Swift Transportation Company, Inc. - Phoenix, Az.

Thx Nana , i will be on the OTR runs so i hope to get out to Phoenix at some point. maybe even lease onto one of those purty Prostars.....if i can get it by the boss(wife) first.

 

Wait, you mean you can actually be sitting on the toilet while being in the shower? If so, crap, screw having it in a truck, I want it in my house! I think I just found my next goal to shoot for.

 

thats a big 10-fo

 

That's not a shower, it's a bidet! Ugh, freakin americans.

 

They're not talking about a bidet. They're talking about showers that have a toilet inside the shower space. It's done in RVs and travel trailers.

 

Alright. I stepped away from this thread and look what I come back to. Insinuations that I can't keep my truck in the lane that I tailgatee and I cheat my logs. I'll start with the lane stray (Iteris) system. While mine was hooked up, I found myself getting lazy about my driving. Freightliner disconnected it because it was drawing too much power from the main computer. I tried to get it reconnected a few times, nobody wanted to do it. I did just fine without some gadget telling me when I was getting close to the edge. I paid closer attention to my driving and stopped letting that gadget do my thinking for me. Must have worked out just fine...I've never rolled a truck, taken out a four-wheeler next to me or ran over a traffic cone.

The front collision gadget almost never sounded off in my truck and I never....NEVER had a hard brake that I initiated. That gadget saw ghosts under bridges and would hit the brakes without warning and hard enough to pull me up from the seat. It would do the same thing when someone cut in front of me. Half the time I could not use my cruise control because that gadget was malfunctioning and blocked my cruise. If a bug hit the radar in the bumper, I had to listen to the alarm sound off every 30 seconds until I could find a safe pplace to pull over, turn the truck off and restart everything. Only problem with that is I didn't have enough time to sit and wait for the entire system to reset...so no cruise control.

Regarding electronic logs. Had Prime's Sales department gotten the memo that the trucks were being slowed down and placed on e-logs, perhaps I could have made more deliveries myself rather thsn t-call a load after waiting for two days for Excel to load the trailer. So I lost two days without compensation because they finished it just before drop dead time...mind you I was dispatched on it two days ago, get the trailer there ASAP customer needs it...then I have to give up the load because I can't run it, now it's too tight for a solo driver. Uncountable times loads had to be t-called because they were scheduled as if the trucks still ran 75mph. And you know something? Never got a service failure. Not a single one. Never late for a pickup or a delivery. Figure that one out if I'm such a miserable driver.

I've never had a problem with my logs either on paper or electronic. I prefer to run paper. If that's a problem, well, it's not my problem. Commentary like that comes from people who don't know how to figure out a log book and run it legally. So they need a machine to do it for them. Just like the machine that tells them they are too close to the shoulder or the other machine that hits the brakes for them because a piece of paper flew up on the road.

I'm so irritated, I'm not even going to bother editing my typos. You're so smart...figure out for yourself what I just said.

 

There is a lot to be said for what you have said there.

It is frustrating how lazy some people can be. It is even more frustrating when people show a very serious lack of professionalisim.

When I was leased to Yellowstone Trucking out of Coeur D'Alene Id, the got bought out by TMC, I remember seeing the black box system that wound up on one of the trucks TMC sent over to us. The thing was garbage and the system didnt work when it was brand spankin new.

I rode with the driver who was driving it from Kenworth in Spokane where I was getting some work done to my truck back to the shop and back again, the #### thing was just super annoying, and I really felt you would be stupid to rely on it.

It did not have the auto brake system, personally I am very against anything that tells my truck to do something I did not want it to.

The answer is not to build smarter vehicles, it is to train better drivers who are willing to take thier job and responsibilities seriously.

 

*pats Injun on the back and begins to read back posts to understand what happened*

We shall have pie, do our paper logs and laugh at those who insult us.

 

Mr Beast may join us for pie.

 

Hot apple pie with a big scoop of Vanilla ice cream sounds friking swell right now!