What are some of the unwritten rules among truckers?

First rule of trucking:
Take the good with the bad.

 

Your absolutely right.
If the signage says use two lanes then use two lanes.
But if it is just merge signs that means to merge asap, not dart all the way to the front and try to squeeze in ahead of everyone.

 

1. Don't speed through truck stops, especially the fuel island.
2. Don't park in the fuel island longer than necessary to fuel and grab some roller grill food and coffee. Don't go in until after you are pulled up to make room for somebody to fuel behind you.
3. If you are parked somewhere and the space is tight and you are sitting in your truck and somebody's trying to leave and you are in their way move your truck a little bit to make it easier for them.
4. If you have nothing better to do and somebody is having a hard time backing into a spot go help them.
5. Put your garbage in the trashcans, not on the pavement. Same goes for piss bottles.

 

Get into the left lane when you are told to merge even if its two miles prior to construction.

Might as well get used to it. We are replacing large sections of our 67 that was built in 1962.

Sometimes the flow of cars and trucks of greedy people who use the right lane to go pass everyone on the left all the way up to the point of physically hitting that wall closing off that right lane has to be choked off by physically blocking a 18 wheeler in the middle and then maintaining a speed that does not stop. That usually clears the blockage right quick.

There is no unwritten rules anymore. There are some, but for me there is no point in talking about it because it's a young man's game and tens of thousands are being given big trucks with little to no immersion in trucking as it was before they came along.

Im expected to act a certain way in a big truck. But Im not going to spend time talking about it much because again, the young ones have no concept of acquiring from the elders a senses of traditon, history and customs as well what I call tribal knowledge.

 

Fixed that for you

 

Tell that to the boys at the roundtable at every Petro and TA. I can seemingly never get far enough away from them lol

 

#2- what happens on the road stays on the road.

 

At your earliest opportunity that is both legal and safe, get into the lane you need to be in, and stay there unless and until compelled to do otherwise.

Sometimes, you'll be in an unfamiliar area and have to surrender your preferred lane to non-heavy traffic; this seems mostly to be a problem in or near municipalities where through traffic is blind to merging traffic and merging traffic is blind to through traffic and nobody built a proper merging lane -- but it can happen just about anywhere.

Sometimes the best lane isn't obvious: you need to take (right) exit 52B, but in getting there, you pass on-ramps at 24, 26, 30, 31, 33, 42, 48, 50 and 52A and 52B. Yeah, sometimes nitwits put the on-ramp before the off-ramp. Also, the on-ramp at 26 merges right instead of left (meaning traffic enters from the left). I think your best bet is to stay in the first lane left from the right-most through lane until you're around mile 46; then merge into the right-most lane before you get to 52A. If you can't, then be prepared to bypass and back-track.

Losing the price of a load, especially when the reason is a delay forced on you by someone else, is nothing when you consider the downside alternatives.

 

Hilarious if you're a straight dude, but scary otherwise.

 

Rule# 71, in the truck stop, don't eat yellow snow