A question for you new drivers.

@Moose1958 was ####ed and ready for someone to ask that.
Lol.

Great job. The suspense was worth it.

 

@Moose1958
I think you and I would get along if we were to ever meet.
We must be clones.

 

I have always charged company one hour if I have to swing a hammer on a frozen brake. A good day is one drum, bad day is the whole freakin wagon
Good deal for them IMO

 

Oh boy I remember those days. Running across ND in a 1970 GMC Astro wearing a snowmobile suit and winter boots to stay warm.. Enough tools to rebuild belt tensioner bearings in front of parts store where you got the bearings. Alternate quit working on reefer or truck hook up wire between truck and reefer. Back then 1979 no one would hire you without experience. Coming off the farm backing bale racks didn't count. So first person who gave you a chance you jumped on it. 1970.astro put I installed the best radio with a cassette player in it so I could play Six days on the road, East bound and down. Convoy ect ect. Thought I was a super trucker.

 

Most people can't get off the phone long enough to do anything. It's easier just to call. But they don't front the bill.

 

I live and work in Winnipeg, MB, where it's 104°F in the summer and -40°F in the winter. When I was a brand new driver, pounding brakes was part of training, lol.

The worst is having a three axle step deck buried in a snow bank with all six drums locked up. You can't pull the trailer out because it's buried, and you can't get at the drums until you shovel out the snow to even get under the trailer. Fun times winter.

 

It's hard enough to get someone nowadays that'll do much more than walk the bills in to the shipper/receiver and waddle back to the cab.
Then they complain about sitting around and not making money.

 

I've had drivers ask me why I polish the chrome on my truck if I'm not getting paid to do it.

I'm like... it looks good, doesn't it?

 

Here we go.
This just happened.
A prime example of why we "old timers" shake our heads at the noobs and hesitate to help.

I stopped to fuel in Montana and the roads have been covered from ydays, and last nights snowfall, so the drift has been blowing up on tail lights, etc.
The fella that fueled beside me pulled up and went in and got his receipt like I did.
I came back out first and noticed the back of his wagon COMPLETELY covered. You couldn't tell where a light was. Not a dusting on a lens... Thickly, and deeply covered.

I see him coming back out behind me as I head for my truck.
I get back in my cab and finish up my paperwork and I see him come around his trailer without touching it.
He walks right past it.
Gets in his cab and puts his seat belt on to leave.

I toot the horn lightly and roll the window down and NICELY said, "hey man, did you know that your tail lights were completely covered?".

Guess what I got???

"Mind your F'n business".

That's why we give most new drivers a hard time.

I won't even mention the 60 year old man walking around in PJs and hiking boots that I followed back out to his truck.

People see this stuff.