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Shadokin posted:I freely admit I have become completely spoiled by working in the LTL field. Which has led me to me new problem of hating the company I work for, but there is like one maybe two other companies that would pay more then my wife and I make working here. And that's the downside to niche work in a nutshell.
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Splizwarf posted:And that's the downside to niche work in a nutshell. True. It's not entirely a bad problem to have though. As much as I don't like the two terminals I now exclusively deal with, the bullshit is no where near what it was like in my US Xpress days. For the most part the only other company I'd really want to work for is old dominion and even then we would be trading off some pros for cons. I have some friends (who I knew pretty truckers days so it's not the bs trucker talk) who have teamed for them for 4 years now and are set to make 180k this year whereas we will do 140k but are pretty much pay capped. They are out of Atlanta though and get to do a lot of runs out to rialto ca and back. If we got on with them chances are we would spend most of our time running across 80 which can straight go to hell in the winters while hauling doubles.
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Shadokin posted:Biggest advice I have for someone just starting out is gently caress the bullshit companies. Find a niche to get in, tankard, flat bed or ltl and rock it. If you gotta put 6 months In at a crap driver mill company do so, but flee as fast as you can. Now I run terminal to terminal with FedEx and it's the bees knees compared to OTR random dispatch. I'm not on the road for a month at a time and I don't have to deliver paper rolls to a man-made cave in Kansas City, but most importantly I don't have to wander around trying to find an empty trailer or show up at the shipper after hours and then have to explain to dispatch that No, It's Sunday morning and the shipper is closed there is a sign stating the hours I don't care what the planner said I can't get in to pick up the trailer. Ozmiander: Work at a poo poo OTR rookie grinder if you want poo poo stories, or just go find a good LTL where you can get experience and actually make money and might actually like the work. Or a regional carrier. Or bulk or tanker or run reefer from NY to FL and back all day long (HOLY poo poo NO gently caress THE BELTWAY). double edit: R&L trucking is based in the Northeast and they run LTL and sometimes 53 footers. Just try to stay away from some fly by night outfit that may or may not pay you. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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CannonFodder posted:Now I run terminal to terminal with FedEx and it's the bees knees compared to OTR random dispatch. Are you doing a turn and burn aka meet and greet, or are you doing cross country t-t work?
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InterceptorV8 posted:Are you doing a turn and burn aka meet and greet, or are you doing cross country t-t work?
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CannonFodder posted:but in FedEx parlance it's a butthead. Haha. We just call it a swap. As a solo driver for rnl you would either do p&d work which involves working the dock, Linehaul which can be either doing a swap with another driver and ending up back at home terminal or running wild where you may be out up to 5 days running between terminals. Then there's some wackos who do a mix of Linehaul and p&d work. All in all its not bad work but you will work hard and I don't know if they hire straight out of school. Teaming, if you have someone you can do it with, in my opinion is the best way to drive. You will be in demand and can almost have your pick of any company to work for but as the same time this is one of the hardest ways to drive and more importantly sleep.
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Yrc is still teamster, so if you can manage to get on with them that might work out for you.
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A wise man once told me to never team drive with someone you weren't willing to hate.
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Javid posted:A wise man once told me to never team drive with someone you weren't willing to hate. Or gently caress. You will find out more about your team partner then you have ever wanted to know and even if you are loving there will be times you hate each other. I don't think I could drive any other way after the last 3 years teaming with my wife.
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Ha, the Beltway is kid poo poo now compared to 95 South between the Beltway (mile marker 170 I think?) and Exit 130 or so. Almost every weekday this whole year headed south and a lot of days headed north there's been nasty miles-long backups because they've closed all but one or two lanes in multiple places. Think running at night would help? Nope! It's all 24-hour work zones, same problems and same miles-long delays even at 3 am. At least they back it off a little during the rush hours, although usually they do it by loving the traffic even harder in the other direction. The best part is the lane closures have been producing 1000% more fender benders than usual, and they block even more traffic because there's no shoulders anywhere to move the vehicles to (or to get a tow truck through). gently caress my commute. 
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Javid posted:A wise man once told me to never team drive with someone you weren't willing to hate. No I meant union.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRg6qZzUXaM
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Holy poo poo that was amazing, I'd have soaked my pants by the end.
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If I'm hearing correctly it still has air brakes too, which I find a bit interesting. Unless the air spitting noises are coming from something else.
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ijustam posted:If I'm hearing correctly it still has air brakes too, which I find a bit interesting. Unless the air spitting noises are coming from something else. Yeah I'm not sure on the full specs of the truck, but if I remember right, it has the alum framerails of a fuel tanker, slushbox and water cooled brake system.
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Powershift posted:I don't remember parking in the ocean You know you have a drinking problem when...
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I'm still slugging away at salt shakers, and it's really exacerbating my drinking problem. I should have taken a picture of the slack adjuster where I had to turn roughly half of it into liquid via O/A. Would have just cut the cam like normal but had to save the cam for a sample because my parts dept. refuses to order poo poo by VIN, which they ended up doing anyway because the front drive axle has different cams from the rears and I had already cut the other 3. Oh and they're 50% Western Stars, so let me tell you about seized P-clamps
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My new truck has so many god damned issues it's like its trying out for Jerry Springer. Almost $140,000 buck dollar truck. Steering wheel isn't aligned Wheels aren't balanced Power ports aren't correct size, I eject my loving plugged in goodies all the time I have no idea why they put a sliding 5th wheel on it, trailer has to be all the way back to make weight on the steer axle. I'm only getting .3mpg better than my old truck, which is two gens before this engine. ISX twincam non DEF vs ISX singlecam "lowrev MUCHO TORQUE +++ DEF special" They must be using common core math to come up with the HP/TQ numbers Truck tries to burn itself to the ground while in regen. I have one hell of a shimmy at high speeds. TRIM loving FELL OFF, yeah, bodytrim on a new truck, took it for a loving drag. Already pissed out a gallon of coolant for no reason. BENDIX WINGMAN PROFESSIONAL BUTTFUCKING SYSTEM Cruise control doesn't work right. Random engine shake like the engine brake kicked on while under power. Qualcomm doesn't work at all, wait, that's a good thing, nevermind. I already figured out that I can gently caress with my omnitracs with that USB port. I will figure out how to run porn on it. Truck has an issue with watersports. You know those .3mpg I save with diesel? It drinks it in piss. That 2% DEF usage per gallon? BIGGEST loving LIE EVER TOLD. 120,000miles run with 20 fill-ups on a 20 gallon DEF tank? Yeah no. Also DEF weighs 9 pounds per loving gallon. Sweet. Oh yeah, also to improve mileage, they took away some of my gears. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some kids in here with more gears in their sportscars I swear to god.  I find my eyelid twitches a lot now.
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Jesus, what kind of truck? I went and looked at the T880 and Pete 567 and it's pretty much my truck as imagined by paccar. It shares far more in common with my mack than most kenworths/peterbilts. The exchange rate is pretty loving painful right now so it's probably not an option, but we'll see how much work i can get this winter. I wouldn't deal with those kinds of problems, as it would be my truck, and i would have to give a poo poo
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Powershift posted:Jesus, what kind of truck? Brand new International. So very not impressed. I went from a 2010.5 to a 2015 and it's like night and day. There are only two things I can say nice about this truck, the headlights are loving bright as gently caress, and this bitch drops down mountains at mach 6. Sounds funny, but it dives faster. Engine brake is worthless, and it's geared full retard. It's like driving.....gently caress a smog-dog 1975 chevy truck with a 305 and 2.93 rear gears and a TH350 with a load of bricks in the back.
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Yeah, international isn't even in the picture for me. I'd probably go 15 or 16 liter and 600/2050 through 3.90s or 4.30s as well. Even the hardest year is 60,000 miles, but the longest day is up and down the same gravel 12% grade 10 times.
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Ah, that explains it. Doubly so if the VIN starts with the number 3. The last 4 years or so Navistar's QC has become a joke, even compared to their reputation prior to that. At least you didn't get one with a Maxxforce 
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Powershift posted:Yeah, international isn't even in the picture for me. I have no idea what the gently caress is wrong with my engine, they say "cruise it around at low RPM for better fuel mileage", but it isn't there, any by all loving means, give me some loving gears TO use. It doesn't loving help I'm falling out of range each time I shift. I'm barely turning 1550rpm at way faster than the speed limit. I hit a headwind, and I lose loving speed. With 28K in the box. My truck is shameful.
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Tommychu posted:Ah, that explains it. Doubly so if the VIN starts with the number 3. The last 4 years or so Navistar's QC has become a joke, even compared to their reputation prior to that. Oh that reminds me, my truck was the bottom of a three stack, I always get that truck. The Mexican* who drove my truck left me a fuckin' treat. Skidmarks on my driver seat. Thank god I packed cleaning supplies. *don't get bent out of shape, he was a Mexican, worked for TransMex. I just google TransMex. It's loving Swift's Mexican Trucking Company.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Oh that reminds me, my truck was the bottom of a three stack, I always get that truck. The Mexican* who drove my truck left me a fuckin' treat.
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InterceptorV8 posted:*don't get bent out of shape, he was a Mexican, worked for TransMex. I just google TransMex. It's loving Swift's Mexican Trucking Company. People get mad at stereotypes, but they exist for a reason. My trainer at Swift could unerringly guess the race of a truck's driver without seeing them just by looking at what was broken or neglected on it.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Engine brake is worthless, and it's geared full retard. It's like driving.....gently caress a smog-dog 1975 chevy truck with a 305 and 2.93 rear gears and a TH350 with a load of bricks in the back. You could have just said mid-80s Oldsmobile, you know..
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Viggen posted:You could have just said mid-80s Oldsmobile, you know.. The 307 Olds wasn't as bad as the 307 Chevy. Plus it would be hard to stuff half a ton of dead hookers into a Olds.
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InterceptorV8 posted:The 307 Olds wasn't as bad as the 307 Chevy. You've never owned on with the 231 Buick V6 in it, I see. Also, it is quite easy to set 6 bodies in the trunk of a G body. 
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Viggen posted:You've never owned on with the 231 Buick V6 in it, I see. Also, it is quite easy to set 6 bodies in the trunk of a G body. maybe up there, but down here the hookers are getting pretty goddamn fat. 3 or so would bend the frame on a buick. Intercepter: Holy what a loving pile. I miss the N14 days.
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Viggen posted:You've never owned on with the 231 Buick V6 in it, I see. Also, it is quite easy to set 6 bodies in the trunk of a G body. cursedshitbox posted:maybe up there, but down here the hookers are getting pretty goddamn fat. 3 or so would bend the frame on a buick. It's wintertime! Yeah, it's really disappointing to say the least. I mean it's like poo poo was installed by Micheal J Fox and the dude in charge of QC was blinder than ray charles. But that's OK because everything was marked OK! With a waterproof grease pencil that won't come off.
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Brakleen with toluene/xylene/ethylbenzene in it should take that off pretty quick. I hate the poo poo because it is full of nasty chemicals but it does work great on grease pencil. It may also take off the clearcoat, paint, and several layers of plastic under the grease pencil however.
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Went to an ATA show. All the trucks were so bright and shiny and had all kinds of plush interiors. Something tells me it was all lies. Here have a picture of a truck and an engine:  
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Please tell me you took more pictures than that...
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I call bullshit, that's two pictures of a truck and an engine. What's the odd man out canister?
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Splizwarf posted:What's the odd man out canister? The short life one.
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Clocked a guy going 50 miles per hour over the speed limit with my radar tonight, best thing? Cop didn't even chase him, guess he was too busy trying to make it to the whorehouse for half priced blowjobs.
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 Trailer brakes were stuck on or something, permanent cloud of blue smoke whenever it got moving. But they stopped to air up the tires at least!
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