Truckerfag Thread - /TFG/

>recently
34 minutes ago?

How do you shift your 18sp when loaded?

How the fuck do scales work you just roll through them and if they want you to stop is there some sort of light? I literally just roll through without even paying attention

Probably for the best

I start driving again next week after being off the road for 5 weeks. It's like riding a bike right? Surely I won't have to relearn how to back or anything... right?

...

The last C501 brute made.

Anything but the t880 is garbage

My ex (if I can call him that) rolled one of two Aerodynes in australia

There's heaps of aerodynes in australia.

It was a special model or some shit
He was working for fletchers
Got suspended for 6 months

As easily as he does when sober, just like any true supertrucker

>be Primefag a week ago
>get offered max comfy Southeastern dedicated route
>home every weekend
>decide, "nah I'll run the West for a while since rates are good out there, if it ain't broke don't fix it
>pull up Intellicast, something about a hurricane
>fucking Cat5 hurricane headed straight for Florida
>every interstate is a god damn parking lot
>guy who used to team with me spent 8 hours driving from Bradenton Tropicana to the GA border
>Florida is as close to full-blown societal collapse as I've ever seen it
>no gas, water or plywood
>every cornerstore Hajii gas station owner woke up a millionaire today
>fucking fuel tankers are getting police escorts by FHP
>mfw sitting in Colorado on max comfy King Soopers load for 1.50/mi with time and it's 66 out with a full moon and not a cloud in the sky

HAHAHA HOLY SHIT

Kenworth>>>>>>>Frieght Liner

youtu.be/WhCcYr41EYA

I like them but the proportions on the slopped hoods always look funny.

Yeah, we just pulled into our terminal, 75 NB reports on the radio saying backed up to Chattanooga, wife said NB rest areas are so full cars have trucks blocked into thier parking spots and police are stopping people from trying to get in.

Lines of cars trying to get to gas stations visible from the road are physically blocking side road traffic, cars that ran out of fuel an route out of FL because there is no gas in alot of places are disabled on the roadsides.

Meanwhile every prepper in FL's wife has got crow in their mouth and her husband is talking shit the whole way out of the state.

>"prepping is stupid, huh karen?"
>"what a waste of money on junk, huh carol?"
Top kek

Some of you guys are alright /tfg/, don't go to Florida tomorrow.

>when your truck has a lisp

>Be steel-hauling shitpost bot
>Get load assignment
>Akron, OH, not too bad
>7:00am
>There goes watching football tonight
>Told there's 60' bundles on the trailer
>wat
>"Yeah, those bundles need to be delivered to Columbus first at 6"
>politely remind dispatch of Ohio's laws regarding oversize loads
>Dispatch goes quiet
>"Uh oh. Lemme get back to you"
>mfw dispatch don't know shit

And that's how I got out of a bullshit run and was able to watch the Pats get CHIEF'D.

fuck, can't believe missed first game of the season
>fuck migraines
worth watching it after the fact?

>park in truck stop that says paid parking
>leave this morning without paying

Am I on the fbi top ten now?

>Call broker
>Some back and forth phone tag
>"Okay Gundam I spoke to the consignee receiving office, they said just go on over, the guard should let you in without a number now."
>Arrive at consignee
>Guard checks my old appt ref number again
>"Oh they rescheduled you to 0630 this morning"
>It's now almost 1000
Hooray.

Yeah, he's from here originally.
Please, accept his ban as an apology, and take my advice to filter the shithead's names and trips.

Also, it's more than one person reporting his shit.

Haven't really started, their onboarding process is ridiculous. I had to get a new medical card despite mine already being current, along with stringent drug/alcohol testing and a fitness for duty test which is today.

Dear God why are dispatchers this dumb? Is scheduling and getting proper confirmation numbers that difficult?

It actually wasn't dispatch. It was entirely the broker. They had mentioned a possible 0630 appointment time yesterday but didn't say it had been set in stone, and didn't give me a new appt ref number or tell me the old one was ok now (guard said it literally wasn't on the computer's schedule program), so I got stuck in limbo waiting for them. Thankfully after I got checked in today, the consignee had me unloaded in 30 minutes. The guard said the home office literally always overbooks Fridays so it basically becomes first-come-first-serve all day but you still have to provide an appt ref number to get in.

Still, putting that much of an inconvenience on you because they're too lazy to make sure appointment reference number is correct is ridiculous. Same shit used to happen when I was on that dedicated for Swift.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

Definitely. Always worth it to see the Pats lose and the fans pour out of the stadium with like 7 minutes left.

Kek. I ain't leaving. Gonna get rekt but I would rather watch all my shit wash into the ocean than leave and come back home to find that niggers looted my house.

My mom's friend just left Broward to head to Orlando where it's her and her two teenage sons. You can barely get gas anywhere and the Turnpike is a mess. So if she doesn't run out of gas, she will get to her friend's place where hopefully she has hurricane supplies for one or two people, not fucking 4.

So many people went to Orlando and they are going to get hit hard, so I'm sure it's just as difficult to get water and gas up there. Plus building codes in Broward and Dade are much more strict so you are probably safer with 130mph winds in Broward than 100mph winds in Orlando.

>If pepso packs up all his shit and leaves, can it be said that his house was looted by niggers anyway?

Both of my next door neighbors left. Should I go get myself a new TV?

>tfw 22.5 packs of menthol

No, leave the TV for now, unless you don't have one

And more importantly stay safe

>Menthols
What a very...uh, urban... choice of cigarette flavoring, Bepis.

If it's led or better, then go ahead and cop it. LCD or plasma, then kick that shit to the curb.

>stealing TVs
>smoking menthols

fucking nigger wannabe white trash lmao

>TFW Veeky Forums pass is go

I wanna know more about Truckdog. Are you 100% gay? How many horribly repressed, secretly gay truck drivers have you been with? Do you ever advertise over the CB calling yourself a water buffalo?

Fair enough. They cancelled my last run for the week, so I've got a four day weekend, hurricane holiday. I'm going to visit my friend in TN. Traffic is shit.

>be me
>Doublesfag in a pickup truck heading north
>see pic related
>No DOT in sight, but if I've got a taillight out in getting pulled over

>"Show the courtroom, where on the doll did the dispatcher touch you."
Keks it wasn't dispatch's fault this time around. Broker gave us a handful of numbers and said the appt was scheduled and we were good to go. Dispatch couldn't have known this would happen. Plus even if dispatch did have a mind to call the consignee just to double check the broker's claims, our dispatch team has been like 1-2 guys short every day for the past week. We only got like 5 dispatchers so that makes work difficult as fuck for the guys that come in.

>Pepsi
>nigger "wannabe"
>"white" trash
I've got some news for you buddy...
Ain't nothing "wannabe" about him

>Swift was supposed to donate a trailer to my CDL school on Tuesday
>Show up that afternoon
>No new trailer
>Post knocked out of the ground and over
>Swift nowhere to be found
>Ask instructor
>Swift was trying to back it in to uncouple
>Driver knocked over said post
>Said "fuck this I'm out"
>Left
>With the trailer

We didn't get our new trailer and we have a fucked post now. Thanks, Swift!

Hey man, Swift doesn't knock over posts, they just mark where they've been.

$1350 for 70 mile transit and the driver walked

impatient retard

Expand on this

>Swift fucked up, wrecked something and then peaced out
That doesn't sound like the Swift I know.

Did EF end up getting the full on banhammer?

What are Ohio's regulations that make it an issue? Maximum load length?

That's how a lot of the big oilfield service companies are. Some guys I know that got their CDLs through Schlumberger up here spent over a full month at the training center doing their orientations/in house driver training.

I'm breddy sure he's Australian, so they probably have different cb slang for "the gays".

Did you make it out of the danger zone?

>I wanna know more about Truckdog.
Sure.
>Are you 100% gay?
I sure am
>How many horribly repressed, secretly gay truck drivers have you been with?
I lost count around 50 to be honest. And I loved every minute. Some of them hated themselves after they came, but they always came back. I'm an expert.
>Do you ever advertise over the CB calling yourself a water buffalo?
Good Buddy is the slang we use. I usually find them on the internet. Until recently anyway, when I settled down with a guy. But the urge to suck and ride trucker cock is returning.

Unless I'm mistaken, Ohio won't let oversized loads move between sunset and sunrise.

I'm up by Atlanta. Wife stopped to take a nap for a few hours. Gonna press on soon. She didn't sleep much today with too much shit going on. We'll be out near Nashville in a few hrs

Bumping

>Camel
Shamefur dispray

Ohio just flat out doesn't allow wide/oversize loads before daybreak.

the market is fucked right now and customers are willing to pay. this was $18/mile important. this asshole even wanted MORE money to turn the reefer on. they could even submit for detention on top of the ungodly linehaul. and he bailed because he had to wait a bit.

I can just imagine what a logistics headache transporting big overdimensional loads cross country must be with every state having its own set of regulations.

Crazy. His loss I suppose.

How long of a drive would it be under normal circumstances, and how long has it taken so far?

>banning the willing.
You sound like a real faggot.
Pepsinigger will float too

That's fucking funny, here in Europe it's the opposite, grossly oversized loads can only move at night when there's less traffic because they often block two lanes or require dismantling of street signs and traffic lights.

I believe Ohio's reasoning was that reduced visibility at night could lead to an increase in property damage because the driver couldn't see such-and-such. Plus our roads are large enough that we don't have to dismantle shit to get an oversize load through, get on our level Yurop

Did a drugtest, been 3 weeks since last time I smoked, test results were delayed, am I fucked?
I only weigh 120 and I never regularly smoked

You're retarded for smoking with a CDL.

Normally 10 hr drive. Took about 14

I don't have a a CDL yet. I quit 3 weeks ago in anticipation of getting it. I've also passed a DS after just a week before. I'm not planning on smoking again as long as I have my CDL, assuming I don't get dropped

Your oversized transports with dollies and stingers would get stuck on the next best corner here. Get on our level.

Generally I respect the shit out of semis on the highway but lately I think companies are adding systems that score the driver based on his driving tendencies like speed, braking, acceleration, etc.

This has caused a problem to me and my fellow car drivers because when a semi comes up on another semi who is doing 1mph lower than he is, the faster semi will enter the passing lane and proceed to pass at 1mph faster than the other semi, instead of doing the right thing and speeding up a bit during the pass.

It makes me so fucking angry when they do this.
Ive started getting revenge though:

>Be stuck in passing lane behind dumbfuck semi driver who is pulling this shit
>Wait patiently until he finishes the pass and gets over
>Get in front of both semis in travel lane right as congested traffic in passing lanes starts filing through.
>Let off gas and slowly begin decreasing speed until driver honks or I hit about 10 mph below speed limit.
>Floor it and drive off

Fuck you truckers.

Can't keep a shitposting supertrucker down, huh?

>Super heavy transport
>Still manages to make it look gay
Oh Europe, can't you do anything right in the modern era?

The function of something stands in no correlation to its appearance. But please do continue thinking that trucks need to be long and clad in chrome to work well.

>Implying function>form

This is why America continues to dominate the planetary zeitgeist.

Nobody believes a single autistic word you type, busrider.

I hope I pull this shit on you someday

Zoz. The truck I usually drive has 600hp and can do 130km/h, so its breddy unlikely I'll be dogging a pass around another truck.

While going bankrupt over aesthetics.

He's not wrong. I watched a trucker spend 15 minutes attemptng a passing maneuver the other day in Nebraska. Eventually he just pulled back and got behind the dude he was trying to pass.
Meanwhile we had a line of 10 cars behind these two morons

>been talkin to new Venezuelan girl a lot the past week or two, took her on one lil date and she loves me for some reason
>old Venezuelan girl is still around, but a pain in the ass so I haven't really been chillin with her
>talkin to #2 today, says she is helping out at her sister's work because last minute storm rush
>ask her which store because I might deliver there and know the people
>#2 is at the store #1 worked at, and they know eachother
Kill me now.

Anyway I wonder when I will have to go back to work. Looks like we won't get hit quite as bad but I will probably still have Monday off.

>slowing down after a pass
>implying anyone would notice because that happens all day er'ryday

Patently false.

By his own admission EF pulls in eleventy million dollars a year and his equipment is nothing but aesthetics.

It happens all the time, all over the place. Its the perfect storm combination of that "gotta get mine" attitude that plagues the modern age combined with trucks that are governed, combined with companies that impose difficult deadlines for delivery and pass the buck onto the drivers if they should fail to be there on time.

>Local man stabbed to death by two enraged H-1B visa holders
>Witnesses claim that after they ceased the stabbing, the women proceeded to forcefully cut the genitals off the victim

You dead sucka.

I dunno, if the younger one seems to like you that much, I would pursue that avenue, my dude.

What you're not aware of is that it is always, without exception, the fault of the shithead in the right lane.
Even 1 mph difference is more than 1 foot per second.
Maximum 2 minutes to pass.
If the cock gobbling shithead in the right lane would just maintain his fucking speed instead of getting asspained that someone wants to pass and speeding up.

God forbid they just slow down for 5 seconds and make everybody happy.

And yet these are the same morons that'll hold a door for you at the truck stop when you're half a marathon away.

There's something about being on the road that completely destroys people's reasoning ability
And you had better believe I expect nothing less than suicidal stupidity from every single 4wheeler on the road. There's a reason we have as many road deaths as gun deaths in the US.

interesting perspective

The new girl is actually a citizen. She was born here, then grew up in Venezuela, then moved back here.

Old girl will be a citizen soon, she is always doin some shit like that with her lawyers.

And yeah if younger girl ends up being fun, she is super nice and much less of a pain in the ass than the older one. I like the older one for other reasons, but I honestly think a real serious relationship with her would be stressful because I don't trust her 100%.

Anyway I'm almost disappointed we aren't supposed to get hit by 150mph winds anymore. I was looking forward to seeing a yard full of Pepsi trailers scattered around like Lego blocks.

And dat 20yo has to taste better than the 33yo...

>Eating pussy
White guy confirmed.

Currently a package car driver netting around 2400/month. Definitely interested in truck in but don't know where to start. How do I get my CDL? Are there big companies I should try to get on with? I'd love to specialize in something cool like gas/oil/hazardous waste
Thanks fags

I love you, dude.

>Get baller ass 2.00/mi run from Liberal KS, to Moultrie, GA
>Delivers 0500 9/11
>No time on load and drops 24h before Hurricane Irma makes landfall
>CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
>Forgot that I have to traipse through 200 miles of Kansas towns and slow down to literally 20mph for every town with like 3 farmers living in it
>Decide to do 30 in Yukon, OK
>Buy 28mm lens for my camera because fuck you that's why
>5hrs to go 220mi
>Get to OKC, pull up Intellicast
>Track has changed and will get to Moultrie about the same time I do
>mfw

Welp, where should I hang out in MS or AL to wait this this out?

Does anyone have tips for PTI exam?
Seems like an exeptionally huge amount of terminology to memorize

Not necessarily my dude.
Some young girls are nasty as f down there

Two easiest things from Peak:
ABC - Abrasions, Bumps, Cuts (on things that are 'soft' like belts and hoses)
CDL(L) - Cracked, Damaged, Loose, Leaking (hard objects like mounted accessories, windows, coolant tank)
Those two phrases helped me the most I think.

You sound like a real cunt

>only ever drove cars
>thinking about dropping everything and going to trucking school
>don't have the slightest idea if I'd even end up being good at it

Bump

>tfw was the only one in a class of five who didn't jump the truck when getting it moving from a stop.

Guess driving manuals exclusively helped. You can do it, user!

My "I love you, dude" post further up was supposed to be for you, but I'm a dumbass.

Ah!

Love you too, bud. I got nothing but love for you guys. Ask me anything else you want. I don't mind.