Comments By Scott B.

If you are doing food grade tanker you have to deal with... I don't know? Animal smells? Perhaps unpaved roadways in/around farm areas? I never did food grade, so no idea. But there are many types of food grade, so you could be hauling orange juice, milk, liquid sweeteners, liquid chocolate, or even alcohol. So it's not all sunny farmland in food grade, you may going to/from industrial food processing plants.

I've seen a lot of food grade tankers hauling milk which means smooth bore (hope you like to bounce) and hauling chicken blood. I can't imagine that smells very good.

Apologies to my legions of adoring fans but I haven't updated this post in a couple days. Nothing really new and exciting to post. It seems the favor I get for getting the hot load to Dallas there 4 hours early was a load of beer back to Nashville and then another Amazon load back to Dallas. The beer delivered at 0400 and the Amazon picks up at 1730 giving me 3 hrs less time than the last load. It's now 1720 and no load yet so we'll see. My partner is sitting real close to 29000 out of 30k so I look to be getting another pretty soon. In all honesty, I hope to stay with him beyond his 30k and get upgraded at the same time. Lots of people have been getting upgraded early but it really cuts out this cheap team freight they get out of the phase 2 trainees.

On a side note, I read back through this thread and noticed that I've made a lot of derogatory statements and complaints about my current partner. I'd like to apologize for that because that's not really part of my character. Although he isn't reading this and doesn't know it's being posted, he has no recourse to my complaints and there is only one side of this story being told. The guy is pretty young and probably requires less sleep and less money than I do and it's not right for me to try to pressure him into running as hard as I would like to. I'm sure he's just as sick of me as I am of him. I promise I'll continue to try to add some comedy to this thread but I'm gonna stop getting my chuckles at someone else's expense. Thanks for reading guys, I'll be back.

Trust me. You don't wanna be up there. It's not just braking that would totally suck. Every little bump and sway gets magnified in he sleeper berth. In the top bunk it's magnified even more. Picture a ball tied to a string being swung in a circle. The distance and speed the ball is traveling is way greater than the string where it's being held. Same thing applies to the top bunk.

Also, look up some videos of trucks striking low bridges. You definitely don't want to be in the top bunk when that happens.

If the demand for drivers keeps increasing and be # of drivers is decreasing, how is it that driver wages stay the same for like what,? last 20 yrs or so? Kinda off topic but the answer is probably so much government regulation causing free market dislocation.

Brett, I think you're reply belongs on a political website. It's wasted on a trucking website. I am getting sick of tired of every facet of American life being dictated by some schmuck from somewhere between Baltimore and Richmond. Politicians have to support stupid regulations lest someone else say they are against safety. See it all the time. If someone doesn't support nationalized healthcare they are said to believe the poor don't deserved healthcare. If they don't want the state to provide contraception they are anti- women. If they don't support ludicrous trucking ndustry regulations they are anti- safety blah blah blah.

And the fact that my fuel stops usually are 8.5 to 9 hrs apart makes it very annoying. That's not really a problem inherent in fmcsa regs though. I don't do restarts either unless I'm forced to wait over a weekend or holiday. What peeves me off is when I do sit for 34 hours, I atleast want my 70 back in consolation. Not sit around for a few more hours waitin on 5 am so I can hit rush hour at whatever city I'm near.

You don't have to hit rush hour at 5 am with everyone else. You can start later in 5 he morning after rush hour. Like 9 or 10 am.

You're right. I don't HAVE to do anything but die and pay taxes. However I was referring to he occasion where I have already been forced to sit for 34 hrs yet haven't completed a restart because it's not 5 am yet. Have 2 choices. Sit that whole time and not get my hours back. Or wait x amount of additional hours until it's 5 am. Oh, and the 3 rd choice you gave. Wait x additional hours for 5 am and then wait 5 MORE hours for rush hour to end. At that point I'm getting close 2 whole days.

What's up with the Little America place in Wyoming. Is it worth a stop or just another truck stop with a lot of fancy billboards?

P.S. Been to tiger stadium in Baton Rouge before. The SEC really does have some of he finest places in the world to watch a football game. However, I much prefer to watch LSU play at the Georgia Dome for the SEC championship. It cuts down on a lot of LSU fans since there's nowhere to park an air boat. Go Dawgs!!!

I-77 S in WV about MM 81 or 82 there is an exit on a fairly steep downgrade. Two rock haulers where apparently running together when the lead truck decided to take the exit while the 2nd truck was in the left lane for some reason. The 2nd truck slammed his brakes completely locking them up and jerked the wheel to the right. He was now at highway speed traveling across the highway directly into the side of a mountain. Then he hit the taper of the exit and I'll swear til I die that he caught a little bit of air but I can't be 100% sure because of the clouds of dust, tire smoke and brake smoke everywhere. At that point, the driver locks the brakes down again and did what looked like a power slide one would do on a motorcycle back to the left and calmly slowed down for the light at the bottom of the ramp. Wish I had it on a dash cam because the entire maneuver was just unbelievable. The black marks in the highway are still there and if you see them it's fairly easy to re-create the event. My jaw was pretty much laying on top of the shifter boot at the time and I'm pretty sure had I hit the other truck an investigation would show that I was still in cruise control. I've honestly never seen anything like it in a movie, it would be too unbelievable even for Hollywood.

On this site you will not likely get a straight answer to that question and that's good because only you can truly answer it. But you will find a lot of Prime drivers on here. They are both excellent choices to start your career.

And the fact that my fuel stops usually are 8.5 to 9 hrs apart makes it very annoying. That's not really a problem inherent in fmcsa regs though. I don't do restarts either unless I'm forced to wait over a weekend or holiday. What peeves me off is when I do sit for 34 hours, I atleast want my 70 back in consolation. Not sit around for a few more hours waitin on 5 am so I can hit rush hour at whatever city I'm near.