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Steelersjunkie · Nov 9, 2018

Goobr54 said: ↑

You are the man ya dirty redneck.
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Who loves ya?

Gremlin304 · Nov 9, 2018

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@Gremlin304 since you're a WV guy, you owe it to yourself to stop at the TA in Teays Valley/Hurricane. Walk across the street and go to Fat Patty's. If you honestly tell me the food wasn't awesome, I'll personally refund you. Plus, duh, they got beer. And a couple really pretty women working there. Is the truck stop awesome? No. Find me a TA that is. It's a nice port in the WV storm though. That's a drive-through state if I can help it. No good places to park, and way too many door-knockers. It's apparently the WV truck stop specialty.
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Yeah WV, for the most part, is about 20 years behind the times. While the lot lizards in the rest of the country are using the internet to find work, the WV girls are still doing it like they did 20 years ago.

I'm happy that I haven't seen a lot lizard in real life since the 90s.

Gremlin304 · Nov 9, 2018

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Ok, just finished the 2nd week of this dedicated Best Buy run. Last week I was pretty pissed at how the week had gone but had most of last Sunday to think about it. It’s so different from OTR and that’s what had me f’d up. Got my preplan last Sunday afternoon for Monday and thought I’d give it another week. I’m glad I did.

I got to looking at this thing as more of a personal challenge. As I said before, OTR you can fudge on time a little bit but this dedicated stuff is very time critical. Ain’t no taking a nap during the day except when you’re at a store being unloaded. If you’re dispatched on a load, you have to unload the same day, no sitting on a load overnight. It’s fairly lenient on dead heading back to Dublin so you can rest. Tom and Colleen, my B.B. regional dispatchers have this thing figured out, they’re good. You’re going to average 500 miles a day. The Koch loads at B.B. are always ready on time and waiting on you. My fastest dnh was two days ago, Wed. 21 mins I dropped mt, hooked loaded, checked out paperwork and on da road. Phvck yeah!

Here’s the tough part. Any B.B. you deliver to will be in a highly populated metro area that is not truck friendly. I hate running tandems slid all the way up but you have to and still end up jumping curbs. Being in an OTR truck doesn’t help things but I will not give up Miss Emily. You have to go in to the store the right way (never marked) in order to back into the dock. Whoever said parallel parking a truck isn’t necessary is full of ####. Yes, Google Earth helps but it isn’t always up to date. Dumpsters, construction, parked cars are always at the back of these stores. If you go into a store after looking at Google and think this’ll be easy, you better be #### sure you have an alternate plan. It almost bit my ### in Athens GA today.

It’s only going to get worse as the holidays draw near me thinks. Funny that, I’ve always seemed to perform best under pressure. I think I’m gonna stick it out.
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You didn't happen to pick up a Koch trailer out of Cartersville today around noon did you?

Steelersjunkie · Nov 9, 2018

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Yeah WV, for the most part, is about 20 years behind the times. While the lot lizards in the rest of the country are using the internet to find work, the WV girls are still doing it like they did 20 years ago.

I'm happy that I haven't seen a lot lizard in real life since the 90s.
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Lucky you. They reinforce the view I have of most truckers. I've said it before, and I have no problem saying it again. I'm a trucker and I can't stand truckers. I know when I see one of those zombified women walking around, she's gonna visit at least more than one truck that night. So gross. Both of them. Same guy that will walk out of the bathroom while you're trying to get in, and he's taking up the entire doorway and smells like he hasn't seen soap in a week. I'm not a fn truck driver. I'm a freight relocation specialist. Call me a trucker to my face and you'll wake up on your back. That's not a threat towards you personally. I just hate the culture.

Gremlin304 · Nov 9, 2018

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Lucky you. They reinforce the view I have of most truckers. I've said it before, and I have no problem saying it again. I'm a trucker and I can't stand truckers. I know when I see one of those zombified women walking around, she's gonna visit at least more than one truck that night. So gross. Both of them. Same guy that will walk out of the bathroom while you're trying to get in, and he's taking up the entire doorway and smells like he hasn't seen soap in a week. I'm not a fn truck driver. I'm a freight relocation specialist. Call me a trucker to my face and you'll wake up on your back.
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Yeah I can't stand most of these guys either. I ask myself pretty much daily why I even bother listening to the CB because I know one of them is going to go on about a bunch of #### that's going to piss me off, and then I'm going to say something to them, then I know that 99% of the time they're gonna be trying to get me to pull over and fight them. So much toxic masculinity out here, and a lot of really, really nasty drivers.

Steelersjunkie · Nov 9, 2018

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Yeah I can't stand most of these guys either. I ask myself pretty much daily why I even bother listening to the CB because I know one of them is going to go on about a bunch of #### that's going to piss me off, and then I'm going to say something to them, then I know that 99% of the time they're gonna be trying to get me to pull over and fight them. So much toxic masculinity out here, and a lot of really, really nasty drivers.
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That's what I like most about @keen98 for sure. I wish I had a killer trainer experience when I needed it. My trainer was exactly what you just described. I had to figure out all the important stuff on my own. And, for the record, most of the important stuff has nothing to do with being behind the wheel. Sounds to me like you already know that.

Farmer54 · Nov 9, 2018

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You didn't happen to pick up a Koch trailer out of Cartersville today around noon did you?
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No but I wish I had. Need a B service and I’m afraid I’m going to get sent to Albany. 2 stopper today in Macon and Athens then back to Dublin.

Gremlin304 · Nov 9, 2018

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That's what I like most about @keen98 for sure. I wish I had a killer trainer experience when I needed it. My trainer was exactly what you just described. I had to figure out all the important stuff on my own. And, for the record, most of the important stuff has nothing to do with being behind the wheel. Sounds to me like you already know that.
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My trainer was good for some things, lousy at others. He sure wasn't getting out of the truck to help, that's for sure.

One night we stayed at the Wytheville TA. Not many spots left and the one I picked was an imperial pain. He sat there and coached me from the drivers seat instead of getting out and helping spot me. Oh and he loved yelling out the window at drivers that did things he didn't like. This particular night, a Landstar driver pissed him off somehow, and he couldn't help himself so he yelled out the window. Aer I finally got it parked and I'm walking across the lot to go get me some Popeyes, a guy that I'm pretty sure was the Landstar driver stopped me and said "It took you a minute but you got it in there and didn't hit anything. Good job! Too bad your ###### trainer wasn't of any help.

There's still backing situations that I'm still learning on my own because he wasn't much help, and I'm still probably not where I should be skill-wise when it comes to backing up.

Probably the most important thing he taught me was teaching me about using Briley Parkway to get around Nashville when things are bad.

Steelersjunkie · Nov 9, 2018

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No but I wish I had. Need a B service and I’m afraid I’m going to get sent to Albany. 2 stopper today in Macon and Athens then back to Dublin.
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Just talk to William. That was your normal dispatcher, right? They'll get you to a spot to get serviced. They care about services. At least, that is, until you've held on to your truck too long. Millis was great on getting me routed to a B service. At least until I turned down a new truck twice. I am pretty sure they knew I was leaving and the no longer played ball on fixing stuff. My lease was past due, can't possibly blame them for that.

Steelersjunkie · Nov 9, 2018

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My trainer was good for some things, lousy at others. He sure wasn't getting out of the truck to help, that's for sure.

One night we stayed at the Wytheville TA. Not many spots left and the one I picked was an imperial pain. He sat there and coached me from the drivers seat instead of getting out and helping spot me. Oh and he loved yelling out the window at drivers that did things he didn't like. This particular night, a Landstar driver pissed him off somehow, and he couldn't help himself so he yelled out the window. Aer I finally got it parked and I'm walking across the lot to go get me some Popeyes, a guy that I'm pretty sure was the Landstar driver stopped me and said "It took you a minute but you got it in there and didn't hit anything. Good job! Too bad your ###### trainer wasn't of any help.

There's still backing situations that I'm still learning on my own because he wasn't much help, and I'm still probably not where I should be skill-wise when it comes to backing up.

Probably the most important thing he taught me was teaching me about using Briley Parkway to get around Nashville when things are bad.
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We get a lot of flack out there. We are the Swifties of the O/O world, that's the truth. Doesn't matter to me. I am in a way different world now. I help people all the time. I drive how I'm comfortable. My truck will do 90, easily. I know that because of Texas. I choose to feel safe. I choose to help. I choose to not look like a super trucker. I choose to not end up on my side because I was careless, and I choose to laugh when I watch it happen. I also choose to sleep well at night because I ignore it all.

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