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

>>28522465 (OP)

>>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.