OK you truckers...
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Well, I was going to tout how Walmart was a very good company to drive for and give all the reasons but I know that would be like yelling 'I love Hillary' at a MAGA rally.
Seriously guys, they pay well, they have a meticulously maintained fleet of very nice equipment, and it's 100% drop & pick. Plus, Le Federales wave them through. If you keep your nose clean and your mouth shut, you'll do well there. And I'm 100% a Union man but even I have respect their drivers. I met them all the time at backhauls at they weren't no turkeys.
Seriously guys, they pay well, they have a meticulously maintained fleet of very nice equipment, and it's 100% drop & pick. Plus, Le Federales wave them through. If you keep your nose clean and your mouth shut, you'll do well there. And I'm 100% a Union man but even I have respect their drivers. I met them all the time at backhauls at they weren't no turkeys.
A rare picture of the birth of a trucker. 
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
Well here you go Stan. I guess you're on to something.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
You give them a honest day's work for an honest day's pay
You then punch out and leave all the bullshit at the warehouse.
There is something to be said for that.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
Correction, punch out and climb in the bunk to stare at the ceiling for 10 hours.
They are not letting you go home because you will drive back and forth to Georgia.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
But you get to drive a new shiny white Cascadia with a real-time satellite tracking Snitch Box and a governor...
Probably with an Allison now, too.
Damn. I think that's why I retired now that I think about it.
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
They put some of their driver's up in hotels, even when they had the big sleepers, driver's never complained.
twostick
Senior Member
Guaranteed it won't be an Allison. $25k option. Eaton auto shift or equivalent automated conventional transmission perhaps.
Kevin
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
If I leave .my phone at home, no one can track me. That alone makes all these nickel dime repairs seem worth it.
Of course it would not be hard to find me. I only go to < a dozen places loaded out of 5 main places.
Of course it would not be hard to find me. I only go to < a dozen places loaded out of 5 main places.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Yet, this conversation of hating your job started this.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
It's the government abuse and overkill is ruining my job not the actual job.
Tennessee was guilty of it years ago. Aggressive DOT inspections mainly for profit, now lots of states have joined the cash register banging group. The other thing that promotes this is Feds and state handing out grants to maintain DOT trained officers. They have no business crawling around under my truck, and would not no a serious violation if it fell on them, but they know the hot spots to look for.
Meanwhile down the street a couple of blocks, opioids are being sold in record numbers, but they have to do X number of inspections to qualify for the block grant money.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Let's face it. They are "profiling". They see a hundred new, white, Fleet Cascadias loaded out with 42,000 lbs. to the oz. then a 25 YO sinister black Pete with straight pipes chugs along and, Bang... You're it.
Black Trucks Matter.
Do you think the VSGPDGT and his admin guys will ease up on the mandatory rest periods and electronic driving tracker deal for independent drivers at some point? As a driver you are much closer to following whatever is/may be being looked at than I, I imagine. My uncle is a trucker, bank owns his truck, but he hauls for one company now that distributes loads.
Curious
also with the reported shortage of drivers easing those type of things would help that right?
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
I realize why they made it 10 hours off when everyone was on paper logs (you can tweak a bit) you would end up with 7-8 hours of rest /relax. With the current electronic logs you would end up sitting there staring at the damn thing for 3-4 hours, waiting till you can leave.
Yes, there is some profiling for my old truck, but there is just too many, and all are not there to pass out clean inspections. Everyone knows that no truck is perfect.
The next log book change will be the accountability of your off duty time.
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Az an EX O.O. Hell yes I cheated once in ah while on my funny bookz. Ran around more then one chicken house too 'Cuz I knew I waz runnin' ah bit over weight or over demential in Missouri, lol. But I never messed with uppers and knew when to stop and let my eyez snap shut. Kinda glad I'm not out there anymore. Don't think I'd like all the changes. I waz no BJ & the Bear out there either and made a pretty damn good living for alotta yearz doin' what I needed to do to accomplish that, Jer
anyone know if there is some relief in site for the mandatory 10 stops or more rational application? From talking with my uncle you can burn a lot of hours waiting to be loaded then forced to rest w/o even having much seat time on actual driving to destination. Seems current rules are very inefficient.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Ok. The other side of the coin.
I was a company driver.
Without the DOT rules for ON, OFF, DRIVING, there were days my company would have worked me to death.
And they couldn't send me out driving 12 hrs. and turn me around and make me come back under the 15 hr. limit.
FTS
I was a company driver.
Without the DOT rules for ON, OFF, DRIVING, there were days my company would have worked me to death.
And they couldn't send me out driving 12 hrs. and turn me around and make me come back under the 15 hr. limit.
FTS
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
It is the mouth breather's disregard for these rules that got us in this mess. They pre-trip then log 10 or now eleven hours straight. Meanwhile they stopped her there and everywhere, not logging that as off duty/break/tire check/waitress hassling, whatever then they drive the other3,4,5 hours to get where they need to be and if they wreck in that time they become a statistic, and in all reality they are legal, and are just too stupid to do a log book correctly.
The 10 hours off, is too long. Needs to go back to 8, it never will because of the same dummies that take 3 hours to scrub their balls, and eat a meal end up with only 4-5 hours of sleep.instead of what they need (whatever that may be).
I'm glad I'm local and have a old truck so none of this applies to me. That does not stop Johnny, I have know idea what I'm looking at on your truck, Law from stopping me thinking I just blew in from the West coast in my 34 year old truck. Which BTW is illegal in CA.
Just hating the system for taking the good out of my job.
Didn't know about that TOO OLD THING in California Dave. Iz that new or? I looked most of the yearz I waz out there chasing for ah Pre WWII long Nose Pete, KW, or an American La-France to do ah Glider in reverse on. Wonder what any of the Port-of-Entry on the Shaky Side would do with that beauty? I'm still lookin' but I got old too quick. 'Course the Horse would have tah be an old 4 1/4 Industrial Cat at 2-3 mpg but could they ever pull, LMFAO
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