Profile For NaeNaeInNC

That's just it though, Driver-I wants to "Gamify Safety." Safety isn't a game. I don't want a driver to be "driving to the score" and ignoring the reality of what is going on around them in real time. I don't want them making decisions or not based on what will or will not trigger the camera.

I want decisions to be made split second by the driver. The person actually in the conditions at hand.

Same!

Yes, Trucker Path is great for listing not just truck stops but weigh stations and just places to park a truck as well. I don't have a paid subscription but the free features work for me.

You don't know what you don't know, until you need it, and don't know it!

Get out and look.

Be mentally in the game. Put a boundary on family and friends, that if you can't fix it or do anything about it on the phone within 5 minutes, you don't want to hear about it.

Training sucks. It always sucks. Embrace the suck. This too shall pass.

You will suck at backing in the beginning. Everybody does. Sometimes it doesn't click until you are solo, in your own truck, with no other option than to get it into the dock.

Learn to cook decent food on the truck. Fast food will make you fat, and kill both you and your wallet.

Payroll advances are the devil, and will land you in a hole you can't get dug out of.

The goal is to get from point A to Point B, on time, without knocking your freight lose, and without hitting anyone or anything. That is what a successful trip looks like.

This is precisely why people in the industry usually answer "it depends...."

There are so many variables and so many "right ways" to do things, that it literally comes down to your situation, what your current needs and housing status is.

The majority of individuals looking into trucking are coming from failing industries, layoffs, underemployment and even unemployment. There is no one "right way."

There are reasons why we push most towards company sponsored training, and not one of us has said you CANT do it the way you did.

The bottom line is, we were lied to about the purpose, functions, and actual actions related to the camera. I got a "driver on cell phone" alert, pulling out of our wash bay, less than 4mph (I know this, because I was out of hours and creeping.) and the drivers facing image is first non existent, then blurred. So I ask you, if "everything but the drivers seat area is blurred, and not able to even be subpoenad," I ask you, "where is the cell phone?"

Some of us, were seriously against them in the beginning. We decided to take a chance. When a team driver is caught running a stop sign, WHILE DRIVING ON HIS WIFES LOGS, has no actual punishment, I ask you, what exactly is the point?

Some of us were as Optimistic as Old School. Those people were also proven wrong.

A couple things will set you up for freezing yourself out! I have a temperature sensitive dog, and routinely freeze myself out, while he is happily snoring in the refrigerated sleeper!

First, get some USB powered/ rechargeable fans from Amazon. Moving air helps.

Second, I use Zen Eclipse brand quilted and insulated window covers for the front and door windows. It makes a HUGE difference, especially in conjunction with the regular window curtains in the Pete. Creating that air gap between the cover and the curtain makes a difference.

Cover the upper bunk windows with the rolled silver insulation (thin, can be cut to shape with normal scissors) and close the sleeper curtain if necessary. That additional curtain would allow another buffer layer between your sleep space and the giant fireball in the sky.

Bottom line with the zeneclipse truck window covers my dogs water didn't freeze in -14 Wamsutter, and didn't get too hot in 104 DFW

This part, right here. In my new truck, I hear something go off, and am confused looking for WTF error I did! Distractions are bad. Trying to figure out what that noise was and or meant, means I'm not focusing on my driving.

Just because it's a fancy bell and whistle and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.

Id gladly rip out all the babysitters as well. I had my "AI" camera lose my seatbelt between my boobs 5 times in 20 minutes. I actually got a phone call, asking me wtf was going on. Oh, I don't know. The programming thinks women don't have boobs.

If they put as much money in good oke fashion training for drivers as they do that junk we would have better drivers.

You come up in here expecting sympathy from drivers who are out here doing this job clean, and correctly. Then you have the audacity to get ****y because nobody is blowing sunshine up your @ss to tell you what you want to hear?

Fact: you may be "clear" by PA, but ask yourself, why would a company hire you, when the cost to insure a newbie is already insane, then add in that it's a SAP driver? Sorry buddy, you are facing an uphill battle.

Perhaps you should stop and consider why EVERYONE has the same reaction.

Many people do things that kill their career, without fully grasping what they have done. This isn't your friend's fault, this isn't your former companies fault. This isn't "the industry's" fault. This lies squarely on you. You were going for a career in a safety critical field, and made a choice that bit you hard. Seek a career elsewhere.

All I have to say is:

Ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa

You're kidding, right?