That was one thing they made sure that you knew how to do when I went through orientation with them years ago before they were considered a "starter company." Then after my first winter driving with them in the Rockies I could nearly do it blindfolded. Put them on, get to a safe haven and park it until conditions improved.
May Trucking has the miles
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Idling is charged to the driver. bs...
Remind me if I get my hands on a MAY truck to dump into the closest body of water.Call_Me_The_Breeze Thanks this. -
*reply* SHUT UP, STUPID!
All jokes aside, I've pretty much come to find that if I have to chain up, I shouldn't be on the road. I'll chain up to get out of trouble, but if I'm already parked, I won't chain up to get INTO trouble. No load is hot enough it needs to cool off in a ditch.
You know, these companies are always crying that they need drivers so bad, but they do so much to annoy the piss out of the drivers they have. Then they wonder why they can't keep them. That's a *SPECIAL* kind of stupid.
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Not true again...yes you can use your cruise control at night.. no apus..I wish they would get them though.
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I have never been charged..I think the ones that do idle needlessly. I habe talked to quite a few May drivers and none of them have either
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we chain up to get over the summit and take them off on the other side.usually 9 miles
sometimes we chain up in the customers place and again to get back over the hill
if we dont keep the customers plant running the other company will
we get paid for chaining dont have sleepers.home everyday and slipseat two shifts -
I've run the midWest for the bulk of my career, and I've gone through Snoqualmie in bad weather, as well as driven through lake-effect from Erie on I-90 to the point I couldn't see the road and had to use the snow-covered guardrail for reference. I'm not afraid of snow, but snow, semis and mountains do not mix. I don't park it in these conditions because *I* can't drive in it -- I park it in these conditions because I know most OTHER people can't. And they will sue you regardless of the fact that THEY crashed into YOU.
Blame the sue-happy lawyer mentality for that one. True story -- drunk driver crosses the median and hits a semi head-on, family's lawyer says trucker is at fault for being there. It's not worth the liability.Last edited: Jun 12, 2017
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