Comments By JakeBreak

I agree your overthinking it. I wear jeans and a t-shirt in the truck. I have a few different long sleeve shirts I wear and I have my generic carhart jacket for when it gets real cold. I really don't worry about layers at all, because we don't really have to spend a lot of time outside the truck.

For gloves I have 2 pairs. I have the cheap leather ones from harbor freight, and when it's below 0 I have some cotton ones I wear under it.

I have a pair of steel toe boots and a pair of tennis shoes. If it's snowy, cold and wet out ill wear the boots otherwise the shoes are good enough to get me across the parking lot.

Not unusual at all. I do the same thing. I will be courteous and not make guys trying to drive past wait on me too. If I'm in a spot and even if it's not centered, I'll back in enough to let trucks past then do my pull-ups after they have gone through and it's clear. Not saying you don't do it that way, but I have seen guys who will hold up an entire truckstop trying to get themselves perfect.

Loud bangs could be air bags popping. I've had it happen to me a few times and it sounds exactly like you said. It sounds like a bomb going off. One of them was when I was in the truck, I had just backed into my spot n set my brakes n it blew. Rocked the whole truck lol.

Before I came back out otr this time around I was playing games a ton. Think 8-10 hrs a day. I saved up n bought myself a pretty good laptop, not top of the line but still up there. You want to know how many times I pulled it out in the first 6 months? 4 times. Only when I had a reset did it make sense to pull it out. You have 10ish hrs a day that is free time, by the time you get parked and showered n fed your gonna be ready for bed. When I got a new truck I actually left it at home because I used it so little.

I'm pretty surprised by the results actually. I assumed most of the complaints would come from pay, considering that's what most of the complaints you normally hear about companies. This tracks pretty close to how I actually feel about the issues.

Keep in mind if you do transition to local work and you end up going back OTR they might not count your local work, even if it is class A driving.

"These early reservation numbers reflect the appetite surrounding self-driving technology in long-haul applications."

I find that quote from Bob Walsh, Vice President, Emerging Technologies, Strategy & Planning, Navistar to be almost comical. There is no way any reasonable business person can see this as a cost saving measure. There is, no doubt, a lot of curiosity out there that has been drummed up by a con-job of considerable magnitude. Even the photo with this article includes a driver with his hands hovering near the steering wheel. As a matter of fact, I would venture that there will need to be at least two humans on board, or possibly even three, to make sure the vehicle is safe and productive. They used to call these vehicles "driverless," but they currently seem to prefer "self driving." We are in a world of free markets. Price is a great dictator of free markets and how they function. If these trucks are not less expensive to operate, their future is doomed.

We have three major carriers who are sticking out their necks. I don't call that an appetite. I would classify it as curiosity. My money is on the drivers. Technology is full of problems and exploitation. A good solid driver's brain can handle a lot of calculations all while exercising good common sense at the same time. That's a combination that can't be produced with software, nor measured monetarily. We have yet to see how liability cases will be settled when "self-driving" technologies are involved. That is one huge obstacle that has not been settled yet. I am assuming that one item alone will be enough of a burden to crush the expansion of these companies.

This is a very important statement. If it's not cheaper to run them then they won't be run. I remember a few years ago they were promising natural gas was going to be the next big thing in trucking. It is so much cheaper than diesel and it's clean energy. The few companies that did buy them eventually found out they were way more expensive to operate than regular diesel trucks and they currently only run them in limited operations as a PR move.

By far the biggest factors in high blood pressure, according to my Dr, are hydration and caffeine intake. I had a worrisome time when I went to get my last physical because mine was pretty elevated. After the doc heard that I downed a cup of coffee, which in a pilot cup actually counts as 2 cups, and that I hadn't been drinking enough water he told me about it. We waited an hour where I drank 2 bottles of water and when he took it again it was in the normal range so he passed me. He told me next time I come in to drink water instead of coffee n we won't have to wait lol.

I have a lot in Kittanning that I use for hometime. I can put you in contact with the owner if you want.

Looking for drop yard for rent, truck stop truck parking any place willing to let a truck stay a few days.

Found kingpin parking but all reservations are full anyone know similar places?

You looking for somewhere for hometime or just a spot in general? Also how close to Pittsburgh do you need to be?