Truckerfag Thread - /TFG/

Tell that to the company cucks who spent their 34 at a Petro in Kansas.

Yeah I know, that's where I'm on the fence. Coffee grill has me thinkin too much about this stuff.

So for the career path, I see two options:

1- Get a job that I don't completely hate, something where I can work 40-50 hours a week, pay the bills, and turn off my phone when I get home so I have the freedom to do whatever I want on weekends

2- Find a job that interests me more where I really want to help grow something. It will be more rewarding in the end, but I will probably need to keep the phone next to me 24/7 and work will always be a priority even when I'm off the clock

#1 is comfy tbqhwy, but coffee grill is more of a #2 person. I think that if I stick with #1 and keep driving trucks, I need to get some good projects going outside of work to keep me motivated.

Also I told her this story when we were discussing all of this, and it left us both very confused
>be me, in high school
>have day where we take the SAT along with some long survey about skills and personality which tells us what kind of career would be best for us
>get SAT back, 800 in math, and high scores on the rest
>get comprehensive survey back
>Best Carrer Path:
>Truck driver, ship captain, pilot, bus driver, etc

Honestly since I was a little kid, I always wanted to be a pilot. But it's hard to get into a good job unless you have tons of flight hours. And only way to do that is either join the military (not for me) or have tons of $$$ so you can buy your own plane to practice or pay for tons of lessons and time in the air.

>hanging out with curry lovers
fucking gross

i bet you all shat on the street and stumped around in it.

>Trucker fags get out of my lane

thinking about getting into trucking. these any good?

>said the virgin cuckshedder frantically masturbating to cartoon japanese preteens being railed by horsecock equipped muscley dudes in his little sleeper that smells of b.o., piss, semen, dust and unfathomable sadness

>Ship captain
I like the sound of that. >The U.S.S. Bepis

>Indian boy toy
Red dot or feather?

>Gugshedding frees us from de shagles :DDDDD

Maybe for an owner operator like yourself that can afford to take time off, select one's own loads, and be a choosy as one likes about where/when one wants to drive.

Most gompany drivers are shackled to that sleeper and Qualcomm by the sounds of it.

>Mute Qualcomm
>Sleep peacefully
Also I think I'm addicted to gambling now. Can't stop going and shitting away $300 a week at a nearby casino. How to not be a shitter?

You need to start linking the old threads faggot.

You are like little babby. Back in my day, threads died when they were killed.

Oh shit, boys. Guess I gotta tear all my lights out so this 4-wheeler's autism can be calmed

I get home weekends + Friday evenings. How bad do you feel for me?

>Roehl truck with a tonka truck

I fucking know that guy. He came into the shop one day all pissed off that his tarp "flew off" and got shredded. Then he got got real mad when I told him he was a retard to his face.

>SAT
Aren't you originally from Illinois? Why did you take the SAT?

Nah

Suka blyat

Dude made all the threads for the past 2 months with real OP posts and you're still bitchin

I take my cdl test this week. When i pass i owe a year to a large company, and have to do otr reefer for a few months but then i can do pretty much anything from flatbed to tanker, and they will teach me.

What am i getting myself into? I have no family and think the sleeper will be a nice little home. People keep trying to tell me robots will be driving in 5 years but i just dont see it, especially for hazmatb oilfields, and logging.

Should i run? Should i be excited?

>he didn't get elevator installer/repairman
feelsgoodman

>Guess I gotta tear all my lights out

That's nothing compared to the shit I've seen. LED strips along every corner of the cab and sleeper. Wired to the signals so they all flash. I mean ALL, so nobody can tell which way they are turning.

>chicken lights

Yes. Now imagine all of them flashing with the turn signals. That's got to be illegal.

>mfw he doesn't like xmas lights on trucks
youtube.com/watch?v=AK3FzGmOAd8
>best instrument for jingle bells is truck horn

>single axle
>superior to anything

Finally tried me a slice of PJ's taco pizza. Shit was cash.

>itt: liars and more liars dick measuring fake pussy obtaining stories

Dumb frogposter

Throw that $300 a week into cryptocurrencies. Potentially make 300% on your investment in a single day and also potentially make -75% in half an hour. Like penny stocks but extremely volatile, all you need to get in is bitcoin.
>buy some bits with Coinbase
>transfer to bittrex
>swap bitcoins for whatever you want
>check back in a day, week, month etc later
>buy low sell high
>buy that lambo in 2 months flat

Exciting, sometimes devastating, always autistic

pepsi's are probably true since he only seems to go after lower class shitskins which are low hanging fruit.

>If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
>If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
>If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
> - Lao Tzu
Dwell not on threads past, relax in the tranquility of the board that is present.

Well, let me ask you two questions: Do you own a dashcam, and do you like adding shots of vodka to pints of draft beer and downing three or four of them right before driving?

>Playing the Devil's games
Wew lad. Y'all need Jesus. Or maybe just come up with something you want to save up for to give you a good reason to put your money away

Good looking rig, my nig.

>All them threads
At least someone noticed.

>tfw mildly depressed and anxious
>deeply interested in retro futurism
thanks for the quote, made me think

>chicken lights
They are called fairy lights. The more fairy lights, the bigger fairy.

Except literally no one calls them that

I took both the ACT and SAT. And weekends home isn't too bad, if I did regional or OTR for some aweful reason, it would have to at least be that.

Really? Literally?
Is that why that poster called them fairy lights.

t. Biggest Fairy

is it true that on actual trucks since theyre diesel that even with a load on you can start off and just let off the clutch to go with no throttle? what about on hills

never drove a truck but the times ive drove a gas manual car i had kinda a hard time startibg occasionally because givibg it the right ammount of throttle and clutch

Yes pretty much. 1st gear gets you to about 1mph. It's not just the torque from diesels, but the fact that the low gears are super low.

On a 10spd, with a light load you start off in 3rd or even 4th if you want, and that only gets you to 5mph. You can do the same shit in lots of older pickup trucks with manual transmissions because they will often have a real low 1st and some torque.

how do you down shift so quickly before redlights and stuff? can you just downshift to like 5th gear and then put it in what gear youll start off in again and hold the clutch halfway in until the lights green? or do you hold it down to the clutch brake?

i change air brake shoes and have taken out transnissions with clutch brakes but have never drove one

Idk, you can go back down the gears if you want, you can go from 8 to 3 if you just drop it into N until you slow down to the right speed.

Not 100% diesel mechanic on this, but the clutch brake doesn't do shit aside from when you are totally stopped and trying to get into gear. It has nothing to do with shifting (up or down).

With no synchros, when the truck is stopped and in N, the engine is still spinning the input shaft and gears, while the output shaft and gears are stopped since the wheels aren't moving so the gears would never want to mesh. So you have the clutch brake, whem you push the clutch all the way down, it slows down the input shaft so it will mesh and you can actually get the truck into 1st, 2nd, or 3rd to take off from a stop.

When driving the truck, you can feel/hear the clutch brake working. It takes a second once you push the clutch down for the brake to stop the input shaft so if you try and get it into gear too soon, it will grind.

Just put it into D and it sorts itself out.

You faggots need to calm down.

So I'm doorswinger4lyfe and all I want is to drive for Walmart for 40 years then retire. Theoretically how do I get in on that, and is it even possible or should I start weighing my other options? My resume.

>CDL obtained from private school
>1 year otr experience with one company
>don't hate job so will probably stick with them until Walmart hires me
>accident free in truck
>accident free in 4 wheeler, cleanest driving record
>pissing clean, no drugs
>spotless criminal record
>college degree, bachelor of science
>30 years old, no health problems, not on medication
>white male, eagle scout
>live 2 hours from nearest Walmart DC, willing to relocate ASAP
>totally dig the uniform

Walmart doesn't really have job openings until someone retires or dies, I just plan on spamming them until I get an interview.

Go to a company with a Walmart account like Werner and get some experience basically being a Walmart driver without the Walmart pay

How often are those dudes home? You really want to be cuckshedding it until you're 60?

I always thought the best gig would be like dude I met from Werner running dedicated for Coca Cola. M-F, grab a trailer from Pembroke Park, drop it in Sarasota, grab a different trailer, get back to Pembroke Park in time for dinner.

>doorswinger
>drive for Walmart
>for 40 years

I don't think I'm even being edgy when I say that there aren't going to be truck drivers in 40 years, especially line haul van truck drivers. And there isn't going to be a Walmart in 40 years either.

Walmart has weekly home time, I THINK, at least optionally.
And those no touch daycabs usually don't make any money. I could get a gig like that going from Dallas to San Antonio, but it's only 30cpm, or $1k/wk

>What am i getting myself into?
Mordern-day white slavery.

>I have no family
Good, because you won't see them for a year anyway.

You get to see America, one highway and truck stop at a time, at a speed decided by your bosses, and only ever from the inside of a truck.
You get to work all day for little money, sleep where you stop, shit in a bag, and then do it again.

We do have Walmart accounts, and I've been getting more and more Walmart runs. Lately it seems like almost half of my loads go to Walmart.
As long as I'm home every weekend idgaf. Cuckshedders 4lyfe.

waste of trips.
It's a well established fact that eurotrucks are more GOAT at most things than americrucks.
Only thing ameritrucks have going for them is muh styling.
>in the US you need to look big and aggressive.
Eurotrucks are more maneuverable, better MPGs, more powerfull (and more torque), better brakes and more comfortable.
>single axle means less tire wear.
also:
how's that 60 tonnes going in the states? started already? or already more than a decade behind?

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. Having Walmart as a customer and having a dedicated Walmart account are different things. Walmart dedicated drivers pull around Walmart owned trailers and do multi stop deliveries are the stores just like a Walmart driver does.

How's that >55mph speed limit going in Cuckistan? Started already? Or already more than 30 years behind?

I don't think amerikuks are in the position to brag about speed. It's just something they aren't good at. Fastest cars: European.
Highest highway speeds: Europe.
and then the kicker... safest roads... again.. EUROPE.
And from an economic perspective: 50% more load or 10-20% more speed... guess which one makes more sense.
They keep behind because they are too proud to see when they should learn from the best instead of continuing their backward ways.

The difference is no one cares about how heavy a load you can pull. Every trucker in the world would rather pull 25 tons at 75mph than 40 tons at 55mph.
Turns out grapes are actually pretty delicious.

Let's get a new forced meme going
>55 M P H
>5
>M
>P
>H

>safest roads... again.. EUROPE.
To be fair, roads with no Americans on them are always going to be safe. The problem is your moronic drivers that can't even be steering wheel holders because they're too busy texting to hold the wheel, let alone look where they're going.

Got a call back from Lowe's for flat bed and straight truck delivery. Schneider also called back about a Jet-Set tanker position but I need my hazmat.

Go work for Farm2Fap, you just need a truck and two years of experience

>straight truck
You mean the appliances truck? Fuck that shit. Back breaking manual labor ain't worth the pay. Go flatbed.

Diesel Mechanic. You are 100% correct.

Keep spamming away. Wal-Mart is shitting their panties about amazon. Higher ups realize the most profitable way of hauling goods is to eliminate all outside dedicated companies and make it all Wal-mart. Fleets are being added too.

>Wal-Mart is shitting their panties about amazon.
No they aren't. The stock market it, but Wal-Mart are just in danger from Aldi and Lidl doing the same 'pile it high sell it cheap' angle but cheaper, and their competitors outperforming them everywhere but the United States of Protectionism. Wally World have no grip on the east or south asian markets, they're losing their grip on Europe, and south america can't afford food.

Otherwise, once you get big enough, transport companies dance to your tune. Multi-drop inner-city deliveries with a full-size trailer, dropped right to the front of the store? Sure, there's someone that'll do that at a low price, and without backing into the storefront too!
Trouble supplying a few stores? Build a fucking huge warehouse in a semi-deprived area nearby, ring it with razorwire, and get paid by the local government to employ local chucklefucks to do stuff that a robot could do if you didn't have to buy one first. AND they pick up the bill for the roads you hammer to shit with 20 trucks an hour each way during peak usage.
People complain about your stores being crowded? Charge them to deliver their shopping and keep them at home. Slap green and accessible marketing on it and harvest grants.
Fluctuation in your margin? Politicians politely ask your CEO if they could stop that, pretty please.

Lol I don't want to live in a cuckshed. I don't think I would be able to run legally as an owner-op in South Florida and try to be home a lot and still make a profit. The owner-ops down here who run garbage and gravel and containers to stay local, they all drive the shittiest old trucks and they are all registered out of Medley and Hialeah. No way 95% of those things would pass a real DOT check.

There are certain ones that aren't too bad. Dude who worked for us, he used to have a dank gig through Home Depot. Drove a flatbed around all day delivering to jobsites and pulled it off with the forklift. He said they always tipped him too and he never had to pay for lunch.

But then I guess they outsourced it and whatever company took over the delivery made the jobs terrible.

That's what I meant. I'm lowesfag and that's what I do all day. Hell today the truck tandem flatbed we have needed PM so I took it to the dealer first thing in the morning. Since I live nearby I just went home to shitpost from bed. The straight box truck that carry the appliances on the other hand.. that's a shitshow. 12-14hr day getting paid almost min wage doing backbreaking labor. Fuck that job. Whiney stay away.

152 inventory tags affixed by Tyrone Sr. and I'm done for the week. God bless his star spangled du rag.

>except those paid by tonnage

I know that bay. I've been in that bay.
How long did it take him to finally figure out you were in there?

I'd do both straight truck and flatbed depending on what needs to be done. But I'd be hired on as primarily flat bed.

I feel ya but I've been having that same issue. There's no local freight and our local economy is all retail and service based with only a handful of warehouses. Maybe just move up in your company like you said.

I'm getting hired on as a CDL driver, I'd fluctuate between both trucks since it's a low traffic store.

One of your brothers just hit my mirror with his mirror. And then instead of just not doing that, he folded my mirror in.

It's probably whiney. Go talk to him

Nah, this guy's black. I saw Whiney that last week in Oklahoma when he fucked up backing into a spot and had to give up on it. He's a mid 20s chubby white guy with a neckbeard and glasses.

I wonder what the thought process there was

Nah, that ain't my truck nigga

oooooh maybe it was me but what truck stop? Like I said, I usually never stop in Oklahoma

Aren't you in a cascadia now?

That was just for teams, I'm back in a T680.

Oh so their box truck is still through Lowe's huh. Ours got outsourced to a third party. Well good luck whiney. Ask 'em if they'll give you a load puller/helper.

Is that legitimately your description even? I just thought it was funny because he looked like a guy who'd put a waifu pillow in his truck. He was in a KW

Yeah, we get a load puller and helper too. I went with them on deliveries before when I worked there as a CSA

Nah I don't have a beard and I'm not that white. I am chubby with glasses, they're usually sunglasses though.

My guess for the thought process:
Woopsy daisy. Better put it somewhat in the orientation it was in before my mishap.
wait a minute. My truckerfriend won't notice i touched his mirror untill he needs them. better make sure he knows he's got to check em.

I could have been high but I think I drove under farm2fap on 75 north at about 9pm lastnight, plz confirm

>Complains the lights make it hard to see the turn signals
>Also complains about using all the lights as a turn signal

At least shitpost consistently.

>Red dot or feather?

Try out "Modem or totem". People love that one, especially women's parents.

whiney-kun how will I know when I meet you? I thought I found you almost a year ago at the fort Worth Pilot. I met some portly young Swift driver inside the McDonald's who was wearing a Zelda shirt and demanded that his 20 piece McNugget be made fresh. He was a bretty cool guy, I thought it was you but you said that it wasn't because you were watching your figure and wouldn't order a 20 piece.

trips of truth, checked and kekt

Also here's how my last day went

>get $2/mile run from Rogers AR to Hurricane WV
>another drop to Beaver
>823 fucking miles in 29h
>get it down to 720 and park
>run the entire 720 in one shift the next day because sales can't into load planning and they have cost me two good loads already this week
>get to the 03 on time, have to back across a street and tie up traffic, no big deal
>have to use the cargo net to nap because my truck is pic related
>get unloaded, go to 90
>its literally a prison
>trucking has got me dealing drugs, breaking the law daily and finally now im in jail
>inmates get me unloaded faster than 90% of my customers, and let me unload a day early too
>get out, got a short cushy 700 dollar load to make onto this weeks payroll that drops tomorrow and only goes 240 miles

I set that up from behind where that other truck was and got it in first try no pull up

You probably passed my place about 10 miles south of charleston on your way to beaver.

>euro trucker parade

I have a Rosario Vampire lanyard that's always hanging out of my pocket. I usually only wear work shirts and jeans unless I'm lazy in which case look out for standard super trucker attire.

We need call signs desu

>call signs
>not CB handles

spotted the steering wheel holder

my handle is Overdrive btdubs

>CB handles
You mean lover names.

>MFW its as hot as the gates of Hell in the truck with no a.c. and the road is so dusty that I have to keep the windows closed

Kill me.

Zoz. That's a gooder.

Do the straight trucks come with Moffats to help with unloading? That wouldn't be too bad of a gig if so.

No moffets. Just muppets.

Gone but not for long. But really, I'll see you guys in like 4 threads from now when I remember Veeky Forums exists again.

About half an hour. Bldg 278 told me to unload in the loading area, ands once my tarps were off his boss came out in a golf cart and told me to back in. About 20 minutes later Tyrone rolled out on his forklift and told me the same thing. I was in and out in 4 hours, which was decent.

That's right around the time I left the Irish girl's apartment in Findlay. She had to come play with the cats for an hour after we fucked. Poor girl is 22 and got hit with her second and third orgasm of her life yesterday.

Traps will still be gay then too.

how long until I can drive a truck truck

Never, robots job now.

Y'all're gay. The only thing in the world worse than meeting a guy from Veeky Forums IRL is being identified as a guy from Veeky Forums.

>MFW
Even better.

>Imblying that there are other pastimes besides shitposting
Good photo.

You would've heard the super eurobeat pulsing long before you saw the truck

Who's Robert and why did he take the jobs?

this
yeah fucken robert taking all our jewbs

>Beaver

Ayy part of my cdl road test took me through Beaver.

You a driver?