You have 10 seconds to tell me why you don't get your truck license and just be a truck driver for work instead of being a retarded neet.
>working by yourself most of the time
>no fuckwits in the cab with you
>get to play music
>only time you talk to people is when you are loading or unloading your truck or when you get to your destination
>get what takeaway food you want because you're always driving past food places
>decent pay as well
Well, neets? Explain yourselves.
Because selfdriving trucks are already on the road and I don't want to be replaced within 5 years of getting hired to what I would consider a career rather than a job.
>implying self driving truck would be the majority in 5 years
Weak b8 m8
You really think small single operator trucks will be self driving? I don't think so. And there's lots of specialty truck too, concrete trucks, pump trucks, tankers, lots more than just merely driving from A to B.
Thought about it until I worked a truck depot. Those poor bastards always looked like they haven't slept in days, were jerked around by everyone and in general seemed mentally and physically unsound.
Plus driving a truck seems tedious and stressful at the same time. At least with an office job you can stretch, close your eyes and go home to sleep in a big comfy bed at night.
Depends where you work at desu. I work in a pretty huge company with anywhere between 10-30+ trucks on per night, i lay asphalt on the roads. Good chats at the plant but i also get the benefit of peace and quiet in my truck. It's pretty laid back
i work on trucks but i fear id be shit at shifting since there are no syncronisers like in a manual car transmission
I thought ever since electronic logs came about they had truck drivers under the kind of surveillance that would make the Stasi gasp. Like not only tracking time and miles driven, but shit like having cameras in the cab to monitor if you seemed distracted, and shit like forcing you to stop and sit for ten hours when you're ten miles away from your destination, because that's exactly how far the regulations permit you to drive today.
Well my experience up until this current truck was mainly 6 speed 4wheelers but now I drive a 6wheeler tipper like the one in the picture, and it's a 12 speed roadranger gearbox. You get used to it after a few weeks.
We still don't really have electronic logbooks in my country. We still use the book ones and they're quite easy to cheat. And i've never worked anywhere that has cameras to watch the driver but i've definitely heard of it happening though.
>Decent pay
Depends on what type of commercial driver you are.
There's two different types:
>The cheap trucks without a/c that are shit and are sufferring
>The nice commercial trucks that have a/c where take stops in hotels/nice places to sleep and get good pay
Trucking is miserable. Actually making deadlines, being patient with others and being a decent human while doing it makes it even harder.
T. Best friend's Dad has been a truck driver for 20+ years in California.
float or double clutching? i know how shifting and using the clutch brake works but never drove one so i just feel like it would grind easily, but i have no idea how driving one is.
the transmissions are huge though.
That's unfortunate because I've got a pretty good truck driving role. Decent pay, easy work, shifts are usually less than 6 hours but still get my 40 hour weekly pay, and if i work more than 40 i get what i earned too.
I still haven't gotten used to changing without the clutch but I'm getting alright at double clutching though. Got to revmatch the clutch and accelerator perfectly with the road speed or it'll grind and won't go in. But it's fun to drive
I've always wondered if being a truck driver is comfy or a nightmare. Like it sounds pretty chill on paper, you just drive around all day sight seeing, and cruising around meeting people on the way at truck stops, and getting free rooms at sketchy motels, but I imagine in reality the fatigue of driving all day combined with the sleep deprivation and perpetual boredom would start to take a toll on your psyche. Especially after extended periods like 5-10 years or so.
Feel free to share your experiences trucking
I recently bought a tablet so I've been playing runescape mobile while at work. It's quite comfy. Lots of downtime at my job so obviously I'm able to get away with that, sitting in my truck for up to 2-3 hours at a time waiting for shit to happen. But I work nightshift as well, i start usually between 6pm and 11pm (it depends on the progress onsite, they don't need trucks until they're up to that bit of the job) and usually finish anywhere between 2am and 7am. My shortest shift has been 2 hours and my longest has been around 14 hours.
I have a fucked sleeping schedule too so I live off energy drinks at work. But as far as boredom goes, it's 50/50. You only get bored if you're onsite waiting to do work but the job isn't ready, for like 3 hours. And makes it worse if there's no one to talk to (usually have 2-3 of a group of 10+ regulars on your job) so most of the time there's someone to talk shit with while you're waiting. My boss has done this for 30+ years and he loves it but at his age he's getting a bit tired of it.
Could a person become a truck driver if they've had a dui?
Every country is different, you'd have to find that out from your local authority.
I actually do have a cdl, and worked as a truck driver for a short period of time. When I started at the company, I went through 1 week of training, then I got stuck with my driving instructor, and would've been with him for the next 3 weeks. The guy seemed to be normal enough, and he drove for the first week, while I was supposed to observe. The second week, I started driving. I started to turn on the gps. He stops me, and says that he doesn't let trainees use the gps, because it's a bad habit. I asked him which way to go, and he says, "Weren't you watching while I was driving?" (we had been on a dedicated route that was the same every day). I say "Yeah, but my memory's not too great.". He gets upset and begrudgingly gives me directions all day. For the next 4 days the same thing keeps happening because my memory is truly garbage. He keeps getting madder, and madder, until he's yelling when I ask him where to go on the parts that I don't remember. By day three of the second week, I'm on the verge of tears at the end of every day. On the fifth day, I tell him that I'm gonna go grab something to eat. Then I break down and cry for about an hour in a taco bell bathroom. I had weekends off, so the next day, I called a cab, and took a greyhound back home. Anyway, that's why I'm not a trucker. Maybe the trainer I got was just a douche, but fuck that shit. Sorry for not greentexting. I didn't think it'd be this long.
What type of truck driving? I hold a CDL B. Ive driven small delivery trucks and a 14ft box truck. Its not good work, the most I got paid was 14/hr. Busting my ass constantly having to move shit out the back, pulling the lift down and trying to find places to park. CDL A driving the big rigs might be better.
Truck drivers are the biggest cunts on the road. I wish death apon all of those dirty cocksucker's
I'm a mechanic at a mid sized trucking company. I was the best at installing camera, so me and this other guy, do like 25% of the cameras in the whole company. The damn things, watch you all the time, but are "supposed" to only record in a wreck. But really they record whenever you go over a bumpy road, turn a little too hard, or sometimes just randomly. I also wouldn't be surprised if higher ups in the company were able to just tune in to the damn things whenever they wanted to. They swear up and down, but they've let me a bunch of times while troubleshooting, and I'm just a fucking mechanic. I don't see how drivers aren't quitting left and right over this, but they aren't, I'd say only about 5% have gotten mad about me installing one and quit, and only 30% get mad at all. These trucks are basically their houses while they're on the job, and it should be illegal. But it won't be, and it's gonna be at every company in the next 5 years because of the massive amount of money that they save on insurance. So I wouldn't start driving now if I were y'all.
>all the responsibility of driving a truck and having to park it etc, can get stripped of your CDL for honest mistakes etc
Yeah no thanks
Fuck those faggots the way they drive. Should have a camera shoved up their anus too
How about fuck you. Those fucking kikes are trying to save money by spying on people. It's fucked up. Not to say that it shouldn't be legal to run trucks that try to pass each other off the road.
They do make you stop after so many hours, so you have to find a truck stop, but by a certain time, the truck stops are all full. But it's illegal to stop on the side of the road. So at some point, it's illegal no matter what you do and you're just boned.
Even if it is, it's extremely hard to get hired. If not impossible.
All Jobs are Slavery and get Taxed.
Taxation is Theft.
NEETS are Kings, getting income from the same taxes Politicians get but don't have to work.
If you aren't born with a 1 billion dollar trust fund, and have to work to survive, you are a slave.
Same here. Drove a box truck delivering welding supplies making $14.00 per hour for about 6 months. It was hard, hot, backbreaking work. I've also driven big rigs, and I can tell you that they're only a little better.
How do you remember what gear you are in when the trucks have like 8-16 gears? I don't have trouble in my 5spd mazda shitbox but i imagine it is obviously way different. One miss shift and you could money shift your diesel truck since the revs of those engines are so low. Also jake braking must be fun asf.
You can just look down if you can't remember. You're usually in max gear on the highway, and 5 on a normal road. Breaking isn't that hard, and if you forgot to downshift, you can just take it out of gear and brake normally.
Must be easy to grenade the trucks trannies if they are non synchro'd. Also why the fuck are the air brakes purging at stoplights so godamn loud, nearly blows my eardrums out if my window is down and one rolls up to me.
I hate driving. Driving in the North East is a fucking nightmare, especially in the winter. Finally, truck driving will be automated in 20 years so I just don't see the fucking point.
>Must be easy to grenade the trucks trannies if they are non synchro'd.
Don't know what that means, but I do it all the time out of laziness and haven't had a problem yet.
>Also why the fuck are the air brakes purging at stoplights so godamn loud
No idea, but it's one of the reasons that I hate truck stops.
I mean like it must be easy to destroy transmissions compared to the near fool proof synchro'd small cars transmission where you just need to remember to clutch in really. I imagine the transmissions in the big trucks are absolutely massive and can take a beating but still. When one goes i am sure you don't want to be in the drivers seat when it does.
They must be pretty tough, because when I was new I'd grind the gears hard all the time.
Yeah and i imagine the trucks they let the new guys learn on have been through the ringer too. 1st gear in my shitbox is non synchro lel.
That sucks to hear that. When I did my heavy vehicle license that was the first time I had driven a 6 wheeler truck on the road desu and it was a big curtainsider. He was a bit of an asshole because that was my first time but I got the hang of it in about 15 minutes then by the end he said I did the test a lot better than heaps of other people that do the test.
I drive tippers like the one in the OP, done a couple years of dirt/metal cartage but these days I'm doing hotmix asphalt tipper work on the highways and roads on nightshift.
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we are actually far superior at driving than carplebs like you m8. We're actually just sick of fuckwit car drivers so we just treat everyone else like idiots. And if you're talking about a few of the rude cunts that cut people off then that's their own problem but I'm not usually a cunt in my truck, especially when I'm weighing about 20 tonne.
It's not that bad, in my country at least
I get $25 an hour
You get used to the gearing after a while. Sometimes i accidentally put it into the wrong gear but usually get it out pretty fast so it's fine.
I drive a 12 speed roadranger.
>it's a god knows how heavy mack track episode of im going to run this redlight because i can't stop in time and maybe i will blare my horn if i feel like it as i speed through a redlight going 10-20kmh over the limit
Epic, professional drivers.