/tfg/ - Truckerfag Thread

Memes. PTL got AIDS. Think this post might actually be relevant, if you're feeling generous:

Ah, yes, was just reading that one.

>What's a good maintenance schedule for when buying a truck? I know company schedules aren't ideal for O/O's unless you plan on getting a new truck every 500k miles like they do.
Depends on the truck, and there isn't much an inframe doesn't fix. Always have $15k set aside for some sleeves and rings.

>I know I should be getting oil service every ~15,000 miles. That costs about $250 at a shop doesn't it?
Depends on the year of the truck. Mechanical engines get a drain and filters every 10k, ECM motors bump that up to around 15k, and by the time EGR rolls around you're looking at 20k drain intervals, and the latest emissions turds boast 50k service intervals. Just change the filters at mid-interval if you're going more than 10k between drains. $40 if you do it yourself, $90- $140 if you pay a shop to do it.

>What about other things and average costs? Greasing, air filters, axle alignment, tires, etc. Just preventative maintenance, not a overhaul or anything.
Get a grease gun and throw greasing into your pretrip once a week. Some lazy fucks get pneumatic or electric grease guns, then jizz grease out of every zerk and seal, but if you're greasing weekly nothing is going to need more than 3-5 pumps with a $25 hand pumped grease gun. I recommend a mini gun with a flexible hose because kingpins are a bitch to get at without turning the wheels on some trucks. You'll go through about a mini cartridge and 4 terry rags a month, so that's $15. Be sure you hit the grease fittings in your monthly truck wash. I prefer a coin-op, but truck friendly locations are rare. A $20 wash at a coin op is usually better than a $70 wash at the streaky beacon.

Change the air filters every other engine drain. If in doubt, just pop it out, give it a shake, and see if the sun shines through it. If it doesn't, swap it out. Engine air filters run from $30 for old mechanicals up to about $150 for the maxxfarce. Cabin air filters are about $20 and need to be changed every 6 months. Takes 60 seconds, just do it during a pretrip since the hood is open anyway.

Alignment is a once every quarter million miles or so service as long as you aren't seeing really funky tire wear that isn't due to air pressure or kingpin slop. Costs $150- $500, and you get what you pay for.

Get virgin tires and assume they'll last 100,000 miles. Divide their price by 100,000 and that's what you need to set aside every mile to replace that tire. An O/O driven tire will last 150,000-300,000 miles, but don't setting aside tire money. The extra will cover blowouts, physical damage, and wheel/valve stem replacement and mounting/ balancing costs. Run aluminum wheels, they're worth every penny. A good tire costs anywhere from $200 for a dry van trailer tire up to $700 for a quality steer tire, or $1400 for SS.

Dude looks like Yolandi raped Bob Ross and dropped the kid off with the Yoders.

You're not much to look at yourself, hun.

Didn't say I wouldn't fuck him.

TF what do you do for entertainment on your truck? Animu and shitposting on a computer?

Drove through MI/Ontario/Ohio's recent monsoon bout with near bald tires and a 3000lb load.
Dispatcher called it 'winterization'

How y'all prep for the winter re:driving and equipment etc?

Presumably he fucks his slave and his cat.

>truckerfag
>fucking a woman

What do you think he is, gay? I bet you like to fuck women too don't you.

Shitposting and getting drunk and falling down linkholes. I cook at lot, too.

I've been in OH/MI/PA all week. When tf was the monsoon? Sure, it rained for 3 days, but I was constantly fucking with wiper speed.

I'm getting 2 flatspotted tires on the trailer replaced, and 4 new rear drives. Trying to decide between the new Yokohama MY577's to replace my old 517's, or go with a more typical flatbed brand like Samson or Continental. I'd save about $800 an axle, but I've never had an issue with Yokohamas at around $1600 an axle.

Going to patch some tarps this weekend if the rain lets up and it doesn't get too hot. Picking up a new 6' machine tarp to get dirty as well.

*trainee and cat/s/

Not into video games? Also them kitties look spoiled af. You keep a litter box on the truck? I love my cats but they stay at home. I can't stand the smell of a litter box.

Adding to the tire section, its worth it to get your steers rotated side to side every now and then. Some guys do every 50K, some manufacturers even have recommended rotation methods. Michelin has a directional steer that, at one point, they recommended be run BACKWARDS after 50k, and run the right direction after another 50K.

Also, if you buy a volvo (please don't), expect your steer tires to be good for 100K at best, and anything extra as a bonus. Volvo's in the last few years have been real bastards on steer tires and a lot of guys are having a hard time getting tires to last on the front. Generally its because they normally weigh 13000# on a 13200# axle regardless of any other weight and thats normally pushing a 14 ply steer. Of course, you could run a 16 ply, but that makes for a harder ride, and thats normally not good enough for the princesses that own them.

And above all else, never, ever fall for the super single meme.

Two of our drivers in Detroit couldn't deliver because the place shut down "due to flooding"
My pickup at Beaverdam earlier yesterday was postponed because their boss felt it prudent to send home his employees early "in this storm"
Windsor, Tecumseh and leamington in Canada have all declared States of emergency because of flooding

I mean, it ain't much but like a months worth of rain fell in a few hours and the pumps couldn't keep up apparently. Should be fine soon tho

>arrive at consignee at 12:40 for 13:00 appointment
>directions say arrive no more than 15 minutes early, park on street to check in
>there is no street parking.
>red curbs, with cars parked on them anyway, for miles in both directions
>double park and walk up to open air dock where shipping/receiving sign is
>nobody around
>two trucks on dock
>one half loaded, one fully loaded
>nothing moving
>go into warehouse
>couple of forklifts fucking around
>both completely ignore me while I try to flag them down
>go back to dock
>stand for half an hour while traffic gets increasingly angry about my truck
>no answer to phone call, their phone menu is an endless loop
>one of the forklifts appears on the dock
>ignores me until I physically get in his way
>speaks almost no english
>says something into his radio
>takes off
>wait 20 more minutes
>dude walks out
>speaks less english, but has me write my phone# on the bills and takes them, points to street and says he'll call
>drive a few blocks until I find an equally illegal but slightly less traffic aggravating spot to stop my truck.
>sit for half an hour
>14:00 I walk back to ask what the hell
>some work has been done on the two trucks
>flag down another forklift guy, repeat performance
>different dude comes out, speaks slightly more english
>looks around, finds my bills, shrugs and points at a dock
>i ask about the seal, says he'll get it
>get in truck, prepare to back into dock
>dude has vanished.
>stand at rear of truck waiting
>some other random guy says "just open it up"
>fuck no who are you this is allegedly food products
>he shrugs and leaves
>finally second guy comes out, looks at the bolt seal, shrugs and says they have no bolt cutters and he's going to lunch
>leaves
>warehouse is deserted
>nobody answering phone
>it's 14:45
Today..is not a good day.

I don't know how you can play vidya after driving all day. I've tried and it feels like too much work. I'd rather shitpost, watch cartoons, drink wine and fap.

>drink wine and fap.
I made a horrible mistake.
I'm a 33 year old wizard/permavirgin.
I decided to start edging/endurance training about 8 years ago.
Now any fap session is a god damned marathon.
I can't achieve orgasm in less than 2 hours.
A normal night's fap is more like 3 or 4.
I had to stop using my hand because my dick would get chafed.
but this only led to increasingly specialized sex toys.
I built up a huge collection.
But then over time I learned to use just one but in very particular ways.
So now not only does it take hours to fap, I have to do it with a particular toy in a particular way.
No woman could ever satisfy me now, and I more than likely could not maintain an erection for mere sex.
Fapping is too much work, now.
I just play video games.
There is an upside, though.
When I do fap, my orgasms are utterly mindshattering.

Damn son that's heavy. I just spend ten minutes fapping into a blanket once or twice a day.

You take fapping far too seriously. I just use it as a release valve for tension.

sounds like either new jersey, or tulsa.
do you get detention? if so id just back up with the doors closed and go to bed.

Got to mess around in a truck today at CDL school, and did some straightline backing. Why didn't anyone tell me trucking was fun?

We don't want normies to find out.

Bus driver user here, just landed a comfy gig driving campus shuttles for a local university

> $14/hr
> 50-60 hours a week
> get paid to talk to cute grills all day
> home every night
> coworkers I actually like being around

Cons

> no overtime
> gets boring after the first week as you're literally driving back n forth for 12 hours a day

It's the same company, it's just mini coaches like pic related instead of school buses.

That no overtime shit sucks. At $14/hr, you could do decent working 50-60hrs with OT after 40 but otherwise that is mediocre.

Ehh, a lot of it will ware off. I do still like driving a vehicle bigger than everything else on the road and scaring 4 wheelers.

LA.

that was LA!? was..was it a paper mill? i may have been there.

No.
Shitty, tiny little company doing some specialized bullshit with meat byproducts.
Two block radius reeked of rotten flesh.

disgusting, i hope you arent still there.

>took a picture
Nigga you just stole that poor Amish guy's soul.

Nope. Now waiting to get an apocalyptic air leak looked at.

Nearly had another M&M

youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xdROtYCEc

at least my job is a lot less physical. I get about as much exercise as your typical company doorslammer cuck.

Amish are chill, I've done several charter trips for them. Their body odour is extremely strong because they only bathe once a week if that.

The women are very dull.

You don't think the lift truck did that already?

Ok but for real amish aren't ignorant or distrustful of technology. They just don't believe labor saving and especially entertainment technology is good for you.
They can and will use what's necessary in modern life.

Well boys and girls, looks like I'm finally getting my own truck sometime this weekend after 11 weeks of training and teaming. I'm fucking tired of sharing a space the size of a closet with someone.

>11 weeks of training
just

Which glory hole you gonna celebrate at?
I'd love to give you a congratulatory load.

It's actually 5000 miles with a trainer and then 40000 team. A lot of the new drivers have felonies or have had accidents so PTL needs to make sure they're ready when they let them go solo.

>next door neighbor is PTL
>rural texas
>i pay a nearby storage unit to let me park the truck there when home
>he trundles his rig down our narrow ass barely paved road and parks it in the ditch in front of his house, leaning at an extremely alarming angle
>the area has been flooding regularly
I can't WAIT to see how this eventually ends up

Should I buy this?

madison.craigslist.org/cto/5807206798.html

At the end of the day I might play my DS for a bit, but TF takes days off that he spends in his truck. Personally I'd be playing Xbox or something all day.
>wizard thinks he could never enjoy sex with a real woman
That's cause you ain't done it. It ain't like fiddling your diddlies with some rubber thing.
>$14/hr no OT
That sounds lame.
He could have easily swung out wider.
>Have to do team
>New drivers are felons
Well I know I ain't never working for PTL then.
Post pics
Price seems low for what it is, but then I'm rather ignorant of the secondhand truck market.

>It ain't like fiddling your diddlies with some rubber thing.
You have no concept of my masturbatory prowess. I would offer you some hints but it would be evil to destroy your enjoyment of your petty "sex".

Well I fucked up good.

>early morning
>doing pretrip still half asleep
>notice a message on display says low washer fluid
>dig bottle of washer fluid from the goody compartment
>vaguely remember noticing how dark it was and thinking to myself "this must be the good shit"
>it isn't until there are a few drops left that I notice how thick it is
>heart skips a beat and I double check to make sure it's really washer fluid
>says it right there on the bottle: windshield washer fluid
>take a whiff and rub some between my fingers
>It's fucking MOTOR OIL

Truck in the shop til monday. Apparently the previous driver filled up gallon bottles of washer fluid with bulk oil....

That is WAAAY better than the reverse.

I wouldn't even put it in the shop.
Just siphon the shit out and add some tide to a fresh fill.

Are there any flatbed companies that have CDL schools? I owe a lot of money to my community college here from scamming fafsa for NEET money many years ago. Closest private school is like 3 hours away and I can't afford the daily commute. The only company schools I can find is for shit like Swift driving dry van. I want flatbed.

That thing probably needs an overhaul. Ask him if it would pass DOT inspection as well. You are probably looking at an extra $25K on it to get it OTR ready.

Also 196 wheelbase. Depending on what you're going to use it for, that isn't nowhere near wide enough. Would go for at least 230WB if you're pulling any open deck trailers like flatbed, step deck, etc.

He had all that space to make his turn but setup in the middle of the lanes.

>That's cause you ain't done it. It ain't like fiddling your diddlies with some rubber thing.
I've been banging escorts since last year. So far I've only been able to cum with one using their vagina. I always pay for an hour and I almost end up using all of it because I just cannot cum. By the end they are exhausted and have to finish me off with their hand. Even then I usually just jack myself off rubbing against their tits because of how resilient my penis is. I blame years of chronic masturbation and onahole use.

I have a secret technique that can induce orgasm in seconds.
I will not share it with you.
You have soiled yourself with woman's touch.
You may not possess this power.

If it involves putting anything up my ass I don't wanna hear it anyway.

Nope. No butt stuff. Nothing kinky at all, really.
It's amazingly simple.
And yet it works so fast that it's possible to come with a completely flaccid dick.
Which is a very strange sensation.

I'll tell you mine if you deliver for the other anons.

I will not.
Just going to tease about my secret forbidden wizard techniques because I am also a gigantic faggot.

Hue
>Scamming FAFSA for free money
Go work for swift. You deserve it.
Well at least you admit it.

Does Swift have flatbed tho

they do. its frightening

Why does Veeky Forums hate Swift? Because of whiney? They aren't nowhere near the top of the leader board in safety violations per driver.

They're shit at training and treating drivers properly.

There are schools out there that are legally allowed to train students in trucks that probably haven't passed a DOT inspection since the 90s. It's appalling. When I got into trucking in 2012, I started at a private school. The truck was a '87 Pete that didn't even have working lights and it had no windshield. I was paying $6,000 for that shit. I left halfway through the first day and signed up at Swift. I had no troubles there. I admit they worry about rushing you out the door and getting you in their trucks than properly training you, but they never forced me to go solo until I felt safe. I worked there for a year and they treated me well. I wasn't getting paid shit, but I didn't complain. After a year, I quit to go back to college. I lasted 2 semesters in nursing school before I got the bug to get back on the road. I got hired on to a small flatbed company running the south central US. Now I'm owner operator and drive pretty much anywhere I want to go to. I mostly stay east of I-35 and take a few trips to Canada each year.

I'd rather go to a company school if i couldn't go to a community college.

>I cook at lot
I could tell, due to your third chin.

The school I went to had 2012 prolapses that were still legal, I paid $4,400 for a three week course, and every driver I talk to agrees that the school I went to is the best in the region and better than the majority of company training programs. Sounds like you found a shit tier school if you think swift was better, but then you weren't even there a full day so we'll never know. They might've had top notch instructors but shirty trucks.

>FREDS

I bet the driver had a teatowel on his head.

Is is the Trucking subreddit full of faggots? Nothing but company drivers and lease op cucks complaining about how exhausting trucking is? My job has me running full 14 hour days straight and resets. Barely get home. Yet even after 14 hours I have the time to take a shower and chat with some older guys at the truck stop. Why are all these obese people complaining about how hard it is?

I would look for there boss or make some fire. Im a typical aggressiv asshole.

fakin warehousemonkeys

Cause they are weak beta idiots. The only job these retard can do is driving around for some random forwarding agency.

What I normally do if shit like this happens is go to the front office and ask them to let them know that in there, give them pretty much every confirmation number or P/U numbers and to let warehouse manager, supervisors to get my shit

Works most of the time

kek

Glad I got on to flatbed. Only bullshit I ever have to deal with like this is going into Military bases. When I ran vans, every place we delivered or picked up from is some plant full of union workers that take their sweet time doing anything. In most cases with flatbed and I'm secured and ready to go within 2 hours tops. When I drove van it sometimes took longer than 2 hours for a drop and hook because I sit there for hours waiting for somebody to sign papers and which trailer to pick up.

How strict are DOT physicals on fat fucks like myself? If I can't pass and get away from this hell hole to some company school, I may very well just kill myself. I've tried every option of moving away. I don't want to be stuck here making $10/hour at a factory my whole life.

Have you tried LOSING SOME FUCKING WEIGHT, fatass?

Hory shet
youtu.be/irE5z6X2pL0

Yes I have user. Currently 330 down from 390. Started around April. But if I don't get out of here soon I'm going to kill everybody in this house. On my last fuse.

>no fatalities
RIEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Why the fuck was that line of cars stopped in the first place?

According to a YouTube comment, it's an exit ramp that backs up into the interstate. The city has done nothing about it apparently.

depending on where you go as long as you can quickly get in and out of the truck and trailer you should be fine. that means no huffing and puffing. you will probably get the apnea test as thats pretty much being forced on anyone with a thick neck.

Do I have to pay for it? I have no insurance. I'm going to a doctor that's at a "workplace wellness" center of a hospital. If I can get financial aid for them, I should be able to get it for their sleep study program. I don't mind taking it, I just can't pay out of pocket. I know I don't have it though. I sleep 10+ hours and stay up 24 hours at a time.

>330

you're two of me, and I'm not even a manlet

I'm 6'3" 330lb. I was 390 before I got a factory job.

i think you do sadly. not 100% as i have yet to have to take it. as ive always gone in before my card expired where is says i dont need the exam.

Metro Detroit fag here. m-10 by the combo center was completely flooded, cars were under water. Thursday was a real shit show for Detroit.

Not sure but is it still a good market to get into trucking?

I'm 28, have a good career but wouldn't mind giving it all up for 150k a year driving a truck

*Cobo center. Fucking autocorrect

>$150k
Hahahaha

I think you accidentally put an extra zero on there.

Unless you are as smart as tfag, then $150k is low. If you only work Tiesdays, you could probably hit that number as a tfag jr

Where has he leased his trucks from?

Your first years you'll top out at around $60-65k as Flatbed for a company. Box you can see about $45 on the top end. As OO you can get that, but most everything will just go back to upkeep and general overhead.

$45K for box? Feel bad for those. I took more than that home after taxes last year driving dry van. I hate it though. Flatbed drivers drive half as much yet make the same. I'm putting in applications for flatbed companies but nobody is calling or emailing me. Guess it's wrong time of the year?

Is this as an owner? Because those numbers are optimistic for a rookie driver. It's honestly probably closer to $30k the first 12mos working right out of school because of training and all the bullshit and mistakes.

I think he bought that Freightshaker cash. It wasn't that expensive but you have to be ready for big repairs. There is less shit to go wrong with an older truck but it helps if you can wrench because you will save yourself a bunch off smaller repair bills.

I feel for you. Some days are going to be like that though. Just make it easier to enjoy the good ones.

Post pics of his rigs. I'm new here.