Comments By K.R.

On the Kenworth t680 that my trainer has, the seconds show regardless of cruise control being active unless something has gotten lodged on the radar sensor. I believe they call it the collision mitigation system.

Yeah, we'll be out of here by seven in the morning to make our appointment, but I'll definitely try to get back here sometime that I can take the time to see the museum.

And I guess luckily for me I don't really have a sense of smell right now. We have been going back and forth and almost every time going through Missouri... and I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to Missouri. Or at least to the pollen. I have no sense of smell left, and I'm quite certain I sneezed part of my brain out.

Ta-da!!!

As a note, I've had an excellent experience so far with Werner with their ability to accommodate as I've needed, and no one has blinked twice over the fact that I use a crutch to walk with. Talk to them, they have training programs in several areas of the country and it might work out for you?

I know it might be super cliché, but I'm really excited that we're going to be shutting down tonight at the big Iowa 80 truckstop. It's one of the things that I've heard about and kinda wanted to see.

Anyway, things have been going pretty good today. Previous frustrations are working out and we're rolling again instead of waiting around and hunting the ever elusive empty trailer. So that helps too.

That sounds really awesome. I've marked it on trucker path so that I can remember if I'm ever that way I'm no personally religious but I definitely respect the religious beliefs of others and find that people with sincerely held beliefs are often kind and generous.

Testing to see for my face now shows up! and awesome, Brett, thank you for this.

I haven't even mentioned the gender stuff to him at all. which I guess is part of it. there's no way he'd have known that the comment was going to make me uncomfortable.

it's not a big deal but in the same way it can be. I dunno. I'm just going to stick it out and if he makes the same comments again maybe I'll do the, "this makes me uncomfortable because" bit and such.

you're great and people who accept people for who they are are great but when that my gender identity is nonstandard and hearing someone go on about how gender identity is bull****? makes it feel like a big deal.

And, even if you leave it in automatic mode in most of them you can also force a downshift or upshift. Same way that you would shift it in manual mode. I've been using that sometimes while we're hauling a fairly heavy trailer (45330 lb) to force it to downshift a little earlier during a grade.

FMCSA regulations are usually a little while behind this sort of stuff, in my recollection? But I'm sure there will be new guidelines at some point.

Also, while they're saying lower is better there's also a very real thing such as too low, so what they're doing is effectively narrowing the window of "normal"?