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InterceptorV8 posted:In other news, the trim just fell off my sleeper windows, at 15,000 miles more poo poo has fallen off my new truck than my old truck. I'm impressed. Depends on where. There is a facebook page, oilfield fuckups. Lots of similar pictures in North Dakota, Texas etc. It's just they deal with it for a weekend, not 2 or 3 months.
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kastein posted:Rolling, or sliding? The tires on those things aren't worth a gently caress of a lot on ice. Unless they have the worlds largest set of tire chains.
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CharlesM posted:Why's that? Because mud gets into the rivers and kills the fish even if there isn't a river within 500 miles that has fish. You gotta remember as well, I once lived in CA, and that place was king of crazy laws.
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Also how hosed up is it that I am thinking about taking a port truck job just to get away from this retard I'm working with now?
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Bucephalus posted:I see you've met Nutcup. My massage would have been difficult to refuse. I would have made the situation much more natural and comfortable. Made you realize how much you meant to me and helped you hone your skills as a driver. *cradles his chin with clasped fingers while longingly gazing at you going through the gears of that 18 speed with a bit of half double clutch. You pop it out of gear and drop your rpms and then just a bit of clutch you line those gears up to cradle each other in an embrace of tremendous torque.
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nutcup posted:My massage would have been difficult to refuse. I would have made the situation much more natural and comfortable. Made you realize how much you meant to me and helped you hone your skills as a driver. *cradles his chin with clasped fingers while longingly gazing at you going through the gears of that 18 speed with a bit of half double clutch. You pop it out of gear and drop your rpms and then just a bit of clutch you line those gears up to cradle each other in an embrace of tremendous torque. He is risen!
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California would cite the bottle for failing to display hazmat signage
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I would like to thank everybody for loving up so badly that you paid for all my Christmas gifts in one day. My family will enjoy their gifts paid for in your tears.
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I wasn't joking when i said it looked like the truck was parked in the ocean. Also, what the gently caress, using galvanized steel on a part right beside the tire. cleaned on a wire wheel.  And covered in rock guard. Good for another 10 years.  I also went nuts on the fittings. Fresh out of the  Cleaned and painted  No question as to what truck it came off of.  Bonus resto-porn    
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Hummer Driving human being posted:I bought a CB and antenna when I went from southern Virginia to DC almost every weekend for six months. Channel 19 was very active. The speed trap and traffic warnings are the only useful part of it. The rest of it is people complaining about Obama or getting into racist shouting matches or someone with an illegal amplifier drowning everyone else out playing some crappy music or making fart noises just to make everyone angry. CB radio is internet forums for people who can't read.
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Powershift posted:Bonus resto-porn Kinda surprised a guy like you doesn't have a sandblasting cabinet. That stuff looks pretty good for wire wheel work. What kind of rock guard did you use?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Kinda surprised a guy like you doesn't have a sandblasting cabinet. That stuff looks pretty good for wire wheel work. I bought like 20 big cans of kleen flo from princess auto a few years ago when they had it on sale for 3 bucks a can. I'm down to the last couple cans now. I used to have a full sandblasting set-up for rock stuff, but it was far too large of a set-up to keep around for light work. I was thinking of getting a cheapo gravity feed gun from princess auto, but knowing how long it took to do poo poo with the full size set-up, i figured a brass wheel would be 10 times quicker.
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Why does everything off your truck look like it's been on a fishing boat? loving get yourself a zinc boat anode Capt'n Powershift, Royal Canuck Navy.
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InterceptorV8 posted:loving get yourself a zinc boat anode Capt'n Powershift, Royal Canuck Navy.
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I think that's nutcup.
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Gentlemen a reminder: always make sure your loads are strapped, braced, or blocked. We've had a pretty serious accident recently that could have been avoided by making sure the load was blocked to keep it from sliding around.
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Let's see it. Also I pretty much assume some lovely loader sealed a trailer with loose pallets, as they like to do.
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Javid posted:Let's see it. Not even pallets. Dry van with about a dozen big steel forms sitting on the floor heading to a plastic molding factory.
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Was the driver supplied with suitable straps or whatever to tie them all down? Or does your company pull the "buy $200 of straps and load locks yourself and we totally won't accidentally shred the receipt" maneuver like most of them?
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I'm not sure if any other details really. We do provide comcheks up front for straps.
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So the receipt thing, then.
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Powershift posted:I bought like 20 big cans of kleen flo from princess auto a few years ago when they had it on sale for 3 bucks a can. I'm down to the last couple cans now. have you ever tried electrolytic rust removal on stuff like that? it took the rust off a big ol' rusty knife I had, and all I needed was some baking soda (cooked in the oven to convert it to washing soda), rebar, a PC power supply with a paperclip shoved in the control line to turn it on, and a bucket. would it even work on the brass parts?
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angryhampster posted:Not even pallets. Dry van with about a dozen big steel forms sitting on the floor heading to a plastic molding factory. Gotta be careful doing poo poo like that with modern dry vans. Most are going so light weight that you can't even use load-locks anymore as they will push out the walls and damage the trailer. I've hauled odd poo poo in a box before, but the place that loaded it was well aware of this issue and had guys go into the trailers and nailgun blocks of wood into the floor to block and poo poo. Curtainsides are better for this as they are set up to strap poo poo down, and you can cover the load pretty easy. Powershift posted:
You know what, I look at this poo poo, and I wonder how many brake chambers get ripped off. Have you seen how low loving disc brake chambers are?
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Javid posted:Was the driver supplied with suitable straps or whatever to tie them all down? Or does your company pull the "buy $200 of straps and load locks yourself and we totally won't accidentally shred the receipt" maneuver like most of them? But don't worry, you'll still get in trouble for not properly securing a load that was bolt-sealed before you ever were assigned the load.
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atomicthumbs posted:have you ever tried electrolytic rust removal on stuff like that? it took the rust off a big ol' rusty knife I had, and all I needed was some baking soda (cooked in the oven to convert it to washing soda), rebar, a PC power supply with a paperclip shoved in the control line to turn it on, and a bucket. They are brass and aluminum Cam locks on steel fittings. Electrolysis would probably transfer material from one to the other.
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CannonFodder posted:Well if you work for a large enough company that doesn't care that much just go around a drop yard once to get 3 load locks and a few more straps to stow in the box and you're good to go. Don't ask service at a terminal, that creates a paper trail.  Unless you're an O/O who never deals with sealed trailers, don't buy your own straps or locks, since they're liable to wind up in a sealed trailer you'll never see again.The flip side is companies that do care gently caress you coors in irwindale requiring you to pay them $90 for a bulkhead made of reject-grade 2x4s that self-destructs as soon as you unload - but at least they have it there. However, I give them props for having their poo poo together better than 90% of customers since they gave you a load of homogenous weight and had already worked out where it needed to sit to be legal, so there was no back and forth between the scale and the dock while they tried to shove every possible molecule of cargo in there. Also you'll never see that $90 again. Also that load still shifted. Good thing they weigh the entire axle and not each side.
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In an effort to attract more drivers, my company is offering them equivalent health insurance benefits as the corporate office employees. As a corporate office employee, my health insurance benefits have been made worse to match those of what is offered to the drivers.
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FogHelmut posted:In an effort to attract more drivers, my company is offering them equivalent health insurance benefits as the corporate office employees. As a corporate office employee, my health insurance benefits have been made worse to match those of what is offered to the drivers. Hahaha corporations rule 
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FogHelmut posted:In an effort to attract more drivers, my company is offering them equivalent health insurance benefits as the corporate office employees. As a corporate office employee, my health insurance benefits have been made worse to match those of what is offered to the drivers. That's almost as good as our dental plan, with a max payout that matches almost exactly what you pay into it year. Want $1200 in coverage? That's $1200 a year!  Do what I did for vision, since you can only deduct a percent if you pay for vision and get a plan, I pay for everything cash and deduct the full amount since I have to wear glasses to drive a semi, but not a normal car or pick-up. So tell me, are you guys getting the $15,000 a year deducible plan, or $20,000 a year one? And you know that the president/owner's plan covers everything down to nightly visits from nurse nutcup.
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Game on bitches.  3 hours in and the truck is already SO muddy.
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Powershift posted:Game on bitches. You got the windshield replaced, I'm impressed!
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Ozmiander posted:
I don't know, I am in one now and it's pretty loud, and the doors sound cheap as hell when they close, like an old Hyundai. I had a 1992 Western Star when it was new for a couple years and it was a whole different animal. Quieter and tighter, both in fit and cab space.
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9axle posted:I don't know, I am in one now and it's pretty loud, and the doors sound cheap as hell when they close, like an old Hyundai. I had a 1992 Western Star when it was new for a couple years and it was a whole different animal. Quieter and tighter, both in fit and cab space. Yeah, their quality really took a nosedive in the early '00s 
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Tommychu posted:Yeah, their quality really took a nosedive in the early '00s when they moved to America ?
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jonathan posted:when they moved to America ? Freightliner bought them didn't they? 
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jonathan posted:when they moved to America ?  (Mercedes bought them, at the end of the '90s IIRC but I know for sure '02 was the year they shut the Kelowna plant down and moved production to the US)
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Hummer Driving human being posted:I bought a CB and antenna when I went from southern Virginia to DC almost every weekend for six months. Channel 19 was very active. The speed trap and traffic warnings are the only useful part of it. The rest of it is people complaining about Obama or getting into racist shouting matches or someone with an illegal amplifier drowning everyone else out playing some crappy music or making fart noises just to make everyone angry. See, CBs were the internet before the internet existed.
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Loading site is less than 2km off pavement Unloading site is less than 2km off pavement. Only 10km of pavement in between. Dream job in decent weather. One tiny foot of snow, and it's chaining up twice per trip because the loading site is entirely downhill from the highway and the unloading site is entirely uphill from the highway.
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