Profile For PackRat

PackRat's Info

  • Location:
    Williamsville, VA

  • Driving Status:
    Experienced Driver

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  • Joined Us:
    7 years, 3 months ago

PackRat's Bio

Company driver from 2015-2018. Rookie O/O until high insurance costs necessitated parking my truck. Medically off the road February to July 2019 for a transplant. Returned to company driving again now. Text me at 7572886472

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Posted:  18 hours, 28 minutes ago

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Sent Home From Roehl

Do you have your Learners Permit or an actual license now?

Posted:  1 day, 5 hours ago

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Just a funny trucking picture to brighten your day

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Posted:  1 day, 12 hours ago

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Just a funny trucking picture to brighten your day

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None of that is true, though. How little you know regarding me.

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I was just teasing you, man

If I could meet up with just one trucker, you would be my first choice.

Why is that? I already have groupies and stalkers.

Posted:  1 day, 16 hours ago

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Starting My New Journey with Swift Transportation

Also, if anyone can give me some good recommendations for how to get through training in the best way and what to do to really maximize this opportunity, I would greatly appreciate it.

Read as many of the training diaries on here as you wish. The answers on what to expect are there.

Posted:  1 day, 16 hours ago

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Just a funny trucking picture to brighten your day

None of that is true, though. How little you know regarding me.

Posted:  1 day, 16 hours ago

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Who Knows What These Are For?

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Solar panel to keep batteries maintained on a truck that's going to be parked for a while?

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You got it! At least that's what the consensus answer was among Prime drivers. I'd never seen this before.

Okay, but where are these stored when a trailer is attached?

Posted:  2 days, 6 hours ago

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How to get the right mindset?

Back as fast and carefully as required for each situation, just don't hit anything. More than 75% of all preventable accidents happen while backing, so don't add to this statistic by being unnecessarily rushed by an outside influence. Take as much time as you need to safely accomplish the backing maneuver. Now if some know-it-all super trucker presses on being a jerk, go three times slower. I hate rude drivers, whether on the Interstate or in parking lots for a customer.

Posted:  2 days, 15 hours ago

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Check engine light

If it is the yellow advisory light indicator on the dash, all you can do is "shop it". Nothing you can repair yourself. Check to see if there are any associated fault codes. It could stay on for a minute or six months due to many causes: clogged filter, stray voltage, a speck of dust on a sensor. If the gauges are normal and the engine operates I would tell the shop personnel again the next time. If it starts blinking or turns color to red, then that'll be an immediate problem. Keep rolling

Posted:  3 days, 17 hours ago

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One year milestone

A year already!?!? Where did the time, places, and mileage go already?

Congratulations on this career and life milestone!

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