TRUCKERFAG THREAD

>Tandems slid all the way forward
You scared to take a corner, boy?

Commiefornia load. Story time.

>be checking into CA a few days after I shot that
>slowly approach the inspection station
>notice bees swarming around my truck
>wut.nef
>get to the station and roll my window down enough to get the bills out
>officer asks what you hauling
>gubmint cheese
>okay you can go
>two guys in bunny suits are on the shoulder
>skateboard hauling fucking beehives with millions of nopeflies in them
>DOT is inspecting the load
>clever retribution for all the horseshit they pull on it
>noped the fuck out of there
>mfw

well yesterday was a fucking day boys.
>scale open South of Edmonton
>26300kg on tridem
>can only be 24000
>caked in so much fucking snow and ice
>no way I could possibly be that heavy
>told to shovel as much off as I can
>doesn't help
>715 cuckbuck ticket
dunno if I pay it or the boss does but fuck me man
>pic was before I knocked off as much as I could before I even started driving in the morning.

>Endor
I assume you mean the forest moon of Endor since Idaho isn't a gas giant but then you mentioned ice, so I assume you actually meant Hoth. I find your lack of star wars disturbing.

And now you know why drivers, but most especially grain and rock carriers, always avoid coops because it's way to easy for them to be overweight.

>who pays
Your employer may front the money. Or not. But ultimately you will be the one paying.

Would trucking in the oil fields be a good idea now that the pipelines got the go ahead? I'm making $20/hr, 40 hours no overtime comfy local delivery job at the moment. But thinking when I turn 25 next year I should maybe try some real trucking and have a sense of adventure.

I forgot there was a scale there, otherwise I'd have jumped off and scooted around. Better luck next time i suppose

I'm in the same position as you. I bet my job is comfier tho. I finish my deliveries early and I get like half the day to my self while still getting paid. Some days I'll just go home early getting paid for the full day of course.
I get to see tons of awesome places in the great state of California. I don't earn much considering the high cost of living but since I live with my parents I keep most of my check. I'd say don't do it. It's better to be happy at your job compared to earning more but being unhappy. Pic related. Dwarven village I went to this week.

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>the training program I am taking is 4 months long with 260 hours
Jesus Christ, what a gigantic waste. I got my license with a 2 week course and was a qualified driver after 6 weeks (1 orientation, 5 training).
I hope you're getting paid by a company or something to take this training program.

>What kind of schooling do you guys get before heading out on the road?

None. That is """"""""school.""""""""

>Not trying to be a dick. I get that it's always going to be different once you actually start working, but the training program I am taking is 4 months long with 260 hours spent behind the wheel (most of which is on actual roads), so I'm hoping to know a fair bit by the time I get a job.

It just depends how smart your trainers are. My trainers will tell me I can make a turn, then literally we can't make it.

Or I'll ask them a question, and they'll just look at me with their mouth open with this vacant, soulless gaze. Its like dude what are you even doing. How are you human? How are you real?

Basically Prime trainers are just high school drop outs who need to slave you out so they can afford their lease payment. So they can continue to LARP as small business owners.

It sounds like you have actual educators with an aptitude for teaching. So you're not really living my hell I wouldn't worry.

Hey where is my trip. It was there I saw it

Pic related is me hating life.

You must be training for Prime. There's a lot of that out there, they only have to pay you 700 + your bens and taxes while they rake in monstrous amounts of cash on team loads that pay well.

Not all of their trainers are like that but when I was in training I had a few I interviewed who were trying to hustle me. I lucked out 3, count em, 3 times. First went intermodal so I had to get off. Second I stayed on past my miles for winter training and got injured. 3rd was a refresher and we got along great and he really sharpened my backing skills big time. Dude was an ace and let me bring both of my road bikes on his truck whenever we had down time we would ride to restaurants or other shit, we got stuck in Canada for two days and rode around Toronto for a while doing the tourist thing.

This is actually triggered I just didn't get my trip up.

My second trainer was actually awesome. But I was only with him four days. My other 3 trainers have been aids everyday.

Only 2,100 miles left until I upgrade.

"fuck this cop car in particular"

I would absolutely destroy this

ew

Meh i'd probably hit it. She still looks better than any lot lizard

A few months back I was delvering to the airport and there was a couple who are owner-ops and team drive. They were probably like mid 40s or maybe lower 50s but the wife was actually pretty fine. I would hit that for sure. Wouldn't go down tho, I don't like the taste of old leather.

>tfw you don't even have impossible standards and would be completely happy with someone like her but you'll still never find a trucking girl for yourself

>need to download podcasts/movies/porn
>look at connections, "4 bars, nice"
>connecting
>connecting
>unable to connect at this time

>tfw no Flatbed Chick gf

Is it unusual to get a semi license when I'd really prefer to drive a garbage truck or something? Getting the license is no big deal and I figure it will make me more competitive when looking for a job.

Oilfield trucking didn't fully stop when the recession hit two years ago, and will continue whether those big pipelines go through or not.

It pays really well in exchange for working long hours in often hard conditions, especially in the border states or Canada where winter can be breddy fierce.

There are lots of different aspects of trucking when it comes to oil and gas work, so there are a lot of options, depending on what you want to do.

There's tanker work hauling all kind of fluids like crude oil or fresh water, pneumatics for hauling bulk oilfield cement, chemicals like calcium or flyash, or frac sand, flatbedding mobile equipment like bulldozers, or pallets of drilling mud chemicals, winch trucks for loading various types skids, cryogenic trailers hauling liquid nitrogen or co2, and then there are tonnes of different types of vocational driving jobs that entail driving and operating mounted equipment like high pressure pumps, vacuum trucks or cranes.

You are much better off getting the higher license. Like I mentioned a million times before- opens up more options for you and some jobs where you will be driving straight trucks still want the Class A anyway, especially if they have other equipment that you may possibly drive in the future and requires it.

M-mom...?

If you can drive a collection truck, or a transfer rig, you'll be much more appealing to the larger companies that run both. Transfer is a pretty cozy gig in most places. Drive 1-4 laps and end where you started the same day.

>Who did this?
>White Volvo
Cyka Blyat!

If those badges had underglow she whould have been supertrucker/10

>715 cuckbuck ticket
That's cheap. I got knocked off for $600 roobux, just for 1 tonnes over on the triaxle. I'm sure 2 tonnes over here would have been more expensive.

How far over were you once you cleaned the snow off?

That's cheap. Here in the US it's a dollar a lb overweight.

Oh snap u guys. I offtracked and hit a cement highway median lol. Construction detour required me to do a really tight u turn. I didn't quite go wide enough.

Amazingly on the trailer there isn't even a scratch at the very back of my trailer where I started to hit up against it. Not even a cut or abrasion on the tire.

No harm no foul?

No it's not. In most places it's pennies per pound over. The high dollar weight violation tickets are for being above max gross limit

Rubbin is racin'

>38 TONNES overloaded
>$500 fine

themorningbulletin.com.au/news/500-fine-for-38-tonne-overload/2743764/

Does it feel like it's harder to back between lines than it is to back between trailers? Sometimes it takes me like three or four pullups and I feel retarded because I one-shot earlier that day between other trailers.

Got a little dilemma. Should I stay with Piss And Moan for my full contact year, making shit wages, or should I look into moving on to a different company? On one hand, I don't want to give them the satisfaction of taking $6000 of my dollarydoos, yet I would like to make more.

will you make back that 6k and then some by doing so?

>$6000
Jesus. What the fuck. That shit is just immoral.

Sounds more jewish than immoral to me.

Your first year anywhere isn't going to be good. Everything you dislike now, you will likely dislike the exact same things at every major carrier, and nowhere worth working will hire you with less than a year of safe driving.
Just suck it up and don't hit anything, then you get almost any dedicated or daycabber job you want.

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youtube.com/watch?v=47JWL6TnXW0

That's apparently the cost of three weeks of CDL training, with motel accommodations, and one week of orientation with hotel.

>real companies put you up in a hotel and PAY YOU for orientation

Oh they payed us during training. A whopping $25 a week, then $50 on the last day of training when we passed the state CDL test.

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That's awesome

Shoo shoo

You really should just stick it out, as much as it sucks, and get at least that full year under your belt before you seriously consider switching employers.

These guys are right, odds are nowhere good will take you this early in the game, and its pretty doubtful you'll make above and beyond another six grand to cover the costs of your training with anyone else that would.

Did anyone see you do it? You don't report it and someone calls you in, you're brobably sungk :DDDD

The only reason I'm considering it now is because the fat fuck that was formerly my team driver quit and went to Transport America, and he keeps telling me how much more he's making over there. Could he just be a greedy jew going for the referral bonus?

No it was like 2am.

I don't think I hit it that hard because there was no evidence of any collision. I just treated it like a curb check. (Except it was actually a concrete wall check.) I noticed it, corrected myself, and moved on.

Is that so illegal?

>pic related is my new trucker hat I found at Flying J kek

I meant to your company, not to Johnny Law. If no one saw it and there is no visible damage, you're probably fine.

I am sure the referral bonus is at least part of it.

If you figure you can make enough to cover that 6k and more to make it worth your while switching companies, then you do you. How much longer is your contract till it's finished?

Fugg. Roehl payed me a flat $600 a week for orientation and driver training.

>MFW we've been waiting three hours on a frac crew to begin the job, and just got told that it'll be even longer

Glad I am bayed by the hour when on the jobside :DDDDD

>forgot my wallet today at a Costco
>Thank the Lord someone turned it in
It's a relief to know I they had it. What would I have to do in that situation had it happened? I know I'd had to get a replacement license from DMV but what about muh medical card? New physical? I think the place I got it from closed down.

Going from pam to transport america is like getting reamed by a nigger with a 12.75" cock instead of a nigger with a 13" cock.

>medical card
Wew lad, didn't know anyone still had the cards anymore. Thought for sure they phased then out 2 years ago.

If I don't get paid per diem, how much per day away can I claim?

Why cant I claim on my commute to work when carrying work clothes and my food and fridge.

The guy that left the Swift dedicated way before I did would tell me that every subsequent time he switched companies. I think he's been through 4-5 companies in the span of my tenure with Swift.

$63 a day, I believe.

In the civilized states in the Union they still require them.

No he's right, it's "Medical Examiner's Certificate" and long form now. The certificate and card are the same thing but they aren't actually cards anymore but everyone still calls it a card.

dumb ass.

cop or snitch didn't see it, you didn't do it

Story time.

>Pick up in Middlesboro, KY
>Smithfield load
>Öh i've done these before, no big deal
>but not here
>have to weave through this ghost coal town built 120 years ago in the hills of KY
>taking all of my turns super wide because parked cars on the street that was designed when the average truck and trailer was small enough to fit in the trailer I'm hauling
>turning into oncoming traffic people are being nice and giving me room, cool
>get to the entrance of the industrial plant
>i have to almost drive through someone's yard to make the turn without hitting anything with the ass end of my trailer
>have to do it all over again on the exit and it was dark
>mfw that turn claims a trailer every couple of months and ends up on Twisted Truckers
>mfw a fucking prime driver can do it

>fagging it up this much
I cant wait till you take out a light pole and get shitcanned just like Eminem.

Perfect driving record since I was 16, will be 32 in April, don't hold your breath faggot

Low tier troll.
Bruh. I'm still new. Let me enjoy my petty victories.

DRIVEN BY THE BEST

>trolling it up this much
I cant wait till you get backtraced and the consequences won't ever be the same.

>you will never fuck her in front of her dog and cat

>shilling it up this much
I cant wait till it comes out that shes been married to a black ironworker from Georgia since 2011.

I wish.

I take product in there (read: pig parts in 20 2000lb bins) at least a couple of times a month and yeah the place is in an absolutely retarded location for an industrial park since it's on the opposite side of a residential area from the only truck highway to the town, US25E. And with a low bridge on the one road that would make sense to get to the place so you can't use that. Even better, the only truck route in to the place (KY 2079) has a 22 ton restricted bridge on it.

Since Prime drops and hooks there it's not so bad for y'all but we hate them since we have to do live unload and you just as well figure on getting at least an 8 in.

>That's immoral
So is breaking a contract you signed.

It's like the BHPH dealers making you sign a contract with some fucked up 70% compounded interest where you pay $17k for a $3000 shitbox. Fuck them taking advantage of people like that.

But either way user fucked up signing that contract so he might as well stay there unless he wants to leave and just default on it and tell them to fuck themselves. How are they really gonna get their $6000 anyway? They could withold the last paycheck but that's about it. They can have fun chasing him down for the other $5000.

Bruh, I haven't made more than $300 a week since Christmas.

Lawsuits that'll fuck up his credit for life.

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Optimus Leasefag how often did you get the 5cpm fuel mileage bonus when you were company? Every week? Say yes.

so how much do you whore stranglers earn then?

>Not starting your career Driving For The Best™ who arguably pay the highest rate to first year drivers in the industry.

>Not driving an ultra comfy 62 mph everywhere you go

>Not hanging out with me and Optimus Leasefaq at the comfy state of the art Prime terminals

>Not winning at life

Seriously once you get past the team driving you have to do to upgrade into your own truck Prime beats out every starter company by light years

she has a decent bod, and i'd rekt that caboose

so i thought about it for a minute, maybe this would be better

>there are people on this board who find this female attention monger to be an interesting topic of conversation

wew

what the fuck is this

>attention monger
>literally just makes low effort vlogs of herself to kill the loneliness of driving
>happy go lucky girl just enjoying life

man you must be really miserable. you need allie more than any of us

Large improvement

Not an argument.

>this triggered beta

>damage controlling your awful employer this much
I cant wait till they corral you into a predatory lease, and you go broke dumping 96% of your profits back into """""your""""" truck.

>realizes he cant ever get allie knight pussy
>scatters to find a way to protect ego
>cognitive dissonance goes into full effect

2/10
.05/10

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