Millis OTR journal

Too many truckers let their truck be an extension of, or sometimes even the very definition of, their masculinity. I've got a cousin that I won't even talk to truck driving about because he's got the attitude that "Real men drive tankers" and he's not just joking about it. He thinks he's a member of some kind of elite order because he has to manage his surge. Same for the guys that act like only real men drive sticks. I made sure that I didn't get the automatic restriction on my CDL just in case I need to drive one, but this auto Kenny makes me just as much money as it would if it had an 18 speed in it, and isn't that what we're out here for?

 

They probably never even looked until the moment that actually needed them for installation.

 

I had a tough docking situation today that probably shouldn't have been so tough. Any of you guys ever been to Clark Distributing in Dyersburg, TN? I'm attaching something I made in MS Paint that shows how I tried to setup for this dock. It didn't work so well. I still had to wiggle back and forth a lot to get situated where I could back in. The blue line with the arrows is me. Everything else should be self-explanatory. How should I have approached this?

 

By one shot uou mean without backing up? Yes. But the front of my truck was right against the fence when I was done and I was jackknifed to the point where my reflector was about to disappear. If I'd had like 10 more feet to pull up to the right some and straighten out some after spinning around, I think it would have been fine.