What type of Equipment do you All run

When they first came out with the Freightliner condo, everyone went running to buy a condo. The JBs and Schneider’s all ran cabovers. Suddenly, the bigger companies started buying condos, and running teams and keeping drivers out away from the house for months at a time. And then drivers started living in the truck and their conjugal visits to the house were called, “home time.”

Now, they are marketing direct tv. Soon they will have free WiFi in the trucks. Why? For all the fat guys who have never worked any job or done any tough in their life, who live in their grandmothers basement to have a place to live when granny passes on.

 

When emerging from Grandma's basement the new breed of prospective driver is demanding an Auto; cuss they are so tech. They read it on the internet.

Driving an X-box, hailing a Uber, and only enjoying sex with a mouse and one hand, has taught these folks that the push-buttons or joysticks are the only way to go.

 

Not to mention the airport scenario in one of the video games online. Shooting up crowds is not my cup of tea.

With that said, there is a increasing limitation to training newbies on the joys of manual. So they buy autos and push a button and go. It's mindless. However I have run a good auto at least once in my time and the wife did too. It wasnt bad. particularly in traffic.

I prefer a manual. I suppose the new trucks turn me off by offering 4 things, a tach, speedo, air pressure gauge and a auto switch box. yech... we should bring back the era of 70 gauges and that fuse box that takes up all the passenger side. Let's teach our newbies how it's done in the old way.

I'll get off my soapbox. It dont matter to me what it is as long it's 18 wheels or more and runs properly.

 

They have a new truck simulator video game , expect a flood of cheeto eating , dope smoking , couch potatos into trucking , it will probably have more of a recruiting effect then the trucking shows of the 70s had on my generation

 

Didn't mean to thread jack , here's my 18

 

The two toughest tasks nowadays for them to be in the trucking industry is being able to pass a random drug test and wiping their arse. Many give up on the wiping. In fact, the neckbeards believe that their company should pay tthem to wipe. Logged on duty and counts against the70.

"Logged"....

 

just passing by I look like a typical new breed. 24 years old but look like I'm 17, wearing a flat brim hat and long-ish shaggy hair. Steel toes tho no eastern European look for me. Give me something that doesn't need a f'n computer to tell me what's wrong with it and puffs a bit of smoke between gears. Like a old superliner e9 v8 with a coffin or a stretched out 359 with a 1693 or heck even a bc3 properly set up

You'd have to do a double take if I started talking about de-reg or saying I hate autos and don't ride the hammer lane @62

It really is sad though how many older people I've chatted with don't even know what engine is under the hood or thought every diesel on earth has def. Or the countless threads of ppl wanting to be owner ops and not even knowing the basics. Just floors me. And I'm just a kid still pretty much. Smh wish I around back in fun days

 

I run junk... thank you .

 

The guys we’re talking about have never done anything in life except for smoke dope and play pocket pool. Parents put them out and so they live in Grandma’s spare room, and the only reason why they look into going trucking is so they can live in the sleeper and buy unlimited supplies of Cheetos for their bean bag chair. Their ages, coming in to this business normally depend on how old they are when grandma passes. Some of these guys will be in their mid 30s.