From the road...

I'm glad I work in the truck mill. Anything over 8 hrs is time and a half, anything over 10 is double time. Saturday is time and a half, Sunday is double time. Only drawback is layoffs and I shouldn't get caught up in anymore of those.

 

But everyone just has to learn how to merge and how to leave room for someone to merge in.

 

Just call me Mario, because I'm the asshole that read the reports you are supposed to use all the lanes and all move to the front and then zipper in.


Edit: Basically Mongo has been saying the same thing....and IMO the truckers are wrong.

 

Not a trucker, but feeling like it this month. This is day 23 that I have been on the road. I will finally get to start heading home tomorrow for a day and a half, then I fly to British Columbia for a few days. I have already run over 5000 miles this month. I don't know how truckers do it.

 

You must not drive in Minneshitholia.

They tell you a lane is closing about 20' before it does. Then they make you run a fucking chicane from the lane that actually needs to be closed to the lane that everyone merged into because the other lane was closed.

The biggest fucking pet peeve of mine is cops doing ticket detail instead of congestion alleviation detail. A semaphore is out and Fucko the Fuzz is there scribbling tickets to anyone who doesn't come to a full stop, do-si-do alamande left and whistle Dixie out his ass instead of putting on his high-vis and getting traffic fucking moving.

 

I meant Marco Andretti, not Mario!
Not so much the guy that drives all the way to the last second then zippers in. I meant the guy with the attitude that he always has the right of way, will make a lane change in front of a semi with inches to spare, the guy that always drives 2' into the left shoulder while it's bumper to bumper, like he is entitled to the road. While he is annoying to all drivers, must be extra frustrating to semi drivers.

 

My favorite is the ding dong in the nice car/truck who assumes I will give him room to get in because I don't want him to hit my truck.

News flash, ding dong. It's not MY truck.

 

I agree with that. I've told my kids when merging into bumper to bumper traffic, I'm driving a 2006 civic, that guy in the nice car who doesn't want to let me in, he cares more about his nice xxx car than I do mine, he will let us in.

 

Well, the normal 11.5 hr trip go jennings is at hour 12.5 and im 3 hrs put still.

At a standstill now on 75 S, 180 miles from jennings.

There was a 2 car rollover 2 wks ago when i was 60 miles out. Wtf

 

S ga is a nasty stretch of 75

 

Miles and stops. Hourly would be nice. Still, this is much better than 14 hr days every day and every 4th Sat for $42k. That sucked donkey balls.

 

Sure, in theory. Most of the dumbasses shoot to the front and then panic because there isn't a gap big enough for an 18 wheeler and stop, which balls the whole thing up. The other end of that spectrum is the self-important SOB that gets there and muscles his way in, causing a wreck (or a near wreck, if lucky).

I'm of the make your move early like the sign told you crowd. I've seen traffic move much better this way.

 

3.5 hrs tonight to make what normally takes 1.75 hrs to get back to the yard. Who knew that the temp drops after sunset? Apparently not WI road crews. Drizzle/freezing drizzle all day and not one damned salt truck out until after the roads are glare ice and cars are wrecked everywhere.

At least I'm not a cop having to stand out there sorting the sh$t out while wondering when some a$$hat is going to join the party. Don't know how they do it every day, I'd be shooting mfers.