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Drove one for a few months. Hated it. Constant wind noise from the doors. Upper half of the door were as strong as wet cardboard, you could push it and see light from between the cab and door seal.

This is why I will never pull reefers

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I’ve seen 3 trucks burn down over the years and zero reefers. While it’s definitely possible, I don’t think it’s very common at all.

Is Double Clutching a real thing?

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Asked the question to a real tech at Eaton, wether double clutching was really necessary or not. Basically, his answer was: No, you don’t need it, but strongly recommended pressing the clutch once in the higher gears, to release torque stress that may still be in the clutch springs/plates. Floating or not, if you do it well, a good transmission will last basically forever. Those who destroy transmissions floating will destroy transmissions double-clutching.

Truckers know… parking in some parts of France at night means extra security. What places in your country feel risky?

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Don’t know if im just dumb and ignorant, but never have I felt unsafe in my cab. I did plenty of time worry about my load or equipment being tampered with, but not unsafe.

Steam survey of February 2026 shows linux lose 1.15% market share. And windows 11 lose 10.45% market share!

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People maybe getting sick of Microslop’s BS, forced AI, poor performance, broken updates etc. Either way, I find it very funny as a W11 hater.

Pneumatic Bulk trailer (sugar)

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Unsure what sugar temps are, but a few years back I was hauling plastics resin pellets. We couldn’t push air and volume as this would heat the pipes too much, and it would create a film that would eventually clog up filters and pipes. In your case, that could be yummy caramel !

I got fired today.

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Getting out to make sure you don’t hit anything isn’t idiotic under pretty much any circumstances. If you don’t, and hit something, that’s when you look stupid. From what I can tell, you dodged a bullet, looks like a shit company to work for.

First Incident Trucking

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I’ve been on the internets long enough to know that thinking isn’t everyone’s strong suit.

First Incident Trucking

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I’d specify kph because people don’t know other than mph and will shit on your driving think you were doing 75 mph

Microsoft needs a wake up call

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They’ve been doing dumb shits for years, people still want to shovel money their way. As long as people keep paying, they’ll do whatever it is they’re doing.

So I failed a hair test at Werner Enterprises for my first ever trucking job because I stupidly let them take from my year old beard and something from 11 months ago showed up. How fucked am I?

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Canadian here. I’ve always had drug tests pre-hiring for cross-border jobs. Then you are in a pool for random tests. They’ve always been piss tests only though. Never ever had tests for jobs where I remained north of the border.

Any of yall hauled Peroxide? I was volunteered into it

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50% is what I hauled the most. Freezing point at roughly -50C -60F. 70% is a little higher around -40C -40F Much better than Caustic Soda which freezes at 50F lol

Any of yall hauled Peroxide? I was volunteered into it

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I did for some years. Shipper owned their own trailers, most of them were older than I were and still operated/looked new. In harsh Canadian winters, 2” braided hoses are nice to work with compared to rubber hoses. Also H2o2 doesn’t really freeze at normal temps.

WHO INVENTED ZEBRA LABEL PRINTERS

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My guess is they were created by Saddam Hussein himself

Burnt out software engineer considering trucking, am I insane?

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I went from trucker to network engineer/sysadmin. I often think about going back to trucking, until I realize I remember the nice 20% part of trucking but conveniently forget the 80% pure BS that trucking has become. Better hours, stability, same pay with 50% less hours.

I don’t know how these guys do it

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I did it as my first job. Picking up sorted, organic waste from a Toronto sorting center (you know, food, diapers, etc) left a few days in the scorching heat in a black bin, then left a few days in a sorted center) to deliver to a business who made conpost with it. Smell gets into everything, equipement, clothes, everything. Did it until I could get something better.

Would you let this get you fired?

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Drove for a grocery chain for abt 2 years. It happens, more than you’d think. Keep in mind that half of the pallets in your truck hold together with hopes and dreams. Drive carefully but accept the fact that this will happen no matter what. You driving style will simply change how often this happens

Thanks Werner

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It’s a Freightliner, so your comment is pretty much spot on.

Should I get my CDL here ?

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You'll get your CDL alright. You just won't get training or skills.

Raw Dogged a lot lizard on accident, how fucced am I

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'probably' being the keyword here

Longest you ever spent being unloaded ?

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36 hrs in the middle of nowhere. 3 hours away from civilization no phone nothing but a porta potty at a temp asphalt plant in a sand pit. Fun times

Is networking the hardest part of sysadmin job ?

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Networking is the part of my job I love, challenging but it comes naturally for me. Anything O365/Azure I can kind of deal with, but I hate it badly and find it way too confusing

What is this on top of my truck?

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A shit cable management is what's up there

Oh no. Consequences!

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This one managed to fix his own stupid

Smuggling money and drugs

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I used to drive for a company. We'd load produce from Cali or Arizona and bring them back in Canada through Windsor. We needed to take temps from the product about twice daily, so loads had no seals. So loads without seals were common at the border. Once, a team took a load, broke the seal and threw some coke into their trailer. Then put their broken seal on the door. Their went through customs, got cleared but when the rear of the trailer went past the booth, the customs agent noticed the broken seal, had them stopped and the trailer searched. They ended getting a free, all expenses paid stay in jail.

Is a backpack unprofessional?

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The company I work for literally gave all of us backpacks

Calling the police to help you back out.

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Had a stupid automated transmission who couldn't keep up in steep grades and heavy loads. Stalled in the middle of a steep one on snow @ 140,000 lbs. Couldn't get traction and had to back up down the hill on a single lane road. Cops showed up 2 minutes later and blocked the road so that I could safely back down my b-train

Simplest ever "what's my IP" lookup site?

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This

Broadcom aquires VMWare for $61B

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Pretty sure the free ESXi licenses will be going away soon... Not the best but was pretty good for small businesses !

Hauling one of our more potent boom boom juice cocktails for Monday morning delivery. What’s some of the more dangerous stuff you guys haul?

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Hauled Dangerous when wet solids (van and end dump), Sodium Hypo, Caustic, Sulfuric acid, 70% Hydrogen Peroxide, High temp pitch (550f)

Anyone Else Hate Outlook as Much as I Do?

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I liked Outlook Express, like 20 some years ago. Now hate it (along with anything Microsoft) with a passion

Do you work on the side for extra fun money?

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About a day a month, I drive trucks for one of my previous employer I still have a great relationship with. (Drove trucks for 13 years before switching to IT) Not a lot of money, but relatively easy work and I still enjoy doing it from time to time

What age did you get your CDL?

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