JEEZZUSS! I took my CDL in a Freightliner Classic XL with a 48' trailer and it just squeeked through a couple of the turns!
That thing makes the XL look like a tinker toy!
In personal vehicles my last fender bender was in '03. My last ticket... I can't really remember one after 1980 when the '79 F-150 I was driving with oversize tires would not engine break for nothin' and TDPS nailed me for 12 over. I've had between my 1990 F-350 and my 2003 Ram 2500 well over 300K safe and no tickets.
I'll be 50 in April and just starting my OTR career. But I try to drive my Ram as safe as can be done so I think I'll fit right in.
How many Million Milers do we have?
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I have just over 1.5 million miles at the wheel- more than I cared to do but here I am, still slaving away.
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somewhere around 2.75mill 24 years at 11000 avg per month more or less tickets a few, accidents...none that i've been at fault for.
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since 1989. no accidents, a couple of overweight fines. probably got paid for 1.8 of it. will probably get credited for .5 of it by some recruiter who knows more about me than I do.
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Since 95 mostly pulling a reefer. Couple of mishaps along the way, nothing serious and no one died, at least to my knowledge.
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Little over 30 years truckin', never kept track of cummulative miles. 1 speeding ticket 8 yrs. ago, 1 non-preventable head-on with another truck in '80. You tell me.
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3 million +
One overweight and one recent log violation (thank you Indiana....the new Ohio)JustSonny Thanks this. -
3MM+
Crossed that threshold in 05. Nearly 1.4 without ticket and more than 2.7 without accident.aaron1995, BeN DaViS, Dave 1960 and 1 other person Thank this. -
I had a million when i was 28,no speeding tickets just a few log violations and a mud flap ticket and one over weight,,,im 36 now been mining and trucking not sure how many miles i have now but in my life time over two million im sure...
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I reached a million about two years ago.
Accident free and I went ten years without a ticket. Then I got 3 in 2008, bam bam bam.
Seat belt violation which I always wear. he got me coming out of a truck stop and I just haven't strapped in yet.
Running a red light when a cop changed it as he pulled up on a side road. It was a split second decision and I had a truck on my tail and I knew I would of ended up in the intersection, so I gassed on it. The cop didn't see it that way.
Last was a biggie for crossing a restricted bridge. All kinds of excuses but none were acceptable
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