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My Experience as a Line Haul Driver

Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by American-Trucker, Apr 14, 2012.

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  1. May 15, 2012 #331
    snowbird_89

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    Come on dude. You should buy a Pete 389 or W900! :biggrin_25525:
     
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  3. May 15, 2012 #332
    CenutryClass

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    Im actually starting to think I'd rather run then work the dock. Its so hard to stay awake after running like hell over donner, then working 5 hrs on the dock..So hard, ugh
     
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  4. May 15, 2012 #333
    ACH1130

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    WOW!!! I never thought I'd see that... Unless you get a meet and greet run you will always work the dock at CWF.
     
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  5. May 15, 2012 #334
    CenutryClass

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    I fight like hell to stay awake man. Coming back its all up hill and as the junior guy I get the heaviest set, always. trucks have no power, so Im shifting like crazy. Killer on the body I tell ya.
     
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  7. May 15, 2012 #335
    ACH1130

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    So is P/D work with the ********* straight truck we got with a warped lif gate lol. I miss my tractor and want it back... for whatever reason its the truck they give me when I have to cover someones route who normally use a straiht truck... give me the truck they use.

    LOL come drive our road units. Like you said about the Reddaway trucks they are on ROIDS!!! I pulled a 17,000 pup u a hill with a retired unit and I couldnt even feel the trailer, really wish I could have used it as a line-haul truck hauling like 60,000
     
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  8. May 16, 2012 #336
    American-Trucker

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    another long arse night, did my same 'ol run and worked the dock from 430am to 815am


    i forgot to post that on tuesday morning we had a local driver flying threw the terminal with a dolly behind his tractor and he didnt close the pintle hook and it came off at 20+mph with the brake released :biggrin_25523:

    and i ordered the parts for the boat this morning too, should be here in a few days.






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  9. May 16, 2012 #337
    American-Trucker

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    i want a 389, if i where to do it, it would come down to price,wheel base, weight. from what im hearing a 386 spec'd like a 389 (no side skirts, west coast mirrors etc) will only get .1mpg better then a 389 so that doesnt seem worth it, BUT i could have a 271" wheel base with a 386, i beleive it would be 290" on a 389 thats loonnnnggggg





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  10. May 16, 2012 #338
    CenutryClass

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    those dollies dont have safety chains?
     
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  11. May 16, 2012 #339
    American-Trucker

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    Of course they do, but they only work when you use them lol




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  12. May 16, 2012 #340
    Speedemon1084

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    CWF in Jackson, MS would have wrote that up as an accident.
     
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