misinformation you will hear....

I care. There is always something to learn.

 

You Should have a copy of those regs,

in your truck at all times,

right, Driver !!!!

 

this is getting to be a RERUn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I heard many

truckers are un educated

you cant float gears unless your a old pro newbies will damgage the tranny

its not missle it can be controled and stopped at anytime its just sometimes you have idiots behind the wheel that dont belong there in the first place

 

Then maybe Rerun can send you a copy. Because he's like a broken record on here, I guess his name fits perfectly.

No you can't!
The manual says....
DOT will tell you....
My teacher said.....
Blab blah blah......

I always love to see a new guy walk up to an old guy who's actually done the job for 40yrs (not learned about how it's done from a teacher) and tell him what he's doing wrong. The look on their face is priceless as they walk away with their tail between their legs.

Watched that done at a steel mill about a month ago. Employee of 38yrs got told by a new guy how he was taught to set up the temper mill and how his years of experience on what actually works was wrong......didn't end well for the new guy.

 

I'm done with this....I've said my piece and have no more to add to it.

Keep screamin' from the pulpit RERUN! But remember...You can never tell a lie enough times to make it true!

 

you mean the same manual that says to never back up with out a spotter? i cant think of ever using a spotter

those manuals have some good information, but some of the stuff in them is stupid

 

uh....you read THAT part wrong........(about never backing up without a spotter)..

it clearly says, "use a helper whenever possible".........(and who really does, as many will back up in areas that they are unfamiliar with, and start banging into things), then wonder why they get hit with a preventable....one must use common sense in some situations when backing..

so, if you are going to "quote the book", then please do so in the correct manner.....

but also i may add that yes, "some stuff" in those CDL manuals isn't the smartest, and a lot of that information is from the old days of trucking, and for whatever reason(s) are never totally deleted from those books, and too i might add is that at the DMV when one is being tested for his/her permit, some questions do come up regarding the old ways....which i do not like either, but who is anyone to tell ALL the sates to delete all that old information..

 

Y'all are killin me--and since I've read all these--I have to ad my favorite--new driver comes up to me #(add your favorite location here) asks directions--Like a dumb ### I tell him how I LIKE TO GO--after explaining--showing map page etc. He say's "Why would you go that way? MY dispatcher-gps wife(add your favorite) told me to go...."
So why did you ask me? My old dumb ### falls for it every time!
Now a little off topic--I've been riding mc's all my life--and yes I am old(LMAO)been cross country more times than I can remember(have more miles on a mc than some of these guys have driving)Been stuck in some horrible weather situations in my time.
So I'm home with some friends(combination of other worn out trucker/bikers) Young kid (trying to impress I guess) starts to tell us how it got caught in a hailstorm on way home from sturgis(but doesn't know what state it is in) and by the time he got thru the storm--"HE HAD SOFTBALL SIZED HAIL PILED UP IN MY LAP!" Laughed so hard almost cried! Of course he got pissed--(did that young kid beer muscle all balled up ######) said "you callin me a liar!" Our favorite beertender(female) say's "No they are all to busy pissin themselves to say anything!"
Just my $.02!