people don't know that and I'd probably get fucked for explaining it in exchange for money.

Ya I’m still here boys.
Ya I’ve struggled lately
Ya I’ve had doubts
But this is life
Ridin tonight 4 all my boys
We r gonna make it

toot toot

>>28550227
Fast on the draw 4 sure

>>28550037
>If you run the idle up it usually doesnt shut off on it's own
Things like this are always stated so authoritatively but really it matters on what company has configured the truck. I've had some that wouldn't idle in Phoenix in summer, Minnesota in winter and would shut off in traffic if the stop was long enough. The only thing that would keep them going was an accelerator pedal movement that got the engine above 1000 rpm briefly. And then you'd get an "excessive idle" bitch-gram about a week later and no safety bonus for that quarter

>>28550185
Theres probably a perpetual motion desk toy thing for people that have fake jobs that you can apply to your problem
>>28550248
U r right, however I can only speak from my own experience (I'd assume anyone I'm speaking to is smart enough to know that inherent bias) and the fact that >>28549862 clearly says he prefers comfort over a bonus
>>28550225
Glad to see you're still around, I'm about 2 weeks out from buying my own truck and itd be bittersweet if I couldnt rub it in your face

>>28543059
>if I have to rewind my audiobook because the oversensitive LDW steps all over my audio one more time I'm gonna start snipping wires.
I just moved from a 21 Freightshaker to a 25 and that's the only thing I miss. In the 21 the LDW would pause or mute the stereo, so when it ended my audiobook app would automatically rewind 2 seconds and I wouldn't miss anything. In the 25 it doesn't so now I've reduced the manual rewind from 20 seconds to 10 and I have to reach over and rewind every time it freaks out.

Ethan, why in the ever loving fuck is US 30/Lincoln Hwy 35 mph?

That feeling you feel when passing other trucks uphill on the highway while empty or bobtailing isn’t the same when passing trucks downhill with a full load.

is truck driving mostly solitary? like you dont have to interact with anyone? ive realized that most of the problems i have in life come from other people, so i should try and get a job where i am alone most of the time

>>28554125
It is a tradeoff. You interact with less people and the people you do interact with you interact with less often, but the odds of them seriously pissing you the fuck off skyrocket and you have to still somehow manage to be polite and professional when dealing with them or you lose your job. Here's an example - my job owes me about half a grand that I know for a fact they will never, ever pay me. I want to call my dispatch an 'iggerfaggot and tell them I'm going to dispatch them in the parking lot of their office with a baseball bat and a blunt machete, and I want to park my truck next to a cliff and push the brake valves in so it rolls over it while I walk away. I also want to punch every goddamn jigaboo piece of uppity shit I meet at shippers as the gate guards right in the teeth with brass knuckles on, and do the same or worse with about half the people I encounter in shipping and receiving offices. Every single day I want to, on multiple occasions, run idiot four wheelers right off the fucking road and preferably when it ends with them slamming into concrete or steel with their family in the car.

Instead, I take a deep breath and remember that most of them will burn in hell for eternity for being massive pieces of shit, and I just scream at the top of my lungs in the truck several times a day to keep my blood pressure from spiking. It's still better than working retail. If you legitimately hate interacting with people and you can deal with retarded assholes without beating them to death or telling them you want to beat them to death, this just might be the career for you. On the plus side after a couple years the amount of incompetent people you have to interact with goes down significantly but will never actually reach zero. On the plus side once you've got five years experience with a clean record if you're not bringing home six figures or really close to it it's by choice and you don't need a college degree to pull it off.

>>28554355
Also, if you really like chili cheese dogs with all the toppings there is literally no better career path. Just keep it to two a day max so you don't end up fatter than fuck.

>>28554362
>>28554355
thanks
ive worked retail, food service, and security and i hated all those except security was alright but it doesnt pay as well as id like, and i refuse to go to college
i think it costs around 4k where i live to go to truck driving school for a few weeks and get a license, so im considering doing that

you guys aren't worried at all that they might try to automate truck driving in the coming years? i honestly don't see it happening for a really long time, but it seems like the media brings it up every once in awhile to try to make it seem like it's just around the corner

>>28554399
>you guys aren't worried at all that they might try to automate truck driving in the coming years
Don’t believe what the media tells you. There are too many variables involved in truck driving to make full automation possible. What may end up happening is trucks will end up becoming self-driving but someone would still need to be inside the cab for any human intervention that may be needed.

>>28539601
serious cuckold, loves to show off pics of his wife's breasts if you bring them up, and he's raising her kids too but he's into it so it's okay

I’ve noticed that truckers who wear relaxed attire (i.e. pajamas, flip-flops) face a not insignificant amount of disdain from other truckers. Let me tell you why I wear whatever makes me comfortable: I earned my CDL earlier this year in the hopes that it would be a career that would allow me to earn an income significant enough to rent a decent apartment and be able to move out of my parents’ house. Since getting my first trucking job however, I make a comparable hourly wage to someone who works in retail, to be away from home 3 weeks at a time, while driving an 80 thousand pound vehicle. This is me making a good starting income of over $.60/mile. A megacarrier offered me .38/mile. These poverty tier wages have been caused by the massive amount of foreigners who have flooded the field.

So yeah, I will wear whatever I damn well please

T680s have such a faggy horn.
Sounds like a goose with a sore throat.

>on a crowded I-90 in NY
>have to go with the flow of traffic at 55 MPH
>semi behind me is on my ass wanting to go faster
>can’t get on the left lane due to a constant flow of four wheelers passing the mix of semis and four wheelers on the right lane
>one mile and one exit pass later
>traffic has opened up a little but still 55 MPH
>lane split ahead
>left lane is clearing up
>while the opportunity to get on the left lane to pass the slower traffic is open, I decided to give it to the truck riding my ass, as he might be faster and really wanted to pass me
>he gets in the left lane
>lane splits
>traffic flow suddenly improves as I’m able to reach my maximum restricted speed of 68 MPH
>check the side mirror for the other guy
>falling behind in the left lane
>no traffic impeding his progress
>going downhill
>mfw figured he already reached his (lower) maximum speed limit

How are u doin boys

>>28550591
That’s really something.
I went from having a lot of money to almost no money in the course of 3 months.
I’m 202k in. And I’m only half way done.
Hopefully u have a solid plan for that truck ur buying OLD SON

>>28555610
Of course you’re not going to include the expenses for your secret underground bunker…

>>28554399
About 4-6k is the average cost of a month long CDL school but you should know that's an accelerated program. For most people it works out just fine, for some they would really benefit from a proper school that lasts for 2-3 months. If you're really serious you need to start studying your states DMV handbook now and you also need to start doing practice cdl tests for your state. There's about 1200 possible questions they can ask for a Texas cdl which is the one I got and most of them are just strait up rote memorization. Understand that when you leave school you won't actually know anything about performing the job other than the absolute bare necessities to not literally die, kill someone else, or get logbook violations that will fuck you out of a ton of money. You really won't know shit and won't be worth a fuck until you've got at least a couple months experience and really a year, and the day you start getting complacent and half-assing safety is the day you fuck up and ruin your whole career or potentially end up dead or in prison. It's not entirely dissimilar to being in the military, where 95% of the time you're bored and have to keep motivating yourself to do a good job. The other 4% is actually difficult, and the last 1% is sheer pants-shitting terror and rage.

As for automation - I think it'll happen eventually, but it won't be until I'm an old man or dead. AI right now is basically a profoundly stupid parrot with a really good memory. It can't really do much actual abstract thinking and gets easily overwhelmed when you try to actually make it think and not just essentially operate on a bunch of if-then statements. They have self driving trucks now running in Texas and Russia, and they do great on open highway in clear weather conditions, but someone still has to manually drive for the first and last mile portions of the trip and they can't pre or post trip or fuel themselves. Even Microsoft thinks it's unlikely it'll ever be fully automated.

>>28554586
What's wrong with showing off your wifes tits? As long as he has permission I don't see a problem. Hell my gf has an onlyfans and I don't give a damn.

>>28555606
About ready to quit the second I find a company that'll hire me with hardly any experience that also has tuition reimbursement. The mega that hired me fucking sucks ass to work for. I'm making like 32cpm if you include all the miles I don't get paid for when I'm hauling empties. Absolute 'igger tier.

I would appreciate some recommendations for good OTR companies. Especially ones that would be fine with me running from 11pm to 1pm.

>>28556033
If you’re really desperate for it, Werner.

>>28556019
i reserved a spot at a 5 day school that cost like 2k, but theres nothing but good reviews online. how fucked am i?

>>28556347
If you don't already have your cdl permit for your state you're retarded for signing up for a class that short. They'll get you your CDL, but you really won't know any fucking thing. Shortest school I'd recommend to anybody is a two week course and that's if they already have their permit.

>>28556451
i already got my permit, and have a month and a half to reread the handbook to resharpen myself. i consider myself a p good driver, the main thing im worried about is pretrips and maybe backing into spots

>>28556487
If you already have your permit and you've been studying the handbook and in-cab pretrip you're in pretty good shape. Don't forget the external pretrip either. Personally I check my tires, oil, and hoses every single morning in addition to doing tug tests constantly and triple checking I'm not high hooked and that the locking jaws are secured every time I connect to a trailer and whenever I come off a 34 I do a thorough pretrip that takes about 30-45 minutes. Safety is key in this job.

All that said I've seen some real fucking retards get a cdl so the fact that you care and are studying means you'll be just fine. Backing takes time and experience to really learn, I highly recommend getting the My Trucking Skills app on your phone and practicing with it as much as you can. It won't replace actual backing experience and it isn't perfect because you can't slide your tandems in the app like you'll have to deal with in real life but for learning theory and angles it's a huge help. I'd start with the angle dock with a 53 foot trailer until you can nail it in like two minutes or less, then go from there. It'll help you practice your 45 degree alley dock which you really need to be able to nail as you'll be doing it all the fuckin time especially in truck stops where you have to be quick about it and if you fuck up and hit something it's a big damn deal.

>>28556347
I agree with the other guy that 5 days isn’t enough and I’m not sure 2 weeks is enough for everyone, but it’s better than 5 days.
I ended up going to a one-month school and owing $7.5k (employer is reimbursing $220/month) and felt like it was adequate enough to get me prepared for commercial driving, but they only teach you the very basics – just enough to allow you to pass the on-site CDL test.
Everything else, you will learn on the road.

>>28556841
my idea is, since no one good will hire no-experiencelets, ill try to get hired by a mega, probably prime bc its close, and suffer for a year or so and then go elsewhere. im not doing the prime sponsored training bc i wont be in a contract with prime and i wont be riding with some "senior" guy on his phone micromanaging me for the first like 4 months (even though thatll probably still happen somehow). afterwards ill look to doing logging or city jobs

>>28556868
I’m a Werner driver (close to home) and I’m not under any contract with them, other than the tuition reimbursement agreement when I got hired, which will terminate whenever I leave or it’s paid off.
I’ve been with them for 4 months and currently making 40 cpm as a solo driver.
Dispatch would only bitch at me if I’m not going at a pace they don’t agree with, and since I don’t bullshit before getting on or being on duty, this is rarely a problem – there’s only one instance when dispatch had an issue with me going into sleeper mode because I was 3 hours away from the con and I had 3 hours remaining on my time – since they wanted to get the load delivered that night and the driver who received the load split did not meet me to pick the load up, the load ended up getting delivered much later than it would have if they had just shut the fuck up about me starting my reset. They left me alone since then.

>>28556920
Be careful saying who you work for online, they monitor shit like a hawk and if they can identify you based on what you said they will shitcan you. They really don't want people talking about how fucking terrible they are because it makes it harder for them to hire new people. I'm waiting until my year is up to totally shit on my current company on every forum possible so they never hire anyone with half a brain ever again and are stuck with only the dumbest motherfuckers possible. Although from what I've heard from other mega drivers in their first year, they all fucking suck ass and every dispatcher is clinically retarded and in severe need of getting their ass beaten bloody in a parking lot with a chain.

Be glad you're making 40cpm. I'm averaging in the mid 30's, and if you count all my miles and not just the ones hauling loaded trailers it's more like the high 20's. Protip - never ever ever fucking go to any border town close to Mexico, those loads are an auto deny for me anymore.

This one time a fuel trucker threw a cone at me. I was riding my motorcycle in a gas station parking lot past his coned off area, and I guess I was too close to what he was doing. I was outside of his cone-zone, however. Could I have sploded us all?

>>28522743
Shut up FAG

>>28557367
I doubt I’ll be anywhere near Mexico, anytime soon, but I’ll keep that in mind.

Purty
U.S. Rte 15 in PA

I've blown 2 steers in my 5 years of trucking.

I think they liked it.

>>28557474
He was mostly just being a fag but you're not supposed to get that close for safety reasons. However after having been a trucker for a while I can safely say everyone that rides a motorcycle deserves to get run over by me while I'm fully loaded so it might have just been a general "fuck you, faggot" situation. Without exaggeration anyone on any vehicle with two wheels is twice as stupid as a four wheeler and brother they're already so goddamn dumb they should be killed and/or sterilized about 80% of the time.

>>28557958
I ain't got no panties on

>>28557943
Fuck, a screenshot doesn’t do it justice.

>>28557958
How’s the milk?

I’m considering either getting or start working on getting my hazmat endorsement during my 6th month of solo driving.
I’ve been looking up possible hazards and consequences of hauling hazmat loads, just to be aware of the possibilities, in case shit hits the fan.

https://www.deseret.com/2005/8/11/19906678/blast-closes-canyon/

>>28558576
Hazmat isn't worth it. It's not even so much the danger, you can kill yourself or other people just hauling an empty dryvan if you're dumb or unlucky enough. It's that it doesn't pay worth a fuck and it's a ton of extra responsibility. I will never get a hazmat endorsement and I think that anyone that does is stupid as fuck.

>>28558613
UN 2257

>>28558623
-.- .. .-.. .-.. / -.-- --- ..- .-. ... . .-.. ..-. / ... ..- -... - .- .-. -..

>>28558628
lol

>>28558632
Really though, if you wanna do more work for nowhere near enough money working with even more dangerous shit, go right ahead. I just personally think it's a raw deal.

>>28557943
It’s a nice ride 4 sure.
>>28556033
The big carrier sucked, that’s really something.

>>28557963
kek roger that
https://youtu.be/xXwRDsXCF-w

>schedule service at terminal for a faulty APU alternator days ago
>surely they will have a replacement ordered or in stock by the time I arrive
>arrive before appointment time
>tractor is in the shop for 5 hours
>surely plenty of time to confirm the alternator is faulty and replace it
>shop calls me to say it’s indeed the alternator
>new one won’t arrive until Monday
Sure, I’m already due for a 34-hour reset, but this is ridiculous! If you’re not wanting to spend the money to have Thermo King technicians in your shops, why don’t you have fucking APU parts in your fucking inventory?

I am starting to see Ethan’s disdain for Indians – they’re fucking EVERYWHERE in the northeast!

Piss nuke launching in 5..4..3..2..1..

>>28560411
Piss off?

>>28557943
Is that north or south of williamsport? (Yes I see the coords no I'm not checking myself)

>>28560606
North, before Trout Run.

>>28560297
Ya they’re a problem.

This little mf wouldn’t stop crying till he got to unlock the fuel caps.

>>28560411
Holy fuck you're an animal, you belong in a cage not a cab

>>28560676
I love north 15 cause its fuck all until the NY border at which it becomes fuck more until I assume the Canada border but I only ever went as far as elmyra

>>28560297
Theres 3 flags that tell me someone isn't well travelled; the most common is "the roads here are the worst in the whole country" followed by "this states weather changes in an instant" and finally "what do you mean indians are the scum of the earth?"

Missed my exit last night. GPS rerouted me through the Appalachian mountains on the route from hell, 321 to 421 to 91. Only reason I made it was it was the middle of the night and there was no traffic so I could swing wide. Never ever fucking going through those highways ever again.

>>28561507
How do you get to 91 from 421?

>>28561551
Never mind, wrong state.

>>28561551
I did have to get on 58 for a minute and go through a tiny little town to get to 91. But yeah, while it's technically a truck route that I took, nobody should ever fucking drive a semi on the route I took last night. At several points cops were following me ready to pull me over if I didn't make a certain turn to stay on the truck route. No way I would've made it during the day with traffic going on. It was a solid hour and some change of some of the tightest turns you could get a 53' trailer through especially in a sleeper cab. Thank Christ I wasn't loaded heavy. Then when I finally made it through to the first truck stop after that shit I had like 10 minutes left on my clock and the parking lot was full so I had to sit in the fuel lane for a good two hours before a spot finally opened up at about 430am.

I'm just happy I get to take my 34 today. But yeah, never ever fucking take 321 or 421 through the Appalachian mountains in a semi. 91 was a little bit better but still sketchy at times. Anyone doing that shit better be getting paid a dollar a mile or better.

>>28561588
I dunno anon, telling me to avoid certain mountain roads in a semi is making me want to get on those roads even more.

>>28561655
It was honestly fun but also terrifying as shit. I'd rather not do it again especially if I'm not getting paid out the ass to do it. I'll look up the route truckerpath took me on and post it here so you can see what it was like on google maps, but it was tighter than dicks hatband a bunch of times.

>>28561655
Basically you start at Loves #697 and then you go to TA Davy Crockett #201 but you take the truck route through the Appalachian mountains on 321, 421, and 91. It was a hell of a trip. In the moment it was scary as fuck but looking back on it it was a lot of fun. Be warned, if you fuck up and get stuck you likely won't have cell service so you better have a CB to let the bears know so they can come help and warn motorists. Tons of blind, tight corners and curves you have to swing stupid wide on to make it through safely. Wouldn't recommend doing it during the day at all for any reason. Any traffic will fuck you and likely end with an accident.

>>28561713
>you better have a CB
Oh right, I’ve been solo driving for over 3 months, so I’m qualified to make purchases up to $200 from the company store, will will be taken out of my paycheck in $50 installments.
I’m not much of a talker, but I do see the value in having a CB radio in my truck.

>>28561655
you have fun with that big guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-xqfqcgNAE
>>28561759
i love shit talkin on my CB, one of my favorite parts of driving desu, it's like a peer to peer version of these threads

>>28545470
I got my CDL from their school and bailed out 6 weeks into OTR training. After dealing with them, I'm willing to believe that Mormons really are a lost tribe of sniffers.

>C.R. England
In 2011, C.R. England was the first carrier I considered, to start my career as a truck driver, but I soon learned about how shitty they were and decided not to go forward with them.

In 2015, I considered going with Roehl but eventually got cold feet from having to travel to Gary, Indiana with no money saved up, so I backed out of that plan.

I tried, once again, by applying at a local truck driving school, in 2021, and paid for the tuition upfront – I ended up having to back out from that, as well, as I had discovered the deteriorating vision in my right eye (which started in 2017) kept me from passing the physical.

I used the tuition money to pay for an eye specialist to diagnose my eye condition – corneal keratoconus – and perform an operation on my cornea to prevent/reduce further distortion. After it’s been confirmed that the keratoconus has been stabilized, I was able to get a vision exemption form filled out for my physical and I was finally able to go to a (different) truck driving school and start my truck driving career, this year.

So, instead of starting my trucking career in my early 20s, in ended up starting it in my mid 30s. It was probably for the best, considering how cocky I was at driving, when I was younger.

>>28561759
CB's ain't for talking, they're for listening for the slightest bit of info you can get about what's ahead, ya daft cunt!

Maybe, just maybe, if you dry up a bit behind the ears you can start helping out and warning others about what's in front of them.

>>28560290
Megacarriers really are something else to work for man. Management always finding some way to screw your paycheck each week. Dispatch/management calling to ask why I haven’t hooked up to a trailer when the terminal looks like this.

Those lines of trailers in the middle are stacked 3 deep and those tractors are hooked up with people sleeping in them.

>>28562491
>heads up guys, GLOWNIGGERS PAST THE RUSTED OUT PICKUP AFTER MILE MARKER 12, TONGUE MY ANUS, out

>>28562553
Here’s the other side. Genius is parked in front of the only “entrance” into this lot. I’m pretty the operator of this tractor was smoking crack. I want to quit

Anyone know any decent no touch home-daily gigs in PA? Anywhere in the states fine aside from Philly. I love OTR but its not good for my health. No endorsements yet but getting X soon.

>>28562564
All the megas suck ass they just all suck in different ways. With mine it's the dispatchers, particularly the weekend dispatchers. They'll waste a ton of your time and not even give a single fuck. And good luck getting reimbursed for any goddamn thing even if it absolutely should be reimbursed. At the very least they're not total 'igger shitbirds about maintenance and repairs even if they will fuck you out of as much maintenance layover pay as possible.

I'm doing my year, scalding their ears on the exit interview, and getting the fuck out. They asked me to be a mentor after not even a full month of experience. I'm honestly amazed they're even still in business.

>>28560921
If you're not leaving the shitter like this every single time you take a dump or not dumping full piss buckets in the parking lots of places that piss you off, you're not truckin'. I'm as much of an Indian as I can possibly be at all times. It's great fun. Sometimes I don't even slide my tandems back when I deliver so the yard dogs actually have to do something during their shift.

On a slightly less unhinged note, here's some fun graffiti I saw on the side of a rail car while making a delivery.

>>28562553
>>28562564
Easton terminal? That place is fucking PACKED!

>>28562881
Checking with the other terminals on Google Maps, that seems to be the only one that is packed full of tractors and trailers – it likely has to do with its close proximity to several metropolitan areas in the region.
I think the Detroit/Brownstown terminal is the smallest terminal for the company and it’s just as organized as the other terminals.

>>28547614
For me, it's the Ocean Spray 3 liter with a handle. Nice wide mouth with smooth lips. I wash it out with water and Lysol cleaner daily. Only subhumans fling full bottles. I see these 20 ounce bottles in parking lots and wonder what kind of needle dick with a dainty lady bladder can use them.

>>28563034
>Congratulations to our lot worker Nevaeh Petty on recovering her 1000th bottle of pee in our parking lot this morning. She accomplished the feat in only 3 years, beating off the old record holder for two decades.

>This milestone will now be preserved in a glass display case for future generations to admire. The pee bottle, not Nevaeh. Congratulations Sweaty!

>Glenn is our Trucker of the Month at Celina 52! He enjoys model trains and fajitas. He stopped in this morning to pick up his prize, a custom life-sized carboard cutout of his favorite cashier, Belinda.

>He said he had been admiring the real Cashier Belinda from afar for months, and is excited to see her "propped up in the cab". Safe Travels, Glenn!

>>28563037
>beating off the old record holder
Hot

>>28560290
>still no news about the new alternator arriving
>fleet manager is considering assigning me to a new tractor – no further updates on that
>some steel mill in Philly blew up or something
>all of this idling is eating up the fuel
>truck will no longer connect to the ELD
God fucking dammit

Celina52 is great

>>28563837
Wasn’t sure how you guys would feel about it, since it’s off of social media.

>Our Blind Forklift Operator Donny escaped the Truck Stop today. A customer took this last known picture of him headed east about 45 minutes ago.

>Donny is blind and doesn't respond to audio commands, only Sign Language. Please let us know if you see him. He is likely armed.

>Our Parking Lot is so wet right now after a massive load ruptured our water lines, releasing fluids and causing several vehicles to become stuck.

>Please be patient while we work hard to get everyone off the property.

>Celina 52 MGMT

Last one.
>Peter Fuchs won our 16th Annual Easter Piss Jug Hunt yesterday! Fuchs found six jugs on our property, earning him a $10 Waffle House Gift Card and a free Colon Cleansing Kit.

>The jugs will be sent off to our labs for DNA testing before Fuchs receives his prize, to ensure he did not plant the jugs himself. Congrats!

>MGMT

>>28563859
is celina 52 ai or really good photoshop?

>>28563827
Speak of the fucking devil, the shop is finally ready to work on my truck.

>>28563887
I believe it’s a good mix of both. The truck stop location is real but not the business.

Is this tire fucked or safe to run?

>>28563895
APU alternator has been replaced.

>>28564216
That gash on the sidewall looks suspicious.

>>28564660
Yeah I did a doubletake the first time I saw it too lmao

>>28555610
Yep yup got a great plan for this old truck, I'm gonna continue working my 6 figure job and use that 89 Volvo as a 13 speed RV to cut my hour commute into a ~10 minute commute :)

Dispatch is scraping the bottom of the barrel and giving me bullshit loads, to route me 800 miles for my home break.

>>28566287
Were you a dumbass or a bitch and asked for your hometime immediately or with hardly any lead time? I put that request in two weeks in advance, a week minimum.

>>28566366
A week. I tried two weeks, once, and they just kept me in the state and as someone who likes traveling, I didn’t like that.

Just upperdecked a speedway in Ohio. Next time I'll be sure to get a picture to post. Living like an Indian is the best.

>>28566401
The Love’s off I-85 in Charlotte is a real piece of shit, if you want to paint it brown.
One of the smallest, most pathetic Love’s I’ve ever been to.

The Love’s in Onley, IL is even smaller, but it’s not located in a metropolitan area, so its size makes sense.

If I see a white man leave a stall looking like Calcutta I WILL spread your picture all over the trucking forums out there. I almost expect it of an Indian, not that I hate them any less for it, but if you're white and stooping to their level you deserve to be named and shamed.

>>28566654
Leave Ethan alone.

God dammit I didn’t get >>28566666

Niggers tongue my anus.

Just saw not one but two mentally handicapped gentlemen pissing in the urinals at Loves with their pants around their ankles and their hands on the wall, really getting into it. Fat pisses. One of them even moaned a bit. All I could think was how I wished I had the balls to piss like that in public. Blessed are the minds too small to doubt.

Btw if you're ever on I-75 coming through Corinth, KY make sure you stop at Nobles. It's off exit 144. They've been there for 50 years. Home cooked food and the parking is free if you get food there or buy something in the store and spend at least 15$ doing it. Place feels like it's out of a fucking time capsule. Even my grandpa stopped there when he was doing OTR back in the 70's. They also have free wifi that's decently fast.

>>28566654
Make sure you get his truck numbers too, half the time I see guys with mutts I let em know if you go into the store and ask for a bag for your truck pitbull they'll give you one. If they respond with a "no" or some flavor of "go fuck yourself" I put my gloves on and full force slam that shit into his door handle

>>28566654
Jokes on you faggot, I'll wait in that stall for an hour until there's nobody in the shitter before I leave. Or I'll just upperdeck it if it has a tank so you won't even know until I'm long gone. I flush my wet wipes too, cry about it.

>>28564660
>Mt. Cobb

>>28567027
I don’t get it.

I’ll never understand why people steal the aerator from sinks, at truck stops or anywhere.

Tesla drivers be like
>merges between you and another semi in front

>>28567081
Lurk more

>>28567212
I’m not going to look up your shitty memes.

>>28567268
>not knowing about the 'arty
>not knowing about how they pwned this place for a year until they nuked it with chicken jockey
>not even knowing about cobson
Imagine being this much of a 'igger 'aggot, literally lurk for two years before posting again

>>28567209
It should be legal to kill anyone in a Tesla. Maybe a tenth of them aren't such bad drivers they could be spared and that's being generous.
>>28567093
They needed a new screen for their weed pipe. The amount of times I've seen greasy Mexicans smoking a bowl in the party lane at a truck stop is way too high.

>>28567335
i've been lurking for 5 and never heard of cobson
also why are you censoring niggerfaggot lol

>>28567335
I’ve been coming here since before moot turned the boards yellow. I’m not going to follow every shitty meme that this site spews out.

>>28557474
He was likely being a fag
However
Normies and 3rd worlders are completely desensitized to how dangerous gasoline really is, any spark whether it be cigarette electric short or hot exhaust, theres a reason all our equipment is cast or stamped iron and any parts that move are brass because if it was steel or plastic theres a chance of static electricity blowing us all up. Whenever I have a diesel load idc, I fuck around on my phone I talk shit in this thread no problem, worst that you might get from me is a "hey shitferbrains" if you're smoking near me, when I've got gas you've gotta keep your head on a swivel cause any of the fucking mouthbreathing retards around you could turn you, your delivery, the building you're delivering to and likely most if not all the lot into a 9000 (+/- 10000) gallon fireball

>>28567354
geeeg nusoicacas find basic 'arty memes le hecking incomprehensible

>>28566401
>>28566829
U r a gay liar no commercial toilet has a tank

Do they make bug deflectors with magnets/adhesive? Tired of having to refill the washer fluid and I don't own this truck.

>>28567473
It's either going to be prohibitively expensive if it uses magnets or it's going to fuck up the paint if it uses adhesive, and you'll literally never get reimbursed for it. Just stop being a bitch and refill the bug juice canister.
>>28567429
I've been in plenty of locations that have a tank on their toilets still and I'll be sure to get a picture next time I upper deck a place. I don't do it often because it's a motherfucker to clean up after it, I save that for real shitholes or when someone was a real asshole.

>>28567426
Yeah I wouldn't have a problem hauling diesel but I wouldn't haul gas for less than 200k a year after taxes and there's nobody that would pay me that much to do it so I'm just never gonna do it. Might as well be hauling dynamite. Only thing worse than gas that I can think of would be propane or some of the more caustic and dangerous chemicals. Hazmat - real, actual, you will fucking die horribly if you crash hazmat - doesn't pay nearly enough for what it is. Like yeah you can die just hauling an empty dryvan but you have to actually try to make it happen or get wildly unlucky and there's pretty good odds you don't die or get maimed even in a bad crash. Gas or propane tankers have BLEVE'd from pretty mild collisions with morons and turdies. Just ain't worth it imhfo. I'd sooner team drive with an Indian or flease a truck.

Apparently nobody in Kentucky can drive today. Twice in the past hour there have been accidents bad enough to throw 75 southbound into gridlock. I'm literally parked on the highway right now, had time to get up and piss and even make a fucking sandwich. Legitimately I hope someone fucking died or got maimed in both accidents. Absolute goddamn retards.

>>28567980
35s in OK same but we're at least crawling. TP sayin traffics backed for 8mi. I hate 4 wheelers so much its unreal.

>>28565298
Good to know, Perry.

>>28568390
No, I’m serious man – that must have been you I saw on I-81 SB, earlier, heading towards Roanoke, VA.

>go in truck stop
>literally nothing on roller grill or in hot food cabinet
>they just let bums hang out outside and panhandle
>bathroom is a fucking mess
>wildly understaffed for such a busy location
Welp, I know who's getting piss nuked with five gallons of fetid stank in about two hours. I'll be at 26 gallons on the year so far, averaging about 5.5 gallons a week. Splashing the lot with an entire bucket of my waste makes me cackle like a child and I will literally never stop doing it.

Full to the fuckin brim. Can't wait.

>take the scenic route out of Logan UT
>US-89 to Bear Lake, to 30 through Kemmerer
>spend all day in boost climbing the Cache Valley
>shits fucking beautiful, mfw
>almost like my job again
>UTDOT running game on the descent into Bear Valley
>catching jeets who don't stop for the pulloff for rigs
>DPF filters probably look like mirrors now after climbing all day
>may have lifted the headgasket

welp, how fucked am I. stays cool like no problem on anything below a 4 percent grade but as soon as I have to climb it gets hot and I saw 237 on my oil temp for a short minute. fan kicks on and drops it still. does not get into the red.

not consuming oil or coolant, no dummy lights

also mfw spent most of the day through Nebraska on the OG US30 Lincoln Highway shit was comfy

>>28569063
jesus fuck. how do you get it out without spilling it?

>>28569128
I have a lid for it and I just very carefully take the lid off once it's in my lap and then yeet it out the drivers door in the middle of the night. One of these days I'll fuck up and dump five gallons of rancid cockwater all over myself but today won't be one of those days. Once I'm done pretripping in about seven minutes I'll water the concrete right before I pull off.

My gross retarded jeetery finally caught up to me. Spilled a solid third of a gallon all over my fucking lap and the seat. Had to change clothes and take a whores bath with wet wipes then clean everything up in the truck. Taking a shower at the first loves I pass.

25.66 gallons of piss dumped in parking lots so far.

>>28569083
>use the engine
>engine heats up
woah

>>28569604
I think there’s something wrong with my truck: every time I drive it, I lose fuel and DEF!

>>28569604
>>28569769
I was wondering why someone would be concerned about 237f - that's barely enough to get the fans to kick on on the 579 I'm in. If it was idling that high I'd be a bit concerned, but during normal operation especially with a real load on a grade that's a nothingburger unless you're autistic about temps the same way guys that do hardcore overclocking are with their cpu/gpu.

As an aside, I successfully managed to wash and dry all the piss out of my seat and got the floor mopped. Lesson learned though, only filling the bucket with 4.5gl of piss moving forward and I'll be setting it on the floor and then tipping it out of the cab to empty it from now on. And I finally get to take a shower today, and my 10 is going to be a 12 since the receiver doesn't open until tomorrow morning. It might even be a 13 or 14.

>Get to Georgia
>Go to post on Mongolian basket weaving forum
>Mobile ip assigned to me has been perma'ed for cheese pizza
Someone needs to drop a nuke on this godforsaken shithole immediately. Even if I was in it at the time, I could die happy knowing the cancer that is this place would be destroyed and uninhabitable for a good long while. Only other place I've seen that happen in is Louisiana which makes entirely too much sense since they're ranked 46th in education and are also largely a gross terrible groid infested shithole.

>>28570082
Why are you bitching instead of simply turning Airplane Mode or your VPN on and off?

>>28570093
NTA but when I do this I get endlessly looping 120s "please wait before posting" messages that never give me a captcha.

>>28570093
How do you think I posted without doing one of those things? I'm bitching because I hate being places infested with retarded groids and wiggers that post cheese pizza on a Mongolian basket weaving forum. Not only are they dumber than fuck for doing that on a public forum on an ip that belongs to a major mobile carrier because they're definitely going to get partyv&nned for it they're also disgusting degens that get off on banging kids or jerking off to them. I don't particularly enjoy being in states full of dipshit diddlers and jiggaboos and Georgia in particular is fucking AIDS, the only places worse than it are Nose York and Jew Jersey and Commiefornia.

>>28570103
Couldn’t you just deny loads going to or through states you don’t like?

>>28568390
I might be too young to understand this reference and >>28568674 it's unlikely you saw me as I haven't been on 81 in like 2 months but worry not, I've got big plans for this old girl and unlike ethan and his cookie cutter black PACCAR there will be no doubts you saw mine

>>28570127
Usually no, unless you own your truck.

>>28570103
>definitely going to get partyv&nned
I wish, we've had a schizophrenic cp spammer for months in /an/ now and he's still at it.

>>28570127
>>28570408
>reference
Nah, “PERRY” was what was stamped onto the passenger door of an old, white Volvo tractor hauling a white Cougar camper, on 81. It also read “PRIVATE” and “NOT FOR HIRE” on the sleeper berth end of the truck.
I just assumed it was you.

>>28570445
I miss certain shitposters, flooding the board… not all of them, just the ones that actually made things a little more entertaining.

>>28570445
They'll eventually slip up and get busted for it. All it takes is doing that kind of crap one time and forgetting they're on their personal ip and that's that.

>>28570565
I c, afaik the "not for hire" is fuddlore and actually means nothing legally speaking especially since I'm likely to use it to help a couple farmer buddies every once and a while (under the table of course)

https://x.com/boneheadtruckrs/status/1956361253724602398?s=19

OH KRISHNU THESE WHITE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO FRY MY OVERSPICED RETARDED INDIAN ASS, WHY DID THE FAMILY OF THREE HAVE TO REDEEM INTO THE SIDE OF MY TRAILER?? WHY DID THEY REDEEEEEEM!
>>28570782
You can still get stopped by DOT and questioned, especially if you're actively pulling a trailer, and at that point you have to be able to prove you're not in revenue service for them to fuck off. All that having "not for hire" on the side of the truck does is dissuade the nicer pigs. The real oinkers will still fuck with you. I don't shed a tear when they get blasted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cdldriver/s/a2QVQSlCp4

Mmm boi dassa good videeyo right durr- OH LAWD REEKRUS Y DESE HUWHYTE PEEPOO PARKIN DEY CONSCRUCKSHION SHEET ON DA SIDE A DA ROAD FO DEY COULDA BEEN SPENDIN DAT MONEY ON DEM PROGRAMS!

Am I the only person here that leaves a tip on the counter after taking a shower at the truck stop? Granted I only do it if the place is clean and well kept, and it's a better tip if they don't knock and the hot water doesn't run out even if I'm in there for half an hour in the middle of the night, but I tip damn near every time. At least 2$ but sometimes as much as 5$.

Somebody must have pissed a yard dog off, if they’ve set the landing gear this high…

>>28570851
I hate the site but the trucker subreddit is pretty good most of the time. Making people seethe and cope and shit their pants when the English language requirement went back into effect was a lot of fun. Otherwise I just use it for porn.

>>28570861
I'm more inclined to think they're just fucking retarded. One of my favorite things is making yard dogs pull trailers out when they park them too close for me to get to the crank handle, or parking shit in the wrong location so they have to go hunt it down. That and just dropping trailers in the lane and pretending to be retarded and asking them to back it into a spot for me so I can go fuck off and get hooked up to my next load or an empty faster. Driving a yard dog is like the perfect groid job second only to working the gate.

>>28571841
That subreddit is run by a beaner. They delete anything that criticizes jeets and beaners who shit up trucking with their street shitting behavior and taco burrito culture

>>28572304
Well yeah it's still reddit. If I want to shit on street shitters and cartel members I come to 4chan. If I want to know what the biggest TV is that I can fit in a 579 with the stock mount in the factory position, I go there instead.

What's the absolute brightest high-beam bulb I can put in a 579 without having to modify anything and still be able to return it to stock? I don't want to change the main bulbs, but when I turn my brights on I want it to be like someone had the sun in their ass and just double goatse'd traffic in front of them.

Had a fucking blast, driving up and down this mountain.