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08.17.2009
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| When to refuse a truck? What to look for in a good truck? I'm wondering after training when Star offers me a truck what I should look for when I walk up to the truck? Things I know: Check the brakes,hoses,clamps, air tank, drive shaft and frame. Check for dints and cracks ect basicly CBBMERL but! is there anything else I should do or check? How do I know if it's OK to accept a truck or to ask for another one? Quote: Then you wait on a trainer to come pick you up and you head out with em, for normally 4-6 weeks, 4 unless you're retarded. Then you come back, another orientation, then you get your truck. Funny memoery - the truck they assigned to me at first - I walked up to it, and it looked ok from a distance. As i walked around it, it looked like it had hit a bear, and then the bear climbed in the truck and tore the heck out of it. I walked right back and had em give me another one. But most of their equipment aint that bad.  |
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 Some companies have a 'either take this truck or go home' attitude. So be prepared. I'll tell you right now, newbies that whine from day 1 don't make many friends with management.  |
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| Yeah I hadn't planned on not taking the truck what I meant was if it looked like a bear ate it like above LOL |
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| I had the opposite happen, a bad truck after I had been there awhile, there was a truck I threatened to quit over, and they just gave me a much better truck rather than have me leave or risk it. I drove that thing all over the place, too, but when it left me drive back from city center of Chicago with no power at all on top of everything else that had happened, that was it. Only time it saw high gear was on a long downhill. Last edited by 25(2)+2; 08.17.2009 at 11.39 PM.. Reason: correction |
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| Cypher those are the basics that you asked about. As far as engine performance you won't know till you've been onn the road with the truck. Most trucks pulling a normal load of 30 to 40k should get 6+ mpg depending on the engine and normal driving habits(ie steady starts and braking, driving around 60mph). Anything less there is something wrong. I know that trucks pulling OD loads get less mpg, but to get one of those jobs you'll needs 2+ years experince to get or at least the ones I looked at.
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08.18.2009
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| Most of the time you'll just be stuck with an old truck starting out. I was in an 05 Volvo with 512k on it, but it ran, it wasnt much to look at, and it had some electrical problems, but after 6 months they put me in a brand new International. So keep your terminal happy when you hire on and they'll treat you right |
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| I swear Volvos have the electrical problems installed at the factory, must be a special package. I know the one I had with Swift had some probs, and several of the folks I knew had em too. When to refuse a truck? Starting out, it can be hard to know. If you feel unsafe in it, you don't need to refuse it, but at least get it fixed. That's why a deep and thorough pretrip is a must when picking up a truck. Take it for a spin around the lot. I know one truck I got for Marten had out of round tires. at 28 and 56 mph the rear end would buck like a pissed off bull on crack. But, because I didn't test drive it first, I didn't notice it until I got back out to PA (from our Indiana terminal) because it only did it when bobtail. You can always talk to some of the other drivers and get their opinions too. Most drivers will be more than happy to help out.
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| The biggest problem that can happen is you get assigned a truck and the previous driver was a slob or a smoker and the company hasn't cleaned it out. I had that happen to once and it was a major mess. It took about 4 hours to clean it out. Fornatutely I smoke and the smoke smell doesn't bother me. I did get a small folding table and a fitting for Idleaire out of it.
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