A Typical OTR Day

Fortunatly I don't have to deal with ANY of those problems....I guess its all in where you choose to work


And I dont have to change my Boxers everytime someone cuts me off....If they want to Commit sucide by truck who am I to stop them???

I love wakeing up idiots!



American Trucker

 

or it could be like it was for me at one company

phone rings.........yeah I'm awake, you said what.....I gotta pick up a load in an hour....well that ain't happening......I still haven't dropped yet , their equipment broke down, you know they only load till 11 pm right....and it has to be where by tomorrow morning.......#####.....good thing this is a fast truck....you owe me...click

call them in the morning...I'm empty...now what

 

Well, of course! But the title is "typical".

Watch it! If you hit them, you will more than likely be the one who ends up in jail, no matter who is at fault. Just sayin.

 

ha you know i got to thinking, when you pull into a yard the guy on the forklift probably isnt making minimum wage so he's a lot happier. i know when i was at a lumber yard and flatbedders came in there was never animosity or anything like that it was just "hey hows it goin man lets get you unloaded" i was thinking about the places i go to delivering milk and the receivers and clerks are a lot of the times miserable as hell, usually they arent jerks to me probably because i scare the crap out of them with my size and what not but either way i get a long with them. if i get them pissed off i usually dont give a crap i just say something wise like "yup its my fault and i accept responsibility for my inept processing skills i'm a product of society" and by then they usually realize i dont care and i'm just patronizing them.

when i get OTR i plan on doing flatbed, more money, more skill, more options of stuff you can haul. i loved doing it when i was at a lumber yard, nothing like securing up a load and taking pride in that.

 

(phone rings)
nik: yeah I'm awake, you said what
.....
nik: I gotta pick up a load in an hour....well that ain't happening......I still haven't dropped yet , their equipment broke down, you know they only load till 11 pm right?
....
nik: and it has to be where by tomorrow morning?
.......
nik: #####.....good thing this is a fast truck....you owe me... (click)

(call them in the morning)...
nik: I'm empty...now what?
disp: Thanks Buddy, can you do me just ONE more favor?

Didn't they call this movie "Groundhog Day"?

 

yup you got that right on the nose Dix!!!

 

But that's just truckin

 

0630 alarm goes off
0700 drag myself out of bed.
0700-0730 start truck, pre-trip, get coffee, morning bathroom business
0730 on the road.
0730-1200 drive
1200-1230 lunch
1230-1800 drive
1800-1805 post trip
1805-0630 dinner, shower, tv time, sleep.

Loading/unloading is done between 0700-1500. Thus add in a load or unload in this time frame.

The advantages of pulling a chemical tanker.

 

I'll stick with LTL, where I get paid >$80K/yr as a company driver to run 100% safe and legal and be back at the yard every night.

I just put together that post from my days as a younger driver. Been there, done that, not doing it ever again.

 

I go to WM dc's all the time and never have had a problem, and usually out of there in 2 or 3 hours, sometimes less.