Truckerfag Thread

i found a pic

Dat snorkel intake

That's fugly

Just in case you have to drive through water taller than the truck...

How bad are automatics in this cold weather?

>Make truck water tight
>Add weights
>Submersible truck
>??????
>Profit

Mines a-o good, as long as I warm the engine a little. Got down to ~18 last night, which isn't midwest cold but still too cold for me. Cant wait to go to florida for xmas- new year

So I bought a new truck and havent shown it off. Its too cold to go outside but I'll show the interior. First is the drivers seat, with my bags of pretzels and pistachios hanging out.

Then the passenger seat. The water bottle didn't fit in the sidebox so I keep it up here like a pleb. Also, idk why that photo was rotated

Then my sexy 2000 watt inverter mounted behind the seat, currently powering my tea kettle. Tiny midget fridge is also included.

Mein Kampfy zone. Printer didn't fit where I wanted to put it so its just chilling on the seat for now next to my laptop.

My microwave, just barely fits

Added a plastic shelf into the closet behind passenger seat. Be impressed by my ingenuity.

And my mess of a tool box. /endblog/

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>likes weiners

xD

Those seats + door panels are a_e_s_t_h_e_t_i_c

>buying an automatic
>buying a Volvo
youtube.com/watch?v=OGp9P6QvMjY

I drove automatic volvos for 2 years at 2 different companies before I bought my own. The only people who have a problem with automatics are old people who don't like when things change.

>The only people who have a problem with automatics are old people who don't like when things change.

>25
>drove auto volvos for 1 year
>then got switched to manual freightliner
>manual significantly better experience

Volvos do have a decent interior, especially compared to freightliner.
Also enjoy your maintenance costs from shit breaking all the time. Neither Volvo I drove went 1 month without something sending it back to the shop. Not saying Freightliner is much better, but it was more often something repairable with a screwdriver.

>The future>The past
>Old things=Inherently bad
>Change=Always good
>B-but muh technologies!
>Moving a lever around and pushing a foot pedal in every so often is such a chore!

Photo related. (You).

I'm sure automatics are fine if they work well. I've worked around a few old truckstars that had automatics, and couldn't care less if they shifted another manual gear after twenty plus years behind the wheel.

I would rather have a standard just because they are more fun and engaging to drive.

I will admit that volvos can be finicky if you're unlucky. I know 2 guys who bought volvos together, the trucks were from the same manufacturing batch. One of them was constantly in the shop while the other was totally normal. Hopefully mine will be good. Actually, I guess one of the 2 company volvos I drove was like that, had to get fuel injectors replaced twice before it hit 500,000 miles.

Change isn't always good, but in this case it is. Better fuel mileage, less wear on transmission, and most importantly I can drink my coffee while making a turn from a red light or stop sign. You were giving me shit, so I gave you a rebuttal, no need to be salty.

>fucked around too hard with partials
>ended up with a delivery on Saturday and Monday
>is going to be -15F on Saturday
Fugg. That $7.6k gross will be nice to end the year, though.

Turpike triples and doubles, LTL, furniture hauling, etc

It's usually when any issues with them become catastrophic. I missed a light last night because it spent the whole green trying to get into gear.

>Better fuel mileage
>less wear on transmission
Citations needed. I've only seen the opposite when it comes to seasoned drivers.

Ex pump bro here life is comfy on unemployment just got my hard copy license with tanker endorsement added $95 bucks and the dumb old bitch didn't let me retake my pic when I started moving away because I didn't know there was two flashes

>no need to be salty

>People on Veeky Forums don't want to fling shit at each other like monkeys?

>B-but mah /b/!

You may be right about the wear and tear/fuel mileage, but I'd still rather have an 18 speed to row with.

Nothing like canvas in the cold. We have to tarp in and heat the wellhead we are working with so the valves don't freeze. Its a real joy.

I don't have any official sources on any of this. Less wear is because the auto never grinds gears, or shifts too low or too high. Better gas
mileage is because the auto tries to keep rpms as low as possible without chugging.

I'm guessing you drive on shitty roads if you're doing oil, manual might be better for that because you get a better feel for what your truck is doing. I drive on highways 99% of the time, I prefer automatic. Also depends on which auto you have, Ishift has a manual option, you change gears with buttons on the side of the selector, which is useful on hills. I've heard that some autos dont have any manual option, that would probably suck.

Do you use high low in every gear or just stay in high on second splitter

>Better gas
>mileage is because the auto tries to keep rpms as low as possible without chugging.
Lugging.
And no, it doesn't. Autos will lug the engine, especially when you start going uphill. That's one of their biggest problems. They upshift too soon, and downshift too late. Especially with Volvo's iShit transmission while engine braking, you'll find that it will let the RPM go well below 1000 before downshifting, resulting in the loss of most of your engine brake torque until it decides shift. Upshifts also skip too many gears.

>driving
>Out the corner of my eye see a car to the lane on my right
>can't see it, slow down
>nothing
>Speed up
>nothing
>absolutely sure there's a car to my right
>can't see it
>end up missing my exit because I was so sure I saw a car

It's not safe to use your phone to take pictures while driving.

Also, if you have a live fuel readout, try cruising at a specific speed at both 1100 and 1400 RPM in two different gears. The fuel burn will be almost identical. I'd rather have the extra power available if needed at a moments notice, such as a hard stop. (engine brake again)

Volvo's engine brake is very strong though, even at just 1400RPM, I did like that about them.

How else are you supposed to take a pic of the weinermobile?

>tfw ultrashift plus MXP

18sp of automation

After I got them to program it to shift where I would shift, it gets slightly better fuel economy than me. But fresh out of the factory they like to nearly redline the first few gears when taking off at 100% throttle. When climbing ranges it sorts itself out well. But once it is in an appropriate gear I change it to manual mode just incase it wants to do something silly.

As for wear and tear. We'll just have to wait and see as the miles pile up.

You have 3 mirrors per side right? Set them up to eliminate your blind spots. If each mirror is aimed outward to show as little of the tractor and trailer as possible (but still a tiny bit) you won't have any blind spots to your sides. If you don't have mirrors on the hood this won't work, however.

>Volvo's engine brake is very strong
Nearly all euro retarders outperform american versions.

3 mirrors?

Do you have one of those shitty fender mirrors?

>It's not safe to use your phone to take pictures while driving.
I know. That's why I pulled over and put my flashers.

Maybe?

Blue is tall normal mirror and short convex mirror. Red is convex that removes the blind spots next to the cab. Green is that extra down-facing one that's useful when parking next to a curb. I've always driven with all 7 of these mirrors.

Other than the green one, they're all pretty damn useful. Would hate to not have them.

My truck doesn't have the green mirror but the one I trained in did. What is it for?

Once upon a time, in the dark days of the 40s through the 80s, a bunch of eastern states had overall length restrictions on trucks. So, in the east, the cabover was king. Along with small engines like the Cummins 'J', 6V-53 Detroit, Mack Thermadyne, etc.

Here, have a west coast Pete.

>What is it for?
The answer is in that post.

And so it is.

>I've heard that some autos dont have any manual option, that would probably suck

>mfw the cascadia I used to drive had manual mode locked out because conway is ran by penny pinching jews

Those are actually pretty useful if you can adjust yours downward so you can see what's in front of your bumper

Alright which one of you fucks is responsible for this?

>I don't have any official sources on any of this.
Clearly.

>Less wear is because the auto never grinds gears
Neither does a seasoned driver that knows what a clutch brake is.

>or shifts too low or too high
Revving to 2300rpm and sitting there before shifting into 3rd or 4th, then jumping between gears without skipping any speaks to the contrary.

>Better gas mileage is because the auto tries to keep rpms as low as possible without chugging.
1) no it doesn't
2) low rpms aren't where fuel economy are in a heavy diesel. It's at peak torque on the torque curve.

Didn't know Iowa was an Eastern state.

Happy to hear from you bro.

I was running the Rockies with an Eaton Ultrashift the last two winters without a problem. The thing to remember about automatics is that they're SEMI-automatics. You do need to participate some in what it does by anticipating situations like you would with a manual and using manual mode when necessary.

>They ... downshift too late.
Hasn't been my experience with the Eaton. If anything it's annoyingly touchy on the downshifts.

>But fresh out of the factory they like to nearly redline the first few gears when taking off at 100% throttle
With these Eatons it progressive shifts at no more than 1400 in the Low range and will allow up to 1600 in the Upper at 100 percent throttle. I don't usually go 100 percent anymore because there's no point. Feels positively glacial which is about the only thing I truly don't like about automatics. It's ok as a highway trans but totally unsuitable for in-city work

Uh naw I'm in a '13 with a new Eaton-Fuller 10 speed auto, and it does not progressive shift at hammer down. It roars up to about 2450 RPM and skip-shifts. It also downshifts way too late at all times and upshifts too early up hills. I drive it in manual mode 100% of the time now in order to save it from itself.

I think it might have been an Ishit, but I had to move one in our yard once. It started itself in 2 and as soon as I started moving it immediately jumped up to 5th with almost zero throttle input. Then I had to make a sharper turn and I think the computer went full on panic mode as it shifted through each gear back to 2nd rather then going straight there.

Absolutely pathetic

Clearly we have had different experiences with autos.

>Neither does a seasoned driver that knows what a clutch brake is.

Even a seasoned driver occasionally fucks up.

>revs and then jumps between gears without skipping

Pic related. See that green band? That's where my tach stays. And it skips gears when it needs to, I rarely see 2nd gear. The only time it over revs is when I use engine brake while going downhill, it jumps to 1700 max, so I usually keep it in manual when engine braking

>No it doesnt

Yes it does.

>They're SEMI-automatics

This. Like I said before, mine has a manual mode. I use it when driving downhill. Uphill its usually fine, I occasionally have to kick it down a gear when going uphill, but I dont even have to switch to manual to do that, it figures it out from there and keeps the rpms higher for a while

Uh yah, I'm in a '15 T680 with an Eaton Ultrashift 10 speed and it's been that way since new.

KEK

>cabovers

My dick is hard now.

My next truck is going to have a DD15 with the DT12. I drove one, and they're not bad at all. The Eatons seem to be universally regarded as garbage, I'm glad I never had one.

Yep. That sounds exactly like the iShit that I know. Those fuckers love 5th, but shit themselves if you then need to go slower. Too many low-range gears, not enough high-range, upshifts too aggressive and downshifts too passive. Everything that makes an auto bad.

I don't know if it's good but I use the fuck out of the far front red mirrors. Takes getting used to but I can almost see everything just from those. I use the big straight mirrors for seeing what's behind my trailer and I barely even use the convex mirrors below the big mirror because I have to turn my head too much and I can see everything they reflect from the front hood mirrors.

To move the conversation away from the very contentious topic of transmissions, I've been sitting here in long island waiting for a door for 9 hours. I have had breakfast, dessert, a nap, lunch, dessert 2: pistachio boogaloo, and now I'm sitting here watching other people playing video games. Thank god for my unlimited data plan. I think I'll take another nap now. What are you guys up to.

The red ones will allow you to see closer to the front, while the convex on blue will see more detail further back. This is a much bigger issue on the right side. You really should check them all.

Just won a $350 porch heater grand prize at some truck stop casino Christmas party in Louisiana. All I wanted to do is put $5 in a machine and kill 30 minutes but I came on the wrong night. It was literally all old local niggers who go there every night and they were giving out a bunch of free shit as appreciation. I can't even fit it in my truck and don't even have a private porch, I had to duck out and bail.

trade it for a lot lizard 4some

I think I met her she kept coming to me and putting $5 bills in my machine trying to seduce me and she's THICC in the most obese way imaginable. I had to leave, the whole ordeal was surreal. Maybe she just wanted me to give her a porch heater, I don't know

Porch heater sounds like some trailer park sexual innuendo.

Also, checking in from a 2017 International auto. I hate it.

Paperwork storage

God tier:
>Folder
>pouch on driver's seat

Mid tier:
>clipboard

shit nigger what are you doing tier:
>dashboard

Elder God Tier
>all over the passenger foot well

The red one is the rookie mirror. How do you not know how wide your truck is? Do you have spacial awareness?

t. fingerless glove wearing supertrucker

>With these Eatons it progressive shifts at no more than 1400 in the Low range and will allow up to 1600 in the Upper at 100 percent throttle

That has been reprogrammed to shift like that. Fresh stock ecu will rev it right out in the low box

Now you know why gambling is a sin

Doesn't matter how familiar you are with the truck when you need to check your blind spots. Every truck has them, that's what the mirrors are for. Protip: The blue mirrors won't show anything immediately beside the doors, the red ones will.

15 years driving and never had those front fender mirrors or the one above the passenger window. Never hit anything due to a blind spot either. Spacial awareness is key.

>im a shit driver with no idea where my truck is due to having a vagina: the post

Who needs all those mirrors when you drive an aerocab kenworth. The only truck where you can get sunburned on both arms.

Is it just a Kenworth thing for when I pull the parking brake it also sets the trailer brakes? If I need to air up a trailer I have to release the park brake for it to.send air to the trailer.

My old freightshaker only applies the truck brakes when using the yellow park brake and will send air to the trailer too.

Buses always have them bent like that so they can see kids walking right in front of their bumper. I prefer to have mine angled out slightly more than the convex mirrors under the regular mirrors. Helps you see what's even further out if you are backing and turning to the passenger side.

They also help if you have a small car like a Miata or a bikerfag riding right next to the tractor. Sometimes it can be difficult to see them on the passenger side with the regular convex mirrors.

Or, what if instead of relying on abstract concepts like spacial awareness, you just spent 1/8th of a second to glance at a mirror to make sure you don't accidentally kill someone.

I can't even see that convex on the hood in this truck because of the backup cam. I also sit real low because tryna git my lean on.

I don't understand the hate with lot lizards.
>feels gud
>convenient
>not your wife
>usually pretty cheap
>friends of the road bubs

I'm not a trucker but I have fucked several prostitutes, 2 or 3 at rest areas.

>Just won a $350 porch heater grand prize at some truck stop casino Christmas party in Louisiana

I really need to become a trucker. You just can't make this shit up

>no accessory rail
They pretty fucking dirty. And just look at your average trucker. I mean you may not be any cleaner or better looking, but do you really want to get in 10min after Bubba just finished?

No-one needs a hotdog that powerful.

>tryna git my lean on
Trayvon plz go

You spelled homeless drifter tier wrong

Zooz. God tier would be having it all digital, or at least a proper filing cabinet for plebian paper copies.

Breddy funny grafidi :DDDD

Unless I am starting out in really hairy mud, or from a dead stop on an uphill grade, I will usually direct shift 1st through 4th with no splitting, then split from 5th on up.

If I am driving a lighter fixed weight unit or something with an empty trailer, I may not need to split gears at all until 8th high for highway speeds.

Pussy is pussy m8.

The key is to try and catch them when they first start their shift. But unless you get the girls number that's hard to do

Yeah but I meant the single drive axle. Double drives don't make a combination longer.

Forgot to namefag it up.

>TFW I get to spend over two hours steaming out a frozen 100' long 4" id suction hose run with a steam gun in the bitter cold because my cross shift doesn't understand the concept that water can freeze.

Louisiana fag here, I'll take it off your hands.

Milk jugs are shit tier piss bottles.

Get on my fucking level.

I think he had to abandon the prize so the niggers didn't lynch him

>he doesn't wear a condom catheter attached to an external bladder

pleb.

>he doesn't just piss and shit his seat up first thing in the morning and wallow in his shit pants for 700 nonstop miles

Casual.

Master tier
>clamshell clipboard