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i feel like truckers are invisible in society when its the most common job pretty much anywhere so its cool to see truckers here talkin trucks thanks for hauling the things i need!!
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Daedra posted:i worked in the office and made all the BOLs for our drivers and other stupid office poo poo but our guys worked 60 hours a week and were home every night, almost all the OTR drivers we contracted seemed to hate life and were super pissed at any amount of waiting due to not making any money at the loading docks thats what detention charges are for. giving a customer a bill for like 20 grands worth of detention is one of my lifes small joys
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Feb 8, 2015 03:04
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Trucking just seems like one of those traps were it pays well contextually, but way to many people get into it thinking they are going to be that oil sands trucker making 100 grand plus a year. I don't knock people for doing it and all, salt of the earth and all that.
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Feb 8, 2015 03:11
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EAB posted:Any of you guys owner operators? i feel like 72% is pretty good just from what youve said about it. also not owning your trailer can open up opportunities for drop and hooks and things like that i saw you mentioned tarps. they arent the same but know what youre getting into if you ever think about hauling conestogas
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Feb 8, 2015 03:11
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Blue Raider posted:thats what detention charges are for. giving a customer a bill for like 20 grands worth of detention is one of my lifes small joys I'd done something like that once at a place, they kept loving the dog so I called the main office and said something along the lines of "Hey man, I'm just calling to let you know I've been in the dock for a couple of hours now and this is an LTL load, so that's $75 per 15 minutes for the last three hours and...oh, I'll hold..." Less than 5 minutes later they had everybody in my trailer throwing poo poo out and someone RAN to my truck to give me my bills. I wouldn't have called the head off, but I went into the shipping office to see what the gently caress was going on and the bitch behind the counter started acting cunty. So what did your customer have to say? I've heard of some oversized guys making weeks of detention time when poo poo gets all hosed up, then again, when you are paying large cubic dollars for permits, what's another 10K a week to sit a rig?
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Feb 8, 2015 03:13
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Venom Snake posted:Trucking just seems like one of those traps were it pays well contextually, but way to many people get into it thinking they are going to be that oil sands trucker making 100 grand plus a year. I don't knock people for doing it and all, salt of the earth and all that. a veteran driver going otr can make a really good living but they pretty much have to live their life driving. just from what ive seen, local drivers make between 14.50 and 18.50 an hour and get 50-60 hour weeks AND get to be home every night. for a trucker thats like having your cake and eating it too. the catch is that locals often dont have the job security and their hours get cut easily
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Feb 8, 2015 03:14
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InterceptorV8 posted:I'd done something like that once at a place, they kept loving the dog so I called the main office and said something along the lines of "Hey man, I'm just calling to let you know I've been in the dock for a couple of hours now and this is an LTL load, so that's $75 per 15 minutes for the last three hours and...oh, I'll hold..." it was a couple years ago. honestly, the customer was Volkswagen. they got pissed and paid it, and that was nearly the end of us needing to charge them detention. i seem to remember it went 2 months in a row then pretty much disappeared. things dont change overnight with das volkswagen
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Feb 8, 2015 03:16
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driverless trucks would also lead to lot lizard unemployment.
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Feb 8, 2015 03:24
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InterceptorV8 posted:Now you just talkin' retarded. best trucks in our fleet are the mack cxus with the mack mp-series motor way more forgiving of problems with the emission controls, can run for a decent distance with regen issues before derating... although for some reason they keep having problems with the fuel injectors and the occasional turbo. still, they almost never have to be towed, which is a drat miracle nowadays
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Feb 8, 2015 03:24
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i cant get over how trucks are so lovely. i understand the specific problems they have but still how are they so lovely. would a big normal gasoline v12 work better? like a 1930 Cadillac engine. i feel like it would
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Feb 8, 2015 04:04
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Blue Raider posted:i cant get over how trucks are so lovely. i understand the specific problems they have but still 
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Feb 8, 2015 04:06
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Green Mind posted:26 year old trucker AMA.... why the hell do you think I would care about all those words?
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Feb 8, 2015 04:10
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Feb 8, 2015 04:17
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Nefarious posted:why the hell do you think I would care about all those words? i did read em and 48 cents a mile to the truck for a team is well.... he chose poorly
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Feb 8, 2015 04:19
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Blue Raider posted:i cant get over how trucks are so lovely. i understand the specific problems they have but still Dear lord no. They just don't make them like they used to is the problem. You do so many improvements to get better mileage and comfort, then you lose that mileage to emissions, so every loving improvement is gone. So everything is make lighter so you can carry more, then they rear end 34 gallons of piss for emissions, a huge DPF, and everything else. Let's make some noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XG_JfyPdvE http://youtu.be/-yiIbkcQBzI That's a 12v71, 12 cylinder, each dispatching 71 cubic inches. (That's 1.2L per hole) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2zwd1iazvU Screamin' Jimmy and two sticks.
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Feb 8, 2015 04:51
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Blue Raider posted:i did read em and 48 cents a mile to the truck for a team is well.... Wow yeah so many choices, what between Werner at 36 com and Swift at 34. It was 48 for all miles with hazmat endorsement on my CDL and anything over 15,000 in a month was at 70 cpm. Honestly for a team with no experience the company treated us well, gave us a 2014 cascadia with 300 miles on it and a $5,000 signing bonus. Yeah, I'd say I chose well. Nefarious posted:why the hell do you think I would care about all those words? Oh gently caress man my bad, I forgot I was writing specifically to you
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Feb 8, 2015 06:08
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Green Mind posted:Wow yeah so many choices, what between Werner at 36 com and Swift at 34. It was 48 for all miles with hazmat endorsement on my CDL and anything over 15,000 in a month was at 70 cpm. Honestly for a team with no experience the company treated us well, gave us a 2014 cascadia with 300 miles on it and a $5,000 signing bonus. Yeah, I'd say I chose well. buddy i mean i aint hating on your pay or anything but that aint that great. i realize youre some rookie drivers and its really not that bad. its a living that said id be looking and staying that way. and no poo poo swift wouldnt give you anything
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Feb 8, 2015 06:14
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I don't drive trucks. I gently caress truck drivers. Say that five times fast.
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Feb 8, 2015 06:16
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Blue Raider posted:buddy i mean i aint hating on your pay or anything but that aint that great. i realize youre some rookie drivers and its really not that bad. its a living 10-4, got a pretty sweet local LTL gig now, hourly pay and no logs is cool. Drove flatbed for a bit too but never got home.
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Feb 8, 2015 06:17
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InterceptorV8 posted:I wouldn't take a bet that everything is going to be "safer" those sensors aren't 100% yet. I've had them completely miss another truck before in front of me, and also light off when I was all by myself in the middle of nowhere. What sensors?
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Feb 8, 2015 06:57
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Ricky Bad Posts posted:The backbone of this country is the independent truck The power of the trucker comes from his truck
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Feb 8, 2015 07:26
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Zogo posted:What sensors? The ones that say "hey, there is a loving idiot in a honda in front of you"
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Feb 8, 2015 10:04
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I like driving long distances on like road trips and stuff but only because it's a reprieve from my normal life and it gives me time to think, it's like meditating I'm trying to like mentally extrapolate what driving, driving, driving 24/7 365 days a year even is and I'm pretty sure if I was doing that I'd go insane
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Feb 8, 2015 18:12
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i drove otr for three years before getting a couple different local gigs, but most of my otr stories have me making GBS threads in places where poo poo should not be, so.... yeah.
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Feb 8, 2015 19:20
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how much road head have yall got. a lot, right?
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Feb 8, 2015 20:36
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Achtane posted:The power of the trucker comes from his truck Make a noise like an animal...
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Feb 8, 2015 20:59
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Zogo posted:There's plenty of career options in this booming economy: Food Stamps are going to get gutted by the state legislature, SSI gutted by Congress, you have to have an income to get a tax refund, and drugs will probably be legalized to keep people sedate and not rioting in the streets they no longer have jobs or welfare. Prostitute might work out until someone makes sexaroid replicants.
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InterceptorV8 posted:The ones that say "hey, there is a loving idiot in a honda in front of you" I have faith they'll work out the kinks before they start deploying these things on a grand scale. Young Freud posted:Food Stamps are going to get gutted by the state legislature, SSI gutted by Congress, you have to have an income to get a tax refund, and drugs will probably be legalized to keep people sedate and not rioting in the streets they no longer have jobs or welfare. I meant the increasing number of people who are having their W2s stolen with an identity thief cashing in the refund. It seems some are starting to heed the words of that obnoxious "get your billions back America" guy on TV.
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Feb 9, 2015 05:58
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Monkey Fracas posted:I like driving long distances on like road trips and stuff but only because it's a reprieve from my normal life and it gives me time to think, it's like meditating Solo OTR makes many(most?) people loving insane - something like 60% of new CDL people leave the industry within 1 year of getting their license. People, even antisocial misanthropic bastards need a certain amount of socialization, and long-haul truckers tend to get very little of it. I can't tell you the number of times I've been at fuel island or scales and some other driver will strike up a conversation and just end up talking [i] at[/] me for ten minutes while I'm trying to edge away back to the safety of my sleeper cocoon. The loneliness is really hard on people - I even noticed it and I'm the archetypical shut-in goon. And teams is even harder to get used to - between trying to sleep at weird hours in a moving vehicle and never EVER stopping, it's something only a few people can get used to. As for the question of why new drivers drive mostly OTR, it's an insurance thing. Insurance is a huge cost for companies and most carriers won't insure new drivers 'til they get a year or two of driving under their belt. However, the big OTR carriers are self-insured, and will take newbies because they can pay 'em a pittance and make money even if they get in a few minor accidents. Once you get a couple years in with a good safety history, you can apply to local jobs and specialty stuff that pays better and has better hours.
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Part of the reason big companies can pay a pittance is because they get federal subsidies for every person going through a training program, so they have incentive to use up as many new drivers as possible and treat them like trash so they quit before they end up on a higher pay grade. I had two different trainers. The first one was some religious guy from tennessee who had a paper sign on the dashboard that said "let go of the bad thoughts, believe the money will come and you will prosper..." who played guitar and also he watched action animes at night on dvds. Then he went home because a sister-in-law died and I got stuck with a young guy who read drudge, was angry all the time and reached over while I was driving to honk at someone, and drove to a place while I was sleeping with a flat tire.
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Rodatose posted:I saw a husband wife team that wasn't just the two of them in the cab, but also five dogs(!!!!!) as well inside of the truck! hackbunny posted:iirc they're limited to a big trailer and a small trailer:  EAB posted:Any of you guys owner operators? CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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Feb 10, 2015 01:09
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i'm surprised that more truckers don't have a mental breakdown and drive their truck into oncoming traffic. for a job that's so emotionally demanding, you don't really have guys freak out too much.
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Feb 10, 2015 01:22
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Blue Raider posted:
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That youtube clip with the guy and the five dogs changed me.
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