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>>29031082
Way of the road.

God I can't wait till I finally get home and can buy some good noise-canceling earbuds. I can do heat but I can't fucking do sound anymore man. Used to when I first started out but not anymore. Having to sleep next to a busy highway or a reefernigger just murders me.

Speaking of, do y'all have a specific brand you use? I don't care about the money, I will shill out my entire salary if it means I never have to get earraped during rest hours again.

>>29031091
FPBP

>>29031104
sony xm4, nc earbuds are likely a meme and the battery will be asscheeks

>>29031213
Headsets don't work for me cause I'm a side sleeper, though I might get one just to try out during the day.

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UNDERSTOOD CIVVIE BITCH!? AINT EASY TO BE A TRUCKER!

Yo mama so fat, when she walked across the CAT scale, the attendant at the intercom asked if this was a reweigh.

>>29031104
Don't waste your money, just get some cheap earplugs instead and play some whitenoise if you still need more, that'll be much more effective and comfortable.

>>29031082
>>29031091
Y'all need to drink more water.

>>29031956
You need to shut the fuck up about the quality of my lemonade!

The Honda CR-V is such a brainlet vehicle. Chances are that if you see one going the same direction as you, it will ruin someone's day by going the speed limit in the hammer lane.

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I think I understand why you guys in the US find highways stressful lol

>>29033153
It can go as high as 85mph speed limit in some places. There's stretches of I-80 where the limit is 80mph for basically hundreds of miles with few interruptions. Coming around a blind corner at 76k doing 72mph down a slight grade to find some retarded jiggaboo stalled out in the right lane and an equally retarded bitch to the left of you taking their sweet time passing is a real fun experience.

I shaded over into the hammer lane and got on the brakes doing it and dumb bitch got on the shoulder and suddenly remembered how to push the pedal all the way down. Technically I could've just plowed into the groid stalled on the goddamn highway and if they had died I wouldn't have been at fault because they're that monumentally retarded, but I'd rather not kill anyone and I'd like to not be out of work for a month while the investigation exonerated me and the truck got fixed. But yeah it's like 95% boredom and 3% gridlock and 2% pants shitting terror where decisions you make in milliseconds determine the course of your and other people's lives. There's a reason why I get black out drunk at least once every time I go home and park the rig.

>boss asks us to like and comment on the TikTok recruitment clip they made
>can't do it cause I don't use that shit
It's over for me isn't it?

>>29033224
Yes, but not because you can't be engagement for a retarded social media post, but because you work for a shithole with high enough turnover they have to make tiktok videos to keep asses in seats. Likely because they don't pay shit.

I've learned the hard way to not deliver to a large coastal metropolis city unless you're starting the day already close by.

Do not think you're going to drive 500 miles to get to it, deliver, and then still have enough time to park.

From here on out, I will make sure to stage just outside of cities, before delivering. Dispatch and planners and DMs can bitch and complain, too fucking bad. I'm keeping my CDL clean.

>>29033964
Same if you have to run mountains. Shit takes fucking forever and there will be zero parking available along your route. Plus you run the risk of dealing with a breakdown or a road closure. Best to start with a full clock, not worth it unless you've got more than half minimum.

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I HAD A 3€ COUPON FOR A SHOWER THAT I WAS SAVING FOR TODAY AND I COULDN'T USE IT BECAUSE MY DISPATCHER TOLD ME TO COME EARLY TO THE UNLOADING BUT IT TURNS OUT THEY CAN'T EVEN UNLOAD ME FOR ANOTHER 5 HOURS SO I GAVE UP MY 3€ COUPON FOR FUCKING NOTHING!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>29033224
You got soft hands

>4 months into line of work
>drop trailer
>forgot to remove the fucking hoses
>shatter one of my daycab rear windows
>now have to wait for someone to roll by and fix it
FUCK
so much for getting through my first year without issues

i fucking hate how long it takes for me to get my head on straight

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>scheduled hour for loading: 8 AM
>send message to dispatch at 07:30 asking for reference number
>"What, you're not even in yet?"

>>29033153
Wth, isnt the speed limit in the eu 120.

>>29035696
That's for regular cars. Trucks are locked at 90 km/h max, some at 85 or even 80.

>>29035696
It is, some places have it at 130kmh if memory serves, but everyone does cooser to 150 on those roads in their dads old Fiat Cinquecento

>my first trucking gig: $0.55/mile or $17/hr when you include pretrip/fueling/etc
>my last trucking gig (local): $0.85/mile or ~$21/hr
…
>doing uber: ~$1-1.50/mile or $23-$25/hr
LMFAO there really is no point in this unless you’re literally homeless and have no car. No wonder companies & schools are willing to put you up in a hotel for training, because you’d have to literally be homeless to become a truck driver now.

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>he parked around Paris
KWAB

Yesterday there was an Indian who locked himself out of his truck. Old guy wearing a turban. Sikh looking mofo.

Anyway, I'm no fan of poos in general, but I decided to help him because I know how much it sucks being locked out of a vehicle. He was using a lockout recovery kit that you get at the truck stops, with the wire and door wedges, the plastic container was on the ground in front of his truck, with the rest of the kit.

Anyway, I help him get the wire fished around his door handle, he thanks me, I say no problem.

Next morning I see he left the plastic packaging right on the ground in the parking lot.

I tried to have a moment of humanity, where I wanted to do something nice, and then see he's just a fucking disrespectful street shitter who throws his trash on the ground.

>>29037391
Hi, I'm the Indian guy. Thanks for helping me steal that truck sir.

>>29036752
68 x 70 = 4,760

Granted not every hour looks like that and that's before taxes and bennies, but in what world is 48$ an hour inadequate pay? Even 55cpm x 60mph is like 32$ an hour. I think you're a lil tardy breh.

>>29034243
RIP Thurston.

What's the easiest way to kill yourself on the road with your truck

>>29037494
Every once in a while someone snaps and goes over a cliff intentionally. Easiest would probably be just not fighting it anymore and falling asleep.

>>29037494
Have you ever heard the Call of the Void while driving? Listen to it.

Americans don't know 1% of the pain of being a europoor with no stationary AC in his truck

>>29037718
that's their fault for stigmatizing air conditioning

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I70 is the most raped highway and its not even close

>>29034324
Cute trucc

>>29031104
Foamies and a box fan are way cheaper and will get you way better results. i guarantee the white noise works way better than the no noise
>>29033176
That 2% is the thrill baby, the real world test of whether youre in command of your rig or youre going to spend the next 20 years in a concrete cell. I sometimes miss being a greenhorn and the feeling of just barely being in control, felt like I was learning and improving every day, now the 98% is more like 99.99999% but at least I have a long list of audiobooks to keep the attention from wandering too far
>>29033224
Take this opportunity to be as annoying as possible, when I was forced to use Microsoft teams and that video call software they forced on us during the government mandated lockdowns I would always fuck up my mic quality or give the white collar buzzwords like "yea ill circle back to you after my 34"
>>29035446
The worst thing you can do as a new hire is not learn, ive seen guys who were driving 20 years before I was born make the same mistake a fresh faced wheel holder has. Take it on the chin and move on

>>29036752
>per mile
Lolmaoing @ u nigga that shit will never pay well unless you know a guy who cuts you a personalized deal (aka not some first year mega)
But hey man if you wanna haul drunks niggers and other generalized scum for uber in [your own personal vehicle] that you have to clean up, fuel, and insure all on your own dollar
have fun
>>29037391
Remember that every time youre kind to one of these parasites, in a truck at a 7/11 walking the street etc, you are betraying your people and stoop far below their level. Even so much as smiling at them or holding the door for them is a destruction of any western values and will not be reciprocated by the putrid 3rd world masses

>>29038634
Yeah, I just wanted to see if there would be a tiny reprieve from my worst assumptions about people always being proven to be accurate. It's exhausting and demoralizing. Thought maybe I'd get proven wrong. Nope, he's just like the ones who dump their trash in the river back home, except he's here and not there.

Since starting this job, one of the hardest parts for me has been seeing that we're actually so my much worse off than I had even realized. Most truck stops, I swear I could be in Mogadishu.

It makes me fucking sick to be surrounded by filth every day and night, but what can I do, I'm not rich enough to be insulated from the reality of the situation, to just numb myself with distractions until I die, pretending like everything is alright.

>>29038676
There is plenty you can do but none of it will improve things, for the fight was already lost 60 years ago when (((they))) blew Kennedy's head off. Read siege by James Mason, or alternatively its about 22 1/2 hours in audiobook form, those who see the world for what it is may find their hopelessness reversed by a change of perspective

>>29038676
You've basically only got two real options. Either hope the mystery meat grows a soul and try to get it to happen by leading by example around them, or move to a different country. I tend to be the former but I'm prepared for the latter although in saying that as shitty as things are in the states it's way worse basically everywhere else. The fuck I'm gonna do, move to Russia or China? Pretty sure both would kill or imprison me the second I got off the plane.

The really demoralizing part isn't the foreigners honestly. I expect them to be retarded because they grew up in hell. But seeing other Americans that grew up here their whole lives that live and act like mongrel dogs, regardless of color, is what makes me want to give up. No manners having, impolite, churlish, entitled, retarded broke no financial discipline having ignant wiggers piss me off more than anything and they're everywhere.

>>29038313
I-64, west of Mount Vernon, IL can be sketchy with the narrow patches on the pavement, that fucks with your steering.
But yeah, I-70 is pretty fucked up.

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>>29031082
Sup nigger

Look at this cool ass snake I found in the woods

>>29039469
Good lookin nope rope right there.

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>>29039469
Nice

In my non-truggin job today, I found these cuties when I opened up an irrigation box

Where is ethan and why nobody is posting his wife?

>>29039770
Her pictures are buried somewhere in my external hard drive that I hardly use.

>>29038634
>>29037407
Keep coping acting like you make more than a hotdog maker at costco. It’s okay, I fell for the trucking shortage meme as well.

I hate the northeast and will never go north of Virginia after my first year, there's only 2 truck stops in all of Massachusetts, and their "rest stops" are pathetic

>>29040501
Do you merifriends not have apps that point you to industrial areas or lay bys or other free parking lots? I almost stopped parking at rest stops entirely cause they're SO FUCKING LOUD.

>>29040501
>he thinks it gets better out west
I mean kinda but not by nearly as much as you'd think.
>>29040216
I appreciate you acting like an asshole so I'll appreciate making damn near 50$ an hour to hold a steering wheel.

>>29040501
You'll be able to find reliable parking spots once you've run in an area for a while, but yeah, New England is a nightmare when it comes to parking, but Mid-Atlantic still has plenty of truck stops to choose from.

>>29040518
We have Trucker Path that people can use to report parking availability at a truck stop or rest areas.
While Massachusetts does have more than two truck stops, the one that anon is referring to are major chain truck stops that hardly ever has available parking, due to them being located at major travel lanes.

>>29040554
You make as much as a McDonald's employee per hour.

>>29041646
Yeah. About as much as one of their cybersecurity analysts. They bring home about 89k a year and I'm on pace to bring home about 90k this year. In my second year of driving. With no endorsements and no camera in my face. In a more direct comparison I'm making on the higher end of what their district managers make which is between about 65-80k and tops out at about 115k.

I'm pretty comfy.

>>29041838
You make as much as a McDonalds employee per hour. You just live in your truck and work a lot of hours.

>>29042051
And have no rent, car payment, very few subscription services, and put 500$ or more in my brokerage account every week. That's in addition to maxing my 401k matching from the company and being able to take home time anywhere in the 48 contiguous states. Company also has zero issue with me turning a 34 into a 48 if I ask beforehand.

And my home life was trash before getting a cdl to begin with. I prefer being out on the road.

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>>29038830
Delusional or naive, you have to figure that one out yourself. The idea that these mutts, will suddenly after 2000 + 2000 years, will make any kind of self improvement despite the very obvious state of decline the modern world is in because of them is absurd, remember they needed the wheel invented for them.
As for Russia, the nation that sends tractors to their front lines and cannibalizes museums for their antique weaponry to fight a nation not even half their size? What do you think you'll get there besides drafted or black bagged? And China? There's a reason its called the yellow tide, chinese stood with blacks in slavery in the early days of the United States' industrialization not because they were just different from evil whitey I guarantee you.
No there are no more frontiers to conquer, you either die where you stand or you wallow in the filth the weak made for you before you were born. >>29038731 Take this advice, theres hope if you know how to get out of the maze youre in >>29039469
The truck stops always have a huge amount of light pollution so I catch the moths that get confused, the polyphemus moth is really cool cause the spots in their false eyes shine like tin foil.
>>29041838
>>29042196
Yea man youre gay ive seen chinese sweatshop workers with better benefits than that

>couldn't piss for 5 hours because my route today was nothing but backroads in the middle of bumfuck nowhere that had zero supported fuel stops
fun

>>29043494
>doesn't carry a jug
Grim

Summa y'all crackas needa listenta mo sturgill simpson and less sam hyde

>>29031082
see a doctor. that's not healthy.

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Long dolly is long

>had to suck it up and fork over a few hundred bucks for a garmin because i was sick of copilot on my company's tablet trolling me
pain

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>peaceful parking lot
>everyone sleeping
>reef-rapist with the loudest buzziest crankiest niggiest ass reefer known to man comes in during the middle of the night and rocks the entire lot till morning
It's not legal to shoot these guys because...?

>>29044635
If you have a way to get internet in the truck, get a cheapie android tablet and Trucker Path. Worked pretty well for me and only rarely trolled me unlike Co-Pilot where its at least a bi-weekly occurance.

Starlink is pretty great for internet in the truck. You can just set the antenna flat on the top bunk and get solid speeds and uptime even while driving.

>>29044635
I've been using the same Garmin OTR 710 since I started driving 4 years ago, It's how I survived doing multi stop routes in Seattle and other towns I'd never been to before.

>>29044635
If your company uses trimble they're rolling out new tablets with an updated version and specifically better navigation for copilot. But the cheap android tablet and truckerpath solution is honestly goated if you have internet in the truck or put a sim card in it for mobile data.

I'm so glad I bought an electric water heater. Had as much coffee as I could possibly want the entire year without shilling out any cash to the gas station jew and their overpriced shit.

>>29046353
What one did you get? I've seen a bunch on Amazon but a coworker bought one and it broke 2nd time he used it.

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>>29046700
At first I ordered a chinkshit one online that almost busted my socket when it started melting in there after just 2 weeks. After that I was skeptical of them but decided to try just one more time since I'm a caffeine addict and got this one from an autohof shop in Germany for like 55€. Haven't had a single problem with it since and I've been using it like 2-3 times per day.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Ride-Coffee-Machine-24V/dp/B0C53548SR

so do euros not have microwaves and mugs and bottled water?

>noticed im making too many mistakes at work
alright, time to use my sick days

>>29047197
I do still get bottled water but I've noticed it's expensive as fuck in Germany. 34€ for 8 packs??? What the fuck.
I've woved to try to buy only from Poland or at least France in the future.

>>29045279
I attached it to a load bar I had on the back of the cab, just gotta take a footpad off it. Does it transmit well through the fiberglass roof?

Why do freightliners in particular shake like a motherfucker? I swear sometimes I have to LITERALLY FIGHT my truck when backing to get it to move at a slow speed because it wants to either not move at all if not roll forward OR shake you like an unwanted baby before slamming backwards at mach fuckit.

>>29045225
Please shoot me. You think I like being alive and driving reefer?

>>29047854
>automatic

>>29047859
Yes, its an autotragic. My company has no standards anymore, even if I did know how to drive one. Didn't learn in cdl school so now its hard to without shelling out a bunch of money to test in one owned by a school.

>>29031082
what could you add to these to make them dangerous? like if you added a cup of bleach before tossing your pissjug, wouldnt it eventually explode, releasing a shitload of chloramine or mustard gas or whatever?

>tell dispatch the Amazon jeets took my toolbox
>"are you sure it-"
>yeah it was them
>go back to the Amazon center
>lo and behold they have my toolbox
>send back picture of them carrying it back to my truck
>"nice, be even more careful in the future!"
What is that supposed to mean you stupid nigger? I literally asked them this morning if they remembered to put my toolbox back in and they said "yes saar it's at the back we didn't have space". Short of climbing the fucking 2m pallets to check if they're telling the truth I don't know what more I could've done. Are you supposed to get into a fight over it when dispatchers make comments that stupid?

>>29048086
What do you want them to do? Go full 1488 on monitored channels? They have HR karens watching over their shoulders like menopausal hawks. You got lucky they didn't squirrel it away and they gave it back instead of trying to gaslight you about how "this is ours saar it just looks similar to yours you must have dropped it or lost it."
Around Singhs, Watch Your Things.

>>29048094
I don't know, not somehow manage to make it sound like I'm the one that fucked up in this situation?

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Yard dogs are niggers and I can't wait until they're automated out of existance.
>park trailers too close to raise gear
>plenty of space on curb side of trailer he could've used to make more
>my truck has no hadley valve to raise it myself
>have to flag a yard nigger down to pull it out
>starts scoffing and rolling his eyes like I'm bothering him
>like its not his fault in the first place

>>29049206
why didn't you drag it out?

>>29049206
ok? is it too high to hook or something?
>no air ride
skill issue

>>29049211
Because thats a good way to break the landing gear
>>29049221
It was low enough to hook but not low enough to pick the feet up off the ground. I have air ride but I only have a valve to lower the airbags, only my company's newer trucks have valves that can lower and raise.

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is it really that expensive/time consuming to fix a simple hood latch? it doesnt even look broken

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>Be 17 in '11 (HI) 7.35 minimum wage alone meant working 108 hours a week, or holding down 2.7 full-time jobs for a one-bedroom — before food, a car, or anything else. (HI born and raised), too young for CDL, juggling jobs and pretending the minimum wage was acceptable/enough started getting too annoying
>be gay, parents are violent retards, so college for a few years, while working 3 jobs simultaneously, friends also started to lose their minds
>decide to move to move to mainland to try get some starting money going/ explore seasons, buy a moto, road trip, etc.
>find two br $900/mo, start working appliance delivery, box trucks
>break up with bf of ~3 years, I move out and start living alone, start delivering rum and alcohol beverages for another job, they offer CDL in-house, worked and got that.

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>>29051753
>all the while working on artistry to do animation later, got a moto, 'splorin on weekends, kinda bored and lonesome but not bothered much, make it back home for a week or two every couple years, once for 3 months working bucket truck/ arborist, but the pay was $16 hourly, had to live at home and deal with parents.
>move back to mainland since I had been paying rent to have my moto/XJ/stuff stored
>nobodygivesafuck.gif, so I end up at highest-pay I could find trucking job delivering food products within 4 states.
>feelsgoodman for a bit, start making a lot of money
>get denied buying a trailer, end up in expensive rental close to motocross park, still working/ trying to find a roommate to cut cost
>pandemic starts, starts screwing up everything, can't find roommate, bored and alone on days off, can't escape the high costs and watch AI start taking over housing market and all phone systems.
>cut it off at about 9 months, after being sent out on routes that were <100% (108~114%) of calculated/perceived driver capability, was making a lot and off-route enough, but stuck exploring the area by myself and not much to do so far as parties or clubs, protests were happening, live not far from Portland but they seemed boring/pointless/risky too, only 25 so a lot to figure out while I explore though
>{Motocross re-ignition dream of hot mud puppy bff, travel Trailer, 300XCW, DR650, XJ, '05 Tundra, indawoods while saving up to return home I'd been working on all seemed pointless after I saw everybody else be so low energy and give up on something like what I was working on. Still working on art but watch AI loom.
>pretty much drop everything and stay low-key, felt like winter for like 5-6 years, not much to say, bored of politics and friends that game and stuff, continue to explore and play but friends want to stay home instead
>job market continues to collapse and crumble, credit card debt after trying to get a job for too long, the trucking jobs were obv killers

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>>29051771
kept drinking, 420 at home, find other jobs but not in trucking, was always too much of a killer job or not-in-trucking jobs let me be home long enough to make use of the place I rent, but still had to work more than one job.
>depression starts to creep in further, too much giving up and dying, boarded up windows patronizing "nicey NicE" always making me want to puke.
>AI continues to take over phone systems, job markets, housing, people are less empathetic and simply wouldn't hear me out.
>start feeling suicidal not being related to but forced to relate with low-energy boner killers all around, I continue to explore and study horticulture and draw, double down on traditional arts and just work what jobs I could, still depressed but dark steady.
>two jobs not paying enough and rental we were in discontinues lease for remodel to raise unit's rent, no surprises, end up unhoused for the first time, start drinking to get by since it all felt too pointless to try anything anymore.
>stuff gets donated, shipping too much, fuck storage, basically feel left to die, only seeing killer jobs and vampires and zombie people, makes sense. End up in jail for blowing up the phone and get pulled over, my premise and emergency not heard out whatsoever, nobody cares about fixing anything for some reason, basically always talking to people who don't Do anything.
>move back home with nothing but a couple bags after finally getting some help.
>parents are still violent retards, unempathetic about hearing reasoning, treats me as a "thing", so they play a game of sides.
>turn in CDL a couple years later for just an ID
>"supposed" to go to court, all kinds of stupid stuff, can't find a job, they don't give ebt, starved, homeless off/on, and always being patronized/threatened by people who say they love me, buthoard resources and rot things like mfkrs and still leave me to die.
Mostly view it as those playing, sharing, living, and ubiquitous people who serve death and decay.

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>>29051803
Sooooo 32,
still just me

12y/o me still saying All for what?

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I want another DR650 to go from nursery to store and for to get away from lava, but I'd probably have to get my license back somehow, but the ones with controls need to get their heads out of asses, I don't believe in belief, reincarnation, or life after dead, what a disappointing place this world has been made into. A'ole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKuUyKt8mc

Guys the homos are blogposting again.

>>29051866
>dubs for no reason

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>>29051753
>>29051771
>>29051803
>>29051811
>>29051865
thats cool and all but this bathroom im in is probably more interesting than whatever word wall you just posted

>>29051869
that's for you to say, I'm just looking at japan wallpapers

>>29051867
Dubs because fate agrees with me that homos should not be blogposting and instead shoved back into the closet to hide.

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>tfw trying to reserve a shower at Pilot Flying Jew with the app

>>29051881
You think too much about homos; you thought so much about homos that fate got bored and irritated about you bringing it up so allowed you to be attached to "some nonsense about a closet or something"

In Germany, showers cost 5€.
In France, showers cost your mental sanity.

You do have your 5th wheel adjusted properly, don’t you?
If it feels like you’re driving on an oil slick, your shit is fucked and you need more weight on the steers.

>>29054808
I just keep it in the middle. Works well enough for me.

>>29054808
Never moves, I don't give a crap about my weight

Just got a warning for going 30 over, its on a level 3 inspection, how fucked am I?

>>29055507
You should be tossed down a hole for being a retard. You're a professional, act like one. Few things piss me off more than seeing dipshit "truckers" drive like 4 wheelers.

>>29055518
55 in a 25 with 3 people ahead of me going faster than me, you should see the bull haulers on that stretch.

>>29055520
Guessing a downhill stretch with a truck-specific speed limit? Only time I go past that is when I'm deadhead or bobtail and theres no worry of losing control, but even then no more than 10 over regardless of the normal limit. Roadjannies are bloodhounds that hunt us doggedly so I try to keep it kosher, and I also take pride in my job and try to lead by some example.

>>29055520
Bullhaulers don't have to give a fuck about tickets because their company will pay them and don't give a fuck what it costs to insure them because nobody else will work that hard and risk death that often for that little money. Unless you're living like you don't care if you die, slow the fuck down retard. Speeding gains you almost no time and highwaymen will rob you blind and fuck you out of a career just because they think it's funny and whatever bumfuck county they're in needs the ticket revenue.

Besides I know you're trolling because 30 over is reckless and you'd be going to jail if you actually did that, not shitposting.
>>29054808
Literally never move it. Just leave it in the middle. If you have to slide your shit you need to get your empty weight down.

>>29055598
debatable

i deliver co2. everybody hates me. customers treat me like i'm retarded and human garbage. nigger i just want to pay my mortgage and this job pays well.

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>Previous haul got cancelled
>Can't go take a shit because I need to be "ready to go" in case my dispatcher finds a new one
>Been "ready to go" for over an hour and still waiting

>>29057198
Literally shitting in a bucket at a rest area rn. I don't understand anyone that does OTR or regional that doesn't have a way to piss and shit without leaving the vehicle and at a moments notice. I know local guys don't have the room for it in a daycab but I think they're retarded in general so they get a pass.

Five gallon bucket with a sealing lid, trash bags, bungee cord, kitty litter. Put two bags in the bucket and use the bungee around the outside to hold them in place. Put kitty litter in the bucket. Shit, wipe with paper towels, put paper towels in bucket on top of shit, clean up with wet wipes, put wet wipes in trash bag on your passenger arm rest, put more kitty litter in bucket, put lid on bucket. Shit isn't hard. You can even piss in a jug first so you're not flooding the kitty litter and making the bag heavy for no reason before you shit.

Febreeze for afterwards. Bleach wipes or hand sanitizer to wash your hands when you're done. This isn't hard to figure out.

>>29057232
post pic of bucket.

>>29057198
Every fucking time some dispatcher says "it could be any minute now!!!!" it's always 5 hours+
I've gotten used to it by now

>>29057232
I used these when I was OTR. They have deodorizers in it and a good zipper. I just make sure to draw a biohazard sign and write "human waste" on it before I toss it, just in case someone in sanitation is handling trash by hand for whatever reason

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>>29057289
Fug

>>29057198
>plan gets cancelled
>not immediately going to a truckstop to chill

>>29055520
>allowing others actions to determine yours
ngmi

>>29057198
>Can't go take a shit because I need to be "ready to go" in case my dispatcher finds a new one
A)any plan they come up with that doesn't have enough time for you to take a shit is doomed to fail
B)I've found that the quickest way to make something that you're waiting on to happen is to take some sort of action for yourself. In this case taking a shit. You'd already be gone if you'd taken a shit back when you first thought about it.

The more time I spend at truck stops the more I begin to hate America and the disgusting mutants that waddle back and forth from the toilet to the pizza and mountain dew dispenser, and back to their filthy bunks.

I now understand why the elites want to kill us. I want to join them now.

I've got 124 days at my first company. I'm making about $600 a week. Is there anywhere I can apply to that will hire me and not have me locked in a sleeper cab with a 500lb hambeast, I mean trainer? CA license with every endorsement and TWIC card. Spotless record.

>>29057758
I watched some moronic slav waddle back and forth at a Lowe's I was dropping off at to try to talk to like 3 or 4 different people to see if he could get unloaded before me, I was able lip read the supervisor say "I can get you unloaded after him" as he pointed at me, the way he speed-waddled back to his truck in anger still makes me laugh.

>>29057779
600/week in the US? That sounds like borderline slavery. Even here in europoor land they were paying greenhorns 800€/week.

>>29057849
Averaging around 45 hours a week, and I'm paid $16.90 an hour. Granted the company I'm at is what it is, but I'm just here for experience and to learn the job. I've worked hard on shaving off time where I can, and organizing things so shower/bathroom trips and laundry etc are as quick and easy as I can make them for now without creating a better organization system. I've got $10 till payday right now because parking ate through my weekly budget, and that has to go towards water. I have enough bulk food to eat for the next week or two so it's not a big deal. I'd rather not be scraping by like this for too long. I can't even transfer until I save up enough to be able to afford to rent a car and move the stuff in my truck because I don't have a vehicle. So yeah, I'm basically a slave, but slowly getting out of the hole.

>>29057857
you are a slave and need to leave fast. i make 35r/hr in a rural area with a class b hazmat, and i just started after pissing off everyone in my old industry doing environmental remediation.

>>29057779
You're likely going to be with a trainer for a week at least until you hit the 1 year mark. That said, try PTL or Heyl for dryvan or reefer respectively, both are good stepping stones up from dirt cheap megas

>>29057890
I can't afford to. I didn't even choose to be in this situation, but it's better than my severely abusive childhood home.

>>29057779
>>29057857
Gang literally anything is better than what you're doing right now, you mind sharing the general area you live in? I guarantee I can find you something better. I went straight from CDL school to making $30/hr+OT back in 2021.

>>29055120
It's a lot tougher to drive if there's not enough weight on the steers. You lose steering feel and it becomes delayed and progressive. (you move it to an angle and she only steers a bit at first, and then it catches up. So you end up overcorrecting)

>>29055598
T680 needs it all the way in the front to even have 11k on the steers @ 80k with a tipper trailer. Putting it in the middle will lift the left steer when accelerating away from a stop and she won't turn. Needing to take your foot off the gas to make a corner ain't cool.
It was an interesting first few days on the job until I figured out what the fuck was wrong.
Braking is better, too.

>>29057912
I'm homeless. Though the address on my license is in northern CA. So above Sacamento. Even if I got a job somewhere else right now, I literally only have $10, and have no way to transport my stuff. So idk what good any of that will do. Don't give me the use your bootstrap bullshit because that isn't possible.

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>>29057857
>>29057918
You could try Total Transportation. They seemed pretty generous with trainees. They flew me out to Mississippi while Welfare Express put my friend on a bus. Put me up in a nice hotel and catered lunch.
They would've paid for an Uber to get to the airport if I'd needed it.
They pay better than $600 a week. What the fuck is that shit?

>>29057922
I have no way to move my fridge, or microwave, or most of my stuff. I'm supposed to just toss my food and everything and go hungry while I wait to start at a new company? I have bills I need to pay and I can't miss a paycheck.

>>29057918
Thug it out, get your first year done, don't fuck up, then get on with whatever otr outfit will take you. You're getting financially raped like everyone when they first start out in trucking. I made like 28k net my first year. I'm on track for 85k or better in my second year if I just nolife it. Should be able to net six figures in a few years without hating being alive.

Embrace the prison that is the highway. Sanity is over rated.

>>29057928
>I have bills
Then you are a retarded nigger. My monthly bills are like 500$ and that's taking home 1500$ a week minimum. Most of my calories come from mre's. I invest at the least 500$ every check into my various portfolios. I'm going to be retired by the time I'm 50. And the answer to your question is once you've confirmed you have a better job lined up, yes, you leave everything behind you can't carry on your back. First year otr fresh out of cdl school you're literally a bum. Your life means nothing. They'd have a new ass in the seat before you were in the ground if you stroked out tomorrow. You can either let this crush you or you can let it turn you into a diamond, choice is entirely yours.

>>29057933
Project your alcoholic insecurities on someone else.

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>>29057928
What bills? You have no home and no car.

>My monthly bills are like 500$
Mine's like $200 with 3 cars including gas home daily.
I spend more than $500 on lewd anime figgies, though. $20k and climbing.

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Estonia says:

>>29059276
No road tits for you then, Esti.

>>29034324
I will absolutely allow this truck to merge.

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These fucking scumbags lmao

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Have you taken the undershirt pill yet? Cool, soft, stretchy, breathable, comfortable.

>>29057779
Anyone know of anywhere? I'd prefer to be hauling flatbed. No nigger responses. That means don't drag your knuckles across they keyboard and chimp out without actually having something constructive to say. I know it's hard for you alcoholic scumbags, but keep your shit flinging to yourself.

>>29060522
do NOT fall for it. what they say is lies meant to inject suicidal thoughts into your head

>>29060574
Been using them under regular shirts for years to reduce moob pokage.

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>>29060574
I do button down fishing shirts (the kinds with the netting for airflow) because fuck the summer and this heat I can't wait for autumn. I'll be in a Tshirt in winter.

>>29057914
No, I just haul stuff where I don't have to worry about that. I think I'm generally around 11k+ on the steers anyway
>>29060625
Stop eating

>>29060593
TMC and Melton would be who you should check out. There's also Jordan but they usually want you to have a year before they'll take you, I think the other two are six months but might be flexible on it.

>>29060739
Never heard anyone ever say anything good about TMC. Ever. Only bad.

I blew past the lockout gate when it was my turn to drive and accidentally started to reverse instead of starting in 1st with my instructor, co-trainees, and the trucker behind me watching.

I felt so retarded. ;-;

Good news is my instructor says my maneuvering is good, and that my shifting is pretty good once I relax, I just need to calm down.

On the one hand this general is frustrating as fuck because hardly any posts. On the other it's based that everyone is working too much to post.

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fuck my stupid fat chud life

>>29063547
You're not sliding your tandems right, driver

t. warehouse worker

>>29063547
What's the problem if u have 40k axles?
I mostly haul heavy stuff and never go across scales or fuck with any of that shit so IDK

>>29063672
unless theres some boomer magic technique you have to slide the tandem farther forward, you and your cousins will be rearranging my load

t. wasnt born yesterday

>>29063872
Some states you can run the tandems heavier than 34k but if you're doing otr or regional and especially if you're going through cuck states like commiefornia you really want to be under 34k. Whoever loaded that trailer was a tard and put too much weight at the front of it.

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so how much are we actually supposed to care about spotted lanternflies?

>>29065115
Fucking pilot, actively trying to kill us by making pizza cheaper if you get a "Pepsi product"...

>>29065120
Would you even buy the pizza if there was no promotion on a bottle of Dew with it?

>>29065115
Please tell me that was a diet soda

>>29065276
Pilot puzzas bretty gud desu so yeah

>>29065307
it unfortunately was, bc ive never had it and wanted to try it. shits ass, sticking with either normal dew or sugar free, ive yet to try sugar free yet

>>29065455
Diet dew blows, get diet pepsi next time. Still not as good as diet coke. The actual goat of no calorie fountain drinks is the blue lemonade by vitamin water though. I get wicked pissed when they're out of it at pilot. Also been noticing the diet coke is shitty at libtarded locations.

>>29065455
i stick with the ol diet dr pepper
it tastes wierd at first, but ive grown to love it
i try to stay lean and fit tho
kind of an oddity in this industry
im not otr, and can get to the gym regularly

>>29065307
Diet soda is actually worse than regular though, but both should be avoided, especially when you're already eating other goyslop like low tier pizza with fake cheese.

>>29066906
The healthiest way to consume soda would be none at all. Second healthiest would be to just rarely have a regular full retard pop and the smallest serving of it possible. But if you're trying to tell me that a fat bastard getting diet instead of regular soda so they're not sucking down an extra 2k kcal a day of fortified goywater is a bad thing, I'm going to call you a nigger. Weighing 600lbs will kill you faster than artificial sweeteners.

The real move is just drinking tea with like a spoonful of sugar in it, or just drinking water. I also wouldn't begrudge someone having a single 12oz regular coke if they forego carbs almost entirely with everything else they eat. The real metric is calories and as long as there's less than you're using or close to it going in you'll be fine for the most part regardless whether you're eating cheeseburgers or salad to do it. Personally I lost the most weight just getting fuckoff huge bags of baby carrots to snack on because you get full on practically zero calories.

Truck was in the shop for a week. Got it back, all the food in my fridge went bad. I was also completely out of water. I was planning to order groceries and pickup meds, and DM is pressuring me hard to just get rolling. Figured I'd just pickup an empty and park and get my stuff then. DM knowingly and willingly assigned me a red tagged trailer. I refused to move it and went to park so I could order groceries. DM then gets pissy, so I double down, and explain that its illegal to move it after they claimed that a red tag is just so the yard dogs know not to move it. I called them out on it, doubled down some more, and told them flat out I refuse to drive illegally, and that I'll be working safely, legally, and within a timeframe that sustains both, and that they're going have to wait for me to get my stuff handled first. They continued to pressure me by saying they thought I had that done by now. No, because you kept delaying me. Do I just keep pushing back on this scumbag? New driver, just trying to get my experience and go somewhere else, but also need to protect my license. Tired of the nigger behavior from my DM, the filthy jeets, and the ESL roaches. I want to go to a white man's company, but 4 months isnt enough.

>>29068769
if they fire you, or otherwise punish you, bc you didnt do something illegal, that sounds like a open and shut legal case

>>29068780
Pretty much. I've been playing this game with them the entire time, and it's eventually going to stop, right? Surely they won't continue this shit, knowing that I know that they know that I know that they know that they're shady? Or is it just a fuck fuck game fest until I get enough experience? Starter trucking companies are basically like immature women if this is all there is to it. Why even have this bullshit in the first place? It wastes everyone's time, money, energy, resources, everything.

>>29068799
call safety

>>29068769
Stand your ground, like another anon said, it's either an open and shut legal case if they fire you for not moving red tagged equipment, or your next employer will hear your side of the story think "ok maybe I can trust this guy" and hires you or thinks "he's not gonna do any and everything I say, no thanks" which is you dodging a bullet anyway. I got lucky and got a white man job right out of truck school and am at an even better one now, but keep pushing man.

>>29068799
Record your phonecalls if it is legal in your state. You can report a DM/company to the FMCSA for Coersion if they try to force you to do shit illegally.
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/coercion

>>29068822
I am, and will. I'm currently parked waiting to fill a prescription, because I know that if I leave now, there is no garauntee I will be back in the area to pick it up before I run out. I've stocked up on food, and have a full tank, so I can wait them out for a while if need be. Is it possible they will just fire me at this point just for waiting to fill a prescription? The only reason I have been able to fill them before has been sheer dumb luck. Though I've cleared out a good bit of gas from the fires they've been lighting, and it does not seem wise to bet on them keeping their word as far as getting me near where I can pickup my medication. Nothing wholly against the company itself, but the behavior of some of the employees is in need of smoothing out.

>>29068855
I would never take them for their word when it comes to getting you your medication nor would I worry about getting fired for waiting for it, the freight aint that important, they can wait.

>>29068769
Industry has gone to shit. Good luck out there.

How do we introduce truckniggers to the concept of wearing earpods in public places instead of blasting your retarded TikTok reel at full volume into others' ears?

i hate the 30 minute timer on longer days

just feels almost arbitrary at times

>>29069096
Use Yard Move when you're at a customer if you wanna skip or delay your 30.

>>29069138
im supposed to be doing that anyway. it's just i finish so fast that i pretty much have to sit around and do nothing to stall the timer(im drop and hook)

>>29068769
>white mans company
Good luck. My company is run by "fellow whites".

>>29068855
Same poster from earlier here with an update. Picked up meds today, and told DM this. Here's the exchange. Am I fired? I packed my stuff and I haven't gone to the terminal yet. I know bait when I see it, but part of me is hoping it isn't wholly bad. Thoughts? I did ask to be trained in flatbed months ago, but didn't hear back about it much other than I'd need to swap trucks to do it, though given the recent developments I don't trust it.

DM - I need truck return to the yar d to be reseat ! if you are going to ch ange to flat bed right now is a goodt ime for it i need truck retunr back to reseat

DM - please call the Terminal Manager immediately

Driver - I have picked up my medication, and taken care of the basic necessities that I needed to take care of before being able to safely and legally begin driving again. I am ready to go as soon as I receive answers to my previous inquiries. I do not mind starting fresh in the morning if that is the safer thing to do. I do have an email that the terminal manager is able to reach me at if need be. If not that then the tablet works aswell. Thank you

DM - bring the truck to the Ter minal and see the Terminal Manager in the morning

Yes that is how they type. Either all caps yelling or broken up words. Idk what to make of this. I'm homeless outside of this truck, and just want to work. I have no one. I went ahead and sent them "Will I be seated in a different truck and transferred to the flatbed division? Everything I own is currently in my assigned truck. I do not have a place to stay, or anyway of safely transporting my belongings outside of this truck. let alone the resources to get it. Please let me know here on the tablet beforehand so I can plan accordingly." Idk what to do. I know I can't sit here for too long before they probably send someone to repossess it.

>>29069809
It's pretty obvious to me that they want you gone. Usually they starve a driver out rather than fire them if they have enough trucks for one to sit around a couple weeks. Perhaps they don't have one. These guys clearly aren't a good fit for you so imo once you get the truck back to the terminal it would be best to just move on. Pics of everything about the truck you're moving out of with some that show some defining feature of that terminal visible.

>>29069818
I have no money to do so. I'm homeless and broke because I had to sit for a week waiting on repairs.

I'm tired of fighting. I just want to to end.

>>29069819
Name and shame

>>29069819
OK, you do you but I give it a 90 percent chance you're fired the instant the TM sees you. And no, none of what's just happened will be the official reason. They've been down this road a thousand times before so you're not beating the house so to speak.

IMO you handled the whole thing wrong. You should have been ready to go once the truck was ready especially since you sat a week and that prescriptions errand could have been done. Groceries? Just get something for right now and then stop somewhere on the load. Red Tag? Per se, that means nothing. You needed to be specific about what you found wrong on a pre-trip that was non-DOT and made the trailer unsafe and then made arrangements to get it fixed one way or another. As it is, it's clear you were stalling and might have cost them at least one load possibly multiple depending on what the load plans were.

>>29069824
What do you mean?
>>29069830
"Should have been" project onto someone else. A red tag is a red tag, is a red tag. Just because it can be run doesn't mean it should and if it was a significant enough defect for the trailer to get one, it is not unreasonable to just hook up to a different trailer given that there is a multitude of them in the yard. I also had given the DM the info, and the ball was in their court as far as emailing fedex, and they dropped the ball on that. I couldn't have taken it if I decided to anyways. The medication I take is regulated to where I cannot pick it up outside of a very specific window. There is no way around it.

>>29069830
Also there is no legal requirement to explain the defect on the red tag to the DM. Even if it were something minor that could be run, I can still refuse it because l I am protected under FMCSA 392.3.

>>29069834
>A red tag is a red tag, is a red tag
You're being willfully obtuse. A red tag is not a DOT failure in itself. YOU needed to pre-trip it and find out what was wrong with it and then tell your DM, preferably with pics/video, about a failure on the trailer that made it illegal to operate. Oh and BTW, the drivers in the company I'm with now sometime use red tags to mark trailers as "theirs" for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the same occurs there. As for the other trailers, you don't know why they're there but you do know they wanted you with that one so you should have taken it or had a DOT reason why it couldn't go right then.

>>29069837
>FMCSA 392.3
>prohibits driving a commercial motor vehicle when your physical ability or alertness is impaired by fatigue, illness, or any other cause.
After sitting a week.

You belong in a Union

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stevens may be for ultra goyim but they havent given me a reason to quit or be worried about my employment status. just hunker down and dont bitch about shit jobs and be reliable, theyve p much always been happy to assist and been on my side when i have issues

>>29069841
>>29069841
You forgot to read the fact that the DM didn't email Fedex after I gave them the email, which is required for a trailer to be taken from the yard. You're being willfully obtuse.

>>29069834
Whats the name of the company so lurkers/new drivers know to avoid it?

>>29069875
I wouldn't necessarily say to avoid it, because everyone's experience is different, but it's a well known company that provides opportunities to people who wouldn't have one otherwise due to a variety of factors.

>>29069845
The (very) low pay is the main reason to quit Stevens. Which in my view is a pretty big one.

>>29069886
the guaranteed 1k weekly is bullshit by the looks of it but on poor weeks im making +$700 which is p good for my single ass, coming from lube/auto repair jobs when i was making like $350 a week sweating and working my ass off. now i sit in a AC'd airride cab listening to boomer CLASSICS with noise canceling headphones. for a first cdl job to get experience its pretty ok imo

>>29069896
Stevens has always been a sort of "welfare to work" program for the under/unemployed. I found that out by talking to a few lifers at truck stops. I just wish I knew that beforehand. It's on me for not doing my homework.

When my "agreement" is up, I'm gone like the wind. I've had side gigs that paid more ten plus years ago, than what I get from Stevens in 2026, living and working in a truck 7 days a week for months on end.

Fired for refusing to drive illegally. Fully able and willing to prove it with evidence. Spotless record, in good physical shape, 4 months experience, fully endorsed, no restrictions, fresh 2 year physical, TWIC Card. Who's hiring?

>>29070439
Why haven't you named them yet

>>29069885
Welfare Express?

Protip - being willing to shut up and get shit done even if it's hard or maybe not 10,000% ultra halal kosher heckin legalarinos is how you get a good job. Being a crybaby bitch is how you get blackballed. You are retarded, go drive a schoolbus.

>>29070662
>>29070666
Western Express fired me illegally. At one point they even blatantly said "Yes" when I asked if they wanted me to run illegally. I've got the chat logs to prove it. >>29070685
So one should be okay with being willfully ignorant and committing safety violations in a line of work where one "minor safety issue" can result in killing cars full of people. You are why prisons exist.

>>29070694
>At one point they even blatantly said "Yes" when I asked if they wanted me to run illegally.
As a non-trucker, wdym? They wanted you to run a shift over the legal time? Boo fuckin' hoo.
I got fired for having type-1 diabetes (the one that makes you skinny, not the one from being fat) and having low blood sugar once - I worked in a cubicle farm but it was in a car factory so they claimed it was too dangerous when it isn't. Shit happens, after federally suing the company through the EEOC I got a whopping $2,000 but spent about that much in the process.

>>29070722
Trailer with tires that are ready to blow. Malfunctioning trailer doors where the cargo isn't secure, steer tires that are bulging, drive tires that have cuts in the sidewall, trailers with brakes that don't work. I can keep going for a while. Not even the bare minimum was being met. Paperwork that is expired, not giving updated paperwork when asked, purposefully setting drivers up to get tickets and fines so they can be kept as slaves because no one will hire them with a ticket in the first year except that company.

>>29070728
>purposefully setting drivers up to get tickets and fines so they can be kept as slaves because no one will hire them with a ticket in the first year except that company
Do Americans really?

>>29070728
>Trailer with tires that are ready to blow. Malfunctioning trailer doors where the cargo isn't secure, steer tires that are bulging, drive tires that have cuts in the sidewall, trailers with brakes that don't work.
Ok, yeah, that's serious stuff.
I was once lead warehouse receiver and it was always hilarious talking with the truckers about dumb shit that goes on. I'm sure I pissed them off doing validation checks wasting their time, but it was my job.

>>29070731
Which is why I refused to drive the red tagged trailer, because I found that stuff on trailers that never even got a red tag. >>29070685
This guy is a completeky retard bro fag for even considering to overlook those issues, and just "run it driver" because it not only could kill him, but tons of other people aswell. He is on the same level as the jeets and flip flop drivers that he gaslights himself into believe he's better than. Heck, he's even worse because at least they do pre trips sometimes.

Railyards are true hell.

This place has turned into reddit and you fags have soft hands. Obviously don't do shit that's retarded, but being willing to be stupid the smartest way possible will get you far in this industry. I oscillate between that and being a safety nazi over shit that actually matters that can kill people. That you can't tell the difference between the two or assume it's a binary system in which a person is either all good or all bad is a reflection of your own stupidity and ego.

When I say "just run it pussy" I mean shit like the trailer passes a pretrip but the inspection sticker is two months out of date so you run it at night, not bulging steer tires and rabid niggers in the cab. Ultimately though it's my own fault for casting pearls before swine and most of you won't be in this industry longer than a few more months anyways, so fuck it. Good luck in the winter retards.

>>29072050
You got cucked by a pack of niggers didn't you Ethan?

>>29072050
You're spiritually Indian

>>29072050
OTR drivers are soft as hell
He's up there whining like a puppy dog

Shabbos Transport sent me to lovely New Jersey today where, I was the only full sized semi driving around within a ten mile radius, on streets made for box trucks, and not one English speaking person anywhere to be found, including at the receiver.

I got through it, because I'm good, but fuck me I really have to get a better fucking job than this trash bottom feeder "training company".

For some reason I thought white people lived in New Jersey. Or at least Italians. I get there and it's all 4 foot 9 miscellaneous brown people. Not seeing another white person in New Jersey is one of those things where you really notice that we're beyond cooked.

>>29075272
OK boomer. Projecting your own anger that the industry has gone to shit onto your own people, what a novel idea. Indian behavior.

>>29075273
Those NJ roads were built for old-timey trucks, not the semis of today. It also historically had freight trains running directly through certain towns. All but a handful of rail died when they started building modern Interstates on and around those old freight lines.
>>29075277
They mostly live in the Northwest part and in the richer towns, especially in the hillier northern sections. The rest of the state has fallen.
t. not from NJ, but there often enough to notice all the trucks

>>29075466
I have no idea how the industry is never done otr
Never worked for a mega corp
I have more self respect than that
Just my experience dealing with some ex otr guys

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>>29075273
skill issue

>>29075479
I looked up the demographic data for the town I went to in Jersey. I shit you not, 7% white. And thats whatever their loose definition of "white" is. Quite shocking to see in person.

>>29075272
Not all of us. I won't do shit that will legitimately risk lives but I'll get a little sketchy with it to make the weenie wiggle. Honestly I'm happy to see that a lot of people won't put up with it because they shouldn't have to, even if those same people will shitbag it through a construction zone doing 5-10 over as if that's not as dangerous as pulling a trailer with a bald tire or running on a drive that's missing a chunk of tread.

>>29075273
Legitimately skill issue. Cuckneckticutt is worse. Taxachusetts is worse. The five burroughs in NYC are worse. Fucking buffalel is worse. NJ is an easy day more often than not and you're also a fucking retard if you're not running that part of the country overnight. I've done 500+ mile days running NY/NJ/PA because I started at 2200. And not in a freightshaker or thirteen letter shit spreader either.

Let the goyim drive in the real world

>>29076488
>>29076490
Didn't ask

>sunday i had a long day
>monday i had a long day
>yesterday i had a long day
>today is a short day
>YEAH RIGHT LMAO
>steer tire blows out because hot weather
>stuck at side of road waiting for maintenance
i am gonna treat myself to a movie and the cheesiest possible pizza at the end of the week

Don't care

>>29076561
In all my years of trucking I've only ever blown two steers, but I'm pretty sure they liked it.

>>29070728
That's much of the industry now unfortunately. Starter mega business model is churn and burn. You're an expendable commodity. Best move is to get out ASAP, so it was probably a blessing in disguise.

Don't listen to the people who say you can't find a job unless you have ten years experience and all that BS. I know people who found jobs with zero experience, a few months experience, etc after leaving starter megas. There are jobs everywhere.

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>"good job today"
How do you respond?

>>29076972
Already have several job offers. Should be back on the road in a week or two depending on how long it'll take to get to orientation. Better pay, better equipment, actual time off instead of being out the entire time. Organized my evidence, made a report, and even been offering to send it to companies that have asked why I was fired.

>>29076982
>"Fuck off, bitch, your approval means nothing to me you piece of shit nigger."

>>29076995
Scratch that, one job offer. The draconian network of soul sucking demons known as swift said no, despite saying yes not 24 hours ago.
>be me
>clean mvr
>clean criminal background check
>unrestricted license with every endorsement
>twic card
>can read cat in the hat without needing to take off a second shoe
"Sorry, your work history has too long of a gap in it."
So, the recent job I had where I had the nuts to say no to driving equipment that would have cost the insurance company money, isn't a factor for you? Don't you jews like money? Literally offered to send them the chat logs I have. I am putting it on a fucking platter, and they're being picky over somwthing that is now null and void due to recent work history, but they'll hire an Indian that can't speak or read English to drive on public roads and kill people. How does that work? Will someone who knows more about being a psychopath explain this to me please?

>>29077084
Because they hire in bulk companies like swift can afford to be picky for some guys. Head for a smaller fleet if you can like PAM or PTL.

>>29077098
Got an offer from Pride, waiting on my mvr. I'll apply to PTL too. C R England offered me several dedicated accounts, same with Covenant.

>>29077139
Pride a shit. Sketchy guys who try to push newbies into leaseops or training and I hear they dont comp stuff like straps and bars. Also enjoy being capped at 62mph even on cruise.

>>29077142
I survived Western Express without being pushed into training. Doesn't get worse than that company. It's only up from here.

Looking like it's a choice between a Dollar Tree account with CRST, AB account with C R England, some other account with Covenant, or Pride Transport. I know the Dollar Tree accounts eat CDLs for breakfast so I am not exactly wanting to do it, though I don't mind touch freight. Of all of these, which one would be best for someone who is still relatively new at only 4.5 months? Not trying to overwhelm myself because I'm still learning.

>>29077363
What home time are you looking for? My own job (JB Hunt local intermodal) has a 3 month requirement and pays quite well, and is home daily.

>>29077369
By well btw I mean 1200-1400 net a week, depending on miles and activity with the 10cpm bonus for weekend work.

>>29077369
I'm not picky on it. I don't have a preference. I was out for 4.5 months straight with Western so anything is good to me. Does J B Hunt do otr? I'm currently homeless so I'd need to be able to live in the truck.

>>29077431
Yeah they do OTR. Not paid as well as local I'm sure and don't know about your location specifically but you can check here https://drivers.jbhunt.com/available-jobs

>>29077084
You're overqualified and they know you'll just leave in a year or less when you get tired of dealing with the bullshit and start getting offers to make real money. Meanwhile Saar'maam will never bitch and will work there for 30 years for bottom dollar.

Swift is for fatties and retards that think a 2700 mile week is a big deal and won't drive more than 9 hours a day but still want to take a 34. You dodged a bullet. Honestly you should stop looking for starter companies unless you don't have a year or 100k loaded miles yet and even a lot of the "no noobs" outfits will still take a chance on you with six months or 50k loaded miles if everything else about you is pristine.

>>29077453
I only have 4.5 months and 20,000 miles. Illegally terminated from Western Express due to refusing to pull a red tagged trailer, and then refused to drive until I could pick up my doctor prescribed medication, which if they actually read my DOT Med Card when they scanned it in page by page, they'd see it's nothing but a boon because I legally get to take meth. I would like to see English proficiency tests being enforced for everyone, not just drivers, because the pure ignorance and stupidity I have had to deal with just to get a job and go to work is insane. I want to work, I enjoy working, fuck, I'd work for a week free if need be to have a paying job at the end of it just to prove I'm not a retard. I am doing everything I am supposed to, and still get fucked by saar ma'am that can't even read the gauges let alone understand what they do and why they are there. Fuck, I could probably take the damn engine apart and put it back together if I had the tools.

>>29077467
I have been fucked over because idiots make assumptions about things they don't even know about, and assume are true when if they actually fucking used their eyes, and didn't get upset would find out that they are just burning money because they can't help themselves from eating pissed on breadcrumbs that they themselves laid out and don't even have the awareness to realize that they did it in the first place.

>>29077467
Western is widely known as being the shittiest mega in the game. They actively recruit from prisons. Whoever told you to go work there hates your guts. Shotgun applications to the other starter companies and see what lands then get your year and move on to somewhere better. You can pull six figures gross or net just doing basic bitch dryvan and the occasional reefer load after you get your year done but for literally everybody their first year trucking is just pure distilled suffering and you have to just thug that shit out and learn how you get fucked into being someone's bitch to make sure it never happens again.

Don't hit shit, don't get fat, bitch as little as possible and assume everyone is retarded and find a way to not let it make you angry. Other than that just keep it between the lines. And for the love of fuck please don't be the guy leaving the shipper with your tandems slid all the way back.

>>29077501
No one else would hire me because of spotty work history which I had no control over because of health issues caused by previous health issues that were out of my control. I was dealt a shit hand in life, and have been paying the price for beating death several times without my consent. Doctors should be put in prison for doing what they did to me, and it is still in a legal gray area even decades later. Performing life saving procedures without asking whether they should.

>>29077516
PAM was good to me even after having gaps in my work history. They're pretty chill. Money sucks until you get a year and start being a trainer but they have good equipment and if you're literally just not retarded you'll be a star over there.

>>29077775
They're not hiring out of my area, abd i don't want to transfer my license because the state I'm in garauntees hourly pay of at least minimum wage for all time spent on duty not driving. I'm not in a financial position to let go of that safety net and risk being completely fucked by corporate greed.

>>29077964
I'm literally homeless with just what I can carry. Western left me stranded with nothing because I refused to break the law for them and risk the one thing I have that can get me out of the shitty position by abusive demonic soulless parents put me in. Nothing is worth risking that.

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>reefrapist has entered the lot

>>29077968
I'll be blunt, if you're not willing to get shafted your first year you're never going to make shit. Like yeah don't just sign up to get gigaraped at felon express but you're gonna have to be a bottom before you can top.

>>29078051
>he cant sleep with reefer noise
NGMI

>>29078629
I don't mind running shitty loads, or weird hours, or driving in the rain or shitty conditions. I want to work. No matter what the old boomers say, or all the people that have shit on me and said I'm "soft" or "weak" or "lazy" or whatever the fuck. I just won't risk my license hauling illegal equipment. I'll do the shit work, just meet the bare minimum basic standards to have the vehicle on the road and not be a ticking time bomb because no matter what I do it's my fault if I drive faulty equipment and it ends up killing other people or myself. At least with the basics covered I have a general idea of what to expect as far as shit going wrong. If that's too much to ask for, the bare minimum, then that company shouldn't be in business. I guess wanting the bare minimum standards that is literally written into law with blood is too much to ask for these days. Even though the boomers gave that blood for it to happen. "Fuck you I got mine" needs to die out, and soon.

>>29078725
That's fair, and I've seen plenty of western trucks that were in dogshit condition. And the company I'm at currently will fucking terminate you if you haul a trailer or drive the truck when it's damaged or wouldn't pass an inspection. But at the starters you have to pick your battles. I wouldn't cry about a missing mudflap I'd just run at night or replace it myself with a strategically acquired replacement. If it's got a bald tire or won't hold air every time you stop until you've rolled a quarter mile to reseat the bead then yeah fuck them shits getting fixed.

Things do eventually get better but your first year you just have to thug it out. I ran mountains in PA with no chains in chainup blizzard conditions my first year, ran overweight a bunch of times. It was stupid but I didn't want to literally starve. That's trucking. Same as having a gun in the bunk even if you get fired if you get caught doing it because bears and ceiling bird enthusiasts could give a fuck about corporate policy.

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KWAB

>>29078826
I'm starting orientation with a new company next week, big step up from Westwrn Express. Any advice as far as how I can smooth out the bad habits that were forced upon me by Western? I do my pre trips/post trips, check the trailer brakes, all the wiring and hoses in and under the truck/trailer, check all the caps, actually use a tire pressure gauge on the steers everyday, basically what I'm supposed to. I'm just used to working and fearing I'm going to get fired or that they're purposely wanting me to fail, and idk whether that's necessarily the case with the company I'm going to. Very big culture change from what I've been riled to believe and what I've grown accustomed to. I really don't want to fuck this up, it's my first real job. They're paying me more just for a single week of training that I requested before testing into my own truck than I've ever made in a paycheck. For me it's like a gift from the gods that have been what seems like stacking everything against me my entire life.

>>29079016
You doing pretrips dilligently makes you better than 95% of drivers, even million-milers. Good luck brother, you'll do fine.

>>29079016
>I really don't want to fuck this up, it's my first real job.
you're going to fuck up at some point, just make sure that the fuck up isn't something that can go on your record, and learn from it

>t. almost 6 months of driving and went into this field with your similar mindset and still getting spooked by shit every week

I check tires and fluids every day and do walkarounds to check lines and the fifth wheel/jaws and make sure the trailer isn't fucked several times a day but if we're talking getting on the skateboard and looking at the bottom of the truck like I'm a donut muncher trying to hit quota that's a once a week thing. Usually on my 34. Judging by the number of people that just pull the knobs and close the curtains I would agree that most do a slapdash job pretripping if they do it at all.

In Germany, it is customary to give the truck driver a free coffee when he fuels at your station.
Nowhere else in Europe though, cheap bastards.

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>>29078629
Being a top is significantly gayer
You have to stay hard the whole time inside a man's ass

>>29048215
you expect shitskins to take personal responsibility?

>>29039718
Do you still live in a condo in Florida?

I broke my back. My back is broken. Spinal.

>>29083609
Get a bit too passionate in the showers, driver?

>>29083974
No I was doing my situps, 2500 a day with my 20lb weight and one day I couldn't move anymore. I asked the doctor what was wrong and he was like believe it or not your back is broken.

>>29084663
Post body

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You're just s hole for daddy

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>managed to nab a park spot in the middle of some quaint little Czech town right next to a bunch of shops
Life is good.

>>29086327
Do you need to have a grasp on a lot of languages to be a euro trucker or could you get by with just, say, german and /or english?