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Posted: 3 months, 1 week ago
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We deliver fuel to a truck stop right next to an amazon distribution center-there's always dozens of owner/op box trucks swarming the area.
Posted: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Needing advice from truckers and/or trucker wives
Divorce him. Sue for child support. Move on.
Seriously, he’s not mature enough to man up and be a father, won’t help financially, and literally ran away from his responsibilities. You’re not going to get him into couples therapy, he’s got it good right now. And I’m not ragging on otr guys who are fathers, I’m friends with several who do it as the sole breadwinner of the family. I’m coming at this as a driver who after almost twenty years of being told we couldn’t have kids, surprisingly became a father two years ago. It takes sacrifices your man obviously is not willing to make. For example, just two months ago I turned down a dedicated, regional, otr position (I’m talking a job most otr drivers would kill for-weekends off, hourly with overtime, guaranteed six figures, brand new truck and trailer, no touch.) But it required spending four nights on the road, and evenings with my son is more important to me right now, and also helps keep my wife sane. (Before I get ridiculed for turning down a better job, the pay and benefits are the same I have now, I just work harder for it.)
Posted: 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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Also, can anyone even buy a new truck without ACC and collision protection? I have my doubts
You still can. My company just bought 100 trucks without any of that, not even a hole in the front bumper for the sensor. Feels weird driving them after years with the full safety suite.
Posted: 7 months, 1 week ago
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Talking Shop: The Just Talking Thread
I have a question for any driver out there. Do any of you use a Teflon disc for lubrication like we do on our 5th wheel rv trailer? We have seen them advertised but we have not seen one in operation anywhere. I would think that they would not hold up long because of the weight on the 5th wheel. Thanks for any replies as I am just curious.
All our trucks run Holland fifth wheels with the teflon plate inserts. Most of our rigs stay hooked so they hold up well, even considering that our New York fleets run grossed at either 107k or 117k. The real issue you have to watch for is the plates sit down in a shallow channel on the fifth wheel, and if you happen to lose one, the trailer pivoting will grind the edge of that channel right down, ruining the fifth wheel in less than a hundred miles.
I have seen some slick plates on flatbed trailers, drivers seemed to like them.
Posted: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Ah, I gotcha. I'm sorry, but what is the rack?
Loading rack. For fuel haulers, it's where petroleum products are loaded onto trucks. There are top loading and bottom loading racks, and we load at racks located at refineries, tank farms, ports, and rail yards.
Posted: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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I didn't know they had that knick name...
It's a nickname given by fuel haulers to themselves to make them seem tough for doing a dangerous job. Use it at the rack, and you'll be laughed out of the county. About as bad as "tanker yanker."
Posted: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Really uncalled for to say my comment was dumb. I was only talking about one particular roll over on one particular ramp that there was video footage of. It was a cautionary comment made to a new driver in the same vein as the comment G-Town made.
There is a reason that tanker drivers are sometimes called suicide jockeys. I respect tanker drivers greatly but I know it’s a dangerous occupation.
I don't think it was uncalled for at all due to this line
Had he been driving a dry van or reefer , he would probably have survived a roll over.
You don't know that, and I feel you're minimizing the seriousness of a rollover in any truck with this statement.
Posted: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Justin, did you hear about that terrible tanker roll over and explosion under I95 in Philadelphia recently? That driver very likely burned to death. Had he been driving a dry van or reefer, he would probably have survived a roll over.
Really??? Good to know that the several hundred roll-over deaths that occur every year primarily happen with tank trucks. (Just in case my sarcasm isn't recognized, this is a dumb statement from BK.)
Justin, I pull hazmat tanks for a living. I know that not everything requiring hazmat means an instant death from fire and explosions. Also know that a fully loaded tank or baffles really minimizes the surge. However, a story for you-couple years ago I'm 80k gross, pulling hot wax in a smoothbore tank that's only 70 percent full. I'm running up a two lane road through PA/NY (219, some may know it), middle of the night when a freak snow storm hits. Whiteout, I've got to turn on goggle maps just to tell where the turns are on a road I've traveled dozens of times. The only way I know where I am on the road is by listening for the rumble strips. Fighting the surge in those conditions made me realize that that load would have ended up in a ditch my first two years driving. Fortunately, it wasn't my first couple of years driving, and managed to safely crawl north for four hours until I ran out of the storm.
I'm not as adamant as some here about new drivers staying away from tanks-because I know not all tanks are created equal, but I will agree a new driver, handling surge, in bad conditions, is a great recipe for losing his job, or his license, or even something more valuable.
Posted: 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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My least favored three are Dallas, Boston, and Buffalo, NY.
Lol, surprised to see Buffalo on your list, gotta be a story there. Or maybe it’s just because I’m local there, but the city is tiny.
I’ve really begun to hate Toronto, and I used to do nyc regularly.
Posted: 3 months, 1 week ago
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Low Bridges & Misc.
Those first two pictures-are trailers taller in Europe? (assuming that's where they are.) Both of those bridges are listed over 13'6".