/TFG/ - Truckerfag Thread: Dawn at Wal-Mart

>Modern Diesel engine
>Overbuilt

My job exists for the same reason car mechanics exist, robots can't outdo us yet. That and diesel stuff is now just as highly computerized as automotive stuff, it's much more STEM now than most people think.

Are you me?

No, my father owns a small fleet of Internationals for his towing company and I help our guy wrench on them from time to time. It really isn't anymore complicated than a regular petrol ICE. Anything short of a rebuild can be done literally be a toddler - and even those are fairly simple once you're familiar with it.

What's the truckerfag life like? How do I know if it's right for me?

By STEM, you mean plugging a computer into the truck and then doing the things the computer says, right?

It would be super sweet if the computer told you what to do. Codes and live data only get you so far, still gotta know what you're doing and how to interpret that info.

Where do you park your trucks when you're on hometime? Where do you park your car when you're OTR? I've been parking at my local Petro for a year because it's 15 minutes from home but they left this shitty note under my windshield. A couple other times they've put a warning sticker on my car. The four wheeler lot is never close to full and I always park in the least desirable spot. I mean if I can't drive my car to my truck I don't know how else the fuck I'm supposed to go to work.

Are Mercedes Benz Arocs and the like considered "luxury" trucks or no?

>we cant fix it/diagnose it if the cel isnt on

REEEEEEEEEEE

you fags see that is has stored rhe fucking code ffs

Nah m8. Just another euro truck with great ergonomics. The v6 engines aren't the best for fuel economy either.

How large does a truck have to be in order for it to develop sentience?

WHy not park in front of your house? Is there also not a rural-ish road nearby you could park on? There's always a couple trucks parked on this one near me: google.ca/maps/@49.2146052,-122.556463,229m/data=!3m1!1e3

Lazy ass entitled vets. Finna get me some holiday pay at least.

53' 6" trailer

Good luck getting any real cities to go along with that.

Edgy.

If you park it on your property, they can't do shit.

Unless "your" property is in a residential zone, in which case, they can and most likely will do shit.

Obviously you've never lived in an area where the local bylaws dictate otherwise.

Isn't it against the law to not support the armed forces in America?

>Obviously you've never lived in an area where the local bylaws dictate otherwise.
I do now. Nobody cares.

Fair enough, but all it takes is for one loudmouthed busybody to fuck it up for everyone else if there is a bylaw in place.

I have a good sized rv parking strip at my house that could easily accommodate a tractor if I was an O/O, but I'm breddy sure the local bylaws don't allow it.

>living in places that encroach on your personal liberties for literally no purpose

Cucks, the lot of ya

>Perdue load out of Cromwell KY
>Get there in the appointment window, sales strikes again
>Shipping has gone home and won't be back until 6am
>Proceed to read night dispatch the Riot Act
>hang out at a TS 4mi away
>show up 0600
>instantly get a door from the yard dog
>loaded instantly, alright this is a nice way to make up for sales fucking up
>grab my BOL and secure the load
>check out of security, in and out in less than 30min
>90 moves the appointment one full day extra
>271 miles in two days
>allofmyrage.nef
>decide fuck it, cave spelunking in Bowling Green

Pretty much every single city in any first world country has zoning.

>the local bylaws dictate otherwise.
LAND OF THE FREE

>one loudmouthed busybody to fuck it up for everyone else
HOME OF THE BRAVE

Go suck off Ahmed eurocuck

>the local bylaws dictate otherwise.
THE TRUE NORTH

> #
>one loudmouthed busybody to fuck it up for everyone else
STRONG AND FREE

ftfy

Might be getting a job as a bus mechanic this week. Anything I should know beforehand?

Hello my fellow freshly minted tech

Is the truckerfag life a comfy life?

>he thinks having freedom means living in anarchy
If you live somewhere with residential zoning, you're free to move somewhere without them. It's that simple. Conversely the people who control the city or county are free to implement zoning restrictions.

Entire company is switching to Volvo's since they have been taking over by a Euro hedge firm.

Old beards want to strike because >Muricah heritage and they claim they are crap.
Are they really?

They are going to be VNL 780's btw.

>Sees purple mountains majesty
>Sees fruited plains
oWo what's this?

>TFW my home and native land

Glorious, free, maybe socialist.

>Old beards
From where do you hale?

>In beautiful Golden B.C. today

Fug, I love/hate travelling through this area. It's so scenic that it makes the return to the rolling hills of oil gountry depressing.

>From where do you hale?

Texas.

OBSESSED

Oh. Old beards somehow sounded like a mistranslation of something into English.

Pushing them to the limits today bois

Wew lad. Better have a light dinner.

no lot lizards through the scales

that weight doesn't include me... scales better all be fucking closed because in over on my pup and drives. plus I think I have to take a 62.5 highway to get to Alberta. oh well, fucking yolo.

Better do some night driving in that case.

youtu.be/6Lyw2pJWEq0

What the fuck is this shit?

Speed son

I was thinking about asking this as well.

I leave mine at a huge Petro in the city. But I also only go home like once every 5 months so I don't park it often.

I'm over in Grand Forks for the night. Rivers are high as fuck, 33 degree's, but beautiful.

I'll be down in Trail tomorrow night. Where you headed to?

So how do you get you and your stuff to your truck? Do you just leave your car at Petro for months on end? Do you have a waifu or mummy to drive you there and pick you up for hometime? Maybe you drive there and have a friend come get your car? I drive regional so I'm home at least one night a week and I'm not about to start calling Mom to pick me up and then drive me back up there the next day.

Over to Nelson first thing tomorrow morning, but headed straight back to Vancouver, unfortunately. Probably be gone by Noon.

Funny how many BC dudes are here. Some good drivin'.

REMINDER THAT USA TRUCKING IS FOR SISSYS

Yeah I probably won't be in trail until midnight tomorrow I imagine. I did 3 weeks in a row down to Vancouver last month, close to home but the ocean keeps me from seeing the senpai.

>Westposting at it's finest

Back en la belle prairie tomorrow, and back to work Wednesday.

So did your kohai end up quitting?

oh yeah I forgot to update.

he put in his 2 weeks last Thursday but didn't give it to the boss he verbally gave our dispatch the notice because he's scared of the boss. he's gonna be going to pull deck for edge out of Saskatoon. if he can't be bothered to sweep our his trailers I can't imagine him securing a load properly. fucking guy keeps telling me he can "get me a job" over there because he has an in. I don't think I need your help chief but thanks!

Good luck guessing between metric and standard.

Idk bro, you tell me

autism

If he lives in a city, and only goes home .5 time a month, he could just use a cab

sure is leafy in here tonight

Sounds like a real winner. Guaranteed in two to three months he'll be on to the next place.

>All leafy up in here
We're just classing up the joint.

Why is it you're almost always lounging in the drivers seat? Don't you have a big ass sleeper on that Pete?

Yeah, but I usually make my first post of the night right at the end of the day after I do my paperwork but before I'm ready to lie down. Pictures of me in bed aren't usually interesting so I stopped posting them

That interior is an abomination my man. I'll take matte gray paneling and nondescript functional switches any day over gaudy fake wood and star trek levers. Do supertruckers think this looks good?

>A bunch of the older trucks at the sand hauling outfit I worked for had those gaudy """""jewel""""" topped switch extenders in them, and they all pointed in slightly different directions. A fucking nightmare for anyone that is ocd about symmetry.

Those toasted pizza bunwiches, sleepy doggo and whatever that leafy bundle is in front of him are plenty interesting tbqhfam.

My last truck was a 2014 Camry, and I'll say that I much prefer the interior in this 2005 to the cheap crap that was in that freightliner. The most important point I'll say is that this truck has almost 2 million miles on the cab, and I have one rattle and it's on the driver side door lock and it doesn't rattle if the door is locked. The Camry had 300k and the dash panel screws were already so destroyed from being taken off twice that half of them rattled.

As for the long throws, the last driver put them on, they work well, and I don't believe in throwing my own money at another mans truck.

I know that with the long-long throw switches they have to be skewed or else they'll hit each other. Long throws are nice, but there's no need to get stupid

more than likely. he was also pretty pissed when he had to rewrote logs for... reasons. I tried to help him do it properly but instead of listening to me he went about doing it in his own fucked up way. elogs will be perfect for him, although I'm sure he'll fuck it up somehow. everyone told him he'd have to push hard here and that sounded fine to him until he actually had to do it. he fucked himself out of the gravy runs to bc with his mishap too which I think rubbed him the wrong way. the grass is always greener eh...

Yeah, I could see doing the jake/cruise controls with long throws on an old style dash switch setup, but that would be about it for me.

The other thing they did on those pimped out trucks that I never saw the point of was get these aftermarket engraved chrome switchplates for the diff and airbag controls, which were impossible to read at a distance, and doubly so if the sun was shining on them.

>Reasons
Understood. Entirely.

I had a similar experience with one of my former equipment operators that vouched for me when I applied to the sand hauling outfit, and ended up working along side with once I got hired.

He got hired before me, but ended up getting lapped because he refused to do the things he knew to do that would help distinguish himself.

He was always behind with his paperwork. He would constantly complain to me about getting in trouble about it with the office, but he would never take the extra ten minutes at the end of the day to do it up properly like myself and other senior drivers, and at month end, like clockwork, he would have to spend an hour and a half in the shop trying to figure everything out. His excuse was that a lot of other guys did the same thing, so why should he do any better, all the while never making the correlation that those other guys were lazy screwups.

He was always griping to our dispatchers about his situation involving the trucks too. First he was mad about having to slip seat and switch trucks once in a two week hitch (normal at that company). Then he got assigned a full time truck and was constantly complaining about the fact that the sleeper was small and that it was an older truck that they had spent a bunch of money fixing up and modernizing. Meanwhile I had got assigned the sister truck to it and operated it without a peep of complaint.

He ended up quitting with no notice after he asked to be put into a brand new, loaded Pete 389 and got adamantly turned down.

>all that hair on the bed
Sad.

is that the best you can do

ffs my old ford probe could do better than that and you could actually hear it unlike that thing

that's the thing man, they won't put in the effort they know is needed but expect to be showered with praise or nice shiney trucks. I told him how to do everything he asked but I swear it all went in one ear and out the other. he was a bit jelly because I got this new rig and these new trailers and asked me how I got em. I said I don't ask stupid questions, i don't complain about fuck all and if I'm ever asked to do something I do it. it's not difficult to just shut the fuck up and do your job. when he got in snit for the contaminated load I said to him, you can stop at any truck wash in any province and wash your trailers and get it billed right to the company you just have to ask for a credit card number. and the boss will pay you 20 dollars an hour for sweeping. if you want to get paid for every time you sweep keep track of how much you do everyday and put it on your trip sheet and get paid for it. personally I don't unless it's a meal load I have to shovel. there is no excuse for being fucking lazy

I think that's just on a shirt, not the bed. And you can't avoid hair on shirts if you've got a certain type of hair.
My curly hair sticks to clothing like velcro.

Some people just don't understand that they need to do things right, or WHY they have to do certain things.

Diesel mechanic fag here, want to get into driving otr and eventually own a small fleet, what company should i start out in? Amerifag btw.

>sleeping in filth

You faggots with your comfort animals need to die.

Celedon

Holy ivecos batman. We have 3 iveco eroticargos in the local fleet, all about 5 years old, all about 150-200km on the clock. All of them are completely fucked.

The following items are worn/broken/missing on all three trucks:
>turbo
>air compressor.
>gear linkage
>clutch hydraulics and air assist system
>Cab tilt mechanism
>Door handles.
>battery covers
>misc. air lines
>dashboards cracking/warping
>various warning lights

Meanwhile the hinos just keep trucking.

Meanwhile, my employers have 10+ year old Iveco Dailys that are thrashed to shit by drivers that hate them, and are driven around the country to replace Sprinters that have had bits fall off the outside.

Feels bad man.

its the truck terrorists used lol

Did you curb it?

YUP.

I'm at a landfill and they pulled me through a scale for garbage trucks. The scale itself was crooked and on a bend.

When I didn't fit, they asked me to reverse and get drives in the middle. It was just some soccer mom. But I tried anyway. And no. You can pull in that, but you can't pull out. It's too crooked. I rubbed my steer on the curb trying.

TA road assist incoming.

Get the can of quick start out get the bead seated and get the fuck back on the road

Nah I'm just gonna play pokemon til TA comes and does everything.

>Implying he has a can of ether
>Implying he has an air hose to reinflate the tire
>Implying he has any idea about what you propose
>Implying he won't blow himself right the fuck up

Kek. Atta' boy.

>t. steering wheel holder

>Implying he won't blow himself right the fuck up

This.

Ayyy

>Not being about that lyfe

How shitty of a proposition is cleaning out the hoppers on a belly dump?

Can you just pressure wash em out with the hatches open, or do you have to get in there and sweep them clean?

>The lesson is: Don't ever listen to women.

Right?

Ok reasons?
Yeah i work for t.a. lol better luck next time bud at least your rim is still good!

Thx bro. How long you think it takes to fix?? They are 40 min late btw kek. Gunna evolve all my 'Mons at this rate

>deliver load from m&m Mars
>get bills back, 19 case overage
>ohhhh shit candy nugggga
>it's cheddar combos instead

>fuck me
Still waiting on Mars to see if they want them back. I'm gonna feel pretty silly having to reload all this shit back into the trailer.

it takes me all of about 10 minutes to sweep out generally. going and getting a wash is acceptable if your hoppers are really dusty or dirty but usually there is no need.

Damn son gib me sum dat

>1488
>Celadon is literally hitler

Not far from the truth. Don't. fucking. do. it. their training program is Swift-tier and guaranteed you'll be training with bottom-of-the-barrel lackeys who don't give a shit

>Megacompanies are shit without exception

Even Prime is starting to do fucked up shit, from what I understand their PSDs with no CDL can drive the truck on a team load without an instructor up front. Mane fuck that glad I got my shit before they started doing that. And they are slowly becoming a two-pedal snowflake fleet, so if I can't have a stick I'll be Optimus Gonefag.

top fucking kek steering wheel holder

come by the terminal in a couple weeks when I pick up my truck GPS if you wanna learn how to back like a pro instead of like a typical skateboarder

>"""""""""pro""""""""""""
>drives a cuck-governed truck

I might take you up on that. I had to back in at the TA today instead of /nose in/ masterrace. It was horrifying.

Fortunately there was a spot with two open spots in a row which made it easier.

I always screw up the angle...

I used to think it was bc my axles were spread, but I had them together this time.

I used to think my bulky headache rack was preventing a sharper angle. But I dunno about that.

I used to think maybe the parking lot was just old! It wasnt optimized for 53' trailers perhaps. This TA had plenty of space between rows though...

I don't know anymore.

Today I had no excuses.

Smh.