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A TURGID FATSO posted:American bureaucracy is quite ineffective with tests as long as you can just memorize the bare minimum. The trucking industry has such high turnover rate for drivers that pretty much anyone that can sit in a drivers seat can be hired if they hold the wheel (relatively straight). So much like the basic license class here. All I had to do was take a summer half-semester of Driver's Ed, and drive some amount of hours with my parents (which they could totally lie about). After that I just went to the DMV to pass the written test and eye test, and from there I was free to go to get my restricted license that let me drive to school and back at the age of 15. My restricted license turned into a full license the night of my 16th birthday. I'm 30 and to this day I have never had to to take a driving test for the DMV. They just test my eyes every five-to-eight years.
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RockNRoll Jesus posted:Really? I'm not doubting you by any means, but the thought of foreign truckers attempting to navigate American highways without even rudimentary knowledge of the English language terrifies me. How does this happen? It SHOULDN'T happen, it's illegal for someone that can not read or speak English to have an interstate CDL. But there are some states that play very fast and loose with the rules. And DMV bribes aren't uncommon.
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The amount of foreign or russian drivers I saw while otr makes me think 95% of the drivers in here could be foreign or russian. Its got all the blood russian down there if you know what mean comrade! *slaps iv8 on the rear end while walking into the steam room*
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About half the drivers who pick up from where I work are Russian and at least one this year clearly had no business driving a semi. He took about an hour to get his truck lined up with our dock which is in the open with more than two truck lengths of clear pavement in front of it to line up in and no incline.
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Mar 26, 2016 20:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg8mf8qonW8
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Speaking of crazy Russians...quote:20,000 Recalled Volvo Trucks To Be Placed Immediately Out Of Service
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InterceptorV8 posted:Speaking of crazy Russians... Those are crazy Swedes
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shortspecialbus posted:Those are crazy Swedes Russians love Volvos.
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The perks of trucking in a country with fjords and mountains: fjords and mountains   Four years ago I was a carefree IT-guy reading "photos from the road" playing ETS. Be careful - it can happen to you! edit: removed video. ill repost when i get home for the weekend truls fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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Apr 7, 2016 13:20
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That sort of reminds me of Western Colorado/eastern Utah, although their turns aren't nearly as sharp.
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truls posted:The perks of trucking in a country with fjords and mountains: fjords and mountains If I didn't have a badly herniated disc and permanent nerve damage in my back, a house, and a wife, I'd honestly consider it. I would also accept "Sea Captain"
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Ahh Volvo you know just how to spin a yarn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UUz1zTZFfU
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This is a classic in the UK, but I figure maybe the colonies won't have seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5tUc1S3cc
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See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tvkMIdnd04 
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A TURGID FATSO posted:American bureaucracy is quite ineffective with tests as long as you can just memorize the bare minimum. The trucking industry has such high turnover rate for drivers that pretty much anyone that can sit in a drivers seat can be hired if they hold the wheel (relatively straight). The term we use for these guys is "meat in the seat".
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From the OSHA thread
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It wants to be a Kamaz when it grows up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZc8bLFncc
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It's fine, the air intake is up by the windshield. The diff breathers, however. Those get thirsty when a hot diff meets cold water.
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Powershift posted:It's fine, the air intake is up by the windshield. Learned a thing. I thought that only the air intake and exhaust mattered. Probably why I'm not a truck driver.
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Totally TWISTED posted:Learned a thing. I thought that only the air intake and exhaust mattered. Probably why I'm not a truck driver. This is important for just about any vehicle on the road, including Jeeps and non-H1 hummers. The drivetrain isn't meant for immersion, water will get into everything. If you take a vehicle swimming, get the fluids checked immediately.
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EightBit posted:If you take a vehicle swimming, get the fluids
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Yep. Anything with a seal that isn't pressure rated needs to be changed out. Shaft seals and the like can usually only handle a few psi before leaking, so even if it has a breather raised pretty high, it doesn't take much water depth to overcome it...
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You say including Jeeps, so every time you see someone take a Jeep through a deep puddle or a shallow stream they're potentially getting water into their diffs or worse? What kind of vehicles do have pressure rated seals? Ex-military stuff I assume?
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The Jeep jk's breathers are 24" off the ground. Many vehicles are lower. And after a good mud session or deep water session, a fluid change is a good idea. Save for unimogs. Unimogs have an air compressor that pressurises the diffs, transfer case, trans, crank case etc. As long as the engine intake doesn't go under water it's good.
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jonathan posted:The Jeep jk's breathers are 24" off the ground. Many vehicles are lower. And after a good mud session or deep water session, a fluid change is a good idea. Always relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okfmSGdT3rA
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MrYenko posted:Always relevant: I wish the covered wagons in Oregon trail could have done that...
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Just found/read the whole thread and some of the poo poo you oilfield guys go through (well, did go through) is amazing. Excellent thread. I'm Operations CIO for a 180 tractor, 400 trailer flatbed company. We do mostly steel, and pre-cast but will haul anything, and everything that demands a flatbed. We're a Qualcomm shop for telematics/cab comm/EOBR, and pretty much use in-house applications for performance monitoring, preventive maintenance, and and anything else we need custom. Dispatch uses TMW. Regardless, if any of you guys have any related questions, feel free to fire away. Oh yeah, and we run two way dashcams.A TURGID FATSO posted:Every once in a while I still wonder how the hell I've gotten myself out of some situations that I've gotten stuck in due to bad directions/GPS coordinates.  I was sitting at a the window seat of a restaurant (the white colored building across the street), and I watched a guy pulling a loaded 10 car stinger trailer execute a perfect, mid-intersection U turn and only grabbed just a bit of curb in front of me. Guy went on back up the street like it ain't no thang as I proceeded to pick up my jaw off the table.
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oooh, an office guy. I've got a question for ya. How many fuckin hours do your clocks have, because the ones in the trucks only have 24.
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Powershift posted:oooh, an office guy. I've been trying to tell dispatch that for years, trust me.
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Don't worry, us oilfield guys are still busting our asses. Snowed 6' today near the Musraeu Lake area of Alberta. Currently working a 14 days on, 1 day off schedule. Since all the saltwater Paki's went back home it's been pretty busy for those of us who live here permanently. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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At least the snow should put the bushfire out right?
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Powershift posted:oooh, an office guy. It's because you are geared too low is all.
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jonathan posted:Don't worry, us oilfield guys are still busting our asses. Snowed 6' today near the Musraeu Lake area of Alberta. Currently working a 14 days on, 1 day off schedule. Since all the saltwater Paki's went back home it's been pretty busy for those of us who live here permanently. Hadn't heard that one before.
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I was sure I had extracted what little life there was left in the mack, but I just saw it on the highway pulling a dry bulker. 12 years now of a tortured life and it's still being put to work. It has to be over a million kms by now.
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Apparently I was out on probation because a mod thinks people from Newfoundland are their own race. That makes sense actually. Edit, unless they think people from Pakistan are a race ?
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I'm not sure what to tell you if you don't realize that what you said is a well known derogatory term for pakistanis. (no, I didn't report you. I saw the post and probation and was like "why did he think that was alright")
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I'm told it's not as well known in the US? But yeah, that's pretty much the worst word you can use about a minority in the UK, and will probably end in violence one way or another.
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