From the road...

Question for the drivers:

I have a reefer that stays on, an APU that goes on and off while I am sleeping, but I don't have a smoke detector in the cab. I just noticed that last night.

Seems it would have one.

Do I really need one?

 

Yup

 

Take a look at the opening pic of the truck in the vid. What do you think those mirrors see. Dude was almost entirely looking out the rear window of the cab. FedEx guy I see several times per afternoon blind sides into places I'd never try and he does it nearly as fast as you can do it sight side.

I'm too afraid of hitting something. I've had a couple of minor incidents trying to get into places that big trucks really didn't belong. My company gives celebratory days off (w/o pay) for anything that results in a $500 claim. Don't take much of a bump to get to $500. Just lost two days last week due to a rotten wooden barrier right next to a tight pit dock that I had to blind side into due to improper snow plowing. They put in a claim for $1800 for a 6' high wooden Menards fence section that was 8' long, supported on two 4x4's.

I'm too nice a guy sometimes. Quite a few of the guys I work with would tell dispatch to go to hell, they won't deliver to some of these places.

 

I never bothered but a carbon monoxide detector isn't a bad idea.

 

Another question for the drivers:

CB or no CB?

 

What is the damn point of being a damn trucker if you ain't Breaker-19, 10-4 good buddy, CW McCall great big convoying???!!!???

 

I was told CB's are like the internet; lots of anonymous morons spewing garbage.

 

Yes, it's nice to know whats up down the road from drivers going the other way. Also a great way to talk smack about all those idiot 4 wheelers who don't know how to drive.

 

Yup, but the CB has a volume and an off switch.

 

My Dad drove for 30+ years and never had a CB, he hated them.

 

Sure as shit I had to blind side around a building into a dock this morning.

 

Well, here's your assignment for tomorrow.

I docked at a vendor today. Once I docked, it was twenty paces from the front of my truck to the back of the trailers lined up in front of me.

If it pace was 3 feet, that's sixty feet. 53 foot trailer + 15 feet for the truck, maybe. Too damn right.

Worst thing is the 15 feet of room on the other side of those trailers. That pissed me off.

 

Hell, no. I do not need comments from the peanut gallery when I am backing up.

 

E-logs,but from a Motorola handheld.Its kinda goofy

 

The cb is like gps,its a tool.It has saved my ass many times.I don't get on it to jaw jack,but its nice when theres shut downs,and locals to help you out.
The smoke detector is pretty common for a lot of drivers,just a cheapo from the dollar store.
I think ive got pneumonia.Ive been to the dr. 2 times since December,and this shit wont go away!! Got another dr. visit this afternoon,and going
to insist on a chest x-ray.You guys keep the dirty side down!

 

I'm sorry,but Mongo!!! LOL!! If you could only hear the shit talking on the radio from on lookers, poor drivers trying to get in the hole.These drivers are brutal!! Not a team sport.Its like most racing,they want to see some carnage