Driver Equipment

Are most Mega Carriers supposed to provide new drivers any equipment ? Chains , cb radio , jumper cables or anything if at all.

 

Don't expect to be provided more than truck, DOT required items (triangles, spare fuses/bulbs) and Qualcomm and fuel card. The rest is your responsibility at MOST companies. Some companies will equip trucks with TVs or fridges, but that's a small number of companies. Trucking leaves a lot of things up to the driver.

 

Everything. Cattle prods, idiot lights, driver leader/manager to hold your hand and think for you and tell you when to pee and how many shakes would be against company policy...brains are optional. All you have to bring is a pulse. But if you really want to be successful, bring your brain.

 

By Federal Law the shop has to give you a gallon of blinker fluid at no charge to the driver.

 

Hold it. You sure that is not 5 gallons. Drivers go through a lot of that stuff .

 

It used to be 5 gallons but the government changed it to one gallon. Every non trucking store and property owner was complaining about the five gallon jugs of pee.

 

By the way. The FMCSA is soon going to require that Adamantite be used to make steering tires for CMVs. Drivers are soon going to have to buy Adamantite and apply it to current tires until these new tires come out. You will know these new tires because they will have a FMCSA approved tag.

 

I am surprised that someone hadn't figured out how to take 5 gallons of pee, add a half gallon of water (to dilute it...otherwise you'd probably smell it out the exhaust), add a bottle of Windex, and run it in the DEF tanks. There would be ZERO pee bottles left on the fuel isle.

 

Tire chains? Probably. The rest of that stuff? Probably not.

Besides the blinker fluid make sure the shop gives you a large can of strap stretcher and a combination metric/standard crescent wrench.

As far as pee jugs go, get some empty motor oil bottles...the one gallon kind...pee in those and then give them to the first Swift or Schneider driver you see. Tell them it's extra windshield washer additive. Don't hang around when they go to fill up the reservoir.

 

But six, if you do that you will fail the pee test.