What do y’all think?

Just a couple reminders from this old fart. there was an accident a while back with a walmart driver, he didn't sleep much and I think killed a couple people. Here is a new guy who just got his CDL, he doesn't have any skills to speak of and he will need as much sleep as he can get because of the stress of the job. While it is great to do this crap when you have experience, on your 34 and know when to quit, however nothing sucks more than having someone run into the back of your car because they are tired and who has less than a year in the seat at a mega because they spent five hours of her ten playing games on a laptop instead of sleeping.

 

dude, i made it to 48 years..and no, i ain't no "yes..butt kissing guy".....i communicated with the dispatchers or supervisors at all times. it's how i got to be as good and in demand as i was for my 48 years.

maybe you ought to learn from what your elders say, rather than to be a millenial arse...???

 

I agree.

I did a spot of gaming as a experiment, even online in the late 90's from the truckstop. Ultimately you do not engage in that activity until you have nothing at all to do for a day. Which does happen. It's books, truck TV, Movies and a lot of sleeping plus eating, laundry, mail, paperwork etc.

In short real trucking. You can either be a space man playing fantasy or you can engage and be a trucker in real life.

I do a little gaming now and then, but it's not the reason for my existence in this life. I actually crave games or human opponets where it's necessary to solve problems by thinking it through. (Always some little detail derails me...) Instead of mindless atari bang bang bang.

Technology has gotten good yes, and yes you will learn to have that filthy hand me down tractor fixed. Nothing is more fun than having the company shop fix fix fix fix fix that thing until it's a queen of the fleet with everything working. That's how you learn to recognize in the future things that break in big trucks and fix it.

I hate to be (To use a 80's term) such a DRIP... but put down the game kid. You are in the real world now. You screw up people get hurt, die or lose freedoms. Sometimes far from home. You probably will in your relative youth come up with something smarty and take a cheap shot at me. Save those old tired comebacks. Ive seen it all. Long before you existed on this earth.

What I want best for you is to evolve into a professional first. Horse, Saddle and boots and soldier last in terms of priority order of your thinking in trucking. Truck, Laws and load and yourself last.

However when you are home, game all you want. Just be sure to get 10 hours sleep before heading out to work.

 

i of course remember when i first started out...we had no laptops, not any real games to play on the tv, other than the black and white "ping-pong"...man...how slow was that..???

truck stops had game rooms. drop a quarter and play, while waiting for the shower room to open.

then shower, eat, maybe watch some tv, or a movie. then back to the truck and fall asleep.

but his is not the olden days. we have rules, regulations and lawsuits, especially civil suits, that we did not have "way back when".

no one should take it upon himself to simply drive all those miles deadhead, with out permission...how many times, was i told (maybe you as well)..."drive north about xx hours, call us at a truck stop there".....

or south, west, east....direction made no difference, they were getting me (maybe you) closer to a shipper they do business with, or an area where there is freight.

 

I over looked the 130 mile reverse deadhead to ask a question.

HA, the yelling would set him straight if he didnt just pout and sulk about it too much. =) //tease.

Im sorry, but I think I best just leave it here. It's so much fun to teach a newbie. But not for the newbie. Poor thing. Like it as not, he is the future. God help us all.

 

China....how do you know what it will run?
Watts and volts are involved, so how do you know?
I'm asking because I don't know

 

I'm a huge gamer and when I first started out I was bored as hell. But, you need to get some experience to get to some of the better companies that provide the amenities to make the road enjoyable. I wouldn't set foot in a truck that didn't have an apu, inverter, refrigerator, tv, and microwave, but that's just me. I was a bit lucky because when I started out at Werner I was able to get a truck with an apu, but they were phasing them out when I left. I hope you get it figured out, both the driving and a way to make the road more enjoyable.

 

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All of the wisdom I get here but it seems like even the wisest fail to understand that human beings need to disconnect from work or else face total burn out.

Especially true in trucking while one is literally living in the office.

So if a person wants to binge netflix.. Play video games.. Read.. Post on this forum and bust noob balls with endless diatribes about how the young whipper snappers are ruining trucking. Have it at. its all the same. An escape. A pitstop from burnout hell.

We can't all be super truckers and most of us don't want to be. This ain't rocket science folks. It's just a job.