Profile For Daniel B.

Glad to hear my Pre-Trip helped!

NV allows triples when conditions are safe.

How where they?

We have one triple run out of our yard, but I think I will stick with 2 for now.

Stick with 2

Finally I can take this off my bucket list.

All this complaining about local work... i think ya'll are only thinking about food delivery local work. Which really is the worst type of local work requiring an insane amount of physical labor.

Why anyone would want to unload an entire trailer themselves full of boxes and work 13 hours and 45 minutes only to come back exactly 10 hours later is beyond me. Look into P&D work. I do 8am to 6pm M-F and make more than most OTR drivers (70k+) and don't come home with a hurt body.

Only if we have Anchorman hosting it (old timers know who I'm talking about)

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I actually do blame truckers slightly for this issue.

Everywhere truckers park you can bet on 1 thing; trash and **** bottles on the ground. Next thing you know they need to employ someone just to clean up after grown men so the place doesn't end up looking like a trash facility.

Truckers are great at shooting themselves in the foot then crying foul.

Truckers manipulated their logbooks in illegal ways to drive illegally and drive for insane amounts of hours, now they take to the highways in "slow rolls" to show their displeasure while inconveniencing totally innocent motorists.

Most truckers dont know what a garbage can is and use **** bottles (none of my business) but then just throw it on the highways or parking areas. Making the words "Sanitary" and "Parking Spot" almost impossible to exist in the same sentence.

I'm sorry fellow drivers. But a lot of our problems are self-inflicted.

Let the debate begin (popcorn)

First truck was also a recovery truck. Not something I would do again.

Flew to Portland, OR from SLC. Truck was in the yard and filthy. Mattress was dirt brown. Strange residue on walls. Dog poop on floor and a foul odor.

I had to clean it out as best as I can but I truly was not ready for that. Unfortunately I slept in the bed because the company wouldn't buy me a hotel and I sure as heck didn't have money for it.

I was told that when I was waiting at a stop, I could put myself off duty. Is that correct?

Put yourself on Sleeper Berth when waiting at a Shipper/Receiver.

I bought dry ice one time to keep raw meat frozen while OTR. I had no idea what it actually was. I took it out of the packaging and gripped it in my hands to put it in my cooler.

I almost died.

Duals for sure. They have better traction and ppsi and you're not stuck on the side of the road if one blows.

In my job, delivering trucks to dealers, I need to deliver the truck almost empty. (I don't want to give free fuel away!) This is company policy.

So in a way I'm playing chicken with the E on the fuel gauge. In my experience I can get pretty close to the bottom of the gauge, but I still worry.

My trainer ran empty once. We had to buy a fuel can, get 5 gallons Diesel back to the truck, put most of it in the tank, pour some into the top of the engine fuel filter and push a small pump handle there to prime the engine. And finally run the starter, praying the engine would start up. It finally did.

Primarily aimed at company drivers, exceptions such as yourself apply.

In response to 3rd paragraph- Had to do that to a reefer in the Montana cold at midnight in January. Was so much fun. Life is easier now.

When you submit your fuel level via QC always submit that you're a little less than you actually are.

So if you're at 3/4 fuel submit it as 5/8. If you're 1/2 submit it as 3/8. This way it won't run you dry.

It's a simple computer macro. One of these days you'll hit that fuel island it routed you to at 1/8 of a tank and it'll be shut down for tank maintenance and you'll be screwed. Your safety comes first

Very unwise to let your fuel get that low.

Everyone's talking about freezing yet I'm going to the gym with a t-shirt on. Its been in the 60's all week.

I did gas tankers for 2 years. The shift was 1800 to 0600 on a rotating schedule never having the same days off. Working weekends and all holiday. The job wasn't difficult, but dealing with all the crackheads at the gas station at 0300 was. I was glad to be home everyday but the reduced income and the fact that I still didn't have a life wasn't easy.

My entire point of going local was to get my life back. Me and the wife realized that job just wasn't what we were striving for. We really missed going to church on Sunday morning as a family.

I decided to work at Old Dominion (take notice how I worded that - that's where 6 years of accident-free experience gets ya). I made an whopping 18k more at OD than pulling tankers and I'm close to $30 an hour now.

Also, I run city working 0700 to 1800. I don't do Linehaul because the work:life balance isn't what I'm wanting at this point in my life.

I actually like this dude. He reminds me of me when I was 14 years old. He's pure nostalgia.

PJ, OS

Would be nice if one of you stopped by. I'd even request a day off for it 😁

I don't know whats worse, never getting the chance to backup or being forced to endure rap videos. I think the latter.

This is a country of opportunity and free-will. Not happy with your pay? Go into another field or company.

My father grew up in USSR communism. He had to bury his Bible in fear he would be caught with one. He didn't have a fraction of the opportunities me and my generation are blessed with. Make the most of it because just being born in this country you're already way ahead. Redistributing wealth from people who are more wealthy and took more risks in their life isn't a solution to your problems.

We make a lot of excuses in this country. Like my dad said to me many times with a dead serious tone; "I didn't risk my life to come here so you can slack off or make excuses!"