mistakes that let everyone know youre a rookie

During my first year I was rolling over a scale in Ohio. An authoritive sounding voice came over the CB and said "Dick Simon Trucking, park and come inside". As it was my first time ever getting pulled in I was very nervous as I gathered my logs and permit book and bills of lading and walked inside. The dot guy looked up and said "can I help you?". I learned then that you always turn the radio off when rolling through the scales. Those other drivers must have laughed it up for 600 miles.

 

Now that is funny! I would have completely fallen for it too. You got to have fun somehow!

 

Installed a cab blow-out kit using the air line going to the seat suspension/ride height (would only blow 2 sec before running out of juice and dropping seat - never completely sealed so seat would drop every 15 minutes).

Yeah, use the supply line guys

 

and when they tell you to bringing ALL of your log books. Smart thing.. Turn off that CB.. Period. And leave it off.

 

Glad I'm not the only one that did this. Lol. Which one is the supply line anyways?

 

I rode with an O/O for training back in 2010 that had one of those hoses. They are handy if they are hooked up right!

 

Sounds like he got a bargain.... NOT!

Go for quality every time. Ever buy a cheap 50' air hose and try to use it when it gets really cold? PVC starts shattering at around 0ºF... pay the extra $10 for the hose that can take the cold.

 

I have one and didn't know what the heck it was until reading this thread. Does it really work to clean? I would think it would just blow stuff everywhere.

 

Here's another one:

Lying about your income.

You're not going to impress anyone being under your own authority and/or driving for a bottom feeder. Be truthful about your income so that others coming into the industry can make more accurate decisions about where they want to end up.