Truckerfag Thread: On the Road Again

Roehlretard is back over the road again. I told them that I was moving to Missouri, so I had to switch back. I'm actually pretty relieved about it baka sempai

>Obtaining a CDL: How do?
Community College or a dedicating truck driving school. Do your research and don't get sucked into a "school" that's actually just a meat grinder for a shit company. Do not pay over $5000 for a course that lasts several months.
>How can I into avoidings shit companies?
Here are some decent/good companies:
pastebin.com/Sv0cyWyH
If you don't see the company you're looking at included on this list, lurk moar.

>I could totally go to school but I'd rather be a trucker.
If you think you'll love the lifestyle, maybe. You'd be better off getting a """""real""""" job. You can fall back on trucking at any time, but it is essentially a path of decent money for those that fail at everything else.
You can have good business sense and work ethic and make it big as an owner operator, but you would do even better at any other job.

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>You will get fat.
>The only clothing you'll own are pajamas.
>The only reason you get paid well is because you work 70 hours per week.
>The longest relationship you'll get is 15 minutes with a lizard.
>Eating nothing is better than roller dogs.
>You have the most dangerous job in the nation.
>The D.O.T., Police, and Le'dash-uh in receiving hate you, and will harass you every chance they get.
>Other drivers hate you.
>Your job will be obsolete once self-driving trucks become available.
>Your loved ones miss you.
>If you don't change careers you will forever be considered a cuck and a homo. Especially if you cuckbox with another fag driver.
>lol 'murrica

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ROEHL O RAMA EDITION

Any of you truckerfags have to wear a high-vis vest as uniform?
How do you stop it getting filthy?

Mine is covered in soot, and has black shit over half the reflective bands. It just accumulates.

I have to wear one at a lot of my customers. I do a lot of steel/dies etc... I dont worry about it getting dirty. If it gets too bad I just take it home and wash it.

I have a hi-vis vest and a handful of these bright orange T's that I'm supposed to wear but rarely do.

They all get dirty fast as hell. When I wear the orange shirts, I look like a hobo by noon.

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Where in Missouri? I'm in Springfield

Tried washing it, and it delaminated. All the reflective shit hangs off now, and it didn't really come clean either.

It's only the high-vis that gets dirty, too. The winter jacket doesn't, nor does the uniform polo shirt.
I blame all the diesel soot.

Cape area

Flying J in Breezewood, PA has p nice showers. I hope they're all like this.

i fix semis and i hate trucks that come in with orange seat belts
usually my hands are filthy and everytime i have to test drive them i usually forget and stain the belt and have to spend a lot of time cleaning it off

I'm sorry, would you prefer men?

How many hours per work do you average? I'm also in nj if that matters, I've heard conflicting reports as far as finding work here. Do you know the area at all?

I don't think it would be hard finding a job like mine. There are so many food and beverage distributors. If anything, you could get on one of the liquor or milk straight trucks but I think they make a little less, like closer to $35k/yr.

I work maybe 45hrs a week. In the beginning there were some longer weeks and my average was more like 50hrs and closer to 55hrs when it was really busy in the summer. But I got on a route I like more and figured out how to get it done so normally I start at 6am and clock out around 2:30pm or 3pm. Right now is the busiest time of the year and getting off at 4pm is a late day for me.

With these jobs though, I would expect to average around 50hrs per week. But you are outside and moving around all day so it goes by faster than sitting in a call center or working retail and foodservice.

How much driving would you say you do compared to loading/unloading trucks and other stuff? I just want to do driving mainly, especially on highways I love that feeling it gives you. Plus I don't have to worry about my car getting wear and tear.

That's not gonna happen unless you do OTR or have a good amount of experience. I have a route that is a bit further away than most, so I drive about 45min in the mornings to get to my area and then I'm on the road for 5-10min between stops throughout the day. So I'm probably driving like 1/3 of my day.

Damn that fucking sucks man. But compared to my situation now it would be better than nothing.

Thanks for the time user

Are you close to the ports and stuff? I mean NJ has enough freight moving through it, you might get lucky if you just apply a million places. Otherwise you may have to suck it up for a year or two and go OTR or do something like me.

Or look for something regional where you are home all but one or two nights a week. Gundam had a decent gig at Skyline too, their yard was close to his house so he drove over there on Monday mornings, hopped in the truck and ran all over and was home on Friday night. Better than out for 30 days, home for 3.

Where you moving to in MO?
KCfag here.

I came to this thread to see some goddamn trucks, not this gay shit.

I'm kinda interested in becoming a trucker. What are the prerequisites? Do I need just a highschool education (if that), a CDL, and then someone to hire me? Will they train me? Try to explain this to me as if I'm a 7year old hyped up on sugar and crayons.

You mean the ones in Newark and Elizabeth? Ya I live really close to there as well as NYC

The problem with regional is I want to keep going to college but I want to start making money to live on my own. Plus I'm sick of doing shitty jobs with shitty pay and being treated like shit in the process

>Show up
>Don't be completely retarded
>Have a minimal command of English
>Have clean piss
>Get keys to a truck

Doesn't sound too bad. How's the pay work? Is it per mile? Per delivery? Per hour? I'm entirely new to this.

>women

Could be any of those. Typically over the road is cents per mile or less likely a percentage of the load. Local is more likely to be per hour. Can be anywhere from a decent living to oodles of cash.

Long hours , stress finding a place to sleep at night.
In a snowstorm you take a pay cut to risk your life.
No one will have sex with you until you get a real job
If you are already married or have an SO you are about to get cucked.
No joke, truckers are the most cucked demographic on planet earth.
Whats worse is you have to hear about the cucking at every truckstop with a lunch counter.

Its a horrible job but now you are stuck because no one wants to hire an ex trucker.
Might as well be an ex con.

Cape girardeau area

Is there an explanation behind this? Or does chicken grease make you a better gamer?

>tfw parked behind a nice quiet Lowe's again for the night

Tell me tales of the road, senpai.

one time a young qt showed me her tits because she was signalling for me to honk and I obliged.

woah what do boobs look like?

Most meatgrinders want 4K to put you through a piss poor school and then slam you into a truck a retard.

The retard that will drive with you will serve as a constant reminder of how cucked you will be at the end of your training.

Most companies don't care if you get to see hone anymore. You are a cuck and your family is no longer your family.

Sex will become as foreign to you as that kid who sat alone during lunch and drew anime.

You will, I'd not already, cave into eating food daily from under a heat lamp. You will grow terribly far if you have not already.

The government understands that you are now a fully fledged cuck. You will be forced on a non-sensical schedule where you must choose between rest and personal-time.

Do not worry though: your less-ofa'-cuck dispatcher will likely stick you in the middle of nowhere to wait on a load for several days at some point.

You will then be allowed to relieve yourself to whatever you can find because there will be no signal in your general area for smut.

At least you will make reasonable wage, yet your family will reap most of the benefits at home because they know you are a cuck and that you will cave to any demand.

Now say it with me!:

I DRIVE THIS TRUCK BECAUSE I AM A KEK!

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I DRIVE THIS TRUCK BECAUSE I AM A KEK!

Baka senpai

I miss moot sometimes.

What am I supposed to do if I wake up to start a new day and dispatch has no load for me? I'm not waking up my trainer to ask him. He'll just call me a dumbass.

Nevermind. Security ran us off so I had to wake up my trainer.

Sounds like a great trainer.

>tfw slept on muh comfy couch in front of my 55" TV

90% of the time, not like what you see in Playboy

>90% of the time, not like what you see in Playboy
What did you mean by this?

That permavirgins on Veeky Forums think all tits should be D cups that have perfect shape and spacing. It isn't like that in the real world.

>permavirgins on Veeky Forums
like Whiney

>the virginity is real!

3DPD
DFC FTW

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Me, I always fap.

>tfw team fappin with your trainer
It's not gay if you are studk in the truck with dude in the middle of Kansas

Smh

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Incoming real grill

freightshaker the worst ! bring back truckerfag he was the best

Soup truckers of Veeky Forums,

I have a dilemma. I work up in North-Western Canada in oil and gas, and for the past year, after being laid off as a supervisor from one of the big service after almost ten years, have been driving for a small specialized transport company hauling frac sand.

I really like working there; the trucks are well maintained and nicely outfitted for regional work, I get along with pretty well with the others drivers (sand hauling keeps a guy in close proximity to other company drivers), mechanics, office staff and dispatchers, and they like me. They just put me in a basically brand new luxed up Pete 389.

The problem is that since the start of this year, the work has gotten really spotty, to the point that the schedule most local guys are on (15 on/6 off) has to go out the window for me to make ends meet, meaning that I am pulling five week stints to bring in enough hours and this is taking its toll on my family life (I was on the same schedule at my old job for 8 years, but never had to work through days off to get by). As of right now, I have worked two days in the past month, and if it wasn't for a good tax return, I would have already been sunk.

Because of this dry spell and the home issues, I started looking elsewhere for work, and got offered a position at another service company to get back into well servicing, albeit in a different service line, so I wouldn't be in a supervisor position.

The dilemma I am having is this: I like the company I am driving for, but the way it is organized right now, there is nowhere for me to go after becoming a "lead hand", which is basically a driver with an additional trainer/mentor role. The company doesn't have office or supervisory positions that a driver can move into, and coming from a supervisory background, I don't want to stay a driver forever, even if I do like the company.

1/2

>been like 9 days since I fapped

I don't think I've made it this long since I started doing it.

This shit straight scared me as a kid. Great fucking show though.

Speaking of me never growing out of my cartoon watching phase, I finished Tokyo Ghoul Root A today. Only 16 more shows on my backlog to go.

2/2

The service company has a lot more room for advancement, and has enough work that I should be able to get by without working four and five week stints, helping with my at home issues, but at a cost of working in a much more corporate, less informal setting, and working with equipment that isn't as nice or well maintained due to the size of the company.

The smaller company really wants to keep me on, but the one thing they can't give me is enough steady work so I can get by and keep on the 15/6 schedule.

What would you do in my situation?

Stay with the smaller friendly company with nice trucks, to the possible detriment of family life due to spotty work and no room for advancement, or go to the big company and be home more and be able to potentially move up, but with not nearly as nice of equipment, and having to be in a big corporate setting.

>The company doesn't have office or supervisory positions that a driver can move into, and coming from a supervisory background, I don't want to stay a driver forever, even if I do like the company.
So in other words, you get a hard on for being in a position of power and are not satisfied being a plebcuck but you need to be a cuck supervisorcuck for a few more shekels?

The second option is the more logical one since you don't have to worry about not being home often, the first option would only be good if your family is strong enough to understand that you won't be home for everything. Again, I'd go with option two, it might not be ideal for you but you have to look at the bigger picture. So go be a corporate whore in crappie equipment just like me!

A lot more shekels among other perks, and yes, I liked being a supervisor. Supervising in well servicing is not a meme position like at most jobs. I was responsible for million dollar, state of the art cement/acid pumpers, and working on oil/gas wells worth potentially tens of millions of dollars if a job went sideways.

Yeah, that's where I am at right now. I feel a sense of guilt for leaving is the reason I am having a hard time with this.

When I got laid off, out of well over one hundred resumes and job applications to local companies, only three netted me a callback, let alone an interview, so I was pretty grateful to get on there.

wut. you mean EF?

>tfw will never find "Caution: You're in my way, Faggot" sticker to replace the "Caution: You're in my blindspot" sticker on your truck.

I'm kinda in a similar rut.
Owner hired me right out of school and has bent over backwards to accommodate me. (Ex - we keep crappy trucks to do city work and new volvos for OTR stuff. He let me take an older truck for OTR work and risk fines etc at scales, all because i told him I wanted real world manual exp.)
He's rewarded me well too, we got new trucks a few months back and I was one of the few to get a truck with just 110 kms on it. Dispatch loves me cuz I run hard but also help out with tricky loads etc. They deff have given me better loads as compared to other, more senior drivers.
I now wanna move onto tanker or long distance flatbed but the company doesn't do either of those things. Doesn't help that dryvan work has dried up a bit after July 4th.

You gotta remember, driving a cushy/new truck doesn't pay the bills. And they weren't doing you a favor by hiring you - your work has paid for the company and employees too.

I'm looking at spending maybe a year/18 months with this company and then jumping ship. Out here, in GTA, most drivers change company every 8 months so I'm hoping me staying that 'long' will be enough to warrant me not burning any bridges etc. It's a single owner small company and deff some place I might come back to in a safety/supervisory role.

Do you. Focus on family. Have a long term plan and stick to it. Pay your dues but always focus on your plan.

Same except I already have cdl a and am banking for 22

Get Robust Vinyl to make you some, head over to the /osg/ breads. I'll slap some on all these Swift trailers.

Neat shit passing through Wyoming.

Zany. A real supervillain's car.

Kek. This weekend I parked next to a bona fide supertrucker who had a sign in his windshield that said MOVE OVER with an arrow, only it was backwards so you could read it in a rearview mirror. Also had a rebel flag on his grill. I wanted to snap a pic but he was dicking around in his truck and would've seen me.

So you were mirin, but didn't want him to know you were mirin.
That's what we call jealousy.

Cheyenne a shit.

fuck /osg/

Does anyone have any statistics on how often truckers get cucked?

Not sure I was mirin, maybe I was. I was studying this strange fascinating creature and it's habits in its natural environment.

You ain't wrong senpai

100% unless you have a 2D waifu.

Go with the company that pays, or you're going to be laid off.
If they can't pay you, you can't stay. You're not a charity, are you?

You are not beholden to a corporation unless contractually bound.

Well lads just drove my 2nd down to the wire 11 hour shift. Mentor is driving while im in the sleeper. On our way back from colton California to oklahoma with load #2

The oil price crash means that ALL oil field related work is going to be spotty for a while. That's always been the nature of oil work - boom and bust. Take the job that pays your bills.

Alternately, since you have supervisory experience, hunt for a job out-of-area that puts you in that role. It looks really bad on a resume to go backwards from management. Like, REALLY bad.

Pumpbro here I love rain off early about to pop some zannies and watch some porn

Yeah, both of you are right. As much as I like the small company, they just don't have enough steady work or a long term career path for me to stay on.

Thanks for the advice.

Paying for WiFi at thr flying j is definitely worth while. The free wifi fucking blows. It's just too bad i paid 3 bucks to use wifi for not even an hour. Gotta download dem podcasts

Probably, this thread was a bastion of of hope, a sanctuary of intellect before I so unscrupulously donned the title of Eternal.

We had the potential to be daily.

does it ever get to you that you're driving a vehicle the size of a small house?

or do you just focus on staying between the lines and out of the rear end of some lesser vehicle

also, when you guys are going 35 in a 55 road that is too curvy for a semi to effectively navigate, why don't you pull to the side so other people can get by? is it pride?

Is that you, wordpukebot?
Noice.
Because then we'd be pulling to the side every minute and we don't make money sitting on the side of the road.

A)We have to know the pull off is there in time to actually be able slow down enough to use it. Takes a not-inconsiderable amount of time to get slowed down enough to pull onto the side of a road. Probably have to slow to about 5mph to pull off on the side and then have do it gingerly. You wanna wait for me to do that or would you rather we keep going and be miles down the road instead
B) Is that wide spot actually safe for a truck? Am I gonna get stuck? How about taking off again. Can I see behind well enough to do it safely?

All in all it's usually better to just keep going and the four wheelers that can quite literally outbrake, outaccelerate, and outhandle a loaded truck by multiple orders of magnitude can find their own way around.

>that driver who honks their air horn after each pull up at 01:00

I got the fishing thread on /out/ to become almost a daily and the other people hate it because that board is normally so slow and the fishin threads are taking over all their knife threads.

Checked

And driving big trucks is fun.

Also most speed limits on curves and stuff can easily accomodate trucks. But I also drive the bay truck most of the time so even if I totally fuck up a pallet of something, it stays in that bay.

And I'm not going to pull over for a minute just to let some car past for a tight curve. They can hang on for the extra 5 seconds their commute will take because they were behind a truck for one curve.

>All in all it's usually better to just keep going and the four wheelers that can quite literally outbrake, outaccelerate, and outhandle a loaded truck by multiple orders of magnitude can find their own way around.

This. I'd rather be inconvenienced for a few miles than have the road closed for hours while they haul your ass out of the hole you created when you pulled off the road.

If you don't want to share the road with trucks, either take a different route or petition the government for wider roads.
T H R E E L A N E S

I thought the WiFi at truck stops was deplorable garbage?

Sounds like the free one is trash but you can pay a few bucks for the gud

Somebody was complaining a while back that a bunch of random sites were blocked on their paid truckstop wifi, the Steam store among them.

I thought it was trash regardless, only place I've been to with good free WiFi was a Texaco in Houston. That shit had a solid 4MB of download speed, nothing was blocked either.