Living in the truck…..

Atlanta trucker · Jul 15, 2022

Dexterr said: ↑

truck does have has its bugs.. I’m actually enjoying it so much that I’m forgot I’m getting paid to do it
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When I lived in trucks I loved it also.

CaliRaised · Jul 16, 2022

Dexterr said: ↑

truck does have has its bugs.. I’m actually enjoying it so much that I’m forgot I’m getting paid to do it
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I love being on the road constantly, but I don't forget that I am getting paid to do it. Paychecks are too nice to forget.

Brickman · Jan 26, 2025

Bro you're giving me massive PTSD flashbacks here.
I quit transport in Sept for wet hosing and job site deliveries. I sure like that much better.
I think about the only thing I had you didn't cover was we had mostly assigned trucks but
our shifts were nearly always against the log book every day. That sucks.

Boardhauler said: ↑

I didn't say it was hard, I said it sucks;

Going to work at 4 PM and getting off at 4 AM sucks.

Working every weekend and holiday sucks.

Driving a gutless small block motor truck with a freewheeling autoshift trans that is locked out of manual shifting mode sucks.

Driving it throught the mountains to places like Redway and Fort Bragg sucks.

Driving it into the bowels of downtown Oakland in the middle of the night to stations where there is no bathroom and the attendant is locked inside behind bulletproof glass as you try to guard the hoses from getting run over while keeping an eye on all the street tweakers, hookers and assorted other life forms, remembering your trainers advice; “If you hear gunshots, close the valve and crawl under the drivers, don't come out until you're sure it's safe” sucks.

Getting yelled at by some moron who is trying to tell you that you have no right to be in the gas station fuelling your truck and taking away fuel that he needs because PG&E is about to shut the power off because of the wildfires sucks. (He got in his pickup and left before I could explain that I was there to DELIVER fuel)

Dealing with super tight effed up station layouts where have to park in EXACTLY the right spot to hit the fill boxes with your hoses sucks.

Being at closed stations in the middle of the night so can't get a Veeder-Root, having to stick the tanks and do your calculation and then still setting off the alarm and spending an extra half-hour trying to burp the last of the compartment into the tank sucks.

Being carded for 6 or 7 different racks and trying to remember the different procedures for each one when you never go to the same one twice in a row and knowing that if you make even a small screw up at the wrong one (Hello Shell in Martinez) you will get locked out for life sucks.

Having about zero autonomy over what you do and when and how you do it sucks.

Having to move everything of yours in and out of the truck at the beginning and end of every shift, and if you for get your sunglasses, kiss them goodbye, sucks.

Having to leave your dirty clothes outside because they smell of gas and diesel sucks.

How much suckage do you want?
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Boardhauler said: ↑

From an old post of mine
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