Was 3.5 miles away from having a theoretically perfect legal day today, and damn, I really could've used that extra dollar.
Just kidding btw. That would've been 1.40$ of which I would've actually seen 85 cents.
>>28630417The only thing I miss about local truckin is seeing all my cute latina coffee girls on the road
>>28630497That's what I'm making to do OTR :(>>28630626Cute trugg. Would drive.
>>28630690Fuck OTR. Why would you ever live in the box of a truck 24hrs a day/350+ days a year for $60k-$70k?Pepsi was ok while it lasted til they fucked me, now I got a 7a-3:30p M-F gig with holidays off and mad benefits.
>>28630701I'm in my first year so I'm just getting experience. I actually like OTR and will probably do it for a few more years but I'm actively looking for companies that will pay me better than what I'm making now so I can make the jump ASAP. I'll end up making about 56k this year pre-tax and taking home 35k all said and done. Eventually I'll get something regional or on a dedicated route or get on with walmart or if I'm really retarded I'll be an O/O but for now I'm just grinding. Home life is shit as well, I'm effectively homeless, so that plays into it too.
>>28630701>Why would you ever live in the box of a truck 24hrs a day/350+ days a year for $60k-$70k?So I can travel.
>>28630713>>28630730I’ve never heard any company driver talk about how much they enjoy the travel between uncoordinated shipper - truck stop with no parking spaces - receiver who says you were supposed to be there yesterday so now you have to sit until Monday to be unloaded.
TIL you can drive 294 miles until a broken DEF system limits you to 5mph>HEY YOU'RE LITERALLY TRIGGERING THE ENVIRONMENT TRUMPIE IM LIMITING YOU TO 5MPH
>>28630381Your pic related. I find myself saying stop wanking when the light turns green.
In for letting EF know he is a complete faggot.
>>28630747I am a mentally broken subtard so I actively enjoy being a trucker doing OTR. Plus, anyone that can't find parking at literally any time of day almost anywhere is a broke retard that should've trip planned better. Unless you're literally in Manhattan or Shitcago and have five minutes left on your clock you can find somewhere to park and you're irredeemably fucking dumb for putting yourself in that position to begin with. >>28630871Let us know what you end up selling your truck for, I get high off of hearing others sorrow and loss.
>>28631106I have decided, after careful planning, market analysis, consultations with industry professionals and some Busch Light, that fuck it, we ball.I'll be back.
>>28631140Basado
>>28630747It has its moments. You just don’t need to be a cynical retard who fell for the money meme, when you get into trucking.The pay is going to be shit, especially during your first couple of years, so if you get into trucking with this knowledge, you will see the other benefits in trucking.We all know, as truck drivers, that most days are going to be boring and/or shitty. We just need to make the best of it and if you’re a sucker for scenic landscapes of all sorts, then traveling the country as a trucker makes up for the shitty pay and lifestyles we have to endure with our jobs.
>>28630929you will never be me you wannabe p
Don’t fucking laugh.I dare you.
Lowkey i kinda want to try out trucking as a job. I dont have anything really tying me down at home, family is alright, no gf/wife for now, my friends are here but i only see them a couple times a year cause the trajectory of our lives diverged after uni.Problem is I dont know how to get started, looking at job boards i cant find anything within my province that doesnt already need 3+ years of experience.I also understand getting trained and certs is an investment but dumping 10k just to get started is a fierce hit to my limited funds cause im already getting fucked by student loans from my engg degree.Also seeing these jeets come in, get cdls from shoddy schools, and cause accidents might hurt my chances at getting hired as a person who was born and raised in this country(leafland) while brown myself.
Not a trucker but I was just at Bucee's getting some noice roasted nuts and kettle korn. How does pic rel make you feel?
>>28631607Don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a white American who went to a mega-sponsored trucking school, through a $7000 loan that my employer is paying every month until it’s paid off or my employment is terminated. While I felt the training was adequate enough for me to get on the road (they don’t teach you everything, though), not everybody is going to grasp what the school teaches you.Getting started in trucking (training and/or employment) is going to be tough and the pay isn’t going to be worth it, especially if that’s the main reason you’re getting into trucking. Getting employed through a mega carrier will ensure that everything but necessities will be taken care of for you, so any sustenance, showers, parking, and any extra fluids or equipment you get for the truck comes out of your pocket. Maybe you can get reimbursed for your expenses, but then again they may refuse, especially if you sign up for Per Diem.
>>28631645No fucks given.We have our own version of Bucc-ee’s, in Iowa.
>>28631654
>>28631654Looks like a glorified Pilot ngl
>>28631657>>28631662It’s a glorified TA.
Hope everyone had a good truck driver appreciation week. We had a BBQ and snacks/drinks all week. Feels good to be a hourly LTL chad.
>>28631667I didn’t get anything because I’ve been on the road for three weeks.
>>28631607>looking at job boards i cant find anything within my province that doesnt already need 3+ years of experienceIn the US you'd pretty much have to look at the OTR megas since you'd be a newb and in that case what state you're in doesn't matter. Well, unless the mega has a ban on hiring in that state because it's difficult to get load in and out of which mean it's hard to arrange home time for the driver. Florida and Montana are two that are frequently on No-Hire lists. Some won't hire from North Carolina for similar reasons. Probably something same thing going on in Canadia.Try to find some sort of government subsidy. Failing that find what mega up there is offering training for the CDL and they'll send you to the CDL mill that they use. Yes, you'll have to pay back but I did the same and didn't really notice it but my carrier was reasonable to work for. Note that in the US it's a thing with insurance companies that they want to see drivers be accredited by a school that had at least 160 hours of instruction. Less leads to drivers not be insurable and therefore not a candidate for hiring. Can't be much different up there I'd think.Then get at least a year in and then find something to specialize in like Heavy Haul.
>>28631654>motor carrier road atlas>2025Explain
>>28631738It’s a good back up in case your phone/GPS shits the bed.
>>28631752Also, motor carrier atlases have low clearance information, so drivers can avoid streets/areas that have low tunnels or bridges that would otherwise fuck up their equipment.
Just got my first HOS violation by two (2) minutes. How boned am I?
>>28631140SHOCKER WOULDA NEVER GUESSED PRIMEFAG BEING A PISSBABY AND POSTING WORDS WITH NO WEIGHT
>>28631948I get minor violations all the time. My carrier doesn't care if the violation is under 30 minutes. I caught a roadside inspection going along US-70 through arkansas and had a 7 minute violation a few days before. Officer asked me "what caused you to drive 7 minutes over on thursday?" and I told him, long wait at the intersection before the truck stop, and a few of those minutes were on the truck stop parking lot getting parked. He shrugged and said alrighty then, and let it slide. My experience is they will be reasonable about very small violations. Sometimes, as with all law enforcement interactions, you are going to get officer McCactusDildo who is just going to shit on you because he can.
>>28631948Not very, with your employer. They may put you on suspension for a couple of hours for your first offense, in a 6-month period, then again, they may do nothing about it unless you keep going over your hours. Do it too many times and they will fire you.
>>28630713How tf are you getting taxed 35%? What's the pay and expenses structure like for an OTR? I assumed the mileage rates are low because the company covers everything else.
>>28631645Bucees is a bigger worse sheetz and the only reason you like it is cause you fell for its quirky marketing, you are not immune to the propaganda and a consumer of slop
>>28631948Afaik if you don't get pulled over in the 8 days since you did it then it may as well not exist. The company may notice and call you on it so don't make a habit of it but they don't have to send it directly to the police unless youre getting audited or something
>tired of being the IT help desk bitch for $20/hour, quit>tired of being an amazon warehouse zombie for $20.25/hour, get cdl and quit>now a truck driver and making… about $16-18/hourI still remember my wide eyed optimism after I got my cdl this year, thinking that driving a big rig would pay more than working at Amazon loading and unloading trailers. I unironically made more money putting boxes on pallets surrounded by good-looking latinas than I do operating a tractor trailer… you guys are getting absolutely screwed over
>>28632794>you guys are getting absolutely screwed overI already knew the pay would be shit before I even started trucking, last February. I’ve taken this career so I can work on my bucket list for visiting every state in the US. I’ve visited 13 states before I started trucking. Now, I’ve visited 28 states, total, so far.
>>28630929You think I won’t come through but I will
>>28633341just like ur wife
>>28633341>that picWhen ur wife said she needed a bed full of black pipe she wasn't talking a trailer load of plumbing supplies
>>28632650Yeah I told them about it and explained I had been looking for parking for half an hour prior and they said it was nbd. Just don't make a habit of doing it. Running the northeast is a bastard sometimes was the gist of the conversation.
>>28632794Once you get a years experience with a clean record you can start making better money than that. Get 2-3 years and you can be clearing six figures after taxes. It's only slave labor for the first part largely because insuring you is wildly expensive because the odds are you fuck a bunch of shit up or hurt somebody in the first 1-6 months. Hell you can go drive a garbage truck for waste management and make 80-90k before taxes and get hella bennies and I think even stock options if you don't wanna do OTR/Regional or Dedicated.
>>28633344>>28633383You guys need better material
>>28633474That’s cool. Still not worth it. I used to spend close to an hour sitting on the toilet using my phone each day at amazon. I also was never at risk of my life being over because gagdeep poomar in a vw jetta pulled out in front of me in a 45.
I ain't got no panties on
I feel lost in life bros. Shall I become a trucker?
>>28633854Are you okay with not earning shit your first year and having to do OTR and live in a space smaller than a jail cell the entire time before you can get an actually decent job that pays you like a human being? Are you an extreme introvert that thrives on a near total lack of socialization and relationships? If so this might just be the job for you.
>>28633854Are you lost because of circumstances outside of your control or because youre too stupid to set yourself straight? Im firmly in the latter and I just kinda bumbled into trucking and its workin out ok, ain't paradise most days but it can be pissin rain or ice as smooth as glass and it'd still be better than the best day of getting drunk before my shift of mind numbing factory labor. Ive actually got a career path now, and while some (white collars, keyboard jockeys, crabs in the bucket etc) may turn their nose up at it the rate of growth can be enormous. I went from $30k/y to $80k/y in one job swap and I intend to do it again once I get more experience and accolades, but then again I could lay the truck on its side trying to dodge a crackhead and have it be all over before the next day so who really knows. Just keep the faith and you'll find yourself where you need to be
>>28633990>got a career path now???
>>28634039Found one, crazy how they come to the trucker thread only to talk shit cause attending zoom meetings for (at most) 2 hours a day isn't fulfilling.Yes little doubter I started at a base level pulling box/reefer like most do then I went to bulk chemicals and now im a fuel hauler with my next step being either a more exclusive fuel hauling company or a cryogenics hauler but those are somewhere around a year or two out so I don't worry about the specifics. Tell me when your next promotion is, surely you don't just sit at a desk waiting for someone at a desk above you to keel over right? You do have a rough idea of how youre going to improve your money making obligation don't you?
>>28633468If you’re not already using the Trucker Path app to look for parking, I suggest you do.There’s a hidden gem or two in the NE, where there’s plenty of parking for truckers. I’m not going to give them to you because I don’t want to risk too many people finding out about them, causing the lots to fill up.
>>28634100lol didn't mean to touch a nerve. Thanks for informing me.
i have my cdl already just get me on the road
>>28630381how the fuck are you supposed to creep with this piece of shit?
>>28634401My mega uses the Eaton UltraShift and you simply apply the service brake, disengage the parking brake, select D, and let go of the service brake to allow the truck to start creeping.
>>28634401>>28634435Oh, they’re the same thing.
>>28634440That’s all it says in the manual.
>>28634445>have to use the shitty dial button to go through 10 settings just to back up to a docknu trucks are so gay its unreal
>>28633474>Hell you can go drive a garbage truck for waste management and make 80-90k before taxeshahaha, the absolute delusion of truck drivers
>>28633474>>28634486and thats including mandatory overtime. the only way you're hitting $90k is if you're pulling 60 hour shifts every week all year long
>>28630381Batteries are shot and truck cab stinks of sulfer. Yay.
>>28634449cant find the setting in the cab, instructor is saying its a laptop setting, literally unusable
>>28631667Went in for wiring work and they had a bbq, so that was pretty neat.
>>28631667>truck driver appreciation weekfucking Americans
>>28634701If you bought it a trucker brought itAnd thats a FACT
>>28634706How can a truck deliver truck parts to build a truck?Checkmate, atheists!
>>28634701>based AmericansFTFY
>>28634701They do this in Canada, too, I'd be shocked if there isn't something similar in Europe
I thought about getting into trucking, but pajeets are ruining the industry and all the oldheads are telling me not to even consider it nowWat do?
>>28635174The French have too many roadblocks to have days to clebrate the guys making them.Allegedly French farmers make more money from roadblocks than from growing things.
>>28634706Then it should be called customer appreciation week
>>28635181Move to Clearfield, PA and become Ethan’s wife’s pimp.
>>28635184The last time I was there they were making more money leasing acreage for wind farms, so at least that's a step up
>>28635181Right now is either the best or worst possible time to get started in it. Jeets and peanut heads aren't ruining shit, fuel prices and there not being enough freight to run is as is the DOT being massive faggots to O/O's and a lot of major roadways being in disrepair and traffic enforcement being nearly non existent. Plus all the megas need to get their assholes resized in court for colluding to keep rates low at the behest of their customers.
>>28635181Try it, the barrier to entry is at worse a couple thousand bucks or up to 1 year of your life, if youre a mature enough adult to realize the worst its ever gonna be is your first year then you may find a good career once you get passed the beat your dick in phase. Unless the oldheads are trying to teach you something, do not listen to them, I've found a vast majority of guys have a shit attitude about the whole thing and are unwilling to see the good cause X or Y happened or are living in the past and unwilling to see today. Baby boomers in particular still think gas is <$1and houses can be bought for pennies on the dollar, completely delusional to how the world actually is now and as such their world view should be taken with a boulder of salt if not ignored entirely.
The sensation coming from the trailer during live unloads, where the workers only use pallet jacks instead forklifts, is strangely soothing, in the tractor.
>>28635249>the barrier to entry is at worse a couple thousand bucks or up to 1 year of your lifeJust a heads up most companies now offer free tuition no strings attached. Walmart payed for my Associates degree (starting from day 1, no strings attached) and a grocery chain paid for my CDL (after 90 days employment). There is no reason to put yourself into debt
She hardly leaves this seat, now.I’ve made her too comfy.
>>28637010Cute kot, wish me company let me have one but its dogs only
>>28633478That's what ur wife says when there's not multiple glistening BBC's stinking up her room
>>28631575
>>28637530Virginia has Goochland, northwest of Richmond.
>>28631575>>28637530>>28637557I once got yelled at by my boss because we were passing the yocumtown exit on i83 in PA and I yelled "YO! CUM TOWN?" and it woke him up from the nap he was taking
>>28635190is he from clearfield. i never see him at any TA around there
>>28638350That’s because Sapp Bros is his favorite truck stop, since it’s close to home.
Had a unique delivery experience, where I was not able to do a straightback at the con because they had shipping containers in the way.Wasn’t too hard to get into but it did test my skills as a new trucker.
Who's truckin with Chloe?
Is there no better way to load/unload tires? Seems to suck for the guys who have to (un)load and the driver who has to wait for it to be finished.I guess you can say this sort of job is… tiring.
Literally never working the northeast again. Will likely tell whoever tries to send me there to kill themselves. I'd rather be a local driver in Atlanta.
>>28640119Where exactly did they send you?
The Chad day cab.
>>28639833ummmm SEXO BONER MUCH??? idk about you guys but any time I see a woman of middling attractiveness doing something normally done by a man I get REALLY aroused.
The Virgin sleeper
>>28640686From the looks of things some kind of hellscape full of subhumans. I always thought hell was underground but I now know it's anything north of Pensyltucky and east of OldBayland with a couple franchises in Shitcago and Commiefornia. Really though I'm never leaving the south and midwest ever again. That shit's for retards and people getting paid hourly and well.
>>28640876ackshually that spacious rear cab is made for fucking so you've got it backwards
>>28640888You poor sap. Do you expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter? Do you want dispatch to stroke your head and say everything will be fine, every time you make a boo-boo on the road?
>>28640119Quit your bitching pussy, it ain't even winter yet. Learn to trip plan better and run nights, when I was NE regional I ran nights and shit was awesome, all the scales closed, most of the retards were asleep, and because it was night time I could dodge all the ((((toll roads)))) and still make good time.Then when my night was done, I had front row parking all the time because all the day walkers and solar powered drivers were gone. >>28640888The South is just New England but with browns and every scale is wide open all of the time because of that.
>>28641452>The South is just New England but with browns and every scale is wide open all of the time because of that.liar I’ve been running NE regional since january and it’s literally all either browns or old white guys. I have yet to see another white male 20-something trucker on the road.
>>28641000I have no problem running the north east as far as skill and safety are concerned. But I'm not gonna do it for what works out to being 15$ an hour if I'm at full speed on the highway at the limiter, which almost never happens in this part of the country. I did 320 miles today and averaged 31.6mph, which means after taxes I'm making 7.50$ an hour. To drive a semi and take on all that risk and liability and deal with yankee assholes. Fuck that shit. >>28641452Our company is fucking retarded and only wants us working during the day so I can't run nights unless my first day of the week is cut short and I take my 10 early, which fucks me, because they only want us running Monday through Friday and only run critical shit on the weekends. Which also means I'm eternally fucked for parking. I am restricted to only doing my job in the worst possible conditions to do it in which means I make the least amount of money possible for the most amount of stress possible. So the answer is easy, I'm not going north of Pensyltucky or east of OldBayland anymore until I'm at a real company that doesn't force their drivers to do things the hardest fucking way possible. The south very fucking much is not just new england but with browns either, the roads aren't made for horse carriages and there's actually parking available even at the worst times of day. You can reliably do 500-600+ miles a day even running during the daytime during the work week in a truck limited in the 60's. You cannot do that in the northeast in those conditions without being on paper logs and driving outside of the hos limits. I'm trying to make money, not jerk off about being a super trucker, I'll save that for when I'm making 70cpm or better in a truck that can do 70mph or better for a company that doesn't look for every way possible to fuck me as soon as I get around 2000 miles.
>>28640888Trips confirm you are a limp-wristed faggot. If thousands of trucks can get through even the Bronx without crashing every day, you have no excuse.
>>28641526They have plenty of mexicans and jeets and mystery meat people up north, guy is a retard.
>>28641544I bet they're not doing it for federal minimum wage and if they are I bet they're an immigrant or a retard or a felon. If I was being paid hourly I'd happily run up north, if I was being paid 70cpm or preferably better I'd happily do it. I literally came through the bronx today, I have the skill to do it, I'm just not gonna do it if I'm not getting paid anywhere near appropriately. Anyone doing that shit needs to be making 30/hr or better before taxes to make it worthwhile.
>>28641544Nah he’s right we don’t get paid enough for this shit. My company sent me to Long Island I told them if they send me there again I will walk out immediately. Not even because of the danger but I’m not going to make tight turns with cars on both street if I’m literally making $100 for 5 hours of work.Remember that truckers AVERAGED 117k only fourty years ago. Boomers, in a single generation, have totally destroyed the middle class.
>>28641558I'd quit my job tomorrow and be a local driver in jew york shitty if I got paid 30/hr to do it or better. Happily. More than have the skill for it. But unless it's that much minimum I'm not fucking doing it and if I lived in jew york shitty I'd want it to be 40/hr minimum because I'd be living in a shoebox or my car to be able to afford it. But these megas want to send me through there in a sleepercab pulling a 53' trailer for less than 40cpm - they can eat my asshole. I'm not doing it anymore. There's plenty of freight elsewhere that I can run and actually get good mileage doing it. If I run a 3000 mile week that means after taxes right now I'm bringing home 700$ and after insurance and shit I actually see 550$ of that in my pocket. I've yet to have a 3000 mile week, my best with this company thus far has been about 2700. But they want me to go drive in the hardest area possible in the worst conditions possible to do it in other than doing it in the winter on top of all this? They can do a flip for all I care. Just because I have the skill to do it doesn't mean I'm gonna do it for hardly any money, if anything it means I shouldn't do it without demanding more.
>>28641558Long Island is piss easy.Now BROOKLYN. Never again. Double parking everywhere and an hour to go 2 miles.
>>28639885When I delivered milk we would return the trailer to the yard with the empty milk crates nicely stacked up in 6x6 rows so the crews could easily pull them onto a conveyor but if they had pissed me off recently (every fucking day those pothead scum) I'd drive back without the load bars up and they'd have to pick up every single one by hand and restack em
>>28640851She had 2000 viewers when I viewed that channel, she probably makes more from the stream than from trucking.
>>28633341I never understood the point of third world American trucks.>lower loads>less power>slower speed and acceleration>poor quality>shit driving experience>longer braking distance>take more spaceI could continue this list forever, endless list of "American trucks are shit".
Here’s your mudflap bro
>>28637307God I wish I had a wife like that 2beeayytch
>>28642360>more space to cram in more drivers>cheap parts>cheap maintenence (3rd world countries exclusive)
>>28638081
Whats the best home daily gig I can hope for with 2 years DV and reefer exp? Got hazmat and tanker 'dorsements recently too.
>>28642725HR: Sorry sir but you need 2 years OTR hazmat/tanker experience with no tickets or preventables before you’re qualified for local tanker.
>>28642725HR: Sorry sir but you need 2 years OTR hazmat/tanker experience with no tickets or preventables… as well as never showing too early or too late for an appointment and maintaining a minimum of 3 seconds of safe space in front of you AT ALL TIMES, and have an exceptional credit score with no history or debt or bankruptcy before you’re qualified for local tanker.
let's say that I have £30kand I also don't know shit about truck mechanics other than maybe oil/filter changesnow, are volvo FHs any good? I want something to carry my ass for great distances with the least headaches
srsly considering becoming an OTRfag but i don't know how to break it to my girl
>>28643333Volvo makes good shit but 30k british pesos likely won't buy you one unless it's damn near clapped out and in need of extensive maintenance if not repairs. Driving a semi as a personal vehicle, while legal, is a gigantic pain in the ass and costs an exorbitant amount of money. I imagine it would be an even bigger headache in the most cucked country on earth where everything is expensive as hell and if you're not a muzzie the government actively hates you and wants you to die. Just get a regular diesel pickup. It'll be more than sufficient and much less expensive and less of a hassle. Unless you're driving 100k miles or however many faggot meters is equivalent while towing dozens of tons doing it every year a semi of any sort is just jerking off and wasting money.
>>28643347i;m sure she'll enjoy herself
>>28643347Unless you have zero other options for a job I sincerely wouldn't recommend it. You'll take home about 600-700$ a week, you'll be home about 2-5 days a month, and you'll absolutely hate life. OTR mentally and emotionally and spiritually rapes almost everyone that does it and unless you're a literal schizoid that would rather not eat than have contact with other human beings it's going to rape you too. The only way your relationship would have a chance in hell of lasting is if you took her with you and she was your living fleshlight and was cool with just chilling in the bunk or passenger seat otherwise, and even then there's good odds you two end up fighting all the time and breaking up because you're up each others ass all the time. Best case scenario you end up getting her pregnant and she has to go home to raise the kiddo and you're now forced to keep working even if you hate it because you have a baby to pay for. If you two break up and you're fucked for work, sure, go try OTR. Otherwise just get a local driving job or a regular job.
>28643357>can't not talk about large nubian phallus or imply that everyone wants it all the timeGo to church nigga goddamn. Shit's embarrassing.
>>28643368Enlightening stuff!
permanent highway scum herecan you niggers get out of the right lane before on-rampsi will make room, literally just do itthanksit takes at least 10-15 people with brains to prevent jams in the west coast wherever people get on/off the road
>>28643381British Broadcasting Corporation. BBC2 was where Top Gear lived.
>>28643414There's a BBC for everyone
>>28643408If I drive in the middle lane people get salty behind me and start passing me like retards flipping me off. If I stay in the right lane I get the satisfaction of fucking over everyone trying to get on the highway, and if they hit me it's not my fault and they likely die or get maimed. Plus it's easier to just maintain my lane. Sorry, we're not in a high trust society anymore, haven't been for a generation.
>>28643494i feel thatretard commies make trucks drive slower for some reason, so it causes retards to get frustratedbut id rather have a slow truck in the middle than in the right reallyif you drive slowly but consistently so there's space ahead of you, you are appreciated
>>28643498Yeah I always leave space even in bumper to bumper. It's stupid not to. If anything I'm usually the one letting people in. My favorite thing to do is when traffic gets consolidated down to one lane because of construction or an accident, I'll do the ELD creep on duty to save my clock until I've got like a mile of space in front of me and then slowly ramp up speed until I get to the other side and shit opens back up. Can fix traffic jams and unfuck an entire highway. The only downside is everyone behind me hates me for it because they're impatient and/or retarded and would rather huff exhaust from the car inches in front of them moving a couple feet every minute because it feels like they're making more progress, rather than chilling the fuck out for a while and getting the flow of traffic restored again. To be honest this really isn't a job for smart people, you should ideally just be a perfect retard jeet and shit in a hole in the floor and not care if you die or kill people while getting paid slave wages.
Rand McNally or Garmin Dezl? Trucker Path constantly crashes anymore regardless of device and I can't figure out why.>inb4 road atlas boomer
>never backed anything in a day in my life>first time backed a boat and trailer down a 45 degree ramp into the water with no issuesI'm ready for my CDL now. $60k starting please.
>>28643867I use a Garmin dezl OTR610, which is one of the smaller GPSes. It can be reliable but it doesn’t always have accurate information about road restrictions (e.g. GPS telling you you’ve entered a truck-restricted area when there are no signs telling you no trucks allowed). My GPS has been crashing lately, ever since it updated.I will use that and CoPilot on my ELD to help me get to my next destination. Copilot is good for checking for alternative routes and trip planning. You can also get it on your phone.I do recommend getting a road atlas as a reliable back up in case you’re in a bad area with shitty reception.
>>28642360Spectacularly wrong on all accounts. Trucks aren’t cars. The they are platforms. I can go order anything I want.Anything. I can build anything I want. Post something. Anything and I’ll post the American equivalent.Btw the largest body on frame trucks in the world are American. Check any oilfield or mining operation.
>>28642360Keep crying fuck boy
>>28642360Beyond wrecked
Pic is me in 2019. Rhode island.
I saw a gmc general (1979?) for $55k the other day
>>28643989>>28643991>>28644085>>28644098Nobody cares
>>28643963Now do it at a 45 degree angle on your blindside with a bunch of people staring at you angrily because you're blocking the entrance to the boat dock, with trucks on either side of you. In less than five minutes. You get to get out and look twice and that's being generous. And if you fuck up you're never allowed to put your boat in the water ever again.
>truckerpath added a cb radio functionBasado
>>28642360There's probably some oligarch industry reason + boomer machismo
>>28642360Non sperg answer>>lower loadsthe low trailer isn't stamdard but a lowboy used to haul tall loads. Standard trailers are ~5' (1.52m) off the ground.>>less powerTheres less power but more torque to get up and down our mountain ranges with heavy loads.>>slower speed and accelerationWe don't have autobahns, it doesn't really matter. We're also watched like hawks by the DOT, so unless you're some stupid brownoid speed is a pointless stat for a workhorse. As for acceleration, well, you got me there.>>poor qualityNever driven an EU truck so I've no frame of reference, but since some scanias are built in Brazil and China, vs, say, Cascadias which are built here in the states, I wager ours would win over based on that alone.>>shit driving experienceAgain no real frame of reference. How so? My truck is a decently comfortable ride. The sleeper also isn't a shoebox which is a bonus.>>longer braking distanceUnironically a skill issue. If you need to emergency brake you've fucked up.>>take more spaceAmerica is huge, and we don't have centuries old city planning that necessitates small trucks with tighter turn radii. The only places short euro trucks are beneficial is cities for which box trucks are usually used.
Why are truckers wives so obsessed with BBC's
>>28644417sounds like you want in his sleeper
>>28634486Yea this is missing OT. I was doing like $80k at Pepsi the last couple years, not hard to do at $29.50/hr with 55+ hours a week. And I wouldn’t burn many sick or vaca days so I would ask the boss to start paying me vaca days for my days off starting in Oct or so.But it gets old eventually. Also Waste Management… ugh. The office politics and corporate bullshit from that company seemed intolerable. I hope you like pride flags and DEI statements.
How shit is P-FJ to drive for? I'm seeing mixed reviews online.
>>28645842Why would you work for a truck stop?>free parkingNever mind.
Tire season is in effect in Colorado and will soon start in other states, or so I’ve been told by the company.Is winter driving in a semi easier than I think? Is it as hard as I believe it to be or does it all depend on how safe and cautious a driver is?
>>28630381>ENOHP NWODwhat did he mean by this?
>>28645486>centuries old city planning that necessitates small trucks with tighter turn radiiThe Northeast kind of does
>>28645878Home daily, amd their lots are built for trucks anyway so getting in and out is easy (even though pilot has the worst designed lots of any big brand truckstop I've been to)
>>28630381How’s driving in the winter? Do most megacarriers help compensate for the weather? I run NE regional and my checks are already low enough I can’t imagine with the snow and black ice.
>>28646335Mine does a good job of keeping us up to date with winter storms. If its bad enough they'll shut down the affected area. Not sure if a fleet of 500 is a mega but eh. Schneider was alright too. No company worth a damn is gonna make you run really icy conditions.
>>28645727>not hard to do at $29.50/hr with 55+ hours a weekthe absolute state
>>28646496Sure they won’t force you to drive unsafely, but already we only net 700-900 per week. Do you just get fucked on pay for the season or do they normally give some sort of bonus to winter drivers?
>>28646626We get layover for weather.
trucking is an entry level job for immigrants
>>28643347Don't do it, you'll make less than a wagie for the first year while literally shortening your lifespan. The wanderlust wears off after a few years and you'll hate your life and everyone around you.If your girl doesn't ride with you, may as well break up because she will 100% cheat on you with Tyrone while you're out, it's happened to almost every OTRfag. Don't do it. The money isn't there anymore like it was for your parents, these companies nowadays want you to be happy with your 400 dollar weekly check while you think you're beating the system by not paying rent or a mortgage, they want non-domicile CDL holders with nothing more than a cell phone bill and no ambition in life and just enough brains to follow a blue line on a screen but not enough to realize they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago, or whatever George Carlin said in the 90s.
>>28646671>they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago, or whatever George Carlin said in the 90sNo, no, no, he said rape is funny.
>>28646694He said it CAN be funny
>>28646496>>28646660What happens if you get caught in a storm? I see a decent number of trucks in sketchy neighborhoods in NYC. Do they just park somewhere and leave it there? There are a few truckstops within 20 minutes (in a truck) of each other here but they all require actual skill to access because the roads were laid out in the late 1800s.
>>28646715Park that shit and plan ahead days ahead for it, you don't want to be the guy playing musical parking spots while Pajeet, Ahmed and D'ontavius are seeing their first snowfall in their entire lives and shitting concrete rebar blocks at 70mphSeriously, park it. Watch the weather days in advance, snowstorms are only surprise freak things when it's lake effect in the Rust Belt and for people who only use their phones for tiktok. The storm isn't the real thread, it's the mostly brown people who have never been in it and don't know bout FMCSA Anti-Coercion law.You park that shit, I got 10 years under my belt and have had my trailer try to pass me on ice and i've had it lift up off the ground from wind in Wyoming, park it, you're not a bad ass by running in it. The only time you need to be in it is to get to safe parking, and you need to get there before all the other blue-line retard drivers do, plan ahead. You do NOT want to be that poor bastard playing musical parking spaces with browns when it's fucking snowing sideways and you can't see past your hood.
>>28646660Layover for me is 500$ a week. Pretax.
>>28646667Not anymore bitch
>>28646994Jesus thats shit, iirc we get 200/24 hrs
>>28646731What line of work are you looking to move into brother? I can find you the market rate on glory holes in the mid atlantic
>>28647312This is pretty based and I hope it ends up raising pay across the board especially for noobs. It really shouldn't be legal to have someone doing OTR for less than 50cpm minimum even if they are an illegal immigrant.
>>28646731Yeah driving in high winds is just fuckin retarded regardless of what you do and if you do have to chain up you'd better be getting paid hourly because you're not going faster than 35mph at best, more like 25-30mph unless you're a retard. Wind will get you up in the panhandle of Texas too if you're not careful. Kansas as well.
>>28647312So, what are you going to do about a job, now?
I've got a class B, been driving mixers for about 5 years in the Phoenix valley area, and it's been great, good money, good people, but the housing market has gone to complete shit, management has changed, and i don't see either getting better anytime soon.we've gone from 55-60 hour weeks, to not even 40 hours some weeks. that and the increase in cost of living/housing means this is just not working for me anymore.anyone know what else is out there for Class B that pays, or if there's an area that's still building in this "not a recession"
Bought a truck, now I'm gonna be rich like everyone on team brown
>>28645842Depends on the location, the crews i interact with at the fuel terminals aren't pestered by corporate cause the lead keeps his shit in check but locations further out are hounded for dumb bullshit cause they keep fucking up. Then there's the actual locations youre delivering to, sure theyre not 7/11's but they can get real tight and if youre afraid to wake up a driver and tell him to get lost youre ngmi. Other than that its a fine job and looks good on a resume, I'd apply and see if the guy giving you your driving test seems like a responsible leader cause that'll usually determine how much bullshit you'll be facing
>>28647570More like fucked like everyone on brown team. U know what. I am the bad boy. The real truck boy of /o/. What are u even gonnna do that’s the question innit
>>28647750Pretty sure I won't be fucked when it comes to loads
My mega may not have the best showers but at least they’re free.
It should be legal to violently assault anyone in the northeast at any time. If they're east of the Mississippi and north of the mason-dixon they're not a human being.
>>28647773Real nigga detected
I know finding parking can be a bitch but you must be fucking retarded for parking on the interstate shoulder. At least find a nice ramp to park on – it’s better to be hit by a decelerating vehicle than a vehicle going at least the speed limit.
>>28648948If you're gonna park on a ramp, use the on ramp, not the off ramp. People hit offramps at or above highway speeds regularly, and you're more likely to be hit by a drunkard coming off the highway than getting onto it.
>>28648948parking is only a bitch to people who aren't Max Gear rated on TA/Petro's reward system that lets you use UltraCredits for paid parking spots.t. had 14 UC which was the max you can have before they fall off every day, I'm down to I think 6 right now and used one last night to gt a spot at Seymour IN TA at like 2am.
>>28642360iron mike sharp said it best: if euro trucks like scania were worth a shit, they'd be poplar in america. but they aren't, so nobody gives a shit about them.
