Better trucks!!!!

Exactly right. And being new, when you make it to being solo, don't climb in your first truck without rubber gloves and something that disinfects what the last slob left as a surprise for you.

 

Werner has a nice variety of trucks.. from 386 & 387 Petes, Prostars, T660's, Casicada's & Columbia's, and Volvo's...

 

I had the opportunity to look at a Werner truck (386 Pete) next to Swifty (Volvo 670) today. The Werner driver was sitting behind the wheel shaving with an electric razor, trimming his beard. THE Swift driver was wearing nothing but tighty-whitey's with one side of the back stuck in his crack making them look like "half a thong", all the while taking a leak into a Gatorade bottle. Mind you, we've all been there. I don't know if Swifty was missing his curtain or just wasn't using it, but he didn't seem to have a problem letting the rest of us know his business. Werner truck was clean looking, nothing on the dash, driver doing his personal grooming for the day. Swift truck had papers and trash from one end of the dash to the other. Dirty windshield, greasy door handle, even greaser cat driving it. Who, by the way, emptied his Gatorade bottle out the passenger window.

All that being said, Werner's truck presented a lot better. But as folks have said, most everything in this business, and I do mean most EVERYTHING, is what you make it out to be. Keep yourself and your truck clean, and that truck will love you right back.

 

you have to blame the driver for this, not the company. and please,lets leave racist comments out. suprise mods hasn't editted yet

 

That was actually the point of my comment which I thought I had spelled out. The slob peeing in a Gatorade bottle had a sloppy truck. The guy grooming himself to make a better impression on the world had a clean truck. Sloppy driver equals sloppy truck, and vice versa.

As for being racist, I don't know what you took out of that post that was racist, unless you are looking at "tighty-whitey's", which is not actually talking about a person's skin color. Tighty-Whitey's are actually a slang term for "jockey" or "brief" style men's underwear that happen to be white, hence "tighty-whitey's". I'm assuming the moderator must have heard that used before, as I wrongly assumed everyone in the English speaking world had heard before. I stand corrected, so my apologies.

Corrected version- The Swift driver, who had a wardrobe malfunction when his buttocks started eating the side of his white, cotton-blended, fruit-of-the-loom brief undergarments, was spotted while urinating in a liter sized plastic beverage container. Afterwards, the swift driver was noticed pouring the contents of said bottle out of the passenger side of the tractor. Whereas, still at the time, his buttocks seemed to still be eating his white, cotton-blended, fruit-of-the-loom brief undergarments.

Hope this clears it up! Let me know if I can help with anything else........

 

Loved that last bit you wrote! I never drove for either company but Werner did have APU's on most of their trucks. It seems that they are not installing them on the newer ones that come in now. Idk.

 

The two things that would make me quit OTR if they outlawed them would an APU and a lunch box cooker. More so with the APU, once you've had one, you will wonder how you lived on the road without it.

 

Never had a APU. my company doesn't see the financial gain and resale value of an APU on the their trucks. Instead they rather penalize the driver by having the truck cut back its speed when you get over 10%, 20% idle time. I am lucky with a day cab. It doesn't have the 5 min shut down active so it will keep running. Although, my plans for the future may be changing real soon. We will see either this week or next.

 

jacby...sent you a pm . no offence taken here lol

 

jakaby...sent you a pm . no offence taken here lol