Truckerfag Thread - /tfg/

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I tried going to Schneider for tanker but then I went fuuuuck hazmat. I'd rather do food grade.

Enjoy your .21cpm

pussy.

Yeah, fuck baffels

*posts a stubby nose in your longnose thread*

Fug

Holy shit, where's the rest?

I need a good job, I fucking hate coca-cola

>Violently tipping over in a corner at 67 MPH because a load of 1% Milk decided to slide to the sidewall is much better than having to put a set of placards on, stick to hazmat routes and know a few more regulations

Its cute.

Like a real man.

What have you done to the Probe since the last update?

That doesn't sound too bad. Any idea what the pay is like?

Equipment rentals? Construction?
Logging?
Oilfield?

It's Strayan, they have pretty tight length laws despite running very long combinations.

Would make them ideal for an import to Europe though if I could afford it, I'd only have to graft an American cab with the steering wheel on the correct side onto them. A man can dream ...

RIP in peace TMC

仍是不足够的电源为您的 moms 大 dildo

Sleep well
Tow buddy
Ur shift is over

Yeah, not wanting to drive a bomb through a bunch of hoops for barely any extra money makes me a super pussy. The only hazmat worth hauling is if you can get with those LPG guys or something. Hauling diesel or gas or oil is a huge waste.

redpill me on driving frac sand for the oilfields

If I had to guess, it’s probably not even $15/hr, but it’s 0800-0430 so I’d have tons more time for vidya.

If u give the company man a good suck the first day u be good.
Red suits mean ur a war profiteer

It's a smash and grab operation designed to make the company rich as quickly as possible by shafting the drivers as hard as possible. Expect to be overworked, underpaid, using broken equipment, and unemployed by 2021.

I'm not sure when I last updated /tfg/ but it's been on Veeky Forums and /ccg/ a few times so we'll start from the top, all done by me.

>Be Primefag in Schnectady
>See an ad on Tampa CL for a 93 Probe GT, 5-speed, the dream Probe I've been looking for
>Get a run to Jax, unload early
>Run home, talk Mom into driving me over to pick it up
>On my way, the guy says it's leaking coolant from the passenger side of the engine
>Realize exactly what it is, but fuck it I'm already there
>Get there and realize it needed a Hail Mary to get it back on the road
>No problem, this is my 3rd one and I know them by memory now.
>Buy it, limp it home, overheated twice
>Dodged cops trying to pull me over for no plates at 2am
>Next day, and for a week, replace the following in order
>Timing belt, water pump, timing belt tensioner
>Coolant flush and recharge
>Entire audio system with Alpine audio all around, Sony Xplod 12" in a box, had to un-rig the previous owners mess
>Lift hatch struts, both drive belts
>Both O2 sensors
>Both door panels re-attached
>Shift bushings changed to bronze ones
>New tires, Z-rated because racecar, alignment done
>A/C compressor, condenser, flush and recharge, new seals
>Various small hoses that would let go on any other car that sat for 10 years

It has been a mess, but it went from junkyard fodder to a decent car in about two weeks of work, and it has more to go.

I just want a comfy job that makes good money and has me home every night

I got my dick stuck in my xbox

What do

Then you're in the wrong industry, boi de la soi

>But who will tow the tow truck?
No hope.

>TFW fuel and propane haulers start at around $34/hr plus full benefits, and crude haulers easily do 130k+ a year

It was good for me. Paid pretty well, and kept a guy busy up until things got really bad due to the oil and gas recession. It's pretty easy in terms of loads; climb up and pop the hatches on a pneumatic, or roll open the covers on a belly/end dump, load, button it up, drive to the site, and offload. Repeat. Pneumatics take a couple tries to get the hang of to offload smoothly and quickly, but its not rocket science. Expect to have delays crop up here and there due to the frac having issues. Grease the blower and pto shaft every couple of days if it isn't an oil reservoir type. Replace washed out valves and hoses on pneumatics as need be. Easy peasy.

I think you just described all trucking my dude.

Frac sand up here has a guy sleeper living a fair bit, although Whiney was saying it was all within a couple hours drive from the mancamp he was staying in, in his neck of the woods, so it'll vary depending on where you live.

>TFW fuel and propane haulers start at around $34/hr plus full benefits
This doesn't happen.

This. Tractor trailer propane tank truck guy is barely braking 20/hr. And this is in SF Bay.

In oil country in Canada it does. My buddy hauls propane in a bodyjob and earns 32/hr. He made just under 110k last year, working 5 or 6 days a week on a 70/7.

Guys with class 1/class a hauling fuel mostly to rig sites and fracs with the same company start at 36/hr.

I was all lined up to start working there when I left my previous employer, but their head office put a hiring freeze on just after I had my interview so it fell through.

>canadian dollars

So $27 then

Literally no one cares about Cuckanada. Making more money is pointless considering your dollar is weaker and your cost of living is higher.

That's because SF Bay is the liberal Communist mecca and trucks drivers are just stupid Trump supporters who know nothing about smashing the patriarchy and women's rights, stare rape and ((((universal basic income))))

That job anywhere else probably pays bank, shit, here in Florida gasoline tanker yankers for Cumberland Farms start at $24/hr, full benefits home every night.

> Length laws
Why not go with a transverse engine, then?

Have you ever seen a diesel engine?

>Werner

I'll be releasing my manifesto and ultimatum to the trucking industry soon stay tuned

At least he missed the cab. Front cowl, headlights, pod filter and a few small bits and that thing will be in tip top shape again.

Because the crankshaft will exit the engine on the side and it'll suck horse balls to transfer power to the rear wheels. The driveshaft will have to go around several corners.

Straya has lots of cabovers as well which solve the problem by simply putting the cab further up on top of the engine, and Europe operates almost exclusively cabovers.

>implying horse balls aren't fun to suck

A fwd truck wouldn't work, the weight wouldn't be over the drive wheels and imagine the torque steer from a 16L 550+hp 2k torks engine.

Not to mention how ridiculously wide it'd have to be to get a traditional engine/gearbox in sideways.

tfw no qt smol Coronado

Rear engined transverse truck. Easy.

Where does the fifth wheel go?

On the fifth axle

>five axles
>length laws

Also that would become mid-rear engined.

The same place it is now?

Stem student here.
It's hilarious watching you mouth breathing rednecks.
The obvious answer is to make all semi trucks have the engines in the trailers
Similiar to buses
Btw I'll probably start out at 150k/year whenever I graduate

8/10

Holy shit can you imagine if Tesla put motors in the trailer wheels? Like if diesel wasn't BTFO enough as it was. Goddamn, hills would get shit on.

Wait, there actually exist articulated buses where only the rearmost engine is powered? That sounds dangerous as fuck, the trailing unit pushing the steering unit around. Recipe for steering loss in my eyes.

You're thinking too linear
Soon enough the freight itself will have its own motors.
There won't even be trucks.

This honestly.
Trucks had their time.
But eventually Tesla will just motorize the freight itself.

reminder you'll all be replaced by automation in less than 20 years

Planes still have pilots. Much like how freight will always have drivers

>small tank for nitrous

I've legit imagined a world where the freight mover is a single vehicle. It'd be basically a bus with tandem drive axles in the rear, tandem steer axles in the front, coe configuration. The problems are the length restrictions, especially the wheelbase, and the fact that it's probably not efficient in any way whatsoever, with their being no room for it in between traditional daycab combinations and straight vans.

Saw something like this. Though it also had a pickup on the third towed semi and completely off the road

wow cool thanks for sharing

Whiney is dead.

nice neckbeard

>Whine is kill
>No
>MFW

His neck beard is rubbish, low testosterone levels.
What a nancy faggot he is.

Spent the day yesterday playing Chad flatbedder

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>truck drivers thinking they're all hard

My grandmother is half native so my facial hair genes are a bit off.
My T is just fine though, BROTHA.
Def throw ur ass around like a lumber tarp if I wanted. I'm 6'4" 251.

pick up truck tows flatbed trailer to two trucks
pickuptruck drives onto flatbed trailer
flatbed trailer is jacked up with pickuptruck on top
each end of flatbed trailer is connected to fifth wheel of the two trucks.
one truck pulls other truck connected by trailer with pickup truck on top
i seen it once, also

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Go diesel-electric with a battery pack or capacitors as storage. Main drive motors in the tractor's rear axles, with secondary motors for every other wheel. Use a trailer with steerable wheels, and it can literally move itself around a corner. You'd also have assistance for hill climbing. Regenerative braking, silent APU, and you'd need a smaller engine that you'd be running at efficient RPMs pretty much all the time you're moving.
Add cameras to the trailer and launch a small quadcopter drone, and parking becomes easier too.
Maybe laser scanners on the front of the truck to tell you if you can fit through the bridge ahead, too.
I feel technology can improve trucking a lot.

We use articulated trucks for a reason. To move a 40' container around, you'd need it to have all wheel drive and all wheel steering.

>Whiney is dead.
He's just working his ass off where he can't get signal.

Anyways, long story short, I may be driving with Knight. I've heard mostly good things about them, but have recently heard they did a merger(?) with SWIFT or something. Am I making the right choice for driving full 48 with Knight?

Well, Americans also transport their semis like this, so nothing shocks me anymore.

That's how Japan generally does it actually. Three or four axle straight trucks. Articulated combinations exist but they'd be too complicated to maneuver and reverse in their tight urban surroundings so they're the exception.

Why dafuq isn't it let me post shit.

Japanese trucks also look cool as hell. I used to think COE was just an inherently ugly configuration because my only experience with them was those old downs syndrome looking Peterbilts and freightliners and then that euro obsessed bus rider that shits this place up. But then I saw some of them over there last year and was completely taken by surprise.

STEM student here. They exist. Nobody wants them.

I've been making more than my classmates the last 5 years.

That's all available off the shelf for the low-low price of $270,000. Why don't you get one?

48 is a honeypot for knuckle draggers at any company.

Is that I-94?
Overhead crane operator in Detroit here. Know a lot of TMC guys

La Porte, In I-80

Right on, thanks

I'm sorry for your loss.

>Higher education BTFO, will the institution ever recover?

>Suicide knob on a Nissan Micra
Wat.

Break out the Lucas, boys.

Bought this fedora at a casino yesterday. I can finally roll in class.

Switch doesn't have this problem

That's actually a trilby, but you'll be drowning in so much pussy either way that it won't matter.

That Vaseline isn't mine btw I'm training a black guy.

That sounds scary. I don't trust Knight one bit. That's one of the companies that emails me from time to time saying they have open interviews near me. Any place with open interviews like that obviously can't keep anybody around.

I did help him apply the vaseline a few times. Sometimes he is driving and starts to get ashy with this cold weather so he holds the wheel while I reach over and lube him up. For some reason his inner thighs get the worst so I really need to work the jelly in there.

EF fan fiction

>Why don't you get one?
Because, again, I'm not a trucker. I just work in the industry and know a lot about technological stuff.

Incidentally, long-frame ameritrucks are fucking stupid for anything remotely delicate. I only bought it to haul products to sale, and it barely even does that right.
> Towing two loaded trailers
> Drive up ramp to dump load into silo
> Front wheels leave the ground, can't correct the positioning to unload because it can't fucking steer

> Try to back a trailer into a space
> Clip buildings, half the machines in the yard, and jam against the wall
> Have to abort and bring the eurotruck in to fix it

> Try to turn around
> Fail, have to take a longer route around

At least it's easier to haul the gooseneck trailer around with it. The eurotruck keeps jackknifing it because of the rear-steer on the tractor interacting strangely with the trailer wheels steering.

>Not sure which is the real Primely

It's pepsi ya doofus. You'd know if you had him filtered.