Thread 28575752

Shitposting encouraged

I got drunker than fuck at the bar all day yesterday on my 34, shit was cash. About to start my week once I get done dropping a load in this handicapped stall.

Brought my cat on the road, with me. I’ve gotten the bare essentials to make her experience in the truck comfortable, but I plan on getting more items, once I figure out what else could be used to improve her experience.
She’s an old cat at 14 years old, but she’s still lively. She doesn’t like the noise the truck’s electrics will make, or bumpy roads, but will fall asleep whenever I’m driving on smooth roads or stuck in traffic.

Shippers/Receivers should be allowed to, or be required to, report drivers who do not speak or understand English.

How do you guys deal with all the fucking jeets
I used to be courteous to truck drivers, give them space and let them in but now I just make their lives hard at every opportunity since I'm expecting a stupid jeet at the wheel 99% of the time. I'm sorry guys

>>28575913
I ignore them.

>>28575770
I wish the company I work with had a pet policy but they do not and it's extremely gay. Will be the reason why I find another company once my year is up. I want a heckin kitterino fren to travel with very badly. I'm surprised to hear it's working as well for you as it is with them being up in years like they are, most cats if they're not acclimated to being in the truck from a young age wig the fuck out for a long while until they get used to it. Also, protip, make sure you either always keep your keys on you when you exit the truck or get a spare made for if you leave it running with them in it. Many a trucker has been locked out of their truck by a cat standing on the buttons. You'll also want to get covers made for the window switches so they don't roll a window down and get out or roll one down when you're sleeping. There's a guy that 3d prints them for cheap for most models of semi, I can't remember his info off the top of my head but if you ask around on the /r/TruckerCats subreddit you'll find it. Yes, it's reddit, they're all faggots, but occasionally there's useful information and services on there.

You might also look into getting a collar that has gps tracking capability for just in case they do get out of the truck and getting pet insurance for them is also a good idea so if you're ever way out in bfe and they get sick you can get them help and not have it rape you financially.

>>28575908
I'm about ready to start submitting tips to ICE for every truck stop I stop at. Shit's getting old. I will say it's nice having a job where people are happy a white guy showed up, even the roodypoos and taco Americans.

>>28575913
The competent ones don't really bother me. The fresh off the boat retards I either call the cops on if they're driving like a moron or fuck with them in other ways. Indians that actually give a shit and came to this country to get out of the hellhole they were in and don't try to bring that retarded bullshit with them are fine, but streetshitting raperat jeets are scum of the earth that deserve nothing but derision, exclusion, hate, discrimination, and deportation. Preferably out of a cannon into the sun but back to wherever they came from if that's not possible. It's similar to the difference between black people and 'iggers. I really don't mind black folks, but I fucking hate uppity jigaboo shuck and jive criminal 'iggers and wish them nothing but the worst in life.

Judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin, but if his character is shit I'm going to use slurs to show how much I hate them.

>>28575956
She’s probably behaving well because we have a close bond.
I usually carry a set of keys with me, whenever I’m out of the truck, but if I’m going to a truck stop for a shower, or anywhere else where the probability of me forgetting or losing my main key, then I will have a spare on me, just in case, so that habit should bode well for me, having her in the truck.
Also, I have a APU, so the windows won’t roll down, whenever the ignition is off, so I won’t have to worry about my cat pushing the buttons, until I get a change of equipment into a tractor with auto start. I’m also making sure to turn the APU on whenever I have to leave the tractor. Probably should leave it off whenever I’m fueling.

Whoever caused I-70 west to be at a literal standstill, I hope they died or die screaming. Preferably being burnt alive. I hate Pennsylvania so fucking much it is unreal.

>>28576055
>drove 6 hours straight
>cat starts wanting food/attention after 5 hours
>keeps wanting to rub against my feet and brake pedal
Yep, I think it’s harness time, from now on. I have one of those leashes with a seat belt attachment, so I’ll just fasten her to one of the buckles for the lower sleeper berth restraints. It’s long enough to allow her to walk on the bed and the floor next to the bed, where she can get to her food, but it will keep her away from the front seats, while I’m driving.

>>28576893
That's homosexual. Just stomp your feet and hiss at it when it gets close to them or the pedals. Best part of having a cat in the truck is getting to see it sleep on the dash in the sun while you drive and mog other truckers working for companies that don't have a pet policy.

>>28576896
>Best part of having a cat in the truck is getting to see it sleep on the dash in the sun while you drive
>while you drive
As much as I’d like to do that, it’s too dangerous.

Broke down today got the red fuck you stop light on the dashboard

Looks like another 3 months without a paycheck

I am so fucking tired of this job I just want to quit and get on NEETbux there's no reason why im working 90 hours a week killing myself and eating Ramen while nigs and libtards get a free ride

>At busy truckstop in the South
>have to shit
>like really have to shit
>finally get to the fuel island and put the hoses in the tank
>do the truffle shuffle inside
>come back out, some old guy is giving my girlfriend the what-for
>sees me
>"hey where you been can't you see we're backed up here"
>"yeah I was backed up too, that's why I was inside"

Shut his pokey country ass right the hell up

I cum in your seats and fart on the beds.

>>28575752 (OP)
truggers are 90% shitskins or obese white retards who throw temper tantrums 20 times a day, nothing to talk (positively) about here

>>28575984
Based

>grab some pizza at Pilot
>crust is underbaked

>pickup Nestle TV dinners in SC
>180 pounds overweight, but I have APU exemption
>start rolling, easy overnight run to Ohio
>red fuck you stop light comes on outside of Charlotte
>pull over and shut down for the night because everything is closed anyway
>wake up, fuck you light is gone
>know it will come back, dodge both scales outside of Charlotte
>fuck you light is back 1mi from dealer
>Rush is 240 fucking dollars a god damn hour

>>28577138
> sitting lazily in a padded chair steering, possibly switching an indicator on every now and then
>"i'M kIlLiNg MySeLf"

...

>>28578438
>>dodge both scales outside of Charlotte
One of those scales aren’t even open due to construction.

I specifically installed CB radios in both of my cars to talk to you faggots can you stop ignoring me

>>28575956
cats are free

>>28577138
Owner-operator life. I would wish that it was a company truck at that point.
Stay strong though, the flip flop mafia purge is happening and freight prices are going to up with the lowest bidders getting removed from the game. Hopefully they will all be removed and respect and honor will make a comeback to the trucking community.

>>28578688
Get that install right, to where it can get out several miles, and casually mention how you liked Biden. You'll get replies.

>>28578896
Augh do I really need a SWR meter

>>28575913
>>28575958
https://www.iceblock.app/
>>28575984
The cleanest jeet still washes his flip-flops in the truck stop toilet, the smartest jeet would struggle to pass an American high school semester, and the most moral jeet is still a closeted pedophile.
You speak like a man who thinks he owes a fair shot to these beings that merely look human, but remember, every single one of their "american dreams" comes at the cost of your own and I will never kneel for those shit colored parasites.

>>28575770
>>28576900
I wish I wasn't allergic :( I'd have one in my

>>28578990
Cope and seethe

>>28579083
Mop and sweep.

>>28578507

Really? Trucker path showed both open and rolling across I wasn't taking any chances lol. They're not hard to get around either.

>>28578745

That's what I'm betting on, I've noticed the truckstops are filling up a lot later now, there was a time if you weren't parked by 5pm forget it. On the load I brought into SLC for my Bonneville vacation I got front-row parking at Little America in Wyoming, the original one, not the one in Cheyenne. Pull-through front row spot at almost 11pm, that was unheard of maybe a year ago. It was half-full. I woke up at 0700 and the spot next to me was never taken.

>>28578688
Talk in an Indian or Mexican accent about how little this load pays and I'm sure some genius will call back about how it's your fault

>>28579370
I’m just fucking with you, but in all seriousness the I-85 EB weigh station, right before I-485, has been closed for a while due to construction.

>>28579478
Christ, the Love’s that is near those weigh stations is such a piece of shit.
Whoever decided placing a Pilot-sized Love’s in a major city was a good idea deserves to get shot.

>>28579478
>EB
Derp. I only called it eastbound because at that portion of the freeway, I-85 is going east/west.
I meant I-85 northbound.

Would any of you recommend being a trucker in canada, ontario? I'm a heavy equipment operator and the work is spotty as hell this year. Just wondering if it's even worth it with all the poopjeets out there. I heard one was getting paid 28cents per km. Seems like shit to me.

>>28579466
Lol that sounds pretty funny actually I should put on a jeet accent and ask "what does steep grade mean?"

>>28579083
One day within our lifetime, the establishments that keep your kind from becoming brown paste will break down and no one will bother to replace them. I already see indians mexicans and ivans in the same light as the spotted lanternfly, it's only a matter of time before I face no consequence for treating them the same and due to the way they hold themselves, no one will be there to stand for them.

>cdl school got a opening for me a month earlier than scheduled
ill be trugging soon...

>>28579978
Good luck anon.
Keep in mind that trucking schools only teaches you the bare minimum for operating a commercial vehicle, safely, and the length and quality of the tuition you’ll receive (and your ability to operate a large vehicle) will significantly affect how well you will perform on the road.
Some people will do well in trucking school and will pass their CDL tests on their first or second tries; some people will have a difficult time grasping what they’re being taught and may have to take the CDL tests multiple times before the school tells them to fuck off with no refunds.

Somebody made another trucker thread, so I guess that will be the throwaway thread while we will continue to post in the real thread, here.

>>28580068
>training is 5 days and $1800
the way i see it im just going there bc they provide the truck and trailer for the examiner. hopefully companies dont skip me bc im not going to a "good" (expensive) school

>>28577138
I had some peanut headed african raperat bang on my door telling me to move when I was already pulled ahead of the pump. I had been sitting there for six minutes scarfing down a wrap I bought inside for lunch, and my truck had been pulled up for four minutes while I ran inside to get my food and refill my drink.

I sat there for another 17 minutes doing fucking nothing until he finally lost his shit and started storming up to my door again then floored it and took off. Flipped him off too, window down and everything. Laughing at him while I did it. Made sure he could see my teeth so the monkey part of his simian brain would know I hated him and would've beaten him to death if it wouldn't land me in prison. I cannot wait until all these foreign faggots are gone.

>>28577156
Shut up and clean my truck, Sancho

>>28577950
>doing anything at pilot other than destroying the bathroom, refilling your soda, dumping piss or shit or both in the parking lot, or taking up a reserved parking spot you didn't pay for
Retard tier. Loves 4 lyfe. In the two months since I've started otr with a mega I've dumped 30.16 gallons of piss in parking lots and it's generally a pilot.

>>28578448
Being an owner operator is basically giving the world permission to financially gangrape you at every possible opportunity. It's honestly the dumbest decision you can make unless you have a decade of experience and have no desire to have a family or kids and just want to work 100 hours a week to only get paid for 25 of them at the end of it all.
>>28578688
Hardly anyone uses CB anymore. It's really only useful for singing David Allan Coe songs or saying the most racist shit imaginable. Every once in a blue moon it's actually useful, otherwise it's a waste of money. Also depends on where you are. If you're near mountains there will be more chatter.

>>28578990
If I owned an apple device I would already have been using it. Thankfully since ICE being at weigh stations and truck stops has been a topic of conversation on the news lately I've been seeing less of the worst offenders. You're not wrong about them sucking in general as a people, even the good ones, I just know I've met a few that didn't immediately make me want to set them on fire and then feed them feet first into a woodchipper which just makes me hate the rest of them even more. Then again I'm not a big fan of slav potato wiggers either so it's more of an illiterate retard foreigner thing than just strictly an Indian thing for me.

>>28580368
Thanks for killing what little optimism I had in getting a CB. I know nobody uses them compared to before, but if the only people who still uses them are only using them to talk nonsense, then I don’t see any value in getting one, anymore.

>>28580368
>Hardly anyone uses CB anymore
The fuck are they using then? All the trucks still have bigass antennas!

>>28580396
Use your brain, anon – citizens band communication is considered obsolete, so what other purposes could antennas serve in semi trucks, in the 21st century?

>>28579550
That's 45cpm which is more than I make currently as a first year otr driver. Granted if it's being paid in cucknadian pesos instead of USD it's equivalent to 32cpm which is less than what I make driving on much more dangerous roads than I do, which is a shit deal.

I wouldn't recommend trucking to anyone that wasn't literally schizo or asocial if not antisocial and a schizo. At this point it's basically a job for people that would otherwise be in prison or dead that have a deep seated need to be able to scream slurs at the top of their lungs every day to not indulge homicidal fantasies. It's shit the first year and not much better the second, and doesn't actually get good until you've got 3-5 years experience with a clean record. On the plus side if you're a degenerate you can smoke all the weed you want and be a trucker in Canada so long as you're not actively high while driving or on duty and it's been at least four hours since you smoked before going on duty or driving.

The worst part would be having to live in cucknada though, whether you're a degen or not. It's a libtarded hellhole that doesn't respect people, it's only slightly better than britain.
>>28579903
Based AF
>>28579978
Welcome to hell. Enjoy your complimentary sleep deprivation and porn addiction and try not to gain 50lbs your first year.

>>28580385
Talking nonsense is the fun my man, there is very little exaggeration in saying these threads are written online versions of a typical highway traffic jam channel 19

>>28580410
Idk, GMRS? But there's nothing on there either, so...

>>28580385
>>28580396
People still use them, I really like having mine and it's saved my ass several times, but it largely sits unused outside of specific areas and I have it turned way down or off most of the time. Lots of weird fuckers like to spend all day shitposting on there, which is occasionally hilarious, but mostly just annoying. If I'm getting near the mountains I turn it on and up or if traffic gets retarded I do the same, and it's useful for reporting shit to the pigs. But if trucking were a videogame getting a cb radio would be one of the last upgrades I'd buy. It's more of a status symbol than a necessity.

>early 34-hour reset to switch from OTR to pop-up schedule turns into 5-day reset because customer dispatch just isn’t ready for me
At least my carrier dispatch is willing to compensate me for the layover, but god damn!

If you want more cat pics…

>>28575752 (OP)
ELDT is useless at filtering out indians

>>28581806
The school I went to let everyone do the ELDT as a group doing an open book test. There was no thinking involved at all. A retard could've done it and several of the Mexicans were using Google translate to work out the answers amongst themselves because some of them could barely speak English. This was weeks before the EO hit. They're all driving right now as far as I know.

After taxes I'm making 2300$ a month just starting out with a megacarrier. By the end of the year that'll be 3600$ a month. Unless you're almost homeless or so broken you can't do anything else you shouldn't get into trucking unless you're willing to basically be a slave for at least a year if not several years until you can get an Actually Good job and even then you won't be making real money until you're half a decade in, and that's all assuming you literally never make a mistake that entire time. There's a quote from a black American general about the military, in which he basically says the armed forces aren't racist because everyone is treated like a nigger regardless of the color of their skin. That's how trucking is. You're not an actual person that anyone gives half a fuck about until you're at the point where you've got at least half a million miles loaded without incident, and to put it into 4chan parlance, you're not white until you've got at least a million miles loaded which takes about 7-10 years depending on how hard you run.

>>28581855
>you dont start making real money in trades unless you slave away for a few years and get experience
profound wisdom

>>28581862
I'm fine with it. I hate working with the general public and I've already got a couple actually decent job opportunities lined up for when I'm done with my first year which is the real hurdle most don't get past without an incident. I also worked construction and IT before this and if you think trucking is overrun with illegals compared to those two you're literally smoking crack. I enjoy having a job where people are happy a white guy that speaks English showed up and any level of competency on top of that means they treat you with respect. I like seeing the country, I'm fine being by myself for long stretches of time, I can handle extreme stress well without getting wigged out, I'm not married, and I have basically no bills. I'm the perfect guy to just go run 3-4k miles a week OTR for a couple years stacking cash before I find something regional or dedicated with a real company where I get to be a human being again. I don't mind fucking my hand more often than anything else and I'm perfectly happy just chilling on my xbox in the sleeper for my entire 34 when I'm not asleep.

I'm just being realistic about the job with someone considering it. It's not for everybody. It's for damn sure not for extroverts that require other people interacting with them to be happy or people that can't handle stress well. I saw an entire family dead and dying in a brutal wreck my first month out and didn't give a shit where that would mentally skullfuck most. People should know what they're getting into and why it sucks before they try it out because the recruiters will lie their ass off to get asses in the seats and let idiots get thrown to the wolves if not into prison.

>>28581939

p much this, this job sucks. it used to be a career until sand niggers and jeets got in, then when automatic transmissions came, any schlep could get behind the wheel and it didn't require any real skill.

use this as a steeping stone to get somewhere better, trucking is finished, this job will be fully automated in our lifetime sooner than you think.

>>28581950
Let's be real bro, manuals aren't that hard to operate. It takes like a month to get decent with them and half a year to get competent, a year-ish to get actually good. It was a little bit of a barrier for morons but people make it out to be more of a pain in the ass than it actually is or was. The bigger problem isn't even the towel or bobbleheads, it's the companies being cheap faggots and asking politicians for permission to bring them over here to work for nothing which drove rates into the pits of hell and that goes back to the 70's and 80's when this all got deregulated and almost all the unions got destroyed and the rest neutered. Greed is what paid politicians to kill trucking as a good profession at the behest of company owners being soulless brazilians that gave into the demands of corporations that relied on their services. Even if Trump and his administration go full 'Murica and make it illegal for anyone that isn't a legal natural born citizen to drive a truck the damage is already done, and while pay would go up a little bit because of it it wouldn't go up nearly high enough to be worth it for most people and insurance companies and self insured megas would still be brazilian'ed as fuck about noobs so it'd still be the case that everyone would have to barely make enough to live and live in the truck for a few years before they got treated as an actual human being again.

Me personally, I'm already maximally jaded and cynical about life. If I fuck up this career I'm taking a walk into the woods and never coming back out because I can't stand society. I really don't care how much this job sucks because my choices are making a jackson pollock painting on the forest floor or sticking it out and getting lucky long enough to afford a home and drown myself in dopamine and scotch in my off time until I'm dead. Everyone sucks, it's all fucked, and I'm glad they're suffering as much as me so I'm not doing anything to change it nor do I want to.

>>28582111
And frankly I'd work for free if it meant I got to kick a dispatcher in the cunt or balls as hard as I could a few times a year. Seeing this country and truly understanding how fucked it is these past couple months running OTR has totally sapped my will to ever do anything to make it a better place. There is no foreign propaganda that could have done the psychic and spiritual damage that is realizing how nigged and cucked and pozzed this place is and has been since before I was even born, and the really fucked part is I've traveled the rest of the world enough to know it's at minimum this bad or worse for everyone else alive. Even wealth isn't enough to escape it anymore. Everybody should just launch the nukes so we can all have a couple minutes to tell our loved ones goodbye, have a beer, and have a few quiet minutes to remember the good parts of life from when we were young before a miniature sun turns us into a shadow on the wall. It's not trucking that's fucked, it's all of life everywhere that's fucked, and trucking being fucked is just a symptom of the disease. The whole world is a pool full of aids. It's time it got closed.

>>28582131
Inb4 anyone says "you're just a faggot, it's not that bad". Just means they're young or still naive enough to think there's still hope. There is none, we are in hell, and in a few years they'll realize it and become the same blackpilled fuck as I am now. At least when I was in my early 20's I still had the passion to build a killdozer, anymore I'm just pulling a slower and way less cool skyking.

I will sometimes see these billboards scattered across the northeastern US that reads, “THERE’S EVIDENCE FOR GOD” and I’m wondering… evidence of WHAT? And why does god need this evidence?

>>28582661
It's just religious nutjobs with money paying for billboards. Same as the "shackled by lust? Jesus saves!" billboards. It's impossible to prove that God exists or doesn't exist and either belief is based solely on faith. Personally I think there are things out there bigger than us both good and bad but I don't believe there's some dude in the sky or underground and see religion as an allegorical attempt at making a guidebook for life that's easily digestible for a particular group of people.

The billboards about not jacking off are entirely a psyop though. They want you backed up and horny and chasing pussy because pussy leads to children which means more followers and more tax revenue.

>>28582674
I just find the grammatical error amusing.

>>28582676
Ah yeah I just clocked that. Probably just left out a couple words to put it in bigger letters, and they're not exactly looking for Rhodes Scholars to come to church to begin with.

>>28581806
WHY THE FUCK DO I CARE ABOUT THIS?

>>28583466
Sleep apnea kills and not just you but whoever you hit when you pass out and have a microsleep episode or stroke out/have a heart attack. It's a big damn deal for truckers to either not have sleep apnea or not be at risk of it developing or have it managed well with a cpap machine if they do have it.

>>28583501
its not my fault you eat so much shit you have heart attacks and youre so fat you cant sleep like a normal person. i dont need a entire hour long slideshow video telling me to not eat mcdonalds constantly. tell me more about procedures when delivering and filling out bullshit regulation paperwork the government forces us to do to "be safe :)"

picking dead monarch butterflies out of my grill

Ever hit a cardinal?

>>28583519
If you hate regulatory bullshit so much and think you're a super trucker just go find a chameleon carrier based out of illinois with their address being some dudes grandmas basement, and you can run 5000 miles a week getting dispatched by russians running team driving on your eld with no co driver telling DOT you just dropped them off half an hour ago so they could go home. If you're really fancy you can even run two DOT numbers with a magnetic stick-on you slap on the side of the truck when you're out of hours on one set of logs. If you're starting with a mega you're going to have to sit through all the globohomo bullshit, if you just want to work go find some shady small time company and get after it faggot.

>>28583575
>t. needs a breathing machine meant for 70 year olds
dont drink, dont smoke, dont eat like ass. its that shrimple

So uh fellas is trucking a good way to get out of the NEET trap? I'm 26 with a degree, a little debt (not a ton) and unable to find a job with said degree.

>>28583603
>thinks I need a sleep apnea machine
I'm a hyperborean gigachad with white children, don't step to me faggot. I breathe just fine. You can rage about megacarriers being full of retarded Brazilian shit but you're still very much on the bottom rung of trucking and are considered as much of a tar black pavement ape nigger as everyone else just starting out so you better either get used to it or go sign up with some criminal potato wiggers to work like a slave to get around it.

>>28583696
It's better than nothing but you're basically farm equipment until you hit 500k loaded miles which will take a few years. On the plus side you won't need to pay rent anymore or most of your bills because you'll be living in the truck until then.

>>28583501
It's a big damn deal for trucking companies to get a driver diagnosed with sleep apnea so they can force the driver to rent a CPAP from them at usurious prices because drivers are a "profit center". Oh, and one guess who owns the sleep study facility too.

>>28583722
500... thousand? Woah

So is the life as bad as everyone says?

>>28582111
>>28582131
Thank Christ there's another sensible person in these threads, I was starting to think it was just me, the tripfags, that piss freak and 3-4 trucker flavored LLMs. However I wouldn't disappear into the forest, that's a great way to get ruby ridged and dumped in a shallow grave, I'd run all over the highways siphoning diesel from 3rd worlders and then pull their fifth wheel pin as I'm leaving.
>>28582661
>>28582674
Oy vey, post your latest BOL, I know for a fact rabbis don't drive 18 wheelers
>>28583547
Real, i hate driving in the summer because watchin the light of hit fireflies fade makes me sad

>>28583720
ur mad lmao

>>28583730
I’m getting TIRED of your shit!

>>28583730
I'm only half jew by blood which is just enough to understand why they are the way they are and just enough not to hate them more than you ever possibly could. Religion is based but churches are brazilian'ed.

>>28583740
A little, but only because you're pretending to be retarded when we both know you're better than that.

>>28583466
holy christ what a waste of 2 days, now im ready to hear it again but in person

>>28583696
If you spent the time getting the degree and at any point said "I'd be ok with doing this for the rest of my life" don't bother getting a CDL. If you like the field you got your degree in, buy a small RV and expand your job search area significantly.
If however you think a change is in order, all you have to lose in trucking is either a couple thousand bucks or up to a year of your life depending on CDL4free program contracts, there is very little barrier to entry and you will have a job. That being said the job is unlikely to pay well for likely the first year or two (half a million miles is an extreme exaggeration, I'm at ~125k and I'm making 6 figures), the job is incredibly lonely, if you cannot handle that do not sign on, and you will have to deal with the real world whether that be just how retarded and disgusting 3rd worlders are or people treating you like shit or places to go that can't possibly fit a truck or even the chance of killin someone/seeing victims of bad driving. Those things can and will eat away at you if you're not able to shake em off as fast as they come.
My father worked in an office for 20 years, I tell him stories of just another day and he reacts like I'm retelling being in active combat, it's just really easy to hide away from reality in those cubicles and I don't blame anyone who's willing to admit they do, but if you think you can swing it, do it cause despite what all these guys say there's gonna be truckers 100 years from now regardless of whether automation or mass deportation happens

>>28583892
Six figures before or after taxes?

>>28584034
I bring home ~80k + bonuses + a not insignificant fuel discount + daily company paid lunch with next to no expenses. So it's kinda misleading but trucking is half embellishment and for a year and a half in the industry ain't too bad

I just got my license this past week, and I’m waiting on my hard copy in the mail to get my hazmat cert. I’ve got my TWIC card already, and a completely clean record. What company should I start out with? The one thing I’m a hard no on is driver facing cameras. I’d like to haul essential freight so I’m always able to work. The sooner the better, I want out of my middle of nowhere town and on to greener pastures. Well, yellow I guess considering the environments I’ll be parked in.

>>28584868
Also, how can I best protect my license aside from religiously doing pre trips, safety checks, driving safely, doing logbooks correctly, and ignoring dispatch if they ask me to do something illegal?

I’ve always wondered what the small light on the front corner of some trailers were.
Turns out it’s for the tire inflation system – the light turns on whenever the tires are being inflated after coupling and it will indicate a problem if it stays on for an extended period.

>>28584873
Trip plan. Highway driving is piss easy, but it's the last and first miles from and to the highway that will fuck you to death if you're not careful. Never trust just one gps, and never fully blindly trust a gps unless it's a place you've been before and you know the route is safe and correct. I run truckerpath and my ELD navigation and I tend to use my ELD for first and last miles unless I have verified using satellite photos that the truckerpath route is safer or better. I'll even use google streetview if I'm really worried. If your ELD doesn't have navigation, then get a good trucking gps and use truckerpath or hammer in conjunction with it and make sure you're stopping when safe and legal to do so before you get to the end of your route to make sure you're not about to go down a no trucks allowed street or haul 40 tons over a rickety piece of shit bridge or have to make an impossible turn and block traffic or maybe get the cops involved to unfuck yourself.

Other than that make sure you're following bridge law in states where it matters and make sure you're hitting the scales religiously for any loads 30k lbs and up. And GOAL, PAL, and LAP every single time.

>work as dispatcher
>it’s a “mexican driver who can’t speak english harasses me because my indian coworker lied to the driver's pakistani boss” episode

I have dumped 34.16 gallons of piss in truck stop parking lots since beginning my solo OTR career. Seriously wondering why it smells like roller grill chili cheese dawgs though, that can't be a good sign.

>>28585850
I've found hammer to be unreliable, it's a good second opinion but I always go with Google or Apple maps after confirming a truck safe route, also if you fuck up, do not consider calling the police a last option. The cops will be way more forgiving to a mostly sensible trucker who admits he fucked up and needs help than one who does something stupid and gets others killed, I'm told they don't even need to fill out any paperwork for stopping traffic to let you get yourself turned around, just a call to a DOT officer to see if they can stick ya with an extra ticket and they go about their business
>>28585876
>"my diarrhea soup tastes like shit do you guys know why?"
>>28586249
I'm told if your piss smells sweet you've got diabeetus but if I were to guess (entirely baseless) I'd say you've got too much protein in your diet and I hope you spill it in your cab again

My piss smells like coffee after I drink coffee.

>>28585850
>>28586517
I’ve gotten a conditional offer letter through Knight-Swift already. I’m going to go ahead and look at it, and see what they’re offering. Is it unwise to accept a job before I get my hazmat, and try to add it on after I’m working? I’m in a tight spot financially and working sooner rather than later would be best for me. Also, any advice as far as the driver facing cameras and what not? The idea of it very much creeps me out, and has me feeling like I’m in China. I’m planning to get everything in writing from recruiters, and keep a copy of the handbook, rules, and every bit of paperwork possible on me as well as digital. I’m wanting to cover my ass as much as possible. Also, aside from downloading trucker path, what other apps are useful to have? I’m assuming every reward app for gas stations and what not?

>>28586700

I'd chop my fucking dick off before I ever worked for another megacarrier.

Get there, do your time, as soon as your contract is up, leave and find something better. Megas are all trash, there's a reason they have 100 percent turnover.

They don't want experienced people, they want retards they can control with a computer and pay 1990's wages. They want people just good enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but not smart enough to realize how badly they're being fucked by the system.

I did 9 years at a mega when it didn't suck and then once all the Hindu Dindu's got in, everything got enshittified. Do your time and get out ASAP.

I'm burnt out of the average wagecuck walmart job where most of my money goes towards rent

So give it to me straight, is trucking a viable option to get me out of the hole I'm in or just avoid entirely

>>28587127
It depends on if you’re willing to get raped by your first employer, which will probably be a mega carrier.

>>28587127
It should get you out of that but there are stories of some drivers being OTR and only making 700-800/wk at a mega. How much of that is them not managing their time and how much is dispatch being inefficient is impossible to say based on the info presented most times. Regardless, the first 3 months will have you questioning your choice because you'll be stressed all the time for less than 1000/wk but it should get better from there.

>>28585793
the light on the left rear of trailers literally has the label "abs" on it

>>28587977
And?

>>28587127

Don't do it, there's no money in this job any more, but if you do don't buy or lease that truck, be a company man. Most people working at Walmart are making more than owner-operator or lease operators.

Trucking went from being a niche industry that paid well to being another dead-end job any schlep with a pulse can do. It's no longer skilled labor, well it never was but it definitely isn't now. Indians and browns crashed the market, my insurance fucking quadrupled in the last two years since the Hindu Dindu's got here.

>>28587977
i had no idea that was the label for the light i thought it was just an indicator the trailer had abs

>>28587977
On trailers with an auto tire inflation system there is also a little white light on the bulkhead of the trailer that will turn on if the auto inflation system is inflating a tire, and if it stays on it indicates there's a problem.. that will be promptly ignored because unless it's leaking more air than my compressor can make or a tire is off the bead I'm gonna fuckin run it.
>>28588184
There's still plenty of money if you're not a dumb fuck. I've got two potential jobs lined up for after I finish my first year that'll pay 75-90k after taxes. More if I wanted it but I need a day of home time for every week I'm out.

>>28588184
>abloo bloo woe is me
just hang yourself already

>>28587373
My take home is about 620$ after taxes on a 2500 mile week at my current pay rate with a mega. By the 9th month of my first year it'll be about 875$ after taxes. With a real company that would be more like 1500$ after taxes, but I'd be getting a hell of a lot more miles since I wouldn't be limited to 65mph so realistically it'd be more like 1800-2200$ depending on the loads. You can still make close to or more than six figures as a truck driver you just can't be a retarded faggot and you have to have an immaculate safety record. Hell, if you want to make real money, get on with the russians up in Illinois. They'll work you like a nigger but you'll make 3-5k a week.

>>28588268
>On trailers with an auto tire inflation system there is also a little white light on the bulkhead of the trailer that will turn on if the auto inflation system is inflating a tire
Smartass.

>>28588405
The way you worded your post it sounded like you were telling someone the auto inflation indicator light was the abs light, which is incorrect.

>>28588471
Where in >>28585793 does it imply I was referring to the ABS light?

>>28580104
OP of the other thread here, because the OP of this one was mispelled I didn't see this one in the catalogue.

>>28588490
OP of this thread here, it's all good in the hood my nigga. This board is more than slow enough for multi-trucking-thread drifting and I did give this thread a goofy name for a laugh.

>>28588476
You replied with a photo of the abs light talking to somebody that was talking about the auto inflate indicator light and I assumed you either assumed they were talking about the abs indicator and were confused or you were just shitposting. We're like five levels of autism deep at this point and don't need to continue digging, so take this ribaldrous photograph I took of a trailer I saw at a truck stop instead.

>>28586700
I do not know what station that company is paired with but megas get exclusivity deals; Schneider got cheaper diesel from pilots so I only ever was shown pilots and hence only needed their app. I used truckerpath for general reviews of a location but it barely held any more use than that in my case.
As for the cameras you're either gonna have to live with it or find another company, those who installed em aren't going away and they usually have immediate consequences for covering them up

>>28588527
Working for a company that has driver facing cameras is in general a bad idea because it means they either hired so many hindu dindu's and flunkie retards that they were forced to install them by their insurance company, or they're so niggardly they installed them to save money on their insurance without it being required of them. Obviously all the other reasons that being monitored by a camera sucks make it not worth working there but those two primarily are the big red flags that should stick out to anyone with a brain when they see a company has driver facing cameras. I've never worked for one that had them and I never will.

>>28588276
Jesus fuck you are being RAPED

>>28588516
>You replied with a photo of the abs light
Why would I reply to myself? I don’t samefag.

>>28588584
It was this or being homeless and this is far preferable to that. Not many other careers that'll give you a place to live and pay you on top of that. They get cheap high quality safe labor for a year, I get experience and a place to live and enough money to not starve, everyone walks away happy. I'm okay with that.

>>28588759
I’m just saying you could’ve gone to a mini mega like Millis Transfer or something and made a lot more money your first year. I’m glad you’re not homeless doe

>>28575752 (OP)
Question. Ever since I was younger I've had a fixation with truck driving and I could see myself doing it as a career even back then. However I have a rare sleep disorder, its very rough down to impossible to shift to new sleep schedules and just sleep in general (I've had backpacking trips where I just don't sleep and end up pulling allnighters). I've driven for a career before, not for long, just some delivery work, but this seems a bit different. It is even worth finding out if I can make the cut? I know you guys pull crazy shit all the time and training is expensive. Or will the DOT just straight up deny me on sleep disorder basis?

>>28589053
I wouldn’t recommend it for you. Mega carriers will give you a mix batch of live loads, that need to be delivered at a very specific time, and preloads, which have a more lenient delivery window, which could work for you if you strictly did drop-n-hooks.

>cat loves looking out windows at home
>figured she would love having the sleeper berth window
>couldn’t give any less of a fuck at truck stops due to always being parked next to other trucks
>decided to reset at a rest area due to convenience and the fact that truck stops are filling up at this hour
Like a kid glued to the TV.

>>28589094
>rest area
I used to do that but now they're zoos even worse than truck stops for blocking you in.
>yfw when the guy blocking you in is blocked in by somebody who's blocked in.

>>28589229
I’ve driven through a packed rest area on I-75, so I get it. The one I’m at is too small for that sort of thing to happen, as anyone who’s going to park next to any truck is going to block the only travel lane in and out of here.

>>28589053
If you found a local position with an opening for a set schedule (possible) that's honest and not gonna throw you on call at the drop of a hat (unlikely) i assume it would be easy to adapt to, it's what I did for my first year and I never really had trouble sleeping when I finally settled into the routine

>>28589053
If you can't sleep through a hurricane or deal with radical disruptions to your normal sleep schedule, trucking isn't for you. At least not otr. Especially not if you're doing your first year with a mega. Actual slaves in the antebellum south were treated better than a first year megacarrier otr driver in many respects. You can die out here and your dispatcher won't even give a fuck and they'll have a replacement lined up for your position by the time your family is getting notified the next day. You're basically not even human anymore, you're just a biological computer that drives the truck that unfortunately has to sleep and eat and shit and have health insurance.

I'm exaggerating a bit but the sad part is I'm really not exaggerating all that much. If you don't go into this with the same mindset as someone that signed up to be a zogbot you're not going to make it.

>>28589229
I'd rather park on the side of an on ramp than some of the rest areas I pass by. At least on the ramp if I get hit in my sleep I'll be dead, at the rest area I'll still be alive in the morning and have to go tell peanut headed africans and spics and old fat wiggers to move their ass before I cut their air lines. About the only thing worse is running out of time as soon as you pull into a truck stop and having to stay awake for a couple hours waiting in the fuel lane for someone to wake up and pull off when you're already exhausted.

>>28589711

Trip plan bro. I have never had to do this, I do a lot of my business with TA/Petro and can use my Ultra Credits for parking, if I know it's going to be past 9 outside of a large Democrat liberal population center when I land I reserve that shit first thing in the morning.

>>28589876
Not him but I don’t reserve parking spaces ahead of time because I don’t trust the staff to do anything about moving truckers who didn’t pay for parking.

>>28589930

Call ahead. I've done this many times, tell them you're looking to reserve and want to know if it's enforced so I'll have a spot when I get there.

A lot of truck stops are cracking down on that shit, the TA in Florence KY is notorious for their enforcement, it's a tiny truck stop right outside of a large blue Democrat population center they will walk up to you before you set your brakes and ask to see your reservation.

>>28590016
A lot of pilots don't give a single fuck about this and it pisses me off. I've paid for parking multiple times and gotten shafted when I got there because they don't enforce a goddamn thing and won't move anybody that didn't pay even if you did. I report all of them to corporate.

>>28590300

Yeah I refuse to pay for parking at PFJ it's almost never enforced, TA used to be like that especially Slidell LA and they started cracking down on it about a year or two ago, Cartersville GA was bad too, no one ever paid for a spot now the entire lot including those 7 spaces behind the fuel island that used to be free, it's all paid now because niggers would show up and not pay and when the parking attendant would try to kick them, nigs would flash guns in their faces. Now all of these lots that used to be full of nigs have armed security now patrolling. I can't remember the last time Cartersville filled up.

I guess Indians cannot read ILLUSTRATED signs that tell trucks to be on the left lane, on the interstates.

>>28590016
This may work, it's good advice because the wagies usually won't do anything unless prompted 2 or 3 times to, so getting a head start is wise
>>28590300
Never pay for parking at PFJ until you're in the spot, truckerpath will usually tell you if there's only paid spots left

Any advice for driving in West Virginia? Got no choice but to go there, for my load.

>>28590864
It's not so bad, I run through there all the time. Make sure you're not low on coolant or oil and your fan is working properly because you'll need it, turn your jakes all the way up, and maintain plenty of following distance. If you need to slow down more than your jakes can do use stab braking - slow down 5mph, let it build up speed again, slow down another 5mph. I wouldn't recommend going over 70 for any reason and generally keep it around 66-68mph coming down the hill.

And if your gps tries to take you on 321, 421, or 91 - don't, lol. Reroute unless it's absolutely necessary and if it is necessary you better be getting paid well.

Haha. Lol. I just take a bit of melatonin if I need to and team drive. Trip plan? Maybe if the destination isn't open 24/7. Otherwise the plan is go. Companies will keep you if you have good mpg and fair productivity because they use all these jeets to make the insurance too high for oo but if you save them on that and fuel they'll never bother you. And fuck no I'd never pay for parking. All otr first year should be teams anyway. There's stretches you can't find parking for 1k miles hardly. I just drive the whole thing at once. Tell everyone I work with they either decide to do local after about 6 months or find something else to do because single otr is retarded.

>>28591155
Your takes are largely dogshit and you sound like a complete retard, just thought you should know. Except for the not paying for parking that one is legit. I'd rather find an on ramp with a wide shoulder than pay to park in some niggerden pilot or petro. All otr first year being teams only only makes sense if you're hiring complete fucking dumbasses - which to be fair describes a large percentage of people getting into trucking, but certainly not all. I'd 1000% end up getting in a fist fight with anyone teaming with me in the same truck unless we were fucking, and most of the ladies in trucking aren't worth fucking.

Single OTR is far from retarded if you know how to run. I'd tell you how to really make it worth it but that's stuff you don't just give out for free.

>>28579978
iirc all i need to do is the in-cab and air brake test, whatever part of the truck he wants me to inspect, and then backing maneuvers and the road test. why am i so nerviovus?

>>28575752 (OP)
Is owner operator even viable?

>>28589930
>>28590758
The pilot in carney MO did this to me so I parked in a fuel lane and went to sleep. Took them 4 whole hours to notice, and when they did I said "I paid to park here at the lady at the fuel desk told me tough shit, so now I'm telling you tough shit" and then they actually went and forced someone to move and came back to tell me a spot was open.

Probably could have gone a lot worse for me, but the employees were white so they still had a tiny sense of fairness I suppose.

>>28591847

it's not, try again in a couple years when all the sand niggers, Mexicans and jeets get deported.

I'm thinking about getting into trucking. How do I know if I'm cut for this? what if I spend all this effort to get into it and it turns out I can't do the long hours cos I get sleepy or I have to piss or some shit.

>>28592084

don't do it, find another way, this ain't it chief. Unless you're a NEET or are desperate or something, find another way. If you have a wife and kids, forget it, you won't have a wife and kids when you come home. Happened to me a few years ago.

The hours are long, you will be working 12 hours a day 7 days a week for months straight and the pay sucks, you will be working for less than minimum wage. Starter companies will promise you the world and pay you 300 bucks a week to live in a fiberglass box and then reprimand you for running the AC in the summer at night so you'll be sweating like a hog in a Smithfield slaughterhouse while you try to sleep. That was how African slaves lived. You're basically an indentured servitude.

This ain't the career your parents had, all that went out the window after COVID. If you can get onto a good lane, there's still good trucking jobs out there. DON'T SIGN THAT LEASE i will come find you in your truck stop and Ethan and I will take turns fucking you in the asshole dry.

>>28591729
>whatever part of the truck he wants me to inspect
In MY day you had to do the whole name-the-part-and-describe-what-you're-looking-for dog and pony show down the entire side of the truck and then say you'd do the same for the other side. Lazy kids these days...