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home daily 9pm- 9am i fucking love drivin at night nothin like it, but strange shit occurs in the wee hours and 4wheelers become even stranger.

this is the way

i fuckin hate bobtailing

set cruise to 65 and dont touch it.

dude what... please explain this further because i am not understanding. are you digging paper towels out of the toilet??

keep dreamin

agree to disagree, amigo.

youre not very funny, friend.

big brains on you, mail is not gonna stop. the shit i haul is a bunch of junk. bills, magazines, shit people dont buy and dont want. that aint goin anywhere buddy. ill be chillin.

i run postal so i am all good 👍

i bought an elvis clock at that place

am i insane. i have never self reported for anything, and i have done much worse than pass a "way" station.

fuck man cant believe you know what it is im talkin about hahaha. get away from stevens asap, fuck them. congrats on getting through that though, makes you tougher!! hahaha

this is gonna be a long one, but i feel like typin out this whole nightmare i went through years ago haha. pay wasnt terrible for a first company some weeks better than others, but the big problem i had with stevens was the hiring process as a new driver and lack of hometime. i had to go to texas for what i was told would be a week long refresher course followed by 2 weeks with a trainer otr. after taking a greyhound from philly to texas, i was informed that they wouldnt be accepting my hours of training i recieved from my cdl school and i would have to do their entire 3 week training course before getting into a truck. after 3 weeks of redoing cdl school and a week waiting to get into a truck with a trainer, i spent two weeks with one trainer who got into an accident while i was in the sleeper and was then fired. all this happened two days before thanksgiving so i was then stuck for another week waiting for a replacement trainer. the person i wound up being placed in a truck with was a complete slob who ran trips between reno and california in the snow. chain requirements (which prohibited me from driving) and a shutdown of i80 due to massive snow caused my training to extend past christmas. all said and done i spent basically 3 months in training unable to go home the entire time. this became a common occurance even after i got my own truck as i would not be routed home when requested and was basically trapped by them until i couldnt take it anymore and luckily wound up back in texas where i dropped the truck off and told them i was done. not sure if anybody else will read this, but its a seriously bad idea rush into starting your career with a company so far from your homes state. i was desperate at the time so it is what it is but i feel like a damn moron for putting myself in that situation. sorry if this is a mess of a post but whatever.

i wound up going to western cause they were offering weekends off and did that for a year, and then i got a local job home daily. believe it or not i had a pretty different experience with western than i think most have. would start monday morning home by friday night, made about a grand a week, not the best but it was fine.

yo forreal the way that megas run us when we are first starting there are many time where you have no choice. truckin aint what it used to be and thats just reality.

shit is fucked out there. i dont really judge people for havin to get creative with parking. we have all been there so why pass judgement on a dude that probably just had a rough day and ran his clock out? theres not enough parking and some loads are just destined to end up this way. we all know that.

lpotl jones town

holy fuck!! this sounds crazy but i think i know the two that you are talking about, where was this at??

i started with stevens. it was not fun.

you will work 14 hour days most days, you will be eating shitty truck stop food, you will not be paid enough to justify it, you will spend weeks on end without a day of hometime. obviously some of this depends on the job or the person, but from my own experience this shit sucked for a long time before it became worth it. id say to just keep in mind that you will most likely start at some mega with low pay, bad training, no hometime and you will have to spend a year or two working shit jobs before you find somethin real decent. this job to me is the definition of emotionally and mentally draining. next to no hard labour just constant headaches and misery.

this has always been my mentality, my dick aint covered in pheces so why am i touching a shit sink to wash off imaginary dick germs???

if this is the dirt lot at the bethlehem terminal i cant tell you how many times this happened to me when i was workin over there.

wanted to do graphic design, but couldnt cut it in college so decided to follow in my grandfathers footsteps.

this whole community in a nutshell

poptart peanut butter sandwich chef boyardi

i am a year and a half in and still find myself struggling occasionally... nobody ever really taught me how to back and videos have not helped me so i have just been slowly figuring it out myself. so dont worry about it cause nobody backs worse than me haha

i think a lot of the weight gain truckers see is more from how much they eat and how little they move. i tend to eat a lot of canned stuff chili, chef boyardi, refried beans and tortillas (foods that are definently not healthy) cause i dont wanna spend money on fast food constantly but even when i was i didnt gain 60 pounds in a year that seems insane.

they are trying to help you pass the test, in the real world you get out as often as you want use every available resource. as far as your actual test goes however its best to just setup and back like a robot going through a checklist of markers and signals to look for all youre trying to do right now is pass the test actual training is what you get when your out on the road backing into docks just listen to your instructor and get your cdl

some of you really are fuckin psychos about this shit 🤣 callin me a bum actin like this has any impact on how much i earn or the treatment i recieve at shipper/recievers. i really hate to break it to you guys but NEWSFLASH DICKHEADS IT DOESNT FUCKIN MATTER

spare some change for this sandal wearing bum? my venmo: @worthlessgoodfornothingpieceofshit

like! zoinks scoob!!! we better get outta here!!!

it is literally the easiest job in the world

all this talk of respect, respect for what?? dressin like some company man douche aint gonna make people respect you mr proffesional. take your tucked in shirt and firm handshake fuck off back to lala land where any of that matters to people born after 1980

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i think of it as decoratin my toes for christmas

can i kiss your ass?

brother, i am anything but a bottom of the barrel, replaceable, cheap freight guy!! and there is not much else to it!!

nah dude im clean, the lizards'll usually suck the scum off these feet.

guys if im wearin shoes, how am i gonna wash my feet of in the squeegee buckets???

mother dearest :(

be happy, stop giving a fuck

who gives a shit?

nope

very nice, i on the other hand just do not give a shit. im clean and my clothes are not dirty, if someones got a problem with me cause im in sweats and sandals fuck em. and fuck you!

always

still broke, and just as miserable... i enjoy the attention i get when i come home after being gone for weeks, but theres not much else id call a positive. just paying my dues until i can drive local and be home more

when i was driving mostly out west id have nightmares about trying to drive up 90 degree inclines, rolling back, and killing everyone behind me... would wake up in a cold sweat hahaha

pfft fuck that, leave me alone thats why i do this job hahahaha

i love my tristate area! i go home for my 34 on the weekends, feels like im coming back from vietnam!