Well, looks like I'm the one to start this thread again.
Anyways, it's the Truckerfag Thread. Where we don't haul 44 tones, get fat on rollerdogs, and are the bane of motorists everywhere.
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Last thread faggot?
i got my cdl learners. any tips on companies to apply for that also do training?
Your best bet is C.R. England. You'll know you're really good if they offer you a lease/purchase agreement.
What's your favourite truck related movie or fave fictional trucker? I'm going w jack Burton and the pork chop express. Also favorite song about trucking
I believe this is it
You don't have your actual Class A license? If that's the case you'll have to go to school, join a company who will send you to school, or find someone with a trucker who will train you.
Kek.
Seriously though, look for a company based in your nearest major city, and get on somewhere that offers tuition reimbursement.
it a class B permit, is that bad?
I'd look into Swift. They are the Best in Class.
Depends what you want to do, certainly bad if you want to drive trucks.
>tfw you haul 45.2 tonnes
does training diff from class b to class a?
That I do not know. Should've just gone for the Class A from the beginning though.
And go where no road licensed rigid could possibly imagine.
>tatra and Unimog BTFO
Depends on what you wanna drive. Class b is dump trucks, rock haulers, and garbage trucks. Depending on where you are you can earn as much as or more than class a. For instance Houston was desperate for class b garbage truck drivers.
Well class B is not for combination vehicles (truck+trailer), and the weight limit is much lower, though I forget what it is (class A is up to 80,000 lbs, or it might be 80,000+ assuming you've got permits. Haven't looked in a while.). I don't know about where you are but class B also doesn't include air brakes systems around here. This is why we always recommend just getting a class A. Get your air brakes endorsement and maybe you can get a job running a dump truck, cement mixer, or garbage truck.
>We start the 90° and offset backing tomorrow.
Whiney, where you based out of?
Yes. B is incredibly easy compared to A and limits you to dump trucks school buses and u haul vans
I want to say it's 36000..but I can't be sure.
Please don't troll with C.R. England. It's far too cruel
> insert angry fat trucker noises
RIP Pepsifag. He should have stayed out of Orlando.
I guess Breaker Breaker was technically a trucker movie but damn it was weird.
Is swift a good company to get my cdl through?
I heard they are really good, have great bonuses. well the recruiter said that.
I'm the train engineer that started the train thread. You guys are cool with me and I like you.
That is all. Over.
The recruiter would suck your dick if he thought it would help.
Swift is fucking garbage, and I'm not even a trucker. Or American, even.
why don't you guys have an organized OP with information like that?
Is this actually just a steering wheel attendants thread?
There was an organised OP pasta...
El Paso, TX.
But apparently no one has it and expect me to find it.
Time to spoon feed
pastebin.com
Dont fuck up the OP and it won't happen.
Go put your truck into the ditch again.
>steering wheel attendants thread
Yes
>Being this ass blasted because of a pastebin
Yeah, nah.
He REALLY wanted to show his new rod to his co-worker
>implying recruiters dont lie
Go to their school. No upfront costs. Get your CDL and then quit before you go out with a mentor. Find a different company to hire you and reimburse you for your schooling tuition.
Swift has awful mentors, DMs, and politics/culture in general. You aren't allowed any personal conveyance. You don't get any bonuses. Your mileage is never consistent. I fell for driving for Swift and it was horrible experience.
Pepsifag is kill?
Hwut?
They think you died in the gay club shooting.
>get copy of lot rules on my truck
Someone actually gives a shit. holy crap. Perhaps they will be heeded if they fix the fucking yard.
Nah, you wouldn't catch me in Orlando. I hate going north of Boca Raton unless I'm leaving Florida.
What are the best things about being a trucker? The worst?
>best things about being a trucker?
There are none
>The worst?
That you're a trucker
After my year and grabbing my tanker and hazmat endorsements, im thinking of leaving my otr company and trying for train conductor. Any advice?
Well great. Now I have to find and watch this gem.
When you're passing us nowhere near a crossing, do you sound your horn at us, or do you just run that shit nonstop anywhere near roads?
>Swift has awful mentors, DMs, and politics/culture in general.
Same goes for any company desperate enough to train rookies.
>best things
You get paid to run away from your problems.
>worst things
Those are the last problems you'll have, and you'll be running from them forever.
>running forever
Pretty much this.
>arrive at Cons early get dock and go check in.
>mfw heartland pays lumps for everything
>gordo has accounts so only 3 com checks ever given
Was told "when you finish working here you should still have 3."
>mfw I've only got one left.
T-thanks heartlund.
>Oh just go to the yard they give em like candy
Gotta sit through 2 hr inspection from mechanics who are pissed they can't do anything anymore, then talk to supervisors who want nothing to do with me, and then trap an ops worker before he scurries off back into his vault
>like candy. Sure.
Also trash bag car.
In chicago picking up a load thay may or mat not (probably not) fit my step deck.
>time to play tetris
>Tetris
Mah melanin enhanced compatriot. I once got to level 999 on Tetris DS Unlimited mode, haven't done that well since.
I thought he meant that he'll have to move parts/pallets/skids/bins around his trailer to fit everything.
Also, fuck working weekends and then taking weekdays off. Stupid doctor appts
>Mah melanin enhanced compatriot
Im a little tan right now
(Drivers tan)
But im a through and through white boy.
I was never very good at that game, but we managed to fit everything. No room left whatsoever on this damn thing. But that just means dispatch cant do the
>piggy back load
Thing.
Ah well. Its off to michigan. This delivers tomorrow.
Thats exactly what i meant.
My curtain on this trailer doesnt open from the front like its supposed to. Ao it wqs a lot of putting skids on the deck then shoving them into place with the hilo. 5 total skids and i weigh somewhere around 10,000 lbs.
Well the 90° and offset kicked my ass today.
> Stepdeck
> Curtain
What? Is it a curtain-sided trailer or a lowered flatbed?
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H-hey
You're a faggot.
Stop molesting the dog.
Went to go check out that Lotus Elise during my 10 and by god they are a lot smaller than the pictures would let on. I tower over that car, safe to say I don't think I'll be getting one.
Went to a music shop down the street and bought a nice ass reverb pedal though. It's been a surprisingly good day.
Pic related, it's the Lotus next to a Shelby Mustang
Your railroad will put you through getting the mandatory dangerous goods training again anyway when you hire on. The interview is kinda strange in that it's more of a personality test. As long as you keep an open mind and don't act like you know everything you should be fine.
We're required by law to give three long blasts of the whistle and one short one at almost every crossing. At 60mph we usually start to blow the whistle about a quarter mile away. Cities and apply for permits to allow us to go through crossings that have automatic gates with just the bell but the government makes it a pain in the ass to get. They're either blowing it for you or trying to get some animals clear of the tracks. Sometimes I'll flash the brights when low flying aircraft are coming the opposite direction and they'll flash back. It's kinda neat.
You look like a really nice fella, but you need A FUCKIN BEARD. Nice dog too, cheers.
How loud is that horn from the inside of the train? I know it scares the fuck out of me standing outside of it. Full PTSD.
beard shmeard... I got more hair on my gooch than I'll ever have on my face. When I was a car salesman I DID sport a pencil stash.... my sales plummeted, yet I kept getting hit on by subaru customers of the same sex...
that was my one experience with facial hair. "...never again" I said.
cool pic btw, where is that? and that light... is aliums??
HAH well I don't think you missed much, heard Subaru owners are a bunch of cum-dodgers anyway.
That pic was taken near Princeton, British Columbia delivering photocopiers. Probably should have been paying more attention to the road. Not aliums, but close. It was Monty Burns bringing me love.
The cabs are soundproofed well so it's not really all that loud at all as long as the windows are shut. I've had timesome when I was a conductor walking on the platform of the locomotive when the engineer forgot I was there and started blowing the whistle. Hurts your ears like all hell. When the mechanical guys test the engines the whistles have to blow at least 96db.
One time one of you guys was blocking the crossing that goes to our terminal and he moved back to let traffic through.
Pretty much made my day.
We're only allowed to stay stopped at a crossing for five minutes. If you're ever in a bad mood and your stuck at a crossing and the train is sitting there, the back of the crossing road sign will have a milepost number and a phone number to call. If you call the number they'll get told to get the fuck out of the way.
On the territory I work we have a few places where we pull into short tracks to let other trains go by where we would block crossings. The conductor has to go back and split the train in half to unblock the crossing while we wait.
Lot lizards and roller dogs are both incredibly cheap. Can't really think of any downsides.
what the hell is a roller dog?
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Pic related is what im pulling. Mine is black though. Sorry for the delay. It took longer than i thought to get to my destination.
Interesting.
I'll have to put it in my phone book
Truck stop/gas station hot dogs and their ilk, cooked and kept warm on heated rollers.
Those truck stop hot dogs on the rollers, roller dogs.
Bruh. What kinda trucker are you?
Also FYI do yal see those 'still cooking' signs? They do that so you'll buy the old ones up front first, but really the ones in the back are cooked and fresh.
The kind that doesn't even notice that nasty shit when I'm in a truck stop I guess
Kek, haven't seen that one. Brb ordering the poster, I love old movie posters.
Gonna go next to my favorite poster, Boss Nigger
Uh no. The turnover isn't that bad. The onesin the back are indeed fresh. So fresh they may still be frozen.
This is fantastic news
>up at 4.
>can't deliver till 11.
>foolishly not start my clock
>end up sitting for 4 hours at Cons after waiting for 6.
Roach coach was good eats tho family deal papa was hustling money mama was cooking and Jr was the driver.
>no more com checks
>tell dispatch I'm going to the yard and going to bed
>"ok but can you go 80 miles away and get this other load?"
>it's live and takes another 4 hours
It's now 10pm. No one is here can't get com checks
>mfw it's live unload with lumps. Tomorrow in another state.
Welp someone is going to be mad tomorrow.
rip in pieces trailer tires
Are these really safe to eat?
no
Nah, no sharp turns and it'll be alright.
I've been hauling dry vans for about 6 months now and my plan is to move into something else that pays more per mile. Should I go with flatbed, tanker, or refrigerated? And how would I get into them as far as training goes? The small company I work for only does dry van in the Southeast US.
>by god they are a lot smaller than the pictures would let on
Well, no shit. 'Minimal weight' really does mean minimal weight, especially when you're planning on powering it with a 2.0 engine from a mid-range Toyota.
Doesn't that remove most of the advantage of the step-deck?
Doesn't being a step deck fuck with getting unloaded?
most probably has a mezzanine floor
Not usually, 90% of my loads are side load outside.
Mmmm have to wait for 4 trailers in front of me at this costco, no problem
Hourly
I've been at this shipper for 11 hours and they haven't even touched my trailer.
Ferrara Candy a shit.
Have you tried tipping them?
Kek
I wonder if i can request whiney to be my mentor