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Yeah, but imagine how awesome it would look. i mean, look how awesome those tires make a schoolbus look 
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That is a pretty boss short bus, I gotta say.
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Dec 22, 2014 04:31
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I want to go to cool school
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Dec 22, 2014 07:12
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Why the gently caress would you build that, and not put zoomies on it?
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Dec 22, 2014 20:23
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http://youtu.be/LyV0sWEJXP4 Add this to poo poo I won't loving be doing.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:18
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InterceptorV8 posted:http://youtu.be/LyV0sWEJXP4
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Dec 25, 2014 01:02
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nmfree posted:I predict primary uses of those tablets will be many, many cock pics and videos of lot lizards. I HAVE A ISSUE! Is it a blow out, or is that a hairy anus?
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Dec 25, 2014 01:28
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InterceptorV8 posted:I HAVE A ISSUE!
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Dec 25, 2014 04:07
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nmfree posted:In the case of goatse, both. Also,  Cheryl Merkowski .
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Dec 25, 2014 04:09
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Soon to be CDL grad. Looking to do regional so I can be home on the weekends. Tons of companies to choose from. Out of the bigger companies, are they all pretty much the same poo poo? I'm leaning towards Werner
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Dec 25, 2014 04:47
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AllPraiseToAllah posted:Soon to be CDL grad. What region are you looking at? You might be able to find a smaller carrier that will be less poo poo.
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Dec 25, 2014 06:14
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Watch out, quite a few megacarriers are moving to all automatic fleets, which will make you completely undesirable to other outfits.
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Dec 25, 2014 06:49
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xpost from schadenfreude thread
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Dec 26, 2014 06:15
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`Nemesis posted:xpost from schadenfreude thread Same yard? :P
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Dec 26, 2014 06:25
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AllPraiseToAllah posted:Soon to be CDL grad. Werner is... ok. They have problems with lovely equipment. If you are ever moved to a used truck, LOOK THROUGH THE OUTBOUND QUALCOMM MESSAGES, you will find the problem you are looking for because the previous driver got fed up with that truck after complaning for a few weeks. My dad and I didn't have that problem, we took it straight to the appropriate dealer and said fix that poo poo. And the trailer situation is a horror show. But that holds for all OTR fleets compared to Thing is, the bigger companies are pretty much all the same poo poo. There are good regional and bad regional runs, and most of that deals with what the planner has set up and if the shippers are on the same time table (they aren't). It's all about one hand not knowing that the other hand is doing. InterceptorV8 posted:Watch out, quite a few megacarriers are moving to all automatic fleets, which will make you completely undesirable to other outfits. And I drive a flappy paddle auto in my small fleet and it's the bees knees.
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Dec 26, 2014 09:34
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Totally TWISTED posted:What region are you looking at? You might be able to find a smaller carrier that will be less poo poo. San Antonio a Wener recruiter came and talked about dedicate regional for doller general. AllPraiseToAllah fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Dec 26, 2014 |
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Dec 26, 2014 16:56
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CannonFodder posted:And I drive a flappy paddle auto in my small fleet and it's the bees knees. They're doing flappy paddles now? Interesting. Is it a proper auto or an autoshift? And if the latter is it Eaton or a Meritor ZF (or Volvo)?
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Dec 26, 2014 18:26
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My brother drives a tri-drive auto 18 speed (auto shift) and it runs on natural gas. He hauls nitrogen for frac operations. Says the new 18 speeds are perfect. No downsides. And he's in mud up to the bumper being pulled by dozers. He also loves that he's never more than a 1/2 tank of fuel from home because where are you going to refuel ? jonathan fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Dec 26, 2014 |
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Dec 26, 2014 20:49
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Tommychu posted:They're doing flappy paddles now? Interesting. Is it a proper auto or an autoshift? And if the latter is it Eaton or a Meritor ZF (or Volvo)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbXFMwtuxyY AllPraiseToAllah posted:San Antonio
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Dec 26, 2014 23:23
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AllPraiseToAllah posted:San Antonio Isn't that driver unload account?
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Dec 27, 2014 10:24
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InterceptorV8 posted:Isn't that driver unload account? Hell yeah. I want to. Why do truckers shudder in fear at the though of having to do a little manual labor?
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Dec 27, 2014 21:17
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AllPraiseToAllah posted:Hell yeah. I want to. Why do truckers shudder in fear at the though of having to do a little manual labor? Probably because anything found broken is thrown back on you.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:16
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AllPraiseToAllah posted:Hell yeah. I want to. Why do truckers shudder in fear at the though of having to do a little manual labor? Because the companies also have this fear of paying me to toss poo poo around I guess?
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Dec 27, 2014 23:15
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AllPraiseToAllah posted:Hell yeah. I want to. Why do truckers shudder in fear at the though of having to do a little manual labor? I probably wouldn't want to drive for 10 hours, unload for 2 hours, and then drive 10 more hours but that's just me.
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Dec 28, 2014 00:34
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Totally TWISTED posted:I probably wouldn't want to drive for 10 hours, unload for 2 hours, and then drive 10 more hours but that's just me. It's more than that, you get underpaid for most of your unloading time. Would you want to take a 55% to 65% paycut? AND lose out on drive time? Maybe if it's a daily return home account or something that makes up for it. My final straw was a 8 pallet load of paper plates, I paid out $245 for a lumper service to pull them. Next load was a '53 foot trailer of mattresses. They (the company) wanted to pay me $50 to unload the whole thing.
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Dec 28, 2014 01:21
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InterceptorV8 posted:It's more than that, you get underpaid for most of your unloading time. Would you want to take a 55% to 65% paycut? AND lose out on drive time? Maybe if it's a daily return home account or something that makes up for it. My final straw was a 8 pallet load of paper plates, I paid out $245 for a lumper service to pull them. Next load was a '53 foot trailer of mattresses. Interesting that does sound like poo poo. I mainly deal with flatbed freight so driver unload isn't a thing at all.
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Dec 28, 2014 01:33
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That's probably the single greatest thing I like about doing container work over the fridge van work I've done in the past where I had to manually pallet jack it all either on or off once every trip No matter what's in the box, it only takes 2 minutes to lift up 22 tonne and plop it on the trailer.
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Dec 28, 2014 02:56
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Some places use "driver unload" to just mean they want you to pay them to do it. Then you get to have fun with comchex and reimbursement. One place in SLC has forklifts, but only their employees can use them. You or your company doesn't want to pay them to lump? Here's a pallet jack. All the big chain stores I ever dealt with took care of their own poo poo, though.
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Dec 28, 2014 05:48
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I was a lumper at a supermarket DC for a few months. We weren't allowed to use any of the electric jacks they had, we could only use these old lovely pump jacks that could barely clear the dock plate. If you had a load that was all chep pallets, you were hosed. In order to unload those we had to put wood on the forks just to get the extra clearance. Every week we would get a liquor load and the driver would bring his own (rider) jack. He was nice enough to let us borrow it for heavier loads, like C&H sugar or double stacked bundles of firewood.
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Dec 28, 2014 06:17
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The Werner Dollar General account doesn't use pallets, they use these big rolling cabinet things and a lift gate sometimes. I've pulled the empty trailers around sometimes to go to a DG distro and pull away a trailer full of pallets. The DG account has a whole different pay system. I can't vouch for the pay system, but I can say the E-LOG system is now done minute to minute instead of in 15 minute chunks. Just be sure to ask about short hauls. When I worked there I could do a 30 minute run from one place in Indianapolis to another and get paid 0 miles because they were using HHMG miles which means if the start and end had the same name for the city, it counts as zero. In San Antonio and possibly Houston (I could see them sending you over there for a day or two) that means a 40 mile 2 hour drive in the same city for no miles. You are looking at a retail run with lots of stops so there might not be a lot of miles in between but there's plenty of time and a whole lot of time trying to back into a store not exactly built for a 53' trailer with a condo tractor. Javid posted:Some places use "driver unload" to just mean they want you to pay them to do it. Then you get to have fun with comchex and reimbursement. One time in Jersey we had to hire a lumper because we were not allowed on the dock because union bullshit, and they only took cash and rivaled molasses in their pace. CRST refunded the bill (because they pay nothing up front but are cool with refunds also only get the truck washed every other month) but that is my most egregious lumper story. 4 hours to empty a trailer I could empty faster with a pallet jack. And I've actually been certified for forklift work but that was with Roadway 15 years ago.
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Dec 28, 2014 06:36
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poo poo that's a little better than floor stack with broken rollers.
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Dec 28, 2014 07:16
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InterceptorV8 posted:poo poo that's a little better than floor stack with broken rollers.
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This whole thing sounds crazy to me. We always load and unload trucks we get deliveries on or ship out on. We couldn't afford to have them tie up our docks unloading with a pallet jack even if we wanted to be assholes about it. Plus, I don't think unloading 3000lb steel coils with a pallet jack is really practical.
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Dec 28, 2014 16:27
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:This whole thing sounds crazy to me. We always load and unload trucks we get deliveries on or ship out on. We couldn't afford to have them tie up our docks unloading with a pallet jack even if we wanted to be assholes about it. Plus, I don't think unloading 3000lb steel coils with a pallet jack is really practical. Yeah, I remember when we would get a flatbed at work, and it was elbows and assholes to get all our poo poo off it. Unlike a union dock, in which case, it can take longer to load the trailer than it takes to drive the load in. I wish I was kidding when I say I've been hand unloaded by little old ladies quicker than I've been forklift loaded by beefy union guys with forklifts. CannonFodder posted:It's not that bad, and it's a major account for Werner so the dispatch and planners might even know what's going on. Yeah, sometimes a stopped clock is right.... I might sound a bit cranky but I've been having some major loving issues with my new-to-me DM. Including him forgetting to contact me, loosing track of where I am, forgetting to grab the correct loads, and having me try and be in two places at once. I'm good, but I haven't figured out how to be that good.
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Dec 28, 2014 23:17
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I also might be a real lovely mood because I had to hand someone a new delivery schedule that pretty much told them before the company told them they are jobless in a month. On the day after Christmas too.
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Dec 28, 2014 23:30
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Silly question I thought you guys would be able to answer: I passed an artic the other day that had green tyres on the trailer, totally green carcass, tread etc. What's with?
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Jesus. Was just in vegas house hunting and driving back to SF with the folks... God drat that's a ginormous inspection station that caltrans/CHP is building on I15 just outside of primm. A couple miles of dedicated wait lanes for incoming trucks.... I'm guessing running a loop around Palmdale to come in the back way into LA without hitting a scale with a non carb truck isn't going to be a thing by next summer.
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I seriously thought that was a truckstop its so loving big. woah. You guys are about to get a deep inspection.
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Big K of Justice posted:Jesus. Was just in vegas house hunting and driving back to SF with the folks... Instead of fixing like 211 miles of interstate, they are building that. A bargain at half the price.
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So today I had my DMV test for my Class A, and I did great up until the last skill (Alley Dock), where I proceeded to fail miserably. The CA DMV gives you 12 points across 3 skills, and I finished my straight back and offset without losing any points, however I quickly burned them all with the alley dock. The issue is, for CDL testing the local DMV rents a lot from the KFC and church on the corner, so the skills are marked out with removable tape and a few cones, as I don't think they're allowed to paint permanent lines. My theory is that our recent heavy rains peeled up all the lines and they just stuck them back down, even if they weren't perfect (they're all broken up and don't stick very well anymore). For whatever reason though, the alley dock was narrower than it normally is at the school (which is marked out to DMV specification); so narrow that even with my trailer aligned, I only had a couple inches of clearance on either side. In fact, when walking me through the instructions before attempting the skill, the instructor (who was very nice by the way) let me know that for only the cones in the alley dock area, I was allowed to run over the bases, but not touch the orange part. In short, I was dealing with a space that was much narrower than what I practiced with, and instead of remaining calm, I panicked a bit and hosed up instead of thinking things out. When trying it the first time, I tried to do it exactly as I'd practiced a million times at the school, which meant trying to maintain all the same distances and same angles when turning in. The problem is, with it that much narrower, it isn't possible to turn in the way I'm used to without clipping the outer front cone or encroaching the line between the first and second outer cone. Instead what I should have done is started further away from the alley dock (as far as I could without risking going outside the boundary with the tractor when starting to angle in), so I could breach the front cones with the back of the trailer, at a much steeper angle. Then I could have pulled forward to straighten and been in a much better position. I think what bothers me the most about it (beyond the fact I have to wait another week now), is that after that initial attempt, my gut was telling me to just go ahead and reset entirely. I had 2 free pull-ups and 12 points; there was no reason to not spend a pull-up and try it again with a better angle, instead of what I did, which was throwing away points to save my current attempt, when there just wasn't any room to do it. I was counting my points and finally decided to reset once I only had the one point left, which was incredibly stupid of me. I think what makes it worst of all, is that I was nearly dead on when I tried it again from the position I should have done it from to begin with, but knowing I had no points left, I couldn't do a final pull-up to get the tractor and trailer perfectly straight with each other, and the lack of clearance meant the rear of the trailer barely encroached over the line, and I was done. Edit: InterceptorV8 posted:Instead of fixing like 211 miles of interstate, they are building that. My little unincorporated community has a single traffic light that has been broken and blinking red for months now, and many of the roads are disintegrating into gravel, but the county somehow found the funds to install 3 of those solar powered "You are going this fast XX. Slow down" electronic signs. I've said it before, but it'd be almost funny how mismanaged everything is (state and county level), if it wasn't so drat sad. The King of Swag fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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